10-23-2015, 03:36 PM
(10-23-2015, 10:07 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: Good question - what would we prefer? I tend to think that Terragen sophonts (nearbaselines and other human derived beings anyway) tend to like open spaces so usually think in terms of population densities of 1 person/km2 - averaged across the entire surface. The 200 million number would be closer to that. But personally I'm fine with either one or something totally different if folks prefer that.The population of Mars will have fluctuated considerably over its ten-thousand-year history of colonisation. Sometimes as many as two billion people lived there, IIRC.
My 2c worth,
Todd
If the population is currently 200 million that is only a tenth of the peak population, but that is understandable on such an old and conservative world.