Quote Originally Posted by Eviebae View Post
According to Ed Grabianowski at io9, (not just him obviously) humans have survived near extinctions before.


Now, of course, every school child knows it was the first proto-zombie outbreak.

I think Ink is making a bad thing 1000x worse. Remember, people in the Colony had never seen a behemoth before. The zoms they knew were bad but unorganized. They tended to do random crowd movement type runs. Assuming that Ink isn't one of a cadre with members all over the world--we don't know what's going on everywhere.
In 2003 scientists met and considered the challenges of a multi-generation starship concept. And in these thoughts they considered that a group of roughly around 200 persons would be the lowest end of the bargain, if you wish to uphold diversity in the genepool ... If you like to learn more about it, read this book:
http://books.google.de/books/about/I...AJ&redir_esc=y

The Colonists are far below this.

Even if they meet other survivors - and we already know how bad this may end -, the other group(s) need to be big enough to reach this critical mass ...

Best wishes!
Liam