You're the President of the United States and have, over your two terms, over-exhausted your military and created an environment in which voluntary recruits are at their lowest point in history. You have a 20 year goal to increase the size of the military significantly and cannot institute a draft but, have been delivered a gift of 399,872 "snowflake" embryos. You know you have approximately 11 million illegal immigrants desirous of citizenship, assume 25% are women and 50% of them are capable of bearing children. If you offer citizenship to every illegal willing to carry a future soldier to term and deliver the infant to a local recruiting station...
1. What is the ratio of available snowmakers to potential snowflakes?
2. What is the number of years before success can be determined?
3. If Peak Oil's arc plummets critically in 2020, will we have the troops needed to protect our interests?
answers below the fold
Posted by kerry at July 26, 2006 02:28 AM1a. 3.4386 to 1.
2a. 16.75 9 month gestation with a lowered enlistment age.
3a. no, 2020 - 2006 = 14.