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== Radio ==
* In the BBC [[Radio Drama]] ''Earthsearch'', the crew of the ''Challenger'' end the series by giving up the search for their long-lost home planet Earth, settling instead on the planet "Paradise", which they vow to make "their own Earth" -- it's much like their Earth, except that it's two-thirds covered in saltwater oceans, has four seasons, and is the third planet from its sun. Cleverly, throughout the series they had dropped hints that "their Earth" was not the same planet as ours, but then covered them up with Expospeak: for example, the other planets of their solar system have different names from ours, but as soon as this is revealed, it is mentioned offhand that the planets had been renamed. Likewise, we are told that their Earth was the second planet from its sun, but we are told this by a computer which is speculating wildly based on inaccurate information. To keep the Shaggy God Story going, early in ''Earthsearch 2'', the crew loads breeding pairs of animals into a shuttle to wait out a global flood.
* From a sci-fi series called "X - 1" (''[[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|X! Minus! One!]]''): A scientist in [[Captain Ersatz]]-East Germany, along with his assistant Alan and [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|beautiful daughter]] Ava have developed a way to shrink things to subatomic size and are planning to use it to smuggle aid and, eventually, people. Fascist government thugs break into the lab and [[Punny Name|Alan and Ava]] are forced to hide in the shrinking machine, which gets turned on either by accident, a plan by the scientist, or because the leader of the fascist thugs demanded a demonstration. Alan and Ava are briefly seen exploring the surface of a planet-sized electron, which they liken to a desert with the central atomic cluster as its sun (I know I [[You Fail Physics Forever|fail physics forever]] and [[Science Marches On|atoms aren't described that way anymore]]). {{spoiler|When the scientist reverses the machine, to his surprise Alan and Ava are gone but a mysterious voice issues in their place, saying that they eventually populated the electron-planet and it was a peaceful and prosperous land for thousands of (atomic) years, and to make sure the peace lasted beyond their deaths they [[The Bible|wrote a book of instructions]] for their descendants. The scientist is incredulous that Alan and Ava are both long-since dead and the parents of a peaceful race; unfortunately I can't recall the fascist thugs' reaction.}}
 
 
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/06/21/episode-860-origin-of-the-species/ genetic problems of this trope].
* In ''[[Freefall]]'', Flo laments that thirteen individuals do not provide enough genetic diversity for a species to survive, and her main objective in life is to ensure more (at least five hundred) are artificially created before it's too late.
* Parodied in the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' storyline "28 Geeks Later," when a budding [[Zombie Apocalypse]] has taken over a research facility, [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050726 with several people trapped inside].
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** Similar examples of a pregnant cat or dog producing thousands of descendents are used by animal welfare groups, to encourage spaying or neutering of pets.
* This has happened with more than one endangered species. The [[wikipedia:California Condor|California Condor]] was down to 22 birds by the time all birds left in the species were captured and taken to zoos. There are not quite 400 alive today, about half in the wild.
* The population of [[wikipedia:Przewalskichr(27)Przewalski's Horse|Przewalski's Horse]], the only truly wild horse in the world, is descended from nine horses held in captivity in 1945. 1500 horses are alive today in zoos and in the wild of Mongolia.
 
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