Who should be saved?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Joebill

Someone with an imagination would be good to. Otherwise fine.

I say imagination as I encounter so many these days who cannot think outside the box. Asking a question that isn't on the form, gets too many blank looks.

I'm sorry, Jim, but your answer was not contained within the parameters of acceptable responses. Your abberant behaviour is contraindicated for the running of normal society, and you must now be processed for your thoughtcrime.

Can you please help me strap this box of rats to your face? (It's just I've got a mad hangunder from tomorrow night's heavy drinking session) There you go. It doesn't feel so bad inside the box now, does it?

Cheers,
Marc (Foster Brother)

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Available here: http://www.webscription.net/chapters...498747___1.htm

I'm off to read it.

Karma to you Kenny for finding it!!!

[kennyc]

Just finished it. Now I remember it.

Thanks for the story and the K!

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

The story was called "Rescue Party", from a book of short stories by Arthur C. Clark, "The Nine Billion Names of God"

The ending is......unusual. Not a 'cut and dried' type of thing.

Very unusual indeed. Certainly startling.

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I'm sorry, Jim, but your answer was not contained within the parameters of acceptable responses. Your abberant behaviour is contraindicated for the running of normal society, and you must now be processed for your thoughtcrime.

Can you please help me strap this box of rats to your face? (It's just I've got a mad hangunder from tomorrow night's heavy drinking session) There you go. It doesn't feel so bad inside the box now, does it?

Cheers,
Marc (Foster Brother)

The computer is not my friend.

( from a rpg called 'Paranoia !')

[happy_terd]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I personally would save athletes. 50 of each gender to rebuild the race. I say athletes because the general assumption is that they are in the best of health, although that is not always the case.

Actually I think it would be better with 75 females and 25 men. Better odds of rebuilding the race.

[Katti's Cat]

If I'm the Captain of the Ship I decide that my cat gets on board after that they can argue about the other places

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

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I'd go with a completely random sampling of people, 94% children and 6% adults (for the children's flexibility and the adults' child-rearing and parentage influence). I would not worry about which humans knew what, because if I was that advanced, I could record the sum of human intelligence and make it available to the humans wherever we deposit them.

I would avoid selecting from humans with significant physical or mental defects, if I thought they would adversely impact the ultimate survivability of the race vis a vis procreation and establishment of a healthy racial genome... but hopefully the situation would not be so dire as to force me to make such a decision.
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[kennyc]

I hope I didn't say this already, but recent genetic studies indicate that all humanity descended from a group of only a few thousand of our ancestors...

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I hope I didn't say this already, but recent genetic studies indicate that all humanity descended from a group of only a few thousand of our ancestors...

I saw mention of this on a documentary. It could have been as low as two hundred people that all was left after a major die off of practically eveything.

[Acrimonus]

I would only save the people who had small hands so the pianos and guitars we design in the future would be sized for small hands (blast you standard piano keyboard, 10 key stretches elude me!)

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Acrimonus

I would only save the people who had small hands so the pianos and guitars we design in the future would be sized for small hands (blast you standard piano keyboard, 10 key stretches elude me!)

Yes! 10 key stretches are a PAIN.*




* A big-time pain!