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You get to take 50 people with you. Among them must be a musician, a scientist, a movie star, an athlete, an artist, a writer, and a politician... Who do you take to fill these slots? Do you bring YOUR family? or do you try and fill the ship with more important people? What other professions would you make sure are aboard the ship? Naturally we are going to assume that all plant and animal dna has been secured and stored on the ship to help recreate the new world. Fill in das form!
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Scientist:
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Athlete:
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You get to take 50 people with you. Among them must be a musician, a scientist, a movie star, an athlete, an artist, a writer, and a politician... Who do you take to fill these slots? Do you bring YOUR family? or do you try and fill the ship with more important people? What other professions would you make sure are aboard the ship? Naturally we are going to assume that all plant and animal dna has been secured and stored on the ship to help recreate the new world. Fill in das form!
Musician: Justin Beiber (so others will not sit and enjoy him but will rise up knowing they can do better)
Scientist: Would have to research this, also want a young one to breed later
Movie Star: Natalie Portman
Athlete: Don't care, I would pick a distance runner that was in good health
Artist: Don't care, need to breed
Writer: Don't care, need to breed
Politician: Don't care, need to breed
Others essential professions: Breeders
Other people brought:
Breeders
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Really though -- you can have as much knowledge as you want stored on Blu-Rays. You can then have as many embryos as you can manage for implantation -- these you would want as varied as possible. Then you need as many wombs as you can fit. You would need field medics, maybe a shaman etc because what you need is people who can deal with native medicine from wherever you end up as opposed to people who are trained in things you won't have. You would need people good at farming etc, and some of the best teachers to teach the massive number of kids. People would pretty much all be female and need to be people who can farm etc while pregnant.
The main thing you really want to end up with is at least a few thousand people able to be born with as little genetic overlap as you can manage, into an environment where they will survive and not end up insane(so yes people with psychology training would be helpful). Lastly you would want engineers enough for if something happened technically.
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Others essential professions: Brewers and distillers.
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16 males, 34 females
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Musician:Paul McCartney
Scientist: Michu Kaku (sp)
Movie Star:Harrison Ford
Athlete:LeBron James
Artist:Meh, Leonardo DaVinci
Writer: Greg Bear
Politician:Obama
Others essential professions:Engineers, teachers, doctors, farmers, astronomers, physicists
Other people brought: Every beautiful woman I could find
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Musician:
Movie Star:
Athlete:
Artist:
Writer:
Politician:
If the goal is to jump start humanity after a wipe out, I am not taking any of those under any circumstances with the possible exception of the musician but they also better be capable of producing other things with their creative energy and children.
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I mean you have:
Part 1: Journey. Making sure you get there safely.
Part 2: Construction of the basic colony and initial implantation... Figure everyone will have triplets and you have only a finite amount of time where people can work hard doing the set up.
Part 3: The initial crop of 150 kids. Assume 130 survive (harsh new environment without enough support). 2nd impregnation and working on keeping them alive.
Part 4: As the years go by more and more of the resources of the colony has to go to the new members and the ratios get strained. I mean by the time any of the kids can have any real part in running things vs taking is say 7 years down the line when you have 130 babies 130 1 year olds 130 2 year olds .... 130 6 year olds. Even so at that point you have only 50 people running the colony assuming none die which is kind of unrealistic -- lets say 47 or so and 900 little ones to support.
Part 5: Transition -- as the oldest new colonists start to age to a point where they are able to take more of a part in things, they may well be trying to take over. I mean you have 45 people trying to run things but 2000 being run -- and some of those teens may be rambunctious. It is not even close to a situation where you have enough authority. This is actually the most dangerous time where things could easily get out of control.
Part 6: Passing the torch -- Assuming the remaining embryos arent all stale you have the decision to make as to how the new adults are going to live their lives. Then you have the issue of the initial colonists becoming too old to continue pumping out the kids. The new 20 year olds will eventually take over the colony and how the initial people who made the trip are handled is really up in the air.
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if we're trying to save humanity why are we including a politician?
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16 males, 34 females
Too man men, not enough women. Do more like 10/40.
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If I'm DESTINED to save humanity then it doesn't matter who I bring, does it? It could be 50 clowns or 50 scientists and it wouldn't make a difference.
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Musician: Ted Nugent. The guy can hunt so he won't be a complete waste of space.
Scientist: I dunno. Burt Rutan maybe? He's probably more an engineer though.
Movie Star: Shatner. He can reprise his role as Kirk and bang any female aliens we find.
Athlete: Whoever the current Olympic marathon winner was. Running a lot could be useful.
Artist: Umm... Some artist who has skills other than artisting?
Writer: George R. R. Martin. He's not getting out of finishing A Game of Thrones that easy.
Politician: Cheney. I figure the same as nugent he can hunt and also maybe arrange for a hunting accident if someone gets too annoying.
I would bring my wife and the cat. Does the cat take a spot? He's coming either way. I'd be tempted to fill most of the rest of the spots with family since most of us are pretty smart, but that might be awkward trying to repopulate a planet.
Edit: One of the Duggar daughters. Somebody has to start cranking babies out. Hopefully it's in the genes.
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Caledric posted:
You get to take 50 people with you. Among them must be a musician, a scientist, a movie star, an athlete, an artist, a writer, and a politician... Who do you take to fill these slots? Do you bring YOUR family? or do you try and fill the ship with more important people? What other professions would you make sure are aboard the ship? Naturally we are going to assume that all plant and animal dna has been secured and stored on the ship to help recreate the new world. Fill in das form!
Musician:some hot girl musician
Scientist: some hot girl scientist
Movie Star: some hot girl movie star
Athlete: some hot girl athlete
Artist: some hot girl artist
Writer: some hot girl writer
Politician: no such thing as a hot politician
Others essential professions: any hot girl.
Other people brought:any hot girls i missed
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50 women.
I will do the breeding.
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50 women.
I will do the breeding.
You're going to end up with an inbred clan. They won't last.
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Reapist posted:
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50 women.
I will do the breeding.
You're going to end up with an inbred clan. They won't last.
Nah, the genetic diversity of the mothers will offset that actually and with my perfect genetics, it would give us a fairly good starting point.
If you want to come though, you can, but I get them all first.
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Musician: Ted Nugent
Scientist: Dr. James Watson
Movie Star: Mel Gibson
Athlete: Don “Moose†Lewis
Artist: Arno Breker
Writer: Forrest Carter
Politician: Paul Ryan
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Reapist posted:
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16 males, 34 females
Too man men, not enough women. Do more like 10/40.
i was thinking 5 or 10 men at first but we need to keep a good DNA selection and variation
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Reapist posted:
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50 women.
I will do the breeding.
You're going to end up with an inbred clan. They won't last.
Nah, the genetic diversity of the mothers will offset that actually and with my perfect genetics, it would give us a fairly good starting point.
If you want to come though, you can, but I get them all first.
I don't blame you. The last thing you want to experience is the feeling of tossing a hotdog in a hallways.
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50 women.
I will do the breeding.
No way, if we wanted a bunch of Greeks who can't finish a basement we'd call you
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