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I was impressed with that too! When I first saw that, I thought - "that's thinking outside the box!" And.... with a two month prep time, the females could even be impregnated by IVF with donor sperm and donor eggs. Completely different DNA. With that you could potentially select another 10 "people" (or 12 if 6 women)

Amber I hope that it's a great and wonderful day!!! Enjoy!

- Skydive (check) - become a Dr. (check) - fall in love (check) - paperwork..... I FORGOT BE A PIRATE!!!

Would have to disagree here a bit, organisational skills may not be pertinent for ten people but they will be for the future generations. I think a Leader will develop in time, but you don't need administrators or secretaries that just do the work of others. Everyone needs to play well without the "upper levels" looking over them First Aid will only get you so far and will not help with Disease (no immunisations) But he is right to not need the whole medical knowledge. House might be smart, but he would NOT be on the list (for MANY reasons - the first one being that he's fictitious and we can't have any fake people on this real problem) First aid and midwifery covers many of the issues that the 10 would encounter - BABIES, Bites, breaks, barfing. Basic stuffs. technology, weaving on a loom and making yarn would seem to me to be moderately important for a growing naked community, aswell as tanning processes He included spinning/weaving, but I read that technology as not needing an IT guy.

Silly, That's the B Ark. We're designing the A Team here

No worries. You can make them all skydivers if you want.

No worries. You can make them all skydivers if you want.

IT's FLAWED you do not have enough genetic diversity. Sqeak... you are right. We don't have enough for an "adequate" founder base. But lets just go with the ten and tell me what you would train them on. According to some, we started with only two... at least I'm increasing it to 10.

Thank you, Tracy. I appreciate the efforts to reign this back in.

Agreed... but with the strict divison of labor, you begin some level dominance/dependancy. That should be discouraged. The women, although primarly breeding is their job, should be able to survive without the males for extended time frames and should be trained in hunting or at least trapping. Older males... how much older? Late 20's? Or do you add a 40 something that can still reproduce but adds experience and knowledge to the group. (But then the females have to stay in the 19-24 age range, you don't want older females cuz of the decreasing fertility. . . but then you have 20 year difference in mating)

Even if you can't go... give details on the group that you would select. I was knocked out too (education bias)... but since we're not REALLY going back, I didn't mind so much. Now if the world was ending tomorrow and there truly was only 10 spots in the "transporter". . . I would have to think REAL hard about trying to change the rules to go back myself... but for the purpose of this conversation, the limits are helpful.

The goal is to restart the human race. You are going back to prior to Homo Sapiens civilization. You might "meet" earlier ancestors, but this is not designed to "educate" them.

Remember... you can't take back guns and only 2yr post high school education max AND you only have a month to train them. You can't have two "doctors" by the rules. But... you can have 1 or all trained in first aid. (even advanced for those showing profenciency.) Geology and Botany should be taught (and cooking). Animal skills (tracking and husbandry - although you likely won't be domesticating during the first generation), Stone work and metallurgy(although we thoguht it would be hard to guarantee that you would be placed by a location that could help with bronze production or the immediate availablity of smelting or forging), meteorology (basics and out door survival). . . and we decided that music and entertainment was important - but not at the sacrifice of the other skills. Lastly we started discussing the generation step. Initially we all wanted adults (and I still ended with that opinion)... but that will create a 15 year step between the generations. One suggested including a 10 year old child so that in 8yrs, not double that, the gene pool could be re-diluted. My argument about that was how helpful would that child be to take the place of an adult so that in a decade. . . 10 years of the group surviving later. . . . then that child fulfills that role. Many things could happen to that child in that time frame. And another discussion - Monogamy or polygamy? And how do you control for jealousy?

-at the point of this discussion, just the clothes you have on. No tools, no books

Discussion tonight was very interesting. Assumption - you had to pick 10 people to travel back in time to "begin again" You got to pick who would go back and you had 2mos to train them. Tell me about the demographics (male/female ratio, age grouping, the specialty training) I posted this here instead of bonfire... cuz I didn't just want the "me and 9 chicks with bobbies" type posts. Try to keep the discussion going. We talked over two hours and though I was EXHAUSTED and falling asleep... it was fascinating to discuss the answers.

The opposite is also true.

I grew up in the 60-70 around them, have always loved them and 99% of what comes out now days is soul-less. Dont get me wrong the modern bikes are very well built and run brilliantly, but they dont get my heart beating like an old school V Twin, does, Icluding Guzzi, Old Ducatis, and even some Hardlys Mine has a soul. She told me so.

My Bike is better than yours AND Marks Cause it's not a Ricer munch or a Hardley Italian 2 wheeled Stalion Ducatis ARE so cool!

8:08 on 8.8.8. So... What's supposed to happen? Eights don't hold any deeper meaning, do they? Well besides Aces and Eights.... but that wouldn't be good.

I think she's nice. Thinking of the dead like that... I know if I were dead I would appreciate a green gummi bear.... ok... maybe not.

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YOU SUCK

OK... how many people seriously OWN a hospital. I can see the need for a clinic, or as mentioned above, even home remedies for personal use. Only the government should OWN hospitals cuz they wouldn't do anything bad with them..... would they?

OHHHHHH SPANKINGS! And after the Spankings? Sister Dingo knows what comes next But.. since you're so far away this book will have to do.

Go to the American Cancer Society website. Enter your zip code in the field and that will pull up the ACS Office nearest to you. Call them and ask them for information on free mammograms