Secure a Seat on the New Planet: What You Need to Know

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The discussion revolves around the hypothetical scenario of securing a seat on a new planet as Earth faces doom. Participants debate the skills that might be prioritized for selection, suggesting that practical skills like smelting iron or building windmills could be favored over more advanced knowledge like computer programming or nuclear physics. The conversation humorously explores various survival skills and the absurdity of the selection process, including the idea of a committee making decisions without transparency. There are playful exchanges about personal attributes and contributions, such as cooking and animal husbandry, with some participants joking about their chances of being chosen based on their unique talents or antics. The thread also touches on the logistics of space travel, including the need for food and the potential chaos of confined living conditions. Overall, the tone is light-hearted and satirical, reflecting on human behavior in a crisis while engaging in whimsical banter about survival and selection criteria for a new world.
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The planet is doomed, how do you make sure you get one of the limited seats to the new planet.

A person who knows how to smelt iron may be chosen over one that knows how to split atoms, and a person who can build a wind mill may be chosen over one that can build a computer, but then who knows.
 
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How much dope do you smoke when you come up with these wacky thread ideas?

The quality must be very good. Afghani?
 
Yes, must be a hybrid. Anyways, yeah...wow.
 
wolram said:
The planet is doomed, how do you make sure you get one of the limited seats to the new planet.
Telephone sanitizers, TV directors and marketing consultants to the first Ark.
 
wolram said:
The planet is doomed, how do you make sure you get one of the limited seats to the new planet.
I'm a capitalist - I'll own the spaceship.
 
Cyrus said:
How much dope do you smoke when you come up with these wacky thread ideas?

The quality must be very good. Afghani?

Drug dealers have no chance, sorry Cyrus.
 
I'll just strip naked, grab a football, and convince all the men they couldn't bear to blast off into space without me. :biggrin:
 
While all of the men are diverted by Moonbear, Evo loads the fruitbat and Dr Foofer into the Rocket Ship and blasts off.

Only too late does she realize that Wolram designed the rocket and forgot that there was no destination, and no way to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere without incinerating. :cry:

Luckliy Dr Foofer is able to rig a transporter up at the very last second and we are all safely transported back to Earth.

The End.
 
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Evo said:
Evo loads the fruitbat and Dr Foofer into the Rocket Ship and blasts off.
Only to discover that the rocket ship is on a treadmill and so can't get airborne!
 
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Wow Evo, that's just as weird! Dr Foofer?
 
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mgb_phys said:
Only to discover that the rocket ship is on a treadmill and so can't get airborne!
Oh, well, yeah, and we realize that we are on a treadmill still on Earth and Dr Foofer's transporter doesn't really work. :redface:

Hey, he's just a cat that watched a lot of Star Trek, what did you expect?
 
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doomed...
 
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wolram said:
The planet is doomed, how do you make sure you get one of the limited seats to the new planet.

A person who knows how to smelt iron may be chosen over one that knows how to split atoms, and a person who can build a wind mill may be chosen over one that can build a computer, but then who knows.

I think anyone who can split atoms can figure out how to smelt iron or build windmills.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I think anyone who can split atoms can figure out how to smelt iron or build windmills.
And maybe start a fire?
 
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I'm the only person to have successfully made love in zero G. If its a generation ship, I have to be there.

By the time they find out I was lying its too late. muahaha :devil:
 
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Evo said:
And maybe start a fire?

Oh an even better excuse. I have a box of matches. :approve:
 
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Evo said:
While all of the men are diverted by Moonbear, Evo loads the fruitbat and Dr Foofer into the Rocket Ship and blasts off.

Only too late does she realize that Wolram designed the rocket and forgot that there was no destination, and no way to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere without incinerating. :cry:

Luckliy Dr Foofer is able to rig a transporter up at the very last second and we are all safely transported back to Earth.

The End.
That is just cruel, i would let you lot board the dummy ship and then nip off in the real one.
 
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wolram said:
That is just cruel, i would let you lot board the dummy ship and then nip off in the real one.
:cry:
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I think anyone who can split atoms can figure out how to smelt iron or build windmills.
May be they could, but a true foundry man would be making implements by the they have.
 
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wolram said:
The planet is doomed, how do you make sure you get one of the limited seats to the new planet.

A person who knows how to smelt iron may be chosen over one that knows how to split atoms, and a person who can build a wind mill may be chosen over one that can build a computer, but then who knows.
There is one critical piece of info you need to supply:

What process is used to make the determination?
Adjudicated vote?
Popular vote?
Committee?
Audition?
 
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I think it would have to be a Committee, and their findings not issued until the last minute.
 
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If it was a real committee, they wouldn't reveal their findings until long after they were needed.
 
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I don't want to play. :cry: I played this game with my friends many years ago. (actually, the opposite of this game - a sort of one-of-you-has-to-go musical chairs survival scenario)

Each of them, one after another, for various reasons, voted me the first one to go.

What a bunch of stupidheads.
 
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May be you would have a chance dave, unlike Poop-Loops.
 
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Poop-Loops said:
If it was a real committee, they wouldn't reveal their findings until long after they were needed.

:smile:
 
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wolram said:
May be you would have a chance dave, unlike Poop-Loops.

Oh please. I wouldn't rely on chance. I'd take your seat.
 
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wolram said:
I think it would have to be a Committee, and their findings not issued until the last minute.

Who gets to pick the committee.? Can committee members vote themselves onboard?

We may already have a problem Houston.:wink:
 
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I can refold a map.
 
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Poop-Loops said:
Oh please. I wouldn't rely on chance. I'd take your seat.

Just as i suspected, the aggression has started , well no it really started with the capitalist.

ROFL.

Edward is out, jimmy is on the short list.
 
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The spaceship will need a website. I'm a shoe-in.
 
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Thats just 2 possibles so far jimmy and Dave.
 
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I probably helped design it, you'd better bring me along! You might need a spare...
 
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wolram said:
Thats just 2 possibles so far jimmy and Dave.

Wow, tough crowd when a naked woman can't talk her way onto a spaceship.

Okay, I'm really good at tending and breeding animals and can do a fair job of butchering and cooking them too. Wherever you land, you might need some help growing food (you might be tempted to bring along Turbo too, but do you really think a confined space with limited toilets is the place for him to serve his famous habanero relish?)
 
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Greg Freeman said:
I probably helped design it, you'd better bring me along! You might need a spare...

If you get through the survival test.
 
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Does it require dancing skills? I'd so win
 
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Moonbear said:
Wow, tough crowd when a naked woman can't talk her way onto a spaceship.

Okay, I'm really good at tending and breeding animals and can do a fair job of butchering and cooking them too. Wherever you land, you might need some help growing food (you might be tempted to bring along Turbo too, but do you really think a confined space with limited toilets is the place for him to serve his famous habanero relish?)

The first definite, although i thought that a little harsh about Tubos chili.
 
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I can sew, knit and crochet, plus I'm good at gardening, cooking, and cleaning.
 
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Evo said:
I can sew, knit and crochet, plus I'm good at gardening, cooking, and cleaning.

If you can sew and knit on an industrial scale your in if you pass the survival test.
 
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wolram said:
The first definite, although i thought that a little harsh about Tubos chili.

From all his bragging about it, I'm quite sure it's the chili that will be harsh on the occupants. If you do let him bring his chilis, you better double check the air handling system. I sure don't want to be breathing recirculated air for such a long trip if everyone is eating super-spicy chilis. :wink:
 
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wolram said:
If you can sew and knit on an industrial scale your in if you pass the survival test.
What's the survival test?
 
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Evo said:
What's the survival test?

You have to spend a week confined to a single room with no windows or fan with a group of guys all eating turbo's chili. :biggrin:
 
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Moonbear said:
You have to spend a week confined to a single room with no windows or fan with a group of guys all eating turbo's chili. :biggrin:

All of a sudden I am glad I'm out.
 
  • #43
Evo said:
What's the survival test?

The first part of the test is to figure that out.

I'm sorry, you failed. :frown:
 
  • #44
Ok, the PF Sisters will have their own Spaceship. Who wants to come with us?

Wolram you're invited.
 
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Oh oh! I'll come! I don't mind sitting next to girls!
 
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Evo said:
Ok, the PF Sisters will have their own Spaceship. Who wants to come with us?

Wolram you're invited.

Will there be any chocolate on board? If so I might consider the ladies ship if there aren't any doilies all over everything.
 
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Plus I have a Beef map!

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Moonbear said:
You have to spend a week confined to a single room with no windows or fan with a group of guys all eating turbo's chili. :biggrin:

That and a week alone on Dartmoor with a stove, cook pan and tent.
 
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edward said:
All of a sudden I am glad I'm out.

You could redeem you self with a little ingenuity.
 
  • #50
Bring Greg. On a journey of this distance we're going to need someone who can change a tire.
 

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