If you did have to repopulate the world....

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I just came in here to shit in this thread, like Odin does to everyone else's.

Yeah, but your shit don't stink.

No wait a second.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I just came in here to shit in this thread, like Odin does to everyone else's.

Yeah, but your shit don't stink.

No wait a second.

I hear odin's is made out of gold...

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I just came in here to shit in this thread, like Odin does to everyone else's.

Except I don't do that....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2234619#29657238
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235151#29670089
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235317#29671511
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235514#29676259
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235140#29670680
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235423#29673618

Just seems like a recurring theme...

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I just came in here to shit in this thread, like Odin does to everyone else's.

Except I don't do that....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2234619#29657238
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235151#29670089
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235317#29671511
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235514#29676259
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235140#29670680
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235423#29673618

Just seems like a recurring theme...

Lulz.

If I had to repopulate the world as a result of humanity's stupidity... well, I'd have made sure to have launched in the Ark spaceship in cryo-sleep before the catastrophe

 

[lyssword]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2975862.stm

 

[Foxery]

I thought about this some more over breakfast...

1) Have to revise my post about "college grads = education." Nononono. Students would have too much book knowledge and not enough practical experience - you'd need lots of working class folks who have actual experience doing useful things.

2) Several people have questioned the lack of medicine, especially mortality rates of infants and mothers. Think harder - what would happen if you took our standards of every-day sanitation back to the Dark Ages? Death and disease would not be a big deal. You take it for granted what a difference washing your hands makes.

3) Food - Where are people getting the idea what 100% of us would need to farm all day? Life hasn't worked that way in 5000 years.

 

[alkemyst]

I'd create a bunch of clones of you and call them Oompa Loompas. I don't think that name has been taken yet.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I would have numerous women and choose to not repopulate the Earth. I have no problems with humanity becoming extinct. I would just give them some spa "facials" and lots of "pearl necklaces" to show my affection.

 

[moshquerade]

with you Odin?

we should probably get started.

 

[sdifox]

Everyone dies when the first winter hits. A few hundreds do not provide enough gene diversity anyway.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
with you Odin?

we should probably get started.

Ready when you are

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I just came in here to shit in this thread, like Odin does to everyone else's.

Except I don't do that....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2234619#29657238
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235151#29670089
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235317#29671511
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235514#29676259
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235140#29670680
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2235423#29673618

Just seems like a recurring theme...

If you think that's shitting in a thread, then you take the internet waaaaay too seriously and you should probably stop posting.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: lyssword
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2975862.stm

Man, those people were stupid. Africa's totally the bad spawn spot - it's basic Age of Empires strategy to zerg to a better location when you get a low-resource starting location.

 

[uberman]

My greatest memory of a topic on this discussion is in the movie Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) explains to the General (George C. Scott) and the President (Peter Sellers) about his plan to repopulate the earth after nuclear war.

He explains that the ratio of women to men would be 10 to 1. Women would be chosen for their desireability because their task would be breeding. Men would have to do prodigious service inseminating the women in order to produce many offspring. The idea of monogomy would be a thing of the past.

It's George C. Scott's appearance during this lecture that cracks me up.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: sdifox
Everyone dies when the first winter hits. A few hundreds do not provide enough gene diversity anyway.

It's happened before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

On the other hand, in 2000, a Molecular Biology and Evolution paper suggested a transplanting model or a 'long bottleneck' to account for the limited genetic variation, rather than a catastrophic environmental change.[7] This would be consistent with suggestions that in sub-Saharan Africa numbers could have dropped at times as low as 2,000, for perhaps as long as 100,000 years, before numbers began to expand again in the Late Stone Age[8]

And the cheetah population was once down to fewer than seven.

Link

The only reason they're doing so poorly today is because of habitat pressure from humans. So it is possible to recover a population with very few individuals.