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ChAoTiCpInOy

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Been thinking about Deep Impact lately (the one that did worse than Armageddon but was more factual) and a part of it was about saving 200,000 scientists and what not to save the knowledge that they know. So it got me to thinking, say there's a reasonable amount of time for the world governments to prepare someplace for information to be stored (in the form of whatever, can be people), what information is absolutely necessary to save?
 
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Save every poster on ATOT - any bizarre, unusual, unexpected information - there's somebody here who knows all about that topic, and will happily share. Example - my recent thread on aging eggs in order to make easy peelable hard-boiled eggs.
 
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need a lot more than scientists. yeah, the guy might be able to tell you how to crack every imaginable product out of oil but can he build a house that doesn't fall over or rot?
 
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ElFenix said:
need a lot more than scientists. yeah, the guy might be able to tell you how to crack every imaginable product out of oil but can he build a house that doesn't fall over or rot?
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But, the guy who can design a refinery and is very knowledgeable about chemical engineering is FAR more likely to be able to read and understand a manual about how to build a house.

We can save all knowledge that is in a digital format. However, the majority of people wouldn't be able to comprehend most of it. Without someone to read it, interpret it, and implement it, the knowledge is mostly useless. Hence, in Deep Impact, we don't need to save fry cooks, though after we rebuild our McDonalds, we'll have a need for people in that capacity. (I tend to believe that we don't learn from the past, thus we'll have more fast food than ever when society is trying to rebuild.)
 
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DrPizza said:
But, the guy who can design a refinery and is very knowledgeable about chemical engineering is FAR more likely to be able to read and understand a manual about how to build a house.

We can save all knowledge that is in a digital format. However, the majority of people wouldn't be able to comprehend most of it. Without someone to read it, interpret it, and implement it, the knowledge is mostly useless. Hence, in Deep Impact, we don't need to save fry cooks, though after we rebuild our McDonalds, we'll have a need for people in that capacity. (I tend to believe that we don't learn from the past, thus we'll have more fast food than ever when society is trying to rebuild.)
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skilled tradesman != fry cook

i'm sure i can read all about welding in a book but that doesn't mean i'm not better off being taught hands on.
 
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ElFenix said:
skilled tradesman != fry cook

i'm sure i can read all about welding in a book but that doesn't mean i'm not better off being taught hands on.
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Yeah, but with limited resources and a need to survive, you'd be able to pick up on welding a lot faster than, say, brain surgery. Sure, your first few welds are going to be shitty, but you'll start to get the hang of it, even without an expert to show you how. That's not the same when it comes to the person healing all the welders who have fused their hands to an I-beam or the rocket scientists who keep the ship running (was there a ship in Deep Impact, or was that the one where they went into caves?).
 
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SirStev0 said:
And today's Gospel according to St. John 'the wad' Holmes, chapter pen 15 verse 69: And so it was that the tits and ass were good. And there was much rejoicing.
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Just hope they don't get the 70's stuff and instead of the spaghetti god it's a pubic one. D:
 
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