Yea Id bring 50 ultra hot babes with me.
Haven't thought much further than this
Yea Id bring 50 ultra hot babes with me.
Haven't thought much further than this
50 people could be enough to sustain and grow a human population, and since I love playing grand strategy games it could be interesting to do it in a more realistic setting.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
Just bring a bunch of engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and doctors with you. Easy.
i'd do it if it was 100k years orso.
but 1m years basically means you would go insane from boredom while waiting some 750k years for modern humans to evolve.
though on the other hand, if you can bring 50 humans with you it might be doable. if you can keep early deaths in those 50 to a minimum it should be barely enough to get a small community going without genetic side effects, and with some luck they can mate with w/e human ancestor was around by then.
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those are useless if you can only bring back 50 people.
you want most of them to be farmers, with some basic level training in other general fields.
a blacksmith trained to make a furnace will be more useful than an engineer.
a medic with herb/survival remedies will be more useful than a doctor.
overly specialized people will not be able to transfer their knowledge to future generations due to the subsistence lifestyle you will be forced to adapt initially.
the really interesting question to me is: can you jump start a small community fast enough before any written down knowledge you bring with you becomes useless. (either because the storage medium decays, or because the language has become too different).
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Sounds like the premise of the Emperor of Mankind with a bunch of years attached to it and a new origin story, and Chaos too I suppose.
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God no, I didn't ask for the years I've already had and I sure as shit don't want more.
What have the years of your life taught you to be?
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
I must. I have a duty to mankind to become your immortal god-emperor. Remember to pray to me and worship me!
If you are particularly bold, you could use a Shiny Ditto. Do keep in mind though, this will infuriate your opponents due to Ditto's beauty. Please do not use Shiny Ditto. You have been warned.
i honestly don't think your average engineer would be able to forge iron from scratch. let alone be good at it or do it without injury long enough to train an apprentice. and you are going to run out of supplies like hammers and nails that you can bring with you fast.
same with a doctor. it's useless that he knows you have a fancy disease when he doesn't know how to make painkillers from scratch, and advanced medicine like surgery is pretty much a no go.
whatever supplies you bring with you is going to last maybe 1 or 2 generations. after that you have to be self sufficient.
so i'd rather have manual labour skills who took a course in building some more advanced tools. than specialists who took a course in the manual labour aspects of their field.
And yes, you can just bring a book with you. But even with a jump start, you are going to be spending the first few generations heavily focused on just getting by. There isn't going to much time and resources to educate people. So your book is going to be spending it's time in a anti-decay box until your population is back in the thousands. By which time it's usefulness will depend entirely on your skills as a language teacher, cause the language will have grown a part a lot.
It's probably fine to bring a few more educated peopple, a chemist being by far the most useful. but at the end of the day your people will be engaged in manual labour every day of their life for the rest of their lives, so you might as well bring people who are efficient at that.
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Hm idk. If I don't have to go asap back into time then yeah. That was I could spend few 100 years learning today's stuff and future stuff. Everything except languages, psychology, philosophy, art in any form.... Just math, physics, architecture... Everything I would need to start building a new life with the thing I can bring in 100m2 ( also 100m x 100m is 10000m2).
I wouldn't take any people with me, fuck that shit in stranding them there.
For few some 950k years I would just travel the world, no need to have permanent settlement or so, then for the next 40k years I would build stuff. Assuming that I can spend few 100 years in present and future I would probably have good enough technology to keep the stuff I brought in some kind of suspension, that nothing can destroy it or make it unusable. I would build that would make those crazy conspiracy theorists even go nutter. Then at the down of the new age, let's say when modern man crawl from caves and burrows I would mingle with them and considering the lvl of my technology that I can't be killed and that I can't die I would subjugate them and try to jump start civilization and technology by some 10k years. I would ban all religions, unite all the nations in common goal to colonize space/universe.
1m years with 50 ppl that can die just by walking outside doesn't give me a proper chance in doing that. Chances of any of them surviving or their/our offspring surviving is slim to non. Christianity and other religions pushed us back ( technologically ) some 500 years. So i think 10k years with technology that is 300 years ahead of us is more than enough time to create new civilization that will surpass ours by 1000s of years.
Based on what? It is unstated in the hypothetical, we only know we won't *die* We weren't promised happiness, or sanity.Originally Posted by markos82
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
Well OP said nothing kills me, that implies that my brain wont suffer any consequence of me being put through any imaginable scenario. If i'm about to lose an arm i won't thus my situation will change and my body will adapt to it, that also implies my brain will do the same if im about to lose it due to me being "killed" 1m times or more....
Well just read what i wrote above
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It wasn't stated how it would work down to the most minute details. Immortality doesn't mean you are invincible, it just means you won't die from something, usually natural causes. If you assume some kind of divine protection from any harm you might as well assume you get max. level mental fortitude as well, then it would be just boring for a couple hundretd thousand years.
This is a common problem with these kind of scenarios. The way it would actually work is crucial to the outcome yet it is never stated to that degree. Unless you know everything it is best to assume the least OP version though, which is usually the one that breaks reality the least. That usually means that your cells work perfectly and don't mess up when replicating, therefore stop aging, heal more and better, etc. All of that is somewhat realistic yet. Though I guess you could argue that the OP stated food wouldn't be an issue either, so that already goes beyond that. For that to happen you'd definitely get energy from some other source as well.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.