+315 It would be amazing to be one of a select few survivors of a cataclysmic end to civilization. You could literally start humanity over from scratch and be remembered as legends by the future generations. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you disregard the fact that everyone you know just died and assume that there is someone attractive to restart humanity with, of course.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would start a new religion

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never thought about that, actually. All of our philosophical ideas would be wiped clean. We could potentially have no God, or make the Flying Spaghetti Monster our God, or call ourselves Gods.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I vote for the latter

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You can be the King of Nuts and I'll be King of Sex.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That sounds awkward. I'll be the High God of the Internet

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would make Chuck Norris God. And procreate with Cristiano Ronaldo.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'll start humanity over with you ;)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Have you considered that you might not succeed in rebuilding civilization?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, then you're stuck with the Adam and Eve quandary - let's say four people survive - two fertile men, and two fertile women. They pair up, and each couple has a few kids. The kids either have the children of the other couple to have kids with, or their siblings. And, if the kids pair up and have kids, those kids will have no one but siblings or cousins to have children with. Even if you start out with a larger group of survivors (say, fifty) it's going to boil down to incest after a few generations. So, yeah, you probably won't be remembered, since your great-great-great-great-etc-offspring will be too inbred and too concerned with their multiple heads for history.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Simulations have show that 15 couples is the magic number for recreating a population.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Until I see some non-retarded incest babies as evidence, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But with 15 couples, after generations they're distant enough that it doesn't matter

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Here's some further reading if you want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was attempting to make a joke. Dun git all smart on me, science boy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You forgot to put your comment in the joke category

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's pretty cool. They should have named it "Experiment Penis" though - all the sperm is in the testes, then it strings out to go through the penis, then explodes everywhere like the population.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hmm, I dunno about that... one like Simon said if you don't have enough people, you'll probably die out, because inbreeding is bad news bear. Then even if you have generation after generation, you'll probably be thought of as a myth that never really existed and people who believed would probably think they're crazy and about your convo about being God, that is assuming there is no REAL God out there....

by Anonymous 12 years ago