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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4962 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
Oh no - Another one who thinks that we would be better off without any of the accumulated creative output of the entire human species. It makes me wonder why we bother to create anything......(**sniff**sob**sniff**) Don't forget that you painted the doomsday Earth scenario that they need to get away from.  But I do seriously think that apart from dry factual books and manuals, that might save them time and effort on practicalities, let them come up with their own philosophical and cultural ideas. Sure, Shakespeare wrote some good stuff that could be enjoyed and appreciated by anyone at any time. But his work is not definitive. I think it would be a good experiment to see what original ideas a new civilisation might come up with.
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4962 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
Apparently we would be better off with nothing at all. Or maybe a science text book or two to remind us to wash our hands after taking a dump, a trashy novel for the long trip and a glorified dictionary so that will forever have at our fingertips the population of Norway in 2009. A more pefect summary of humanity I could not conceive. We're not perfect, but you can't help but love us. 
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Jumped Up Chimpanzee Member (Idle past 4962 days) Posts: 572 From: UK Joined: |
More generally there are a number of problems with this thread: 1) It is probably an innately pretentious and silly question that I am asking. The sort of thing that seems like a wothwhile exercise when cycling home after a few beers but which is more likely to result in pretentious waffle in practise. 2) I have obviously failed to satisfactorily communicate what I am after in this thread. 3) Even ignoring the above failings the EvC audience are probably not ideally suited to this question anyway. People here are obviously far more inspired by the practical considerations of travelling to and colonising another planet than they are considering some pseudo-intellectual pretentious nonsense about mankinds intellectual and cultural legacy. Now that there is finally some kind of serious on-topic discussion I won't scupper your thread any more. But I just wanted to say I haven't stopped grinning all weekend at the idea of Straggler getting more and more frustrated at the refusal/inability of most EVC members to give a straight and simple answer to a straight and simple question. What topped it for me was the fact that you foresaw the problems that might arise, and tried to nip them in the bud in your OP, but this was totally ignored. It was like writing in large letters across your brow: "NO HEAD SHOTS ALLOWED!" I think this thread has proved that EVC members are like neither Rimmer nor Lister, but instead like the Cat. Unherdable.
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