What would you save from our civilization?

[St Leo]

We've stuck this plaque on Pioneer 10. Similar stuff is on the Voyager probes.

[Combat Ingrid]

I would use eight sheets to wipe my butt, one to blow my nose, and on the last sheet I would write down the lyrics to Manowar's songs "Hail and Kill" and "Kill with Power"

[Ted Striker]

Weekend at Bernies 2 on DVD

[MORON]

I don't care, since if the langages I know survives, 10 pages is nothing.

If they don't, combined with the fact that I can't draw, means I shouldn't bother.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by St Leo


We've stuck this plaque on Pioneer 10. Similar stuff is on the Voyager probes.

You're joking with us about this, right?

[Spiffor]

I'd imprint porn manga on the paper. This is definitely representative of mankind

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by MrFun
You're joking with us about this, right?

He's not

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Please, give me one poem that is representitive of all mankind.

ask and ye shall receive, the greatest song ever written:

On a warm summer’s evenin’ on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin’ out the window at the darkness
’til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, son, I’ve made a life out of readin’ people’s faces,
And knowin’ what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don’t mind my sayin’, I can see you’re out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I’ll give you some advice.

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if you’re gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.

Now ev’ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
’cause ev’ry hand’s a winner and ev’ry hand’s a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

So when he’d finished speakin’, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.

You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.

[Whoha]

Re: What would you save from our civilization?

Originally posted by Humboldt
I thought this might be a good place to ask this question:

If you knew the Earth and mankind were about to vanish, and the only thing left would be ten sheets of paper, what would you write down?

I was thinking I would write down some basic mathematics and geometry information etc.

The idea is that these pages would be the legacy of mankind.

I hate writing so Mankind's legacy = boned.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by General Ludd


Name me one thing, period, that is reprentive of all mankind.

actually now that I think about it I would draw stick figures shooting at each other, poorly drawn tanks, aircraft, para-troopers, etc.

[JohnT]

Bach's second Brandenburg, 3rd movement. Might be longer than three pages, but so what?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by MrFun
You're joking with us about this, right?

One of my favorite editorial cartoons came out when this was fired out. It showed aliens who were exact duplicants of the couple shown in the drawing looking at the picture. One of them was saying, "The people of Earth look a lot like us, but they don't wear any clothes."

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Spiffor

He's not

[mrmitchell]

the Bill of Rights

the Ten Commandments

mathematical formulas

and from there I'm lost. I mean, 10 pages isn't a lot, definitely not enough to include anything major (like a philosophical work or a history of the world.)

[Agathon]

A 17" Powerbook with wireless access to an Xserve RAID containing

A Complete hi res copy of Mark Harden's Artchive.

Complete texts in the original languages of every classic work of world literature (one reason for having a mac - it has most of the required languages installed as default).

Rips of the greatest works of Western and Eastern Classical music.

Ditto of our best films.

A complete copy of the Wikipedia.

A movie where Jenna Jameson gets nailed really good.