Food In The Bunker: Surviving A "deep Impact"

[Moontanman]

To add to the above, what about we follow the same plan for humans that we do with mammals? Only put females in the "ark", together with a ginormous sperm bank. If you only have females, you remove all the proven societal ills caused by testosterone in crowded spaces, and once they're back on the surface, they have a much bigger gene pool to select from than if they only had the males who went through the ark with them to pick from. Crime will also be virtually non-existent if you remove males from the equation - look at prison populations and gender, for instance.

 

That might be a bit harsh and quite severe, but it makes perfect sense, scientifically. And that brings us back to who and what will be in control of such an ark. The commoners who will vote for men to tag along (with the undeniable increase in crime and violence that will ensue) or the scientists, who will vote men out of the ark (with the relative peace and much more diversified gene pool if only frozen sperm were to be used from a much bigger donor base than what you'd have if men were to go along). The latter should, in the long run, be much better for the species.

 

 

PREVERT! :lol:

[Eclipse Now]

In the Deep Impact they only have to live underground 2 years until the light comes back and they are able to grow crops again. Somewhere. 2 years of dark will have of course caused another ice age / glacial period.

 

Ignoring the darkness issue for a moment, the surface would be unliveable because of the worldwide megafires that are lit after the Big One hits? From memory, all that molten rock re-enters around the globe for the next few days and creates megafires that bring to mind our Black Saturday tragedies of a few years back, only worldwide.

 

But after those fires have died down, is it just the dark and cold that make the surface uninhabitable? I wonder how coming out early would work if they needed more cropland, and had the generators and glow-lights to run it? Naaaah. Grow-lights in climate controlled underground bunkers. Much better.

 

Humans being humans, you will still end up with theft, murder and rape if you have a million people living close together.

 

Experience from the Dharavi slums in India suggests otherwise. The closer people are crammed together, the less crime. There are too many eyes.

[Boerseun]

Experience from the Dharavi slums in India suggests otherwise. The closer people are crammed together, the less crime. There are too many eyes.

Then we should send only Indian slum-dwellers into the "Ark", because experience from all other slums worldwide indicates otherwise :P

[Eclipse Now]

Just reporting what Kevin McLoud reported.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCloud