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Perhaps we should form an organization of a few thousand people and dedicate it to safeguarding this location, making sure it never falls prey to local politics
by chias 10y ago
Perhaps we should form an organization of a few thousand people and dedicate it to safeguarding this location, making sure it never falls prey to local politics and other unpleasantness during the temporary fall of what we currently consider civilized culture. This foundation would need a descriptive name, and could probably use a plucky mayor to get things done. And we should set up a second one about a thousand miles off the coast of New Zealand.
If my calculations are correct, this should reduce the length of this neo-dark-age from 30,000 years to a mere 1,000.
- macintux 10y agoI see what you did there.
- credit_guy 10y agoSeeing as the GP's comment is the top one at this point, I guess quite a lot of other people got the reference. For those who didn't, here's a hint (trying not to spoil it): great SciFi series. Some may say the greatest. ... and I'm back from a bit of wikipedia rabbit hole. Found out even Elon Musk is a fan [1] [1] http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/the-science-fiction-books-that-inspired-elon-musk/68213?red=as http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/the-science-fiction-books-th...
- maverick_iceman 10y agoThe foundation should aggregate all of human knowledge in one giant encyclopedia, which should be of help even when mankind venture to the galaxies after the dark age.
- user5994461 10y agoYou're talking about the plot from the foundations series of books, by Isac Asimov. Where's the line between sci-fi and reality. One foundation will keep all of human knowledge, while the universe goes at war for 1000 years straight. Spoiler Alert: A second foundation, secret and hidden even from the first one, will keep all of human knowledge as well and protect the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series