If you had a spacecraft, and the world was going under

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If you had a spacecraft, and the world was going under (eg. being hit by a meteor).

You cannot bring any people with you in the spacecraft, and you have somehow limited capacity. You can live for many thousand years, and you don’t know if you once in the future will land on a new planet, or if you will fly in a loop and come back to this planet again.

What will you take with you in this spacecraft, to bring with you into the future to create a new world?

This question is the whole point with this scenario. And the intension is to make you think and share with the rest of us, what you think is most important of all the things we have in the world today, to take into the future.

And there is also another perspective to it, a little game of the Gods: how you with this new start maybe can make a better world in the future?

If I couldn't bring any people in the spaceship, I probably would have stayed on earth, since eternal loneliness is worse than death.

I'd bring my computer and my cds and a gun, so I can shoot myself in the head before I go insane from boredom after a week with no internet and nothing new to do.
As for the other stuff, how am I gonna start a new world by myself? I can't bring anyone with me for some reason, so I would be the last human alive.

I'd bring only some games and a decent PC,i'll be set for a while hopefully,as long as i didn't have to feel hungry and thirsty.

I'd have to pass a lot of time alone, so my iPod and my Playboy collection.

Lots of booze, a warm blanket, toothbrush/paste and a few viles of my BF sperm so I could make some babies that would have to interbreed if I land. Oh, and a good book...

You cant create another human civilization from just yourself.. I guess I would just explore space for 1000 years or something Does the ship have hyperdrive and all that crazy stuff or what?

I'd leave this planet if I had a spacecraft even if the Earth wasn't imperiled. I'd already be gone if I could sustainably grow my own food, produce fuel, and had everything to be completely self-sufficient away from Earth. I'd enjoy working on the tasks of raising crops, computer programming, exploring the environs, doing assorted repairs, and knowing I'd never have to kiss someone's a$$ to give me a job again. From what I've seen of humanity, I have no desire to re-start the whole cycle of human madness, so I'd make no effort to resurrect civilization.

Well considering that if I were to leave this planet...where would I go to start a new world anyway??? I mean, are there any other planets that can be lived on???

I couldn't bring my computer...as there would be no electricity to run it from. I couldn't use batteries, because on certain planets there is something that can make them explode...(as I have heard).
So that makes going online impossible...but if I could wait another 300,000,000,000,000 years for the planet to be inhabitable, then sure...I would bring my computer.

If I couldn't, I would probably just take a gun so I could shoot myself. There is nothing worse than being by yourself, seeing no life form for an extended period of time.

I would also bring a first aid kit. And not that a chain saw would be of any use if for example the planet was made from ironpherite

Some tinned food.
definately some paper and pens to write.
Rubix cube...that would be a good way to prevent boredom...unless you are one of those people who do speed cubing . But if your like me and and can only do it within a few months then it will be good to have.

The spacecraft has hyperdrive, so it's possible to get around and see a lot of suns and planets, not just black space.
And the idea with this question is that you are going to land again, either on an earth that is almost "blank" or on another planet or moon there is inhabitable for organic lifeforms of the earth type.

I myself would bring along PC, films, books and other stuff to spend time, maybe also some robots, and then a geno-bank of lifeforms from this planet. I would also bring along so much information as possible about the technological and mechanical development, also how it is buildt and designed.
I wouldn't mind being alone for a while, but I would feel pretty lonely at last, but maybe I could make some virtual or artificial human company; I think I would try it after a few years alone.

When I landed I wouldn't recreate all of the lifeforms again, when given the chance to start a new. I wouldn't recreate eg. endoparasites, moskitos, houseflys, and about human I would only recreate them again with a lot of modifications, like less agresiveness and so on.

I would prefer a world that is somehow more "slow", so lifeforms are less in number but then live longer. Then there would not be so many births, and not so many deaths, also the small animals would not have such a rush.
I would consider genemodifying most lifeforms to be vegans, in that way living creatures wouldn't have to feed on each other.

The only reason to make such a rush, as with organic lifeforms on the Earth now, would be to see fast rasults of breeding programs and selective breeding, like with mice, where you can have many generations within a year, and then you don't have to wait such a long time for mutations of diffrent kind.

Anyway, I would prefer it more slow, but I would also have a geno-bank with developed lifeforms as a start.

But I would have a LOT of time to think all of this over in the spacecraft.

I would bring art supplies. Clay, paint, brushes, paper.
I would have to bring a swiss army knife
If you really want to prevent the mistakes of this world from happening again then you have to take an extremist standpoint, no computer. If the emotional quality of human life has diminished since the industrial revolution then it must be avoided.
Also were in a cultureless society, we only have pop-culture now.
To avoid those mistakes you have to leave your dvd and book collection behind.
You wouldn't even be able to bring a gun for self defence because of the possibility of contamination.

I would die with all of my friends and family if that was ever to happen.

Or just go into a panic attack and try to use "Telekinesis" on the meteor, killing myself from the strain of trying to use something that I don't have.

Or I might freak out and drive the ship into the meteor.



Number three sounds fun. I'm not afraid to die.

I'd take as many comics and books as I could, as well as lots of tinned goods and so forth. Lots of video games, too.

And then I'd go wandering the stars (maybe as a bounty hunter, I dunno). Starting a new civilisation would be silly, if it was just me. Unless, of course, I met a beautiful alien in my travels and we managed to produce viable offspring

I'd just take the one self-replicating, self-extending nano-assembler.

After a short while, I'd have an entity to talk to. Later, it could adapt me. After that we'd probably get into the game of making pocket universes - it's always been like that. Where do you think we are now?

I'd stand under the meteor.

I can't see how I could take a horse and a dog into the spaceship and be able to meet their basic needs.