Only One Age-Group Can Survive...
Kiwi-kiwi
19-09-2005, 19:52
So, say there was going to be some sort of disaster that would wipe out all humanity, except for those people of a certain age demographic.
Which age group would you choose to survive, and for what reason?
Poll coming.
Liskeinland
19-09-2005, 19:55
Mine, because I'm a natural leader, a born prophet and destined to lead my people to the promised land. :)
Age 100+, because all statistics show, death's in that age group is very rare.
Pope Hope
19-09-2005, 20:02
31-50...so perhaps they are old enough to have learned from the mistakes humanity made in the past and start anew without repeating those mistakes...but young enough to continue procreation.
Bahamamamma
19-09-2005, 20:04
31-50...so perhaps they are old enough to have learned from the mistakes humanity made in the past and start anew without repeating those mistakes...but young enough to continue procreation.
ditto
Pencil 17
19-09-2005, 20:04
18-30...
The right age...
My age...
18-30...
The right age...
My age...
my thoughts exactly,who wants to help me repopulate the world?
Bahamamamma
19-09-2005, 20:05
31-50. Because the residue of the recreational drug use of our twenties has finally left our systems!
Pencil 17
19-09-2005, 20:06
my thoughts exactly,who wants to help me repopulate the world?
Oooh me! me! *raises hand*
Swimmingpool
19-09-2005, 20:09
18-30, and not just because I'm in it. We're young enough to do a lot of rebuilding and pro-creating, but old enough to take care of ourselves and others.
<Thinks back to the Lord of the Flies>
Yeah 18-30
Oooh me! me! *raises hand*
yay,i remember your simulated orgy pic in the missNS competition.and you thought no1 would remember you,silly girl :D :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:
Frangland
19-09-2005, 20:19
18-30
many are in school, so what they're learning is freshest in their minds...
most are able to procreate, so that the species won't become extinct...
they'll be able to live long enough (longer than the 31-50 age group) to be able to teach/advise/help their kids until their kids are well into adulthood
Pencil 17
19-09-2005, 20:27
yay,i remember your simulated orgy pic in the missNS competition.and you thought no1 would remember you,silly girl :D :fluffle: :fluffle: :fluffle:
Oh my... Heh... Well... um...
LOOK OVER THERE *points*
*runs out back door*
UnitarianUniversalists
19-09-2005, 20:31
18-30. I think it was Richard Feynman that said, "A scientist causes more harm than good after their 35th birthday."
Legless Pirates
19-09-2005, 20:32
31-50...so perhaps they are old enough to have learned from the mistakes humanity made in the past and start anew without repeating those mistakes...but young enough to continue procreation.
I want to say the same about 18-30.
Anyway. I'll live then as well. Call me egoistic.
Oh my... Heh... Well... um...
LOOK OVER THERE *points*
*runs out back door*
mwahahaha.that picture has come back to haunt you
pencil in a simulated orgy!! (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/Snickony/MadMeNicoleAnnie.jpg)
thats her on the far left gettin her boob grabbed
Pencil 17
19-09-2005, 20:35
mwahahaha.that picture has come back to haunt you
pencil in a simulated orgy!! (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a347/Snickony/MadMeNicoleAnnie.jpg)
thats her on the far left gettin her boob grabbed
A terrible pic.... even though it's the only one of me on NS.
The Noble Men
19-09-2005, 20:36
18-30
many are in school, so what they're learning is freshest in their minds...
most are able to procreate, so that the species won't become extinct...
they'll be able to live long enough (longer than the 31-50 age group) to be able to teach/advise/help their kids until their kids are well into adulthood
That's pretty much why I voted.
A terrible pic.... even though it's the only one of me on NS.
therefore its the best one of you on NS.feel free to put up better ones.
and back on topic 18-30 would be best as they probably take up a pretty big chunk of humanity.more people survive less time and effort it takes rebuilding civilisation
Galloism
19-09-2005, 20:41
Gotta go with 18-30.
Part of the reason is that they are more fertile than older people, but smarter than the younger ones. It would make it the easiest to repopulate the planet and restore infrastructure.
Most of the reason is that I'm in that age group. Thanks, drive through.
Ashmoria
19-09-2005, 20:42
18-30
plenty of life experience, plenty of knowledge plenty of years left to procreate. if they got right to it, in a generation it wouldnt matter that the rest of the age groups got wiped out.
Frangland
19-09-2005, 20:42
That's pretty much why I voted.
then you are indeed noble!
hehe
Upper Botswavia
19-09-2005, 20:44
31 to 50
Old enough to reproduce, but with a greater span of knowledge than the next younger group. We would want to be able to teach the next generation everything we possibly could.
Smelly Fecal Matter
19-09-2005, 20:59
I have to go with the 18 to 30 group. Not because I'm in that age group, but because most of us have learned a lot about the world and how it works but haven't become set in certain ways of doing things. There is also the fact that this group is at their physical prime, so they can rebuild, procreate and take care of/teach their children all at the same time.
Eutrusca
19-09-2005, 21:02
So, say there was going to be some sort of disaster that would wipe out all humanity, except for those people of a certain age demographic.
Which age group would you choose to survive, and for what reason?
Poll coming.
I would have to say the 18-30 age group, since they could defend themselves, work hard, and would still be of childbearing age. Of course, it might take awhile for some of them to realize that actually working isn't nearly as bad as they might have thought. ;)
[NS]Hawkintom
19-09-2005, 22:35
So, say there was going to be some sort of disaster that would wipe out all humanity, except for those people of a certain age demographic.
Which age group would you choose to survive, and for what reason?
Poll coming.
18-30
Two reasons.
1. Best age group to repopulate the planet without being total idiots (like the teens)
2. My wife is under 30, I am over 30. Given your choices, the only honorable thing to do is save her. She's a better person than I am anyway.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
19-09-2005, 23:11
I was torn between 18-30 (because that is my age) and 31-50 (because my peers are, not to be rude of course, so fucking stupid that I don't think I'd like to live in a world ruled by them).
Torn between death and the living hell that a ruled by current college students and MTV would create, I went with 0-2 year olds because it is about time that those babies got off their collective bums and did some work. I don't see any baby fire fighters, or doctors, or anything, all I see is a bunch of paperweights that suck the life and intelligence out of otherwise useful pawns, er, people.
Snetchistan
20-09-2005, 00:14
Everyone's voted 18-30 because they will be able to rebuild humanity and save civilisation. Instead I see something like this as an opportunity to start over. Let all the 3-12 years bracket survive. In a couple of months/years etc. that group will be pared down to the toughest, meanest, most resourceful little bastards as they learn to adapt to their new life in a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies scenario. By the time they grow up and begin to rebuild society from the ruins, society will be a much leaner and fitter machine.
18-30.
Not only do I fit into that category, but all the people in that age group would be capable of takign care of themselves and repopulating in a reasonable amount of time. As opposed to the kids who wouldn't be able to take care of themselves and would take a number of years to help repopulate or the middle age and older people who wouldn't be able to reproduce anymore... we're the happy middle. :D