The Book of the Apocalypse...
By MrKennedy
@MrKennedy (1978)
September 7, 2009 1:55pm CST
Earlier today, I was thinking about this situation, and was wondering how you fellow MyLotters would respond:
Imagine if you we were aware of impending doom on our planet, and that a vast majority of humans and its infrastructure was set to be completely demolished. Now, I want you to imagine that you have been given the responsibility of gathering together the most important knowledge, wisdom and advice taken from mankind's experiences with life and write a book containing such information. How this book survives and how long it takes to publish are, for this discussion, two factors we will ignore.
Now, in regards to the book itself, it cannot exceed 3000 pages. What information would you consider absolutely necessary to put in this book to use each page to maximum potential, and how would you lay it out?
1 response
@Masssko (238)
• Estonia
7 Sep 09
Hi! thank you for the topic. I tried to think about it and came to the conclusion that as a language, binary code is the most universal. Because if we publish something on English, Russian, Hindi, Chinese etc, there is always possibility, that nobody of the survivors will speak it. But any person with just any single computer can get the information out of it.
Considering the content of the book, I'd place some fundamental laws of nature, that are in the basis of nowadays' science.
I think survivors will invent the religion for themselves in no time, and there is no need to prompt them, who should they believe. But we should help them to understand the world they live in.
By the way, in consideration of space catastrophe, I think the physical constants will also change, so we should put in some abstract information without particular numbers.
@MrKennedy (1978)
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8 Sep 09
I must say, the idea of writing the book in Binary Code had never occured to me before. Maybe we would have hope after all if you were publishing this book;)
