Poll: Repopulating the Earth

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Vanilla Gorilla

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I'd repopulate the hell out of the earth! Actually... well, yes probably, at least it gives you a goal/something to pass the time, otherwise you might as well end it right there! As a sensualist (i mean i enjoy indulging all my senses, not that I have some exciting/wierd sexual predilictions (although I probably do)) I figure you might as well always continue living as there are lots of things to be enjoyed, even if you arent happy.
 

Eldritch Warlord

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Bachanomon92 said:
Don't you need like at least 15 people to re-populate the earth?
Roughly. Analysis of mitocondrial DNA suggests that at one point in human history there were no more than a dozen fertile females. That and three fertile males should be enough.

With just a man and woman it's a futile effort without considerable technology and breeding control. Nothing short of induced mutation or selectively correcting poor genes would keep enough genetic variance for more than a few generations.
 

Cheesebob

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Yes but...it would have to end up with incest happening, and unless when humanity is reduced to 2 people we turn into Adam and Eve...well, humanity may stop after the next generation.

Now if there was 4 people left, that may make things less awkward
 

Bagaloo

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If there are two people left, humanity is already extinct.
All of our history, our culture, the quirky little interests from across the entire planet, almost all of it would be lost forever.

If you somehow did manage to repopulate, it would be a completely new era, and one with a lot of freaky moral issues.
 

Rath709

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Has anyone stopped to consider the possibility that perhaps the planet would be far better off if it were completely depopulated of all human life, never for it to return?
 

Silver

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Err... Okay, what happened to the rest of the people on the planet? Are they still around (or their corpses at least), do I have access to medical facilities? What about research material?

If I have access to the corpses, and sperm banks, egg donors, and medical facilities, then there's no problem. We'd have to be used as incubators, of course, which might not be the nicest thing ever, and often not for our own kids either, but we could easily repopulate a small part of the world, with a lot of genetic material. I'd never allow the earth itself to be repopulated, that's far too many people, and it wouldn't work. I'd see it as a chance to write up some new laws that would make things work, and since I'd literally, be the creator of an entire species, much of it from my direct genetic material, I could probably count on some importance being given to my written word. I mean seriously now, people believe in a ghost impregnating women randomly and creating the world in seven days, if something as irrational as that could be believed, then me clearly documenting (since they have to be careful about what genetic material they spread, and how, so as to avoid inbreeding) how I created the new human species could as well.
 

Nazulu

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Nah, after seeing the stupid people of today I couldn't give a rats ass about the human race. DIE YOU FLESH BAGS, YOU WASTE OF SPACE YOU SCUM!