Sacrifice the 5 skeeviest members of the WBC (trust me, that's the hard part, cause they're all skeevy) and I would bring back my dad.
Ya buts what the difference between the handicapped people and say someone with incurable cancer? Or for a more direct comparison someone in a coma or an elderly person who is for all intents and purposes healthy except they use a walker?Signa said:You could throw in 5 wheelchair bound mentally handicapped people, but they have to be full grown. The machine works on matter conversion, so 5 babies wouldn't work.NightHawk21 said:I have a problem with the description of healthy? Are we talking no terminal illnesses or just diseases. You'd be hard pressed (and I bet it would be impossible) to find someone who is perfectly healthy. Also the definition of people is very vague, as it varies from country to country. So until the OP clarifies I'm running with standard legal definitions. What I would do is find some ridiculously religious country with a very lax ethics board that mainly disallows stuff like abortion, and preferably has nothing to lose by taking on riskier endeavors (maybe something like Cuba). Then I would on the bench fuse together 5 human eggs and 5 human sperm essentially making a person (if a person is considered a person at conception - hence why the very religious country was necessary). Then I'd throw my plates into the machine and start spitting out scientist after scientist.
That way you can't kill annoying kids in this question. Kids still have a chance to develop into a not-shitty, not-annoying members of society.
It limits the question from becoming a total cop-out by just throwing the people in there that are days/hours away from death. Also, since there are deeper themes to this question on who's life do you value more, throwing the handicapped in there is a perfectly valid answer. Do you value the lives of 5 handicapped people more than someone else who left you or the greater public? Who's lives have affected you most? You don't have to answer those, but that's a lot of what this question boils down to. The concept of the machine places the question deeper into reality, because you can picture yourself with that machine and how you would react. Asking the above question changes the context drastically.NightHawk21 said:Ya buts what the difference between the handicapped people and say someone with incurable cancer? Or for a more direct comparison someone in a coma or an elderly person who is for all intents and purposes healthy except they use a walker?Signa said:You could throw in 5 wheelchair bound mentally handicapped people, but they have to be full grown. The machine works on matter conversion, so 5 babies wouldn't work.NightHawk21 said:I have a problem with the description of healthy? Are we talking no terminal illnesses or just diseases. You'd be hard pressed (and I bet it would be impossible) to find someone who is perfectly healthy. Also the definition of people is very vague, as it varies from country to country. So until the OP clarifies I'm running with standard legal definitions. What I would do is find some ridiculously religious country with a very lax ethics board that mainly disallows stuff like abortion, and preferably has nothing to lose by taking on riskier endeavors (maybe something like Cuba). Then I would on the bench fuse together 5 human eggs and 5 human sperm essentially making a person (if a person is considered a person at conception - hence why the very religious country was necessary). Then I'd throw my plates into the machine and start spitting out scientist after scientist.
That way you can't kill annoying kids in this question. Kids still have a chance to develop into a not-shitty, not-annoying members of society.
Ok, I never said it affected intelligence I said it had no bearing on intelligence. If you wanna throw around definitions than one of the definitions (and the one used above) is:rEvolution said:Your right; IQ does not affect Intelligence. It just attempts to MEASURE IT.NightHawk21 said:Well apart from the obvious response that IQ has no bearing on intelligence, you probably don't understand how IQs work.rEvolution said:Does this machine eliminate the possibility of resurrecting those used to power it?
What specifically does this machine take from a person to operate?
Is it soul powered?
I lack much of a conscience; so I'd start with the lowest IQ's and use them to resurrect the highest IQ's.
I'd do that until the Average IQ has gone up by a good 10 points.
I'd also throw a few dogs in there; see what sort of crazy man/dog hybrid I can make.
There is also the Flynn effect to consider where a score of 140 on an IQ test 50 years ago is only about 100-ish now.
"The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100."
But now IQ is now generally assessed on the basis of the statistical distribution of scores.
BTW: IQ = Intelligence Quotient
http://www.answers.com/topic/intelligence-quotient
Every dictionary definition disagrees with you.
Even with the Flynn effect; there's plenty of people from 50 years ago that are smarter than plenty of people now and because we know about the potential Flynn effect it can be compensated for, to ensure the average individual IQ increases.
Yes that would be the most amazing episode of doctor who that would ever happen in the history of television!Veldie said:Sacrifice
1. Shakespeare
4. All the actors for the doctor so we can have a ep with all 11 of em XD
sorry quoted when I tried to editMatthew Kjonaas said:Yes that would be the most amazing episode of doctor who that would ever happen in the history of television!Veldie said:1. Shakespeare
4. All the actors for the doctor so we can have a ep with all 11 of em XD
I had an atheist coworker that wanted to bring back Carlin, but he couldn't think of the 5 he'd want to get rid of. He said repeatedly while I worked there that he doesn't celebrate Christmas, but he celebrates Carlin's birthday because he did tons more for him than Jesus ever did.MeChaNiZ3D said:I would resurrect Leonardo Da Vinci. We'd have light-speed travel in a few years if someone brought him up to scratch with all we've been up to.
As for who I'd sacrifice, assuming I have access to anyone, there are enough politicians the world could do without to bring back Tesla, Einstein...George Carlin...
Then I'd just pedal the thing around to wherever executions are going to happen anyway. Like death row. If there was a war, the military could resurrect particularly good soldiers using prisoners of war.
P.S. I lied, I would resurrect Jesus Christ just to see if it worked.
Please tell me you'd throw Stephanie Mayer into the machine.shadyh8er said:Bring back Michael Chrichton!
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Oh sorry, didn't notice we had to make a sacrifice. So yeah, with Meyer gone, no Twilight or 50 Shades of Gray (it was Twilight-inspired in case you don't know).Signa said:Please tell me you'd throw Stephanie Mayer into the machine.shadyh8er said:Bring back Michael Chrichton!
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