Unless you're hiring Sardaukars,
Wow, now there's a memory jog.
Unless you're hiring Sardaukars,
Besides being besides the point, appeals to their humanity? Setting units to watch/guard against each other? Allowing them to make contributions to the genetic stasis pool? Thats a leadership/political problem, not a technical, space one.There's a problem with this reasoning and it is: how do you motivate the security forces to do their job?.
Besides being besides the point, appeals to their humanity? Setting units to watch/guard against each other? Allowing them to make contributions to the genetic stasis pool? Thats a leadership/political problem, not a technical, space one.
I think it's one of the main points, instead: you're asking people to go against fellow humans with nothing as a reward.
I'm asking you to not worry about that. Its a separate issue worthy of its own thread (ie: How do you control an "end of the world" situation).
What I am asking is what are the technical requirements of putting 10K human beings off-world with a reasonable chance (75%?) of long term survival in under 5 years?
What I am asking is what are the technical requirements of putting 10K human beings off-world with a reasonable chance (75%?) of long term survival in under 5 years?
Can anything be done?
I guess that would mean no Orbiter 2012?
One can only imagine how humanity would degrade in that period. Who, with any more than 3 years of income, would bother to work? As the days approached closer and closer to D-Day, the Earth would devolve into total chaos, mass hysteria, panic, and grief. Good luck with your beer party- good luck finding any beer!
I would propose selecting an elite few (the criteria would be, unfortunately, subjective, as would the "choosers") to be "in charge." Government agencies construct concentration camps and enforce rigid discipline, with any sign of disobedience being punishable by death. Populations of "genetically" clean persons are to be rounded up and moved to these camps, and after some time of hard labor and strict punishment, the populations should be informed of this impending disaster.
Guards, camp managers, etc will be rewarded with a guaranteed spot on the evacuation vehicle, whatever it may be.
Harsh and perhaps cruel, yes... But it may work.
I would be happy we didnt blow ourselves up. Mother nature did. That at least is a plus.
Fair enough... But other than withholding information about the impending doom and concocting another reason for the giant rockets and Martian colonial equipment, one would be hard pressed to find a way to control mass-chaos.And at this point I'd say the human race would be not worth saving at all.
No, that political decision has already been made and the control and motivation are in place, by whatever means that are outside of the scope of my question.
Otherwise we simply degenerate into squabbling monkeys as the hammer falls, and thus this topic is pointless.
I know what you are trying to say here. Humans are capable of amazing feats when it is properly motivated. IMO the end of the world is a pretty darn good motivator. All that aside, three years, I really don't see that happening at today's level of technology.