Discuss The Knowledge

Why 10? it seems to me that the fall of civilisation would be fertile ground for many of the existing religions to fragment even further, new ones to be created and there would also be people without a religious belief both atheistic and agnostic. If you wanted a commandment belief system that could...

I am not sure if this sentence encapsulates the most information but its the best i could come up with on how to acquire the most information in a single sentence. :- Use unreined curiosity to find things to examine more closely with a logical scientific method then double check your results and do ...

Two disasters I have not seen listed here so far are:- Betelgeuse could go supernova at any time and I think its the closest star likely to do so on a reasonable time frame but it could be as much as a million years. Its unlikely to take us a out as it would just cause some interesting sky lighting ...

OK, so here's an obvious question that occurred to me (well, two actually): 1) would we develop the means to travel to Svalbard before we needed to resort to a seed vault, and 2) once there, how the hell would we get in?!! I suspect quite a few sailing ships would survive most types of civilisation...

A paper book is a good convenient portable store of a small amount of knowledge but can easily be damaged. Our tech now enables us to store huge amounts of data in a small area but if the tech fails its no longer readable. If it were me doing a humanity's backup plan and I had a decent budget with t...