The world's coming to an end and you're in charge of the library?

Question

There's a limited amount of room on the spaceship to the new planet some kindly aliens have given us (they weren't using it). However they want to know why and how we've screwed up our planets and if and what we're likely to do different with a second chance. What books would you take to answer these questions?

Answer 1

The Bible, "The Stand" by Stephen King, "War and Peace" and Homer's "Iliad" and "Odessy."

Answer 2

There is only one book you need to take. It would be useful on your Galactic Journey too... and it has the words "DONT PANIC" written on the front in large letters.

It is "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy". Everything else was written by man so might as well be flushed down the toilet.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is the greatest success of Megadodo Publications. A handy electronic reference book, its chief selling points are the words 'Don't Panic' written in large friendly letters on the cover, and the fact it is cheaper than its closest competitor.
Its reporters travel the length and breadth of the Galaxy, drinking heavily, going to lots of parties and generally having a great time.

This life experience is then passed on via the SubEtha net to every copy of the guide, allowing galactic hitchhikers the opportunity to misinterpret the inaccurate copy and wind up being eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Much of the guide's content is plagiarised from the back of cereal packets, and some of it is just made up. Its most useful advice concerns towels.

The book says about Earth......
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons....

All in all a good reference which I find most useful while out exploring the galaxy......

Answer 3

I would categorically ensure that NO religious books be allowed on the spaceship, and only Atheists be eligible to travel. This will help prevent 'spiritual contamination'. I think it would be pretty obvious to the aliens why we screwed our planet up!

Answer 4

The history of war, the history of economics and industry, and and anything to do with ecoloogical and geological climate change. since most libraries are digitized there would be at least some hard drives left so also a dump of everything humanly gatherable from this world wide interweb thingy.

Answer 5

i would take "how to become a good salesman". i'd talk the aliens into buying the earth for a trillion dollars and then buy their planet for 99 cents. i'd also tell them that michael moore screwed the planet and if given the second chance, i'd promise to sell mr. moore to the iranians or north koreans for 50 cents so they can roast him on a stick. yeah baby!!!

Answer 6

Unfortunatey I cannot offer a book. Perhaps a " play for voices." may do? If so, the play " Under Milk Wood." by Dylan Thomas.
Tis well worth listening to.

Answer 7

Id try to find the biggest self-abosrbed using people I could, the most opinionated know-it-alls, and politicians for some hot air and rhetoric. This would give them an idea what went wrong.

Answer 8

i would take all the fat books , incase i got cold and needed to get warm and have a fire. And a few hard backs to wield at the aliens if they start getting tetchy.
Then when they ask about my planet, i would say:
find out yourself you lazy ****... go and have a look and youll see!... once theyve gone to look at earth we can set up anti alien cannons on the planet to blow them up on their return and we can conquer the new home for our own and repopulate.

Answer 9

I had no theory that at one time she had claimed to be a Witness.. i ask your self if her father believed 1975 develop into armegeddon, i develop into 13 on the time and that i extraordinarily actually not REMEMBERING the brothers remotely saying that, I save in concepts them saying "it develop into 6,000 years of mankinds history and that "that day and hour no individual knows" i do not save in concepts ever having them say get waiting, I save in concepts an same as at present, save on the WATCH.. i ask your self if the volume of her being a "former JW" would not provide up correct there. besides some years in the past even as she first got here on the view I instantly away cherished her. yet under no circumstances gave it yet another theory before I examine this. She did not look an apostate, she obviously repeated "former" Jehovah's Witness. She repeated "THE BIBLE SAYS" She develop into incorrect on the 1975 difficulty yet there is LITTLE TO NO way she develop into previous adequate to entice close, in basic terms listen. besides i desire in the destiny, that she returns.. Her Bible recognize-how, being placed on the spot on television develop into plenty. And for the most section i found her respectful. i'm guessing her Bible recognize-how develop into really restricted and her time spent "as a witness" develop into in basic terms as restricted. No i for my section would not evaluate her an apostate. She obviously suggested she develop into former and obviously did not pontificate something diverse from the Bible. besides, it isn't us or as a lot as us.. And it makes no distinction she isn't considered one of Jehovah's Witnesses now. All as a lot as Jah. I heavily desire she comes again , like I stated on the spot connection to her gentleness and understand really. human beings CAN wander off, and regardless of if she would not sense she is... a minimum of she is respectful about it.

Answer 10

Rush Limbaugh "The Way Things Ought To Be"

Kant's "Perpetual Peace"

Mark Levin "Men in Black"

Answer 11

Tao te Ching; Chuang Tzu