To: Celtjew Libertarian
We're talking a disaster that reduced the human population to a bare minimum.And I' asking who would be alive to remember such an event, and how would they know it wasn't local?
909 posted on
09/21/2006 5:52:13 PM PDT by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: js1138
The few survivors would pass it down as oral tradition. And if your whole world is devestated, far as far as you can see or travel, you probably assume it wasn't local.
910 posted on
09/21/2006 5:54:46 PM PDT by
Celtjew Libertarian
("Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." -- Bugs Bunny)
To: js1138; Celtjew Libertarian
well, ok... can we agree that it'd be 'bout the only memorable thing the survivors'd have to jaw about, ever?
irrespective of its scale.
911 posted on
09/21/2006 5:56:19 PM PDT by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
To: js1138
We're talking a disaster that reduced the human population to a bare minimum. And I' asking who would be alive to remember such an event, and how would they know it wasn't local?
I doubt tribal memory would extend that far.
For many events five generations would be about it. For truly memorable events with relatively large populations I suspect a few thousand years would be about the limit.
912 posted on
09/21/2006 5:57:31 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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