# How Long to Restart Civilization?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-restart-civilization/58777>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 20, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-restart-civilization/58777 "2001-03-20T21:35:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-restart-civilization/58777/101 "2001-03-26T13:34:16Z")

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It does appear we’ve taken this debate as far as we can under the OP’s premises. I’m asking **David B.** or **Gaudere** to close this thread.

Look for “How Long to Restart Civilization? Part II” any minute now.

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**Author:** ![surel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@surel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surel)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-restart-civilization/58777/102 "2001-05-19T11:35:29Z")

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This reminds me of a conspiracy theory I came up with that the current trend in reality tv (Survivor, Castaways, etc.) are actually secretly psychology experiments to see what it takes to make a group that won’t fall apart so that we can use what we learn to start sending colonies to live off of Earth. Since you could never get such an actual experiment past an ethics board and volunteers would be hard to find, make it television and _poof_ you have a subject pool. I don’t believe the theory, but it does amuse me.

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