# We're evacuating the planet for an unspoiled Earth. What animal species do we take with us? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234 "2010-11-19T17:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/81 "2010-11-23T18:51:18Z")
We can probubly get along fine without the telephone sanitizers, right? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/82 "2010-11-23T21:19:51Z")
Chocolate or gnats, huh? That’s one hell of a question. What if we just brought along a bunch of paintbrushes and made a law that everybody has to pollinate at least two choclate plants a week? I wonder if chocolate tastes good made with goat butter? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/83 "2010-11-23T21:48:59Z")
[Candirus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru). For the amusement factor. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/84 "2010-11-24T17:49:53Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Not trusting Skald at all I SAID this wasn’t an Evil Overlord thread. And, really, if Earth were about to be destroyed, why would Evil!Skald bother warning y’all? None of you are Natalie Portman. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/85 "2010-11-24T18:08:26Z")
Question: Are these _actual_ animals, a la a modern day Noah’s Ark? Or just DNA samples thereof? If the former, there’d be space and weight considerations to worry about. If the latter, we’d still have to worry about how to incubate the new species. (Though, if there are similar versions of the animals on this new earth, maybe we can just bring a ton of fertilization sets and cross our fingers.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/86 "2010-11-24T18:19:38Z")
> [@dotchan](#): > > Question: Are these _actual_ animals, a la a modern day Noah’s Ark? Or just DNA samples thereof? I was thinking the former. Whether we did the latter would depend on whether we had the genetic tech to put those DNA samples to good use. That’s not a given. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-evacuating-the-planet-for-an-unspoiled-earth-what-animal-species-do-we-take-with-us/561234/87 "2010-11-24T18:50:25Z")
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