Yup. Also no point suggesting anything for PRO battles right now. What was it about? There are no pending ideas from you.

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I'm not sure why we diverted into this "boys vs girls" argument at all, since the idea is about all young children being left alive, rather than a specific gender. And I see no reason for children to divide themselves into single-gender communities if something like this were to happen.

I believe services will still function for a while without human intervention. Water and electricity - from days to weeks (some nuclear and renewable plants maybe even for years), while the internet is not one single thing - servers will gradually shut down, but I'm sure big sites like Google have a lot of backup plans in case power cuts down. Stores will have a large supply of non-perishable food. So the kids would have a fair bit of time to grow up slightly and prepare for sustainable survival. Not sure if pesticides are a particularly big deal, people were growing crops for thousands of years before they existed.

Status changed to valid Developers said in the livestream that this may be done in the future.

I didn't realise that you actually set the ages in favour of girls. I thought it was the other way around because of boys' greater physical ability. Oh man, he's been "pondering" for over 2 days. I bet he's preparing a scholarly essay on the topic :ph34r:

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I'd convert my 40k mines in a heartbeat.

Valid I like the idea. It eliminates the problem with receiving supplies you don't need, and developers actually mentioned that they do plan to add a way to exchange your unwanted supplies for ones you're running out of. Although I doubt it would be a 1:1 exchange ratio.

Hah, guy in first is an old friend of mine. What record are you applying for though?

If you think about it, even if the world was left with just toddlers (under 5), humanity could potentially survive with care from other species. There's been multiple stories of feral children, who somehow ended up lost/abandoned in the woods and got picked up by wild animals (like wolves) and brought up as their own, acting like the animals that adopted the child. Of course in that scenario we abandon all hope of preserving human hulture and tradition, so it becomes arguable whether "humanity" has survived, since the remaining human population will be nothing more than an endangered species of animal, as opposed to the idea of the human race as we percieve it now.

What about the massive reserves of non-perishable food and drink in stores? As well as lighters, matches, and all kinds of survival equipment you could find in stores.

Yeah, perhaps you're right.

We're talking about kids here. Sure, a few (definitely not everyone) may have tendencies for violence, but I don't think they would be looting, murdering and starting civil wars.

Oh please - have you seen toddlers? You have to watch them 100% of the time because they just seem to constantly and actively be looking for ways to injure themselves. I prefer the 9 year old army :ph34r:

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Obviously if you step on the lines you die! Duh!

Good question. There is (or was) a pretty good series on the History channel called "Life After People" that hypothesised this exact scenario, except in their version 100% of human beings vanished and they explored how the world would change in the coming hours, days, weeks, years. They explained how long it would take for our infrastructure to shut down when all maintenance stops, and I remember them mentioning that some nuclear power plants are able to operate for decades without any human supervision. So as long as there's electricity and some servers remain online, I think there will be internet for quite a while to some extent. I mean, this is hardly a concern since they'd be too busy trying to survive for the first few years anyway. And they won't be stuck as 10-year-olds forever — the normal maturity and aging process continues. It would be just like ancient/medieval times — healthcare is very limited and the way people survive is by having lots of children to overcome higher mortality rates. This would be easy in urban centres. Children would most likely find each other while scavenging, and communities would be set up in places where children often gather — playgrounds/parks, shopping malls, and most importantly - schools. I think a bigger issue that may affect survival is the psychological effect of this whole situation. If you are 10 years old and you're stuck all alone in the normal world, you will probably be quick to figure out a way to survive in the near future (i.e. for the first few weeks, which are most crucial) until you reunite with your parents or other adults. But if you realise that you are now the oldest person on the planet who now, for the rest of their life, has full responsibility for their own survival and survival of their species, the feeling might get a little bit overwhelming and lower your chances of being reasonable and efficient. I didn't even consider the idea of keeping the world functioning. Children under 15 comprise 26% of the world's population (which is actually WAY more than I expected), but still - having 3/4 of the population instantly vanish would be problematic even if the remainder was adults. I highly doubt there would be enough manpower to maintain our society with 1/4 of the current population. And if the population is all underage, then it's not even a question, since children would take decades to self-teach themselves the science skills necessary to maintain our technologies. P.S. Added a poll.

But "our current state" didn't exist back then, so that doesn't make sense.

Then it's basically a slightly different version of CP. This idea is as a whole is already pretty close to CP, but your take on it makes it almost identical.

Or better yet: add water PASS that runs out and you have to buy it over and over B)

Just a little pointless but interesting discussion I wanted to have after hearing the same thing being discussed in a Youtube video. If you don't get the question (I had to compress it a bit), let me explain: Imagine one day all humans of some certain age and older disappeared (for example, everyone above 10 years old). There's no disaster, no damage to our world and infrastructure - just these humans suddenly disappearing, leaving the young population behind. What do you think is the lowest age that remaining population could be in order to survive on their own, educate themselves, grow up, and continue our civilisation? If you think about it, some crazy low age like 3 is too low, since a bunch of toddlers all over the world will just get confused and succumb once they run out of readily available food and/or water. On the other hand, a lot of children in their late teens are already fully capable of supporting themselves and others, so that wouldn't even be worth discussing. But what about 14 years old? 11? 9? 6? I reckon a "borderline" age limit would be 8 years old. Of course, the vast majority of children at that age, especially in more developed communities, are unlikely to survive for long. However, in less developed countries where it's normal for children to start helping their parents with work in rural areas, some children will have just enough practical skills and knowledge to enable them to take over their parents' duties and set up a simple rudimentary means of survival based on agriculture and scavenging. Perhaps even children in more developed countries will be fine, since while they may not have the practical skills, they will have access to a much greater amount of initial resources and infrastructure, which will be able to sustain them for the initial critical period during which they need to become self-sustaining. After that it's just a question of growing up and repopulating, while at the same time re-learning all which humanity lost. I'm probably way overthinking this, but it's an interesting topic ?

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