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the mothership

My dad sent me this last night and Angie and I had some fun with it. That is, after I called my father and asked him if this was some sort of sick joke or if it is for real. It's sort of supposed to be an intelligence test. Could you be a closet rocket scientist? Post or email me your choices and I'll let you know what NASA thinks of them.

Survival on the Moon

Scenario – You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon. However, due to mechanical difficulties, your ship was forced to land at a spot some 200 miles from the rendezvous point, but on the same side. During reentry and landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged and, since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200 mile trip. Below are listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank order them in terms of their importance for your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important and so on through number 15 for the least important.

Box of matches

Food Concentrate

50 feet of Nylon rope

Parachute silk

Portable heating unit

Two .45 caliber pistols

One case of dehydrated milk

Two 100 lb. tanks of oxygen

Stellar map

Self-inflating life raft

Magnetic compass

5 gallon of water

Signal Flares

First aid kit, including injection needle

Solar powered FM receiver / transmitter

Oh yeah, and you only have 8 minutes to decide.

posted by CP @ 9:09 AM 1 thoughts