Life After Y2K - MTV's 'Adams and Eves'

richj writes "It looks like MTV's dropping 6 of their minions into a bunker in case the human race is wiped out on New Year's. Imagine having MTV's "chosen" as the group to keep the human race alive? Shudder... Story here."

Comments

weeeee

[Anonymous Coward]

6 plastic people... 1 shelter... their mission... ratings.

Re:weeeee

[wljones]

Many years ago, a charming teenage saleslady for a CATV service offered me MTV music IN STEREO (her emphasis) for free if I would sign up for six premium TV channels. I explained to her,"I think I would rather be strung up by the thumbs." Remeber that in the time capsule for the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair that we preserved a copy of "Flatfoot Floogie with a Floy Floy" as great music. That Time Capsule was lost. Maybe we can lose this one, too.

Re:weeeee

[ctimes2]

You know, it's times like this when I think that Darwin might be wrong...

Re:weeeee

[Parsec]

Actually, I think this supports Darwin's theory, with a twist. I don't think he ever predicted the devolution of a species caused by intelligence gone horribly awry.

"Are we not men?
We are DEVO.

Re:weeeee

[degroof]

Naw, natural selection just favors the ones most likely to reproduce. In today's world that doesn't mean the best and brightest. It usually means the ones too daft to avoid reproducing.

Geeks should do it

[Oscarfish]

Let's put together Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds, and Bill Gates in a bunker together and put cams all over the place. Let the fun begin :)

Re:Geeks should do it

[Arkay]

You have to include RMS in this group. That would really be fun to watch.
--
Richard R. Klemmer
WebTrek L.L.C.

Re:Geeks should do it

[the_tsi]

I'd imagine that the Characters They Play On TV would have little to do with how they dealt with each other when stuck in a room together for a long period of time. These ARE intelligent people, after all. Sort of like politicians... sure democrats and republicans make for a great fight on the senate floor, but they're all getting trashed at the same parties.

-Chris

Re:Geeks should do it

[Bob McCown]

We should add Mr Ellison and his sword...game over!

Re:Geeks should do it

[lyonsj]

What, now you want a Celebrity Deathmatch out of it, too?

Re:Geeks should do it

[Anonymous Coward]

Again, Bill Gates follows ESR's advice and has a handgun.

Bye Larry!

*Slaps forehead in disbelief*

[TuRRIcaNEd]

Oh, great. Now civilisations thousands of years from now will believe that Britney Spears and Will Smith were the finest exponents of our culture.

But imagine the descendants..... Personally, I'd rather be nuked!

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief*

[sinbad]

But imagine the descendants..... Personally, I'd rather be nuked!
Hear hear! I was kinda hoping that maybe they'd put in people who had some decent taste in music (heavy metal of course ;) but that just wouldn't get the ratings, would it? *sigh*
Actually, I wonder what music they're taking in there with them to listen to? Do they have ANY skill whatsoever at PRODUCING music? Will music be dead after Y2K? Or is the world doomed to always listen to rehashed dance mixes of dance mixes of dance mixes of what were once good songs?

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief*

[owain_vaughan]

Well said that man!!!

I just hope and pray that in the future people get tired of hearing electronically generated and sequenced sinewaves masquerading as music. I mean what the hell do these kids do when they go to these concerts? Cheer enthusiastically when the 'artist' steps on stage, presses the start button and then buggers off for 2 hours???

Metal == real musicians, real instruments, real melodies, harmonies, structure, and thought-provoking lyrics (well most of the time!)

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief*

[freq]

HAIR man! don't forget the HAIR!

what would metal be without HAIR?

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief*

[Anonymous Coward]

So what's the latest in heavy metal? I kind of stopped listening years ago, my favorites back then were Iron Maiden, Obituary, and Morbid Angel. Iron Maiden didn't really fit in with the two other groups but I liked them anyway.

Here in the US it seems like you don't come across that many dance mixes on the radio, just MTV kind of stuff like kiddie pop and r&b rap kind of stuff. I had to go out and buy that funny mmm-bop dance mix.

I think a good amount of that electronic stuff is stupid, but I think skill in playing the music is overrated, you can be very creative with electronic music, just like with anything else.

*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[Kancer]

*Ack.*..
6 shallow Britney S and Big Willy clones... If the shit goes down I don't wanna see the future. Where is the Geek in this "project", where is the Puc?!

-Kris

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[orcus]

More importantly - why is this " News for Nerds "?

Since it most certainly is not " Stuff that Matters "...

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[BlacKat]

And it really should belong to the Humor section more than anything else.

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[TuRRIcaNEd]

> More importantly - why is this "News for Nerds"?
>
> Since it most certainly is not "Stuff that Matters"...

Adopts 'Dr. Evil' voice -

While I was frozen, I developed a method for relieving stress that I like to call 'hu - mour'. Using this 'hu - mour' we can burn a hole in the techie obsessiveness surrounding Slashdot, and make it a fun site to visit - unless they pay us - a hefty ransom?

I like Linux and tech-talk as much as the next geek, but jeez, do we have to talk about it all the time?

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.

And don't ask stupid questions.

Re:*Slaps forehead in disbelief 6times*

[ronfar]

Hey, it'll be worth it to me if they pick New Tales of the Cthuhlu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft and Diverse hands for the Book in the time capsule, Dr. Stangelove for the movie, Dungeon! for the boardgame or something interesting and thoughtful for a change instead of the same old same old... Imagine if the poll gets Slashdotted and the MTV execs say, "Eh? Book choice is Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxay by Douglas Adams, what the Hell is that?"

nuke THEM!

[ghoti]

Anybody know where that bunker is? Lets throw some nukes at it just for fun. Theyre gonna believe its the end of the world, and well get rid of another six morons ...

Re:nuke THEM!

[sinbad]

Under Times Square, New York City... Will get rid of a lot more than six!!! ;)

Re:nuke THEM!

[ghoti]

Ooops, sorry, I completely missed that ... ahem, well, maybe its not such a good idea after all ;-)

Re:nuke THEM!

[the_tsi]

Yeah... careful or the FBI will be knocking on your door REAL-soon-like.

-Chris

Re:nuke THEM!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell it'll happen anyway and then the 6 can be added to the Darwin Awards.

Re:nuke THEM!

[TheCarp]

Actually....
Nuking times square in NYC sounds like the
best idea I have heard all year.

Could think of it as Chemotherapy to kill the
Cancer of New York State.

Re:nuke THEM!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that the cancer of New York state is upstate.

Re:nuke THEM!

[Anonymous Coward]

You got that right haws, jus' a bunch a slack-jawed yocals up 'ere. Now where did I put mah banjo:)

Re:nuke THEM!

[SDrifter]

Actually, that's more like radiation therapy. Nerve gas would be chemotherapy.

Re:nuke THEM!

[Anonymous Coward]

Pfft bomb explosion ya kill the president death down with the FBI aliens assissinate Clinton bomb whitehouse right nerver gas Oklahoma City.

HHGTTG

[Raven667]

What we need to do is convince all these MTV people that there is a dire emergency, Y2K, Asteroids, GoodTimes, Etc. and that they all need to pile into spaceships for their own safety. Let them colonize Mars, it's cold there ya know. This would work as long as the joy didn't kill us, or that Asteroid didn't actually come.

Re:HHGTTG

[Anonymous Coward]

And the rest of humanity is wiped out by a virus that is spread by the telephone... (grin)

Re:HHGTTG

[Col. Panic]

(See .sig) Here we go again ...

stop being polite

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the story.... the story of 6 people picked to live in a bunker.... to see what happens when they run out of toiletpaper....

The end of the world as we know it

[giberti]

Well, with only a few measly days left before the end of the world as we know it... this could be trouble.

Apparently, places like IOWA (Idiots Out Wandering Around) have been told they will be without power for at least a week, which for anyone on one of the coasts of course means a giant Corn Shortage! But really folks, lets keep our heads...

I propose that we remove the head cheese from power over there at MTV, and be thankful that once the Y2K stuff is all over, that its another 8,000 years before someone starts with Y10K.

P.S. How come all the canned goods are sold out at my local grocery store? - it wouldn't have anything to do with a media hyped once in a few thousand year event would it?

Take the poll... :)

[jonr]

Put the slashdot effect to good use.
It's over here.
J.

Re:Take the poll... :)

[Anonymous Coward]

So, what they'll gonna need is some hefty pr0n and stuff if *they* wanna keep the human race alive -really.

Re:Take the poll... :)

[walnut]

Ok, in an attempt to skew the statistics... I entered in some "nerd" fields

CD: Redhat 6.1 (it didn't qualify as a game)
Movie: Tron
Boad Game: Mindtraps
Video Game: Pong (just to iritate everyone else)
Music Video: Weird Al's Amish Paradise ('nuf said)
Books: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Snack Food: Swedish Fish and Jolt
Gadget: Abio (well I don't have one but I can dream - and mine certainly wouldn't be a toy)
Toy: SGI Onyx2 Workstation (trust me it could only be a toy for me)

Re:Take the poll... :)

[Anonymous Coward]

The obvious movie choice would be Dr. Strangelove and that's what I submitted.

Re:Take the poll... :)

[Creepy]

I had some other ideas...
CD: Dare to Be Stupid - Weird Al (fits the situation)
Movie: any Barney (to mess them up as parents)
Board Game: Uncle Wiggly (we made it a drinking game, so can they... maybe we'll see some action on the cam, then)
Video Game: Doom (what else, dammit!)
Music Video Rock Me Amadaus - Falco (god they're gonna hate me after hearing that for the 90000th time) Books: The Velvet(ine?) Rabbit (kids book... about the right intellectual level)
Snack Food: Cheezy Poofs (yum).
Gadget: Missile Launcher (They'll probably use it to take out their kids and be caught in the backwash. See Barney.)
Toy: Jarts. (Might prove fatal without proper medical attention. Then again, might seem overkill after Barney.)

Re:Take the poll... :)

[asqui]

What a shit survey!

Where's the box for which of the computers in my room I'd like to preserve?

What about if I could only take one Linux distribution on CD, what would it be?


What color lava lamp would you take?

I find their questions rather shallow and meaningless...so they fit in perfectly with the overall MTV 'image'...

Lets face it...what are the REAL important things? It really gets you thinking...there are much more important things than computers and Linux distributions...

for example, the little things we take for granted... ever tried using a computer without a desk? What about rolling you mouse on the sandy desert ground? -- Everyone needs a mousepad!

It Just Goes to Show You-

[Coldraven]

Even if technology should fail, Viacom/Paramount will keep struggling to survive.

That's why they chose their "bunkernauts":
In theory, the strongest will become the next breed of celebs & ececs, while the rest become comsumers.

"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..." - Dr. Strangelove

So long as Linus gets to take Tove.

[Paul Crowley]

Seeing as how Tove is a karate champion. That should ensure the best people win...
--

Re:So long as Linus gets to take Tove.

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought that was his wife?

Re:So long as Linus gets to take Tove.

[Paul Crowley]

Eh? Tove *is* his wife. And six times karate champion of Finland.
--

Re:So long as Linus gets to take Tove.

[leitchn]

You're joking - His wife is Tove Torvalds?
You'd have to be a karate champion to beat the crap out of the people laughing at your name!

Re:So long as Linus gets to take Tove.

[Anonymous Coward]

That should ensure the best people win...

Only, of course, if Bill Gates followed ESR's advice and is carrying a handgun.

Re:nuke THEM! - a new series

[Anonymous Coward]

If MTV fooled them into believing it was the end of the world, it could make for some interesting tv. I wonder just how long you could conive them to stay in the shelter, assuming you just didn't lock them in.

MTV to discriminate?

[Anonymous Coward]

OK here is the real question. Assuming that this is a real homo sapiens saver is MTV going to discriminate? I mean IF these folks are to carry on after everything falls apart shouldn't they all be straight? Wouldn't that really be an important consideration? Me I like the Dr. Strangelove scenario, something like: "The cavern dwellers mus repopulate the earth rapidly so there will have to be a 10 to 1 ration of women to men. . . and since the men will be so busy and tired from all the continuous copulation the women will have to be of above average attractiveness, ofcourse OFCOURSE!"

Real World - The Apocalypse

[FirstNoel]

MTV has got to be the most lame network aout there. At first I thought it was NBC with it's Y2K movie, now I'm not so sure. Because of MTV's stupipd antics, we'll probably have Britnany Spear's wanna-be's and such running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Back when MTV was cool, (early-mid 80's) I don't think they's ever do such stupid stuff, but especially lately it seems their choice of programming has gone down-hill fast. In recent memory I can think of that whole "Hacker" program that dealt with scrip-kiddies running 'top' on there Linux boxes. Now they're trying to increase public panic by telling their viewers that we're all going to die. I wish they would go back to what made them great, showing good videos. They need to cut out the rest of this BS. OK, I'm done ranting now. I get kinda testy when something cool from my childhood gets F*&^ed up like MTV did. oh, well I guess somebody likes it. Noel

Re:Real World - The Apocalypse

[Our Man In Redmond]

One of the problems with getting older is that there are so many more f*&^ed-up things that used to be cool than there were when you were young. For instance, I can remember times when Saturday Night Live, Nehru jackets and the Beach Boys were cool, and that's not even reaching back into my first childhood.

And now it's time for some AC to come on and say it remembers when /. was cool, I suppose.
--

Re:Real World - The Apocalypse

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember when /. was cool. But that was a long time ago.

(i couldn't resist)

Re:Real World - The Apocalypse

[akintayo]

You mean back when, they did not play black music videos ?! MTV was never cool, it always was and always will be a piece of shit.

Re:Real World - The Apocalypse

[Winged Cat]

Things start off as cool, then you lose interest in them. The secret is to find new things that are cool to you. New things (of varying coolness) pop up all the time - there's no way you'll go through everything this world has to offer in a mere few decades.

more females ...

[pvente]

They goofed by sending down 3 men. If they really wanted to populate the world with MTVittles, they would make sure they could procreate as fast as possible, and that means more women. An MTVman could (c)/(p)-opulate much better and faster this way. I wonder how they'll pair up ??

Re:more females ...

[ghoti]

But thats only if you look at no more than one generation. Because in the next generation, there will be in-breeding big time, and there will only be idiots.

Which, on the other hand, is what they started out with, anyway ...

Re:more females ...

[ronfar]

Turgidson:

Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Strangelove:

Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

-- Dr. Strangelove

Re:more females ...

[AndyL]

Wouldn't this mean that a huge percentage of the total population would be simultaneously pregnant? This could cause difficulties if there's much manual labor to be done. (No pun intended.)

Re:more females ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Inbreeding isn't necessarily bad in a population. What basically happens is that there's a move towards homozygosity, some genetic diversity is lost, and the population might eventually split into multiple species (i.e. can't reproduce with members of the other species), but the latter requires other conditions to be met.

You just have to make sure that the "defectives" don't reproduce, and you need to do some aggressive positive and negative eugenics. In other words, if the people in the initial generation are actually chosen wisely, there won't be that much of a problem. However, it would be dumb to set out and intentionally use a small number of people. I don't think that the morons at MTV actually picked people on any sane basis either.

Re:HHGTTG/I remember that...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm... now what was it, that according to the bible got us here...

"The sun was going to crash into us... or the other way round", said the almighty Captain.

"I thought the planet was going to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve-foot piranha bees", said his number One.

"No! The entire planet was in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormus mutant star goat", said the number Two...

...

"No! The whole world is coming down to a horrible mistake made some time ago! We will save the Humans by putting these prime examples of our glorious civilisation in a safe place"/puke/ said the spokesperson of an unnamed television company...

I guess being descendant of golgafrincham telephone sanitizers didnt help us here...

Regards,

Cpt. Fwiffo

PS: for all of you that dont know, i'm referring to the /real/ bible here: the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy =)

'A Real Test'

[BigBadaboom]

Lets give the MTV generation a real test.

Lock them in the bunker Dec 31 with a time-release
door lock set to open in 7 days.

We can watch them, but they have no outside communications.

At midnight on Jan 1, play sound fx through the
walls at them... you know, big explosion, people
screaming etc etc. After 3 days: silence.

Meanwhile we all just sit back and watch the fun
on the webcams.

Re:'A Real Test'

[Anonymous Coward]

What was that Twilight Zone episode called again? And anyway, when they came out, the world really did end...
Still a damn good idea though... You could call it "The End Of The World Bunker Project" or something.

Re:'A Real Test'

[charlesc]

Maybe we could scare them more if we pumped in the sound from "Biodome" with Pauly Shore. :)

Re:'A Real Test'

[Our Man In Redmond]

You wouldn't even need to do anything that elaborate. Of course they're going to have an MTV feed going into the bunker, right? You can even give them a computer, phone, etc. to communicate with the outside world. So OK, at the stroke of midnight on January 1st, the power in the bunker goes out. About two seconds later kick on the "emergency" lights (a different and maybe slightly dimmer set) and have the TV come on to static and the computer and phone go dead. After about three days, or when things get really dull (or maybe really interesting, like it becomes obvious someone is getting ready to commit murder) have the lights flicker, go out -- and then the door swings open.

Trust me, the absence of any communication with the outside world would set their imaginations in motion, creating scenarios in their minds much worse than anything that could be conjured up by sound effects or images on TV. This was true in the days of big-time radio theater, and I'm sure it would be true even among those whose imaginations have been impaired by MTV

I know, you could never do this in real life, but there's certainly nothing wrong with just thinking about it.
--

Re:'A Real Test'

[Gid1]

There was also a Mission: Impossible where the team set up a post-apocalyptic set around the periscope of a nuclear bunker.. pretty cool.

Don't let them out 'till April 1st either.. =)

Re:'A Real Test'

[SDrifter]

Um, isn't that just a wanna-be Blair Witch Project? Anyway, for even more fun, you could slowly move the walls in a little each day while they sleep. And slowly increase the temperature and humidity. That'll get 'em interesting a lot quicker.

Re:'A Real Test'

[richj]

After about three days, or when things get really
dull (or maybe really interesting, like it becomes obvious someone is getting ready to commit murder) have the lights flicker, go out -- and then the door swings open.


Door swings open, and people in ape costumes come running in.

Now that would be worthwhile television.

Re:'A Real Test'

[Anonymous Coward]

There are some important variations to this game that need to be added.

• Limited supply of food and water. Enough to eat well for about 10 days. Include plenty of junk too, after about 3 days the junk food to last a week will be gone. Interesting things will happen, I promise, especially if it the usual MTV brand of dysfuncitonal individuals from Real World or Road Rules.
  
• After the noise starts and they start getting a little crazy, and then the noise stops, they will be over the edge. The final blow will come on the seventh day when the timelock doesn't unlock. No food, the world has ended and they can't get out of the bunker, that will make for some really interesting watching. Make the sweat it out and open it a week late.
  
• They should let the temperature drop, maybe even air condition the place.
  
• They should cut the lights about 6 hours after 2000 begins and they should have a supply of 2 or 3 flashlights and enough batteries to last about 5 days if continually used (probably enough light to last a normal person for weeks on end, once they understand the gravitiy of the situation.) More than one fight will break out over "who controls the light" and I promise they will be out of light after exactly 5 days.
  
• To make it interesting they could also include a portable stereo with CDs for MTV's top ten rotation videos. Of course, such artistic entertainment will make battery rationing that much more difficult... Listen to Britiny Speers because it's the end of the world and that will make the suffering that much more pleasant or listen to silence but have light when you need it.
  
• perhaps someone could show up outside the door after about 10days and make some noise. Hell, you could have a lot of fun. You could also learn a lot about the collective psyche of 20nothing MTV losers, maybe there is some grant money in this.
  

Re:'A Real Test'

[Anonymous Coward]

god this would be so cool to watch. if mtv does something like this to them i bet they will get some really great ratings. i've noticed the people who design the real world and road rules use a lot of little tricks to increase tension and create conflicts, in such an enclosed tight place under such stressful circumstances those people could do a lot of really fun shit to fuck the "bunkernauts". i wonder if the show will broadcast anything live?

Re:'A Real Test'

[GPB]

This would require quite the creative contract on MTV's part, so that none of the "participants" would sue afterwards.

Granted, the type of people who actaully want to be on MTV would probably sign anything.

-B

Re:'A Real Test'

[bridgette]

They can't fuck with the light/electric supply or else *we* won't be able to *see* them. They will have to have enough gas powered generators to last for the duration of the experiments. Moreover, the subjects really can't have access to the cameras and generators if there is an end-of-the-world-sim since the cast could mess up the broadcast or realize that it's a hoax, while trying to do something useful. Then again, I doubt that anyone in the cast will be the Proffessor. It's all Gilligan and Mary-Ann.

Taking bets...

[Zigg]

Who will take a bet that these chosen few will end up killing themselves (accidentally, of course) before January 1 rolls around?

This isn't about survival, it's about looking for the next Darwin Award winners :-)

I can see a bunker, but under Times Square.

[bons]

Let's think about this. Just about every news agency is discussing the arrest of a suspected terrorist (with a good sized chunk of explosive in the car) in Seattle. (examples)
If you really wanted to make a statement, what's a better target than Time's Square?
And these fools want to be underneath that if the World ENDS?

Re:I can see a bunker, but under Times Square.

[Anonymous Coward]

no kidding, if i were to either 1) nuke 2) regular-bomb or 3) release-biological-nastiness, it would be at Times Square. what better place to get high visibility? "that's where the party is."

oh well, i guess it's more of MTV's infinite wisdom.... ... /me hopes instinct takes over the ambercrombie-and-fitch-gap-tommy-hilfiger-drunknes s

No end to the world

[Ventilator]

There won't be an end to the world!
Why?
Well, moneytalks of course.

End-of-the-world won't make anyone rich. There needs to be a huge advertising-campaign going on, but after the world ended, there won't be anyone left to watch the movie. Let alone there won't be cinemas to show it as well...

CU, Ventilator

Do we *have* to let them out again?....

[brumby]

It had to be said. :-)

Well, no, it didn't, but it might raise the average IQ of the human race by a fraction of a point, and we need all we can get!

I went to the page...

[ChrisGoodwin]

...and I've come to the following conclusion:

We're all gonna die.

--

only 7 days?

[__aahlyu4518]

Here in the netherlands there's a program called big brother. About 9 people started off in a house without outside communication and a lot of camaras. Every few weeks they all had to nominate 2 of the others and the public decided upon those nominations who should leave... Now they are almost on day 100 and have only a few days left until they are with the final 3. And just before the new year the public chooses a winner. On the site you can view 4 camaras... But probably this has been posted on slashdot 100 days ago... well.. for all you nosy people... here it is again :-)

Actually,

[Mr Donkey]

Contrary to the Britney Spears and Will Smith posts I have seen, if anybody actually looked at their site they would know that the 6 people are:

Mike Carson
Lenore Davis
Zack Goodman
Tina Kim
Moe Kyle
Michael Michael

Basically, nobody I have ever heard of; Seems they have pulled people out of the "general", or should I say, "MTV viewing population" ( big difference !! between these two populations)

Re:Actually,

[Ralph Bearpark]

Seems they have pulled people out of the "general"

Isn't it more likely they came from a "talent" agency list? MTV wouldn't want to be stuck with ugly real people with bad teeth who don't know how to act realistically in front of the camera.

Regards, Ralph

Re:Actually,

[Otter]

From Tina Kim:

Oh, Awesome. I think it's fantastic and thank god that the Asian American race will survive in the future. We won't be obsolete because of me.

Human race will live on ....

[Avenger]

All I have to say is if the world end and these are the only people left ... atleast we know the human race will be filled with really good looking people, so I guess we can all rest easy knowing that.

Re:Human race will live on ....

[DGregory]

I think the question is, how come they didn't ask ME to go in there....?

Heh I think this would put new meaning to "If you and I were the last people on earth, and there was no one else left to procreate, would you sleep with me?"

What is the fun of being locked up?

[Raindeer]

Why do people lock themselves up and be watched by cameras for fun? The Swedish had Robinson, a bunch of idiots on an island. The Dutch have Big Brother, 7 idiots in a house for 100 days, which is also viewable on the web 24/7. Now MTV again. Being locked in a room is no fun to me and certainly not if X million people are watching. I love my privacy, am I the only one?

Re:What is the fun of being locked up?

[mcolin]

And it's getting worse. In Germany, with our typical "copy-anything-you-can-and-do-it-even-more-luseris h"-attitude, we started our very own Big Brother project, too. I can't for the life of me imagine, why I would want to watch some lusers sitting around in a house? Then again it's maybe just me. Soap operas are apparently THE thing on German TV right now. I mean, you can't even turn on the TV without seeing some non-actors standing around like they swallowed a stick and delivering their lines with the passion of a 7-day old glass of beer (i.e. lifeless). So this real-time soap opera seems to be the next logical step.

Did you see the qoutes from them though?

[TuRRIcaNEd]

IIRC, Lenore said something like : "Wow, I'm in! How cool is that? ..... That's awesome"

Now forgive me for being a little picky, but does she sound like a no-brainer Britney-alike or what?

Re:Did you see the qoutes from them though?

[Mr Donkey]

Damn, you actually read through the site (this is not saracasm, you must have very thick skin to actually read the loads of crap over at the MTV site)

But, the difference b/w Lenore and Spears is that Lenore is a hollow-headed "ho" and probably gets money from her parents, whereas Spears is a hollow-headed "ho" who gets money from the public.

This relationship is best summed up as: Spears serves as a role model for Lenore

Thankfully...

[SlackAttack]

Since six idiots probably won't have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the species, not to mention a lack of energy, the human race will most likely perish in flames and we won't have to deal with the New World Top 40 Pantheon being crammed down our throats.

Bow to Britney Spears, god of deception!

Re:Thankfully...

[commbat]

"Since six idiots probably won't have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the species,"

I read somewhere, recently, that if you choose *very carefully* you could do it with 16 people. Surprised me, since I've always heard that 1000 people is the minumum needed.

My time capsule

[Mr Donkey]

from the Bunkernauts site: "...Give us your suggestions for the Bunker Time Capsule, then talk about your choices with the Bunker residents after December 26... "

CD: Debian GNU/Linux Potato. Actually, since this will have already been installed on my "toy", and lord knows its stable, reinstall is probably not necessary. So, I'll take a full CD archive of Metalab/Sunsite.

Movie: Bicentennial Man

Board Game: Microsoft Monopoly

Video Game: Quake 3 Arena (What else)

Music Video: umm... What's that?, oh yeah I remember those back in the day; OK, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Under the Bridge

Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Snack Food: Quiche?... NO, I AM NOT A QUICHE EATER!!!*; Sam's club batch of Twinkies
* See: Feirstein, B., "Real Men don't Eat Quiche", New York, Pocket Books, 1982.

Gadget: Psion 5mx bundled with a irDA capable cellular phone

Toy: 2x Dual PIII-800, 1 GB RAM, 50 GB HD, 21" LCD panel... well, it's a toy isn't it.; Why two of them? you can't have a complete deathmatch without somebody to frag.

Also, I'd rather not talk with any of the bunkernauts about any of these.

Just to point out their target audience:
"If you print this page out, it'll make it easierfor you to remember what you picked."

Re:My time capsule

[freq]

CD: Two Turntables and a large stack of VINYL RECORDS
Movie: ALL the Cohen brothers movies
BoardGame: Microsoft Monopoly (popular answer!)
Video Game: Q3 Arena (of course)
Book: The Kama Sutra
Snack Food: Hummus
Gadget: Palm V
Toy: Britney Spears

Really f-d up World

[Anonymous Coward]

If MTV picked their typical bunch like the Real World, I want to know who's going to come to the rescue for these dumb shits when one of them rapes the other or one of them almost vapor locks from alcohol poisoning. Too bad, I remember when MTV started up and was something cool. Now it's so stupid, I hope the only y2k thing that happens is MTV crashing and disappearing from the air.

Re:Really f-d up World

[Col. Panic]

Longing for the days of the spaceman planting the flag on the moon too, eh? I haven't been able to stand watching MTV (other than the award show) for years - and it ain't because I am now over 30. The BOX plays real videos and VH1 does a much better job of reporting about music than MTV nowadays. What happened to VIDEOS on MTV??

Re:Really f-d up World

[Anonymous Coward]

MTV Networks owns VH1, and ever since the purchase, VH1 has been morphing into a clone of MTV. Bullshite, seems like every week that VH1 adds another hour of "Behind the Music", thus taking away from actual music video airtime. I want my music television!!! Well, not really I guess, just feeling a little nostalgic.

Re:Really f-d up World

[Riktov]

More importantly, whatever happened to original VJ Martha Quinn!? She was such a babe!

Re:Really f-d up World

[Anonymous Coward]

and ever since the purchase...

purchase? what purchase?

MTV and VH1 were both founded by the same guy. MTV was produced for the younger generation, and VH1 for the older generation. Basically as to reach each audience. Fortunately, VH1 has some dignity despite who owns it. MTV on the other hand has completely gone out of control. The whole idea of MTV was to market music in a new way, which it did without flaw. Unfortunately, boy bands and one hit wonders make the most cash, and therefore they push what sells. Another flaw is that they keep those they made huge, huge. No matter how horrible their new music is.

there are billions of bands you will never hear of. What makes those 5 bands they play on MTV with their 4-chord songs (rearranged to create *new* songs) so great? The fact that everyone has gotten sucked into their scheme.

MTV has won, and its your fault. deal with it.

An essential part of any bunker

[Anonymous Coward]

- really - is a sound proof room for those having a breakdown. Boojum on remote assignment at the backup tape drive.

oh no an evil thought!!!

[zi0n]

This is the oppertunity I have been waiting for. The chance to screw with the feeble minds of a few souless fools. First we lock em up tight in the bunker. Then we start feeding them bogus info through what ever means they have (TV, RADIO). Scare the hell outta them with reports of nuclear weapons exploding, electrical outages and NO MTV!!! They will crack and try to get out, but it will be funny to watch them freak out. Or as an alternative plan we can keep the doors half open to the entrance and have a hand grenade throwing contest. For spunk we could fire in some 20mm cannon rounds??..

Re:oh no an evil thought!!!

[degroof]

MTV is probably already planning something like this, though to a lesser extent.

If I was an MTV executive and didn't care much about ethics when it comes to getting ratings, here's what I'd do:
Scenario A
- put six people in a bunker with live video feeds
- at midnight, "accidentally" cut all communication into the bunker
- let them assume the worst
- watch the fun

OR

Scenario B
- hire six actors to go into a bunker
- stage a communications failure at midnight
- script some interesting reactions

Re:oh no an evil thought!!!

[zi0n]

No hand grenades?!?! damn..I think that anyone willing to get in a bunker setup by MTV is silly in the head to start off with. If the world were to fumble into a chaotic state, these morons would be the first to parish.

Example: (day 4)

Mike Mike has an uncontrolable Frapaccino attack, bites Zack and snaps a few bolts sealing the entrance to "EDEN" with one of those rachet/screwy things the guys at MTV left for them.

(the end)

The Mutant Battle of Manhattan

[unit-6]

This is hilarious! Imagine the earth ends in a catacalysmic (sp?) nuclear war. These idiots would ditch the bunker right after the noise died down. Immediatly the 6 beautiful upper-class people begin to mutate into massive versions of britney spears and ricky martin, then battle to the death on the ruined island of manhattan, until there is only one remaining. Of course, this is all covered by Carson Daly whom as we all know is a robot (programmed for idiocy and top 5 countdowns) and immune to human weapons.

Nostrodamus

[Neuroprophet]

Didn't Nostrodamus predict that New York City was going to be the first place to go during the end of the world. The 3rd anti-christ (some guy in a blue turban) supposedly nukes it. Why would you put the bunker under the city that is supposed to get nuked first...

Re:Nostrodamus

[Anonymous Coward]

Nostrodamus was a stuck-up, self-serving delusional prick who couldn't predict his way out of a dung-trough. I know, 'cause I'm an immortal and I was there.

Stupid shows!

[osok]

This is currently been done in Holland. 8 morons are locked up in a small building for 100 days, with camera's all over the place. Program is aired every day and on the internet (http://www.big-brother.nl). Every 2 weeks someone has to leave the building. Winner is the one who stays till the end. They have 8 days to go. Viewers decide who has to leave and who wins grand prize of about $ 125.000 . The TV-show is actually a big commercial success. The idea however is a major rippoff from an originally swedish tvshow.

heres whos in

[cybercuzco]

God help us all! heres whos in the bunker!

1 Lenore Davis
"Wow I'm in. How cool is that? Thank you very much, that's
awesome. Cool, ok. Finding out what we are doing. I don't have any
idea. I just know I'm going to be underground from the 26th till the
New Year and I'm just like O.K. And everyone keeps asking me
what exactly are you guys doing. I'm like 'I don't know' but I can't
wait to find out because it has to be something cool and interesting,
I'm sure. But I don't know."



Nickname: None
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Occupation: Advertising/Marketing



Lenore has moved around a lot, from Buffalo, to Atlanta, to
Nashville, to Florida, and to New York City . She
is the second oldest of four in an African-American and
European-American household . Advertising is
her life now. She ultimately wants to be the CEO of her own
ad firm.



Strong, beautiful, dynamic, creative, independent, resilient, athletic,
well spoken.



What's your favorite CD?
Creed, "Human Clay"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Bike, Camera, Telescope/Binoculars.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the world?
I feel as if I am a pretty well rounded individual. Self motivated
and will do what needs to be done in order to survive. I strive for
success love to be challenged. I have strength emotionally,
mentally and physically and a good heart. I believe I have a lot of
good attributes that will influence children in the most positive way.
:-)

2: Zack Goodman


"Great thank you. Great, excited, yeah I was actually anticipating it
for a while. Just how different it's going to be. It's definitely going to
be something different. I am not really sure what to expect. I can't
imagine what's gonna go on in this underground room for five days."



Nickname: None
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Blue/Green
Hair Color: Brown
Occupation: Research Scientist/Athlete



Zack's an only child, and therefore pretty independent. He's
a good leader , who's at times honest to a fault
. Zack lives in Glen Cove, NY. He could have
been a professional ball player but followed his dad's
dreams instead (his dad's a surgeon). He wants to make
acting and being in front of the camera his life.



Good sport, not spoiled, resents hatred and negative feelings
Smart, sensitive, warm, appealing, looking for direction.



What's your favorite CD?
Wu-Tang Clan, "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Nothing.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the
world?
I still have hope for the people of the world. These values, if
universal, would ensure a thriving society of caring beings.

3: Tina Kim

"Oh, Awesome. I think it's fantastic and thank god that the Asian
American race will survive in the future. We won't be obsolete
because of me. Capping on the other residents. Making fun of them.
Oh thank you so much."



Nickname: Wiener
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Black With Brown Streaks
Occupation: Comedienne



The baby out of four, Tina did not have a traditional Korean
upbringing . She is a comedienne, has her own
stage show and Web site, and wants to have her own
Oprah-style television show . Raised in Seattle,
WA, Tina is a thoughtful cynic who loves disco. Tina has
never had a boyfriend, but is looking.



Warm, fears being hurt emotionally, has a temper,
opinionated,emotional -laughs and cries easily. Responsive to
feedback, open/non-defensive, hard worker, good friend, likes risks,
tough cookie, survivor.



What's your favorite CD?
Pet Shop Boys, "Behavior"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Picture of my niece, My laptop, Pet Shop Boys CDs.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the world?
I've overcome obstacles, and I'm able to analyse what needs to
be done to get things accomplished. I focus on a goal and do
whatever is necessary to get it done.

4: Maureen Kyle


"Thank you. I'm kinda shocked right now, I wasn't expecting it. It's
great. It's a shock. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone
and getting to spend a few days with strangers. And really
broadening my horizons I guess."



Nickname: Moe
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Chestnut Brown
Occupation: Student



An all-American girl from Westlake, OH , Moe is
the second oldest out of four kids. She likes to sew, cook,
and clean . She wants to pursue a career in
broadcasting. Moe runs six miles every day, she's a big
Frank Sinatra fan, and likes to do pottery in her downtime.



Balanced, creative, kind, non-conflicted, religious, pretty, gets
along well with siblings/parents/friends. Enjoys male and female
company, hobbies.



What's your favorite CD?
Frank Sinatra, "Greatest Hits"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Treadmill, Sewing Machine, A Good Book.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the world?
It would be arrogant for me to say that I deserve to survive. I
think I represent a good amount of "all-american" citizens and I
would be able to carry on what is important: values, education, and
love for one another.

5: Micheal Michael ( not a typo)

"I'm in? Uh, Yeah. I don't know what to say. I don't know, it's kinda
cool, I'll be able to get some views out there, and some people
could either pick up on it, or maybe not. It will be cool to live with
people, just to see what that's about. Meeting Lenore would not be
bad too. Is she in? Oh ok, that wouldn't be too bad either."



Nickname: None
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Amber Brown
Hair Color: Two-Tone (Black/Blond)
Occupation: Musician



Michael Michael is a Christian, college graduate, entertainer,
actor, singer, and musician. He worked his way
through school DJ'ing and dancing. He's a romantic, but
definitely not a player . He likes to work with
people. Michael's long term goal is to revolutionize music.



Mike has high moral thinking, is opinionated, kind, somewhat
oversensitive about other people's boundaries. He is interesting,
has deep, strong ideas in morality ...



What's your favorite CD?
Michael Jackson, "Thriller"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Guitar, Paper/Pen, Tape Recorder.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the world?
I want to see a better world. Even though it would be said we
were the only ones left, it would be a great opportunity to make
things right.

6: Mike Carson

"Cool... Awesome bro. I feel excellent man . Cool. It's gonna be
nice! Oh, I don't know it's just gonna be something totally different.
It's gonna be fun living with people I don't know. That going to be
fun. Ha Ha, could go either way, I like the uncertainty of it, you
know what I mean?"



Nickname: Magic Mike
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Blue/Green
Hair Color: Blond
Occupation: DJ



Mike is a suburban boy from Stamford, CT with big city
sensibilities and a taste for excitement . He's a
motivational type who's working towards owning
his own entertainment company. Drug-free, Mike's a
definite health nut, who enjoys hiking, mountain biking,
in-line skating, and uh, singing. Mike thinks he knows what
it will take to survive in the Bunker .



Could be fun because of his dancing, MC-ing.



What's your favorite CD?
Depeche Mode, "Music For The Masses"

List three items you would take with you to the Bunker, if
allowed, and why?
Photos of family and friends, Music, Drawing/writing
instruments.

Why do you believe you deserve to survive the end of the
world?
Besides physically being in perfect health, I would be a loving
father for generations to come. I would teach respect for everyone
and everything.

Re:heres whos in

[ronfar]

Music begins strumming on a guitar, the song is "Journey of the Sorceror" by the Eagles, though more people may recognize it as the theme song to the BBC radio presentation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

After all it makes sense when you consider that the human race was founded by management account executives, telephone sanitizers etc. in Hitchhiker's Guide. It seems that if the majority of the human race were going to be wiped out on December 31, 1999 we'd want the new human race to be founded by the same types of people...

Of course, I didn't realize MTV execs were big fans of Hitchhiker's Guide

WELL THIS IS A CHANCE

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a chance for a hacker to prove his worth ... all this person would have to do is shut down most of the communications link to the bunker. ( leaving on the web cams ... this would of course drive these people nuts. I don't think that they could handle 4 days with out outside communications . just me

MTV party in the bunker?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's say a nuke accidentally gets launched and hits the bunker dead on, would they make it? A DJ, CEO of an AD firm, Research scientists - wanna be actor, Comedienne, Student and a Musician. Okay, we're screwed. So we save entertainment and say poo poo to doctors, engineers, real scientists, artists -- the kind that draw and make things, religion and the rest of actual working folk. Ok, who is gonna rebuild the buildings, run the eletric power, run the cameras, direct the tv shows, purify the water, teach the remaining population? I could go on and on, MTV -- hello?? MTV your sick, making money off of people's fear. How low can ya go? ...so far down below the ground.

Re:MTV party in the bunker?

[ghoti]

You forgot "Who is going to clean our telephones?"

Iowa...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm near the border with Iowa so I hear about things.

Actually Iowa has been working on Y2K issues for some time now and may have been one of the states to look into it the earliest. As for being without power for a while, well that's nothing new, really. A strong blizzard can knock things out far more effectively than a simple resettable glitch.

What will happen if 'the worst' happens (a blizzard on Y2K) and service failures? Nothing that hasn't happened before. Folks stay home for a day or two, are careful about they use, and a good many will fire the generators... the ones they had for years for this kind of thing.

Besides the places you'd expect (hospitals and such) to need "absolutely reliable" power.. there are three others in the area. Hog farms - at least the large feedlots, another is any poultry operation -- loss of ventilation in a poultry operation can mean a huge kill (loss) in minutes. The other is dairy farms
of any size -- need power to run the milking machines and while 'by hand' is possible, that's really only possible for only very small operations.
Fortunately for them, it's possible to share portable generators among small groups.

What will most likely happen? I expect the biggest effect in Iowa (or Kansas or Missouri or Minnesota or..) to be folks talking about whatever the news covered about folks going nutty in places like LA or NYC for no reason other than they had the Y2K excuse.

--
Linux is Linux. GNU is Hurding itself.

Re:Iowa...

[Anonymous Coward]

A power outage will ruin my uptime. I have two NetBSD, one OpenBSD, and one FreeBSD boxen down in the lab at home. One of the NetBSD boxes is up over 60 days. All are running on probably-not-Y2k-compliant 486 motherboards (what can I say, it's my cheap little experimental network to fool around with and for testing network programming stuff)

Whoa, big fella!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, the idea is convince them of the end of the world.

But Pauly Shore? Gad, you want to torture them?!

An old fashioned whipping would be kinder. Or maybe fun for some. *wink*

Hate to spoil the party, but.....

[TuRRIcaNEd]

High-ranking politicians are also given bunker priority, so I'm afraid Chelsea Clinton's DNA gets added to the new world order.......

Looks like your future might not be that good looking ;>)

I won't say it didn't cost me.....

[TuRRIcaNEd]

I barely got out of there alive.... ;>)

There's plenty of potential here

[stand]

6 people...let's see, that makes 15 possible sexual pairings to document. That doesn't even include larger groupings. They could fill weeks of airtime with this.

Geek Bunker 2000

[marlowe23]

Since there seems to be so much complaining about the supposed brainpower of the people involved in MTV's latest publicity stunt, maybe someone ought to put together Geek Bunker 2000. Forget putting Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds in an underground fortress.... let's just put a bunch of jaded, acrimonious Slashdot readers, who could argue about "Winbl0w$", what Linux distro to use after the apocalypse, and the relative merits of Palm colors.

I don't know... a bunch of MTV people trapped in an underground bunker.... really, the thought holds a certain appeal for me, if only because it reminds me of that old Twilight Zone where Burgess Meredith gets trapped in that library during the Apocalypse and then breaks his glasses. Imagine the looks on their faces when the power goes out and they realize No One Is Watching Them. At that point, it's just a short countdown to Lord of the Flies.

MTV Hip-Hop in Da Bunker (PG-13)

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello MTV Fans!

Welcome to seven days of pure hell. Will the Musician provide the entertainment and can the wanna be actor strut his stuff?

Check it out on MTV, we're gonna rock your planet baby, loads of lovin is gonna happen in da bunker.

Will the CEO do the jiggy with the DJ? Find now on MTV, MTV Hip-Hop in Da Bunker.

If you saw "End of Days" and were screaming for more, we've got it baby. Move over Arnold, we've got a comedian that can kick your balls of holli this season. All she has to do is start cracking jokes and your on the floor laughing until you pass out.

MTV hip-hop in Da Bunker, logon and get connected. Chat live with the Y2k brady kids, but watch your six as they can take your on an unsuspected wild ride.

I don't think humanity will have to worry.

[Craig Maloney]

If MTV runs this like it runs most of its reality based TV:

• One of the stars will be ejected from the bunker for pissing everyone else off in there.
• There will be a few romances, but the happy couples will piss their respective partners off so nobody would "do it" with the other if they were the last people on Earth.
• MTV will provide suitable entertainment for everyones sanity such as "The Day After", "The Shining", and other movies where someone goes berzerk because of cabin fever.

In the end, civilization will not continue if MTV is its guardian, since they can barely keep shows where survival isn't that important from turning into bickering ratings-fests.

Oh I don't know....

[GodHead]

Maybe it's just me, but burying the people who watch MTV sounds like a *REALLY* good idea.

who comes up with this stuff

[jdlynam]

the people from mtv are stupid. just stick to videos.

Pascal was wrong...

[Croaker]

Nature does not abhore a vacuum. Just look at these people's minds...

What items would you take into the bunker...

"Bike, Camera, Telescope/Binoculars."

Errr... yeah. Camera's going to be really useful after the friggin' apocolypse, won't it? I suspect the Photomat booths are going to be kinda sparse.

I wonder what sort of "reaserch" the "scientist" is involved in. Doubtlessly, it involves the science of acting...

As for everyone asking why people would do this... simple. Look at the "what I wanna bes" in the list: musician, broadcaster, DJ, actor, etc. Self promotion. It's all about self promotion. What a fitting way to end the 20th Century.

Re:Pascal was wrong...

[clearcache]

Speaking of Pascal, I wonder if any of these people are going to be wagering on anything as Jan 1, 1900 approaches and they're sitting in the bunker.

I doubt it.

"Bob"damnit...

[Anonymous Coward]

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Their decendants

[TheCarp]

> But imagine the descendants..... Personally, I'd
> rather be nuked!

Have you ever thought that perhaps the gene pool
needs a life gaurd?

"Hey you, out of the gene pool now!"

Re:Their decendants

[SuiteSisterMary]

Not a life guard, just a good shot of chlorine.

Let's look at these 6 In-DUH-viduals, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

MTV has gone with 100% "totally cool , like, awesome!" people yet again. Let's look at these in-DUH-viduals, shall we? Bunkernauts indeed...

1) Mike Carson:
"Cool... Awesome bro. I feel excellent man . Cool. It's gonna be nice! Oh, I don't know it's just gonna be something totally different. It's gonna be fun living with people I don't know. That going to be fun. Ha Ha, could go either way, I like the uncertainty of it, you know what I mean?"

I say: You're a freaking DJ. And you talk like a surfer. 100% pure fluff, human light, can only pray that the world doesn't end and we are left with YOU- not ONLY contributing your DNA, but being a FATHER?!? NEXT...

2) Lenore Davis
"Wow I'm in. How cool is that? Thank you very much, that's awesome. Cool, ok. Finding out what we are doing. I don't have any idea. I just know I'm going to be underground from the 26th till the New Year and I'm just like O.K. And everyone keeps asking me what exactly are you guys doing. I'm like 'I don't know' but I can't wait to find out because it has to be something cool and interesting, I'm sure. But I don't know."

I can just FEEL the cluelessness of this chick oozing out her pores, can't you? Let's o the world a favor now and put spikes in this girl's shoulder pads. If you manage to survive TEOTWAWKI, and manage to spawn, you're going to be trying to figure out which end of the baby to stick the twinkie in. Next victim please!

3)Zack Goodman:
"Great thank you. Great, excited, yeah I was actually anticipating it for a while. Just how different it's going to be. It's definitely going to be something different. I am not really sure what to expect. I can't imagine what's gonna go on in this underground room for five days."

Oh yeah, like someone might sneak in some pot and we might totally get stoned until, like, one of the girls comes in and says, "My mom told me not to do drugs, they're like, totally bad for you." Whoa, what a bummer. Maybe I could score, hmm, yeah, that would be cool. Fire Fire! CALM DOWN BEAVIS.

4)Tina Kim
"Oh, Awesome. I think it's fantastic and thank god that the Asian American race will survive in the future. We won't be obsolete because of me. Capping on the other residents. Making fun of them. Oh thank you so much."

Golly gee whiz, the Asian American race will live on? Please... how much Asian tradition dow you have left in you, and how much of that are you going to pass on to any offspring you have with any of the jerk-offs they leave you in there with?

5)Maureen Kyle
"Thank you. I'm kinda shocked right now, I wasn't expecting it. It's great. It's a shock. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and getting to spend a few days with strangers. And really broadening my horizons I guess."

It sure will be a shock when those lazy pig jock boys that they locked you up with are making you clean the place and Who knows what else. Good grief; the scariest part is that this one is the most promising of the whole lot!

6)Michael Michael
"I'm in? Uh, Yeah. I don't know what to say. I don't know, it's kinda cool, I'll be able to get some views out there, and some people could either pick up on it, or maybe not. It will be cool to live with people, just to see what that's about. Meeting Lenore would not be bad too. Is she in? Oh ok, that wouldn't be too bad either."

Michael Michael, is that your birth name? Warning, flake alert! OK, so we got a DJ/Surfer Guy, a goofy jock, two fluff chicks and the token asian-american; anyone know what's missing? Oh right, we gotta have an african american guy. Because the people care about race, it's an issue. Oh yeah, and let's make him all dramatic, and artist and a musician/actor guy. Totally.

-----
Redux: Six flakes in a can with not one iota of horse sense. Oh yeah, and a camera crew and a bunch of producers and technical staff. But man oh man will the ratings be great!! Think - Let's call it "The Real TEOTWAWKI." What a totally awesome idea!

Blow it out your ass, MTV. When the other people who manage to bunker themselves in emerge, the first thing they're going to do is hunt down your bunker and weld the lid shut.

Re:Let's look at these 6 In-DUH-viduals, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lenore's favorite record is by CREED for Christ's sake. 'Nough said for me; anyone whose favorite album is by Creed needs to have a bunker caved in on their head. MTV is utterly useless at this point (if they were ever worth anything in the first place). I usually get the feeling, though, that they aren't pandering - that everyoneone who's involved with the station and/or watche it really is that stupid.

Re:Let's look at these 6 In-DUH-viduals, eh?

[HP LoveJet]

Yuh. Also note that dear Lenore is in "Advertising/Marketing", which means that after the Collapse of Civilisation she'll be really useful....

...as food, I suppose.

Woo.

[Gray]

When it all comes crumbling down, the Gap will closed, permantly...

Re:Geeks should do it - someone will need skills

[acfoo]

MTV has really chosen the proper skills for the task of living through the apocalypse:

• Research Scientist/Athelete (Yeah, a lot of the scientists I know could be pro atheletes (from his bio) yet chose to serve science)
• Musician
• DJ (Well, they'll be able to amuse themselves while they starve)
• Student (interested in broadcasting and pottery-- well, there's ONE useful skill)
• Comedienne

And most important of all...

MARKETING

Stupid Idea

[MooseMunch]

This is by far one of the stupidest ideas of all time.
Think about it....
Let's bury people we want to survive underneath on of the ibggest new years eve terrorist targets (times square)...
Maybe we should build a slashdot geek bunker :)

The 2nd lamest way to spend Y2K

[gad_zuki!]

The first? Actually watching this show.

Hopefully MTV will wise up and shut off the power, lock the door from the outside, make sure all the canned foods are rotten, and leave the cameras running. Then, I might even set the VCR to record this.

For favorite toy....

[philg]

If you're gonna waste bandwidth, waste it creatively. My vote for favorite toy -- Sun Enterprise 3000.

Oh, come one. Everyone's gonna have an E6500 -- it's like Tickle Me Elmo. The 3k's cute. (And don't try to sell me an E10000, either. That's not a toy, young man.) :)

phil

Re:For favorite toy....

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah! I picked RH6 for the CD, and for the Toy, I picked Lenore Davis. ;-) I'll rebuild my OWN civilization.

MTV Poll

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, like another guy suggested, take the poll and let's Slashdot them with our own choices.

Poll URL: http://www.mtv.com/mtv/events/bunker/vote/timecaps ule/index.html

Select for favorite CD:
RedHat 6.1

I know not everybody likes RedHat the best (some not at all), but if we can get to the top of the list, that would be pretty funny.

GO GET 'EM!

Re:Their descendants

[M. Piedlourd]

"Gene pool needs chlorine."

They won't even survive the C.H.U.Ds

[Nickbot]

This is great! I only wish they'd tell us _exactly_ where the bunker is, because you know being MTV, they won't have any guns, and my group most certainly will!

Now if they would only give the exact address, this will be the first place my gang will go to loot all their food, and steal their women for breeding stock!!

Just 6?

[ctimes2]

They're only putting 6 people in there? And only for a week? Damn, let's put 'em all in there and lock the door forever! It could be a sort of millinium-hope-chest slash land-fill thing.
my 2
ctimes2

Re:nuke THEM! - I *have* to correct this

[Ender_Stonebender]

It would kill the Cancer that is New York City. Most of the rest of New York State is made up of trees, grass, and cows.

-Ender
(Trust me. I'm from the place with the trees, grass, and cows.)

Here's what's REALLY gonna happen...

[Anonymous Coward]

24 hours after the collapse of civilization, you will find 3 glamor-boy bodies riddled with 7.62 rounds, and 3 naked women, two chained to beds, and one chained to a stove, somewhere in Montana... :-) I still think I want Lenore as my "toy" in my Time Capsule.

Re:Here's what's REALLY gonna happen...

[Creepy]

you've got that half wrong - the guys will be chained to the back of a pickup somewhere in Southern Louisiana at a dilapidated house with lots of dogs by a guy with no teeth and a double barrel shotgun who spits while he says he's "lookin fer sum ack-shun."

Anyone else notice that they didn't include weapon of choice...

I'd rather take the A-Bomb, than that fate!

It's a start

[Anonymous Coward]

Step 1: Find the bunker

Step2: Seal the entrance with 2 tons of fast setting concrete

Step3: Celebrate! 6 fewer MTV Vidiots in the world.

Now if we could just get the rest of them in the bunker.

Re:nuke THEM! - I *have* to correct this

[TheCarp]

> It would kill the Cancer that is New York City.

Thats what I said :)

> Most of the rest of New York State is made up of
> trees, grass, and cows.

Yup I know. Been up there more than once :)

Everyone I have talked to has refered to NYC as a
cancer that sucks the life out of the rest of the
state and keeps the rest of the state from being
viable by sucking up all the resources for itself.

Some have suggested NY state would be alot better
off if NYC was cut off and forced to become an
independant state. :)

I think Nuking them would have the desired effect
too :)

Imagine......

[jd]

[Ticker-tape effects not included. Please supply your own.]

...The day... ...News Years Eve...

...The location... ...MTV Bunker...

...The mission... ...To save humanity from Y2K...

"Gentlemen! Six of our bravest have volunteered for this deadly mission. We have the technology. We can rebuild them. The six million dollar DJ's!"

They Can Participate in the Amazon.com Boycott

[dave_aiello]

Here's one activity that MTV didn't count on. The Bunkernauts could actively participate in the Amazon.com boycott.
--

Dave Aiello

Hitchhikers Guide

[Shotgun]

Is it just me or is anyone else here reminded of the conclusion to Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe?

In the end, it was revealed that the Earth was first populated by hair stylist, and public telephone cleaners.

Re:Hitchhikers Guide

[Roblimo]

Y'know, I worked *hard* not to say anything about how this had a rather "B-Ship" feel to it. ;\)

- Robin

Times Square?

[acb]

From what I've heard, Times Square is one of the major wacko magnets, with terrorists, religious fanatics and miscellaneous lunatics falling over themselves to be the first to detonate something there come midnight 1/1/2000. After all, think of the publicity; and if you were a terrorist, would you want some rival group to get all the glory?

One guy (supposedly linked to Bin Laden, the current arch-villain) was already arrested smuggling explosives into the US. Chances are he wasn't the only one with that particular idea.

Of course, security will be pretty tight there. Whether it's tight enough to stop a fanatic bent on martyrdom is another matter. In any case, under Times Square would not be my first choice of a safe place for a survival bunker.

The "survival" supplies, ratings (rantings?)

[n0b0dy]

Disclaimer: I know this mtv thing is a joke, but I am going to tear into it anyway :)

The "survival" supplies, ratings

Mike Carson

Photos of Family and Friends - NOT useful (cept maybe as mapmaking paper, keeping track of the date if the photos are dated, keeping sanity through hope, kindling)
Paper, Pens, Pencils - useful as items to trade, or to use for mapmaking, trachiotomies (sp?)

Lenore Davis

Family Photo - NOT useful (w/ above photo caveats)
Ramblin' - Stuffed Bean Bag Frog - NOT useful

Zack Goodman

Harmonica - NOT useful (maybe you could pull it apart and sharpen the metal for a crude knife if it has a metal casing) Book Entitled "Conversations With God
Part 2" - NOT useful (keeping sanity, kindling)

Tina Kim
Advil - pain reliever (maybe a fever reducer, I forget)
Family Photos - NOT useful (w/ above photo exceptions)

Maureen Kyle

Pictures Of My Family & Friends - NOT useful (w/ above photo exceptions)
My Favorite Notre Dame Sweatshirt - extra clothing, bandages/tourniquet, string for fishing, sewing up cuts, making lightweight traps (small birds), repairing other clothes

Michael Michael

Guitar - much wire for sturdier traps/fishing/sewing, box for small trap, neck for weapon
"Beat It" Michael Jackson Jacket - scaring hostile survivors away


No mention of survival references/survival equipment/medical texts on NBC warfare or field medicine, person hygene items/medical equipment/NBC equipment/weapons/extra provisions/clothes/radios/environmental monitoring equipment (MTV has the $$ to rent some geiger counters, chem/bio hazard detection equipment)

sigh.......

-chris

Re:The "survival" supplies, ratings (rantings?)

[dr bacardi]

hmmm... six people in a little locked room with no weapons/survival gear?

After civilazation falls, sounds kinda like a box lunch to me!

Book: Fahrenheit 451 is appropriate

[Parsec]

enter

6 it is a start.

[Anonymous Coward]

It is like in the Douglas Adams book "So long and thanks for all the fish"? where the smart people convence the useless people to evacuate the planet after lying about a inpending disaster.
The good news it that they have no weapons, tools, or survival manuals so the human race will die out rather then replaced with the MTV generation. Alex (too busy stocking y2k bunker to create account)

Here's a question...

[Special J]

Q: What do you call 6 MTV viewers buried underground?

A: A good start.

Any /.ers here that are good at welding? I can think of a door that needs to be sealed.

MTV just sickens me. Its like a 24 hour GAP ad.

Iowans have a lot to fear

[Anonymous Coward]

Especially if they have MidAmerican Energy as their provider. The execs read somewhere (probably Highlights for Children, it's their speed) that even equipment that doesn't have computers may fail on 1/1/00 so they're having people man all kinds of stations til 2AM. This despite the fact they told the public they were totally prepared and weren't taking any special precautions.

The icing on that cake...

[Anonymous Coward]

Have the bunker on a truck underground without their knowledge. Slowly move it over the next few days out to a set where you've laid waste to the surrounding area.. scorched ground, destroyed building sets, fake bodies, stench of death, etc. Then when they come out they'll freak. :-) That and of course, no communications with the outside world!

Bring on the Saucers...

[acb]

Maybe "Bob" was right after all. What could be more prophetic of the coming Tribulation of a post-X-Day World Without Slack than the rise of a master race of TV celebrities, and their dominion over the wretched remnants of un-Ruptured Pink humanity.

The beautiful people

[borzwazie]

Oooooo! Mommy! Lookit all the pretty people!

Not really a fan of his, but now I know why Marilyn Manson wrote "The Beautiful People."

I'd like to be excused from the human race, on account of embarassment.

Pop Culture

[Sterling]

OK I will now start to rehash the growing sentiment againt MTV.

MTV starting in the late 80's and 90's has slowing changed itself from a truly ground breaking station to a breeding ground of decadent pop culture. They are continously releasing programs that are "in the now" and are supposedly relevant to the 12-30 something demographic. These programs are hyped to be hip and new, but realistically they rehash common pop sentimentality albeit formatted for the target audience. Programs like The Real World, programs about Teen Violence, Sex, and the infamous Hacker "Documentary", exemplify their new form of programming.

Actually some of there ideas for programs are interesting at first. Take for example the "Real World". Supposedly a show about how "real" people will act in "real" life situations. It has quickly turned into a forum for aspiring entertainers to display their talents, or for derelicts to obtain their so called "15 minutes of fame". In reality a program that really showed real people in real life situations would probably only be good as a treatment for insomniacs.

This new Bunker project program is just another program from MTV that exploits the "popular interest" of the month, and supposedly brings in real people for another real life situation. Of course MTV has carefully chosen these "bunkernauts" not for their realness ( for a lack of a better term ) but entertainment value. You cannot blaim MTV for continuing with a paradigm that continously brings in viewers. It is just that educated users do not have accept the programming, and can choose not to tune in.

Expressing disagreement about MTV programming will most likely not effect the way MTV chooses to develop new programs, since for the limited number of detractors of MTV, there are a plethora of proponents. And new MTV enthusiasts are conceived daily.

Well, Sorry for the length of this gabble, I guess I have too much time on my hands.
Man

Re:Pop Culture

[Hard_Code]

Not an avid MTV fan myself, I did watch it a bit during the 93-95. I think the last "real" Real World was the second season (1993?), the one with that obnoxious Puck guy, and Pedro (I had to look that up on the web to actually remember). Pedro died and they started an AIDs fund in his name. It hasn't been as "real" as that since...for the last more than half-decade MTV seems to have been just increasing pop drivel...

Jazilla.org - the Java Mozilla

Re:Pop Culture

[Sterling]

Actually, I still watch MTV now and again. The best time to watch MTV is after Midnight. They start playing mostly Music Videos at that time. I guess the adolescents are sleeping by then.

Even when they do play the videos, its mostly pop music like Puff Daddy, and Brittany Spears, which I have no interest in seeing. (Well maybe Spears on a lonely night :). But they occasionally do play some good music in "120 minutes", the alternative program.

At least I have three so called music stations where I live ... MTV, VH1, and Much Music. Sometimes I can find a decent music video among the three. Ah Well.

Man

Re:Pop Culture

[spiralx]

I've got 8 music channels at the moment - MTV, MTV Extra, MTV Base, M2, VH1, VH1 Classics, The Box and UK Play - and it's still an incredible stroke of luck to find a good video before about 9pm at night :(

Videos on MTV

[Rantage]

Oh, don't worry Colonel...they still play videos on MTV. The trouble is, they're busy running crawlers at the bottom and overdubbing some vapid ragamuffin's music request so you can neither hear the music nor pay attention to the video. Ah, I long for the days where the constant stream of videos were only interrupted by a single SnickersTM ad. At least VH1 is starting to show Metallica...

This could be the greatest porno ever

[Anonymous Coward]

"Adams and Eves", eh? Here's a plan: cut out all feeds to the outside world, making them think they're the last humans alive. Leave the cameras rolling. I'd buy an uncensored copy.

Re:This could be the greatest porno ever

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah. Even their sex would be lame, just like everything else about them.

One quote was truly astounding. "I'm glad to be chosen, because now I know the Asian-American race will survive." This airhead needs to...

1) Learn some genetics.
2) Learn some history.
3) Learn some more genetics.
4) Learn some english.

Make it a sitcom

[richj]

"Join us this week as our fearless GAP-clad heros venture into the rubble of what was the New York City Fashion District!"

"Michael Michael, isn't that Old Navy's Magic being dognapped by the mutants in ragged clothing? To Old Navy, I ripped my cargo pants!"

"I've got blood on my Sketchers!"

"Where the hell are we going to find an Alto Chi Latte with nutmeg?!"

"...in our next episode, Lenore tries to see if Performance Fleece is suitable for the nuclear winter, and Mike uses his perfect body to fend off a giant cockroach attack!!"

But you must realize...

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you see that the Y2K bug was invented by tech geeks and slashdot types. MTV should have to pay you royalties on this show!

Stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine having a bunch of Slashdotters "chosen" as the group to keep the human race alive... Shudder.

I resemble that remark :)

[Anonymous Coward]

As an intelligent person I could not be shot and my dead carcass dropped in front of MTV's headquarters. My very ghost would haunt that building until they washed the filth of their soil off my body and buried me very very very very far away.

So..

[richnut]

What does the M in MTV stand for anyway?

-Rich

Re:So..

[mrsalty]

M is for Money$$$$
-mrsalty

Re:So..

[FLuke27]

since about 1990 the M has stood for Ratings. they thought of changing it to "RTV" but it just didn't have the name recognition and "sexiness" in the 12-30 demographic. ;)

--FLuke

Re:So..

[SDrifter]

Mediocre. OR MTV Tarnished Video. Ok, so I was in a hurry. Does anyone have one that's better?

Re:So..

[humphrm]

M:

Motley
aMent
moron


Or, if you want to ignore the "M", pick one of these adjectives:

beefheaded, beef-witted, beetleheaded, blear-eyed, blear-witted, blockheaded, blockish, chuckleheaded, dense, doltish, dull, dumb, duncical, fatheaded, goosey, hammerheaded, numskulled, pinhead, pinheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple; brute, brutish, dummel, lumbering, oafish, slow, slow-witted, sluggish; ||half-assed; crass; backward, half-witted, retarded; idiotic, imbecilic, dead above (or between)the ears, ||dead from the neck up, having a block for a head, having cotton between the ears, ||muscle-bund between the ears, LETHARGIC, comatose, dopey, heavy, hebetudinous, sluggish, slumberous, torpid.

I never thought...

[mrsalty]

Up to this point i had been hoping for some sort of Mad Max scenario. Should anarchy rule after Y2K I know where my first road trip will be to should I survive. I beg you all to do the same, in case I should be set upon by bandits or wild dogs. For the sake of humanity, the must not live!
"I favor a scorched earth tactic. Anything is preferable to domination by an Alien force."
-mrsalty

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

[SaDan]

MTV has proven once again how lame they actually are. Who the hell cares about six idiots who volunteered to be buried for one of the largest parties in the country?

Wow... What a group if idiots. I'm sure they'll carry on our race if the "big one" actually happens! Right... More likely they'll fight each other to the death over the last can of Spagettios.

Re:Geeks should do it - someone will need skills

[AviN]

What about hackers? What happens to technology?

Another Denpa Shonen copy/licensed idea!

[Riktov]

They already did this six months ago on Denpa Shonen, the original real-life challenge show from Japan.

They based it on a Nostradamus prediction that the world would end on 1999/7/01, so they first got two comedians (both men) and put them in an underground shelter near Tokyo Bay (they had to dig the hole and install the shelter themselves!) They ended up fighting and one of the guys escaped, so they got a woman, hoping for an Adam and Eve, but they didn't fall in love with each other so they gave up on it. I don't think the world was destroyed either.

This show also did the desert island segment, though without the competitive element of the American "Survivor" show. Just two guys on a desert island, equipped with a video camera, who have to escape.

I'm surprised, though, that there still hasn't been an American/European version of the all-time classic Nasubi segment. I'd be the first to volunteer.

I found it disturbing...

[NecrosisLabs]

... that only one person brought a book, and a lame one at that. I would wish that there would be at least one person with intellectual aspirations left to repopulate the planet. (oh, wait, one of them brought a guitar! )

A few too few I'd say

[Randym]

Let's say that somehow the world *did* end and these people had to repopulate it. There really aren't enough of them. Within about three generations, you'd start seeing the effect of inbreeding; within ten generations, the human race would probably be extinct.

On the plus side, however, I notice it's an inter-racial crew. That's good -- it may allow them to squeak by the bottleneck -- less chances of recessives popping up.

A smarter idea would have been to populate the "Bunker" with 600 people, instead of only six: that increases the odds for human survival dramatically.

Re:A few too few I'd say

[ronfar]

I know, they'd need a few things down there if they were serious:

1. A fertility doctor.

2. A sperm bank.

3. An egg bank.

However, I doubt that they are expecting a *real* Apocalypse, this is just for kicks. (Honestly, isn't it a little late for this to make a TV series? How many episodes can they get out of it?)

Hey at least it's a bunker and not some less menacing sounding thing like "Biosphere 3" or something.

Ripoffs galore

[Anonymous Coward]

And CBS is ripping this off, too, with a Desert Island theme.

But viewers only decide among the last two, with the actual participants picking who to toss up til that point.

Lost in Time

[SEWilco]

The wonderful thing about losing a time capsule is that it just does its job better..

Putting several media whores under lock and key

[FreeUser]

After Y2k has come and gone, and life moves on its merry way with narry a quiver, can we please just keep these people locked in the bunker? It would help winnow the gene pool and provide society with endless entertainment as they slowly go mad with cabin fever and turn on each other ...

Consider it a study for the betterment of humanity: what happens when several media whores, craving attention, are locked indefinitely together in a small space. They know intellectually that an (ever shrinking) audience is watching, yet are denied the feedback they so crave. Would they revel in their new role, without knowing their current ratings or enjoying the perks of fame, or would they go slowly mad in such a confined state? Enquiring minds want to know! Most importantly, no normal person ever has to have anything to do with any of them ever again! [applaus]

How do you know...

[Derek Pomery]

MTV didn't hook up the bunker with fibre?

There's only one sane thing to do...

[Anonymous Coward]

NUKE THE BUNKER FIRST!!!

Worse than that...

[Anonymous Coward]

... all three of the men are gay! ;-)

Foiled again!!

[the_doctor]

If MTV preserves its "Real World" legacy through an apocalypse, what's the point of causing one in the first place?

and Gilbert Godfrey

[Skip666Kent]

You can't forget Gilbert Godfey.

Armageddon (?)

[Legerdemain]

I dont think that Y2k is the end.

Things that are more dangerous than Y2k:
* Earth Crust Displacement Theory (If it is true)
* Meteor Impact


Adam and Eve for Y2k makes no sense.. There are so many tiny cultures all over the earth that have no use for electricity/computers. Why would they even know about y2k or the problems it would cause?

Adam and Eve for comet impact may not be possible unless we diversify our population (I mean create civilizations on other terrestrial spheres (moon/mars)). This is the biggest reason we should be in favor of space exploration funding.

Everything happens in cycles..

Please let me die!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Fucking God! Did you hear about the eMpTV end of the world bunker? They have 6 MTV brainwashed robots to repopulate the fucking planet. I guess its true that the only thing that will survive after the bomb is Roach's. If the only people left on earth are Mormons, and MTV loser's than I sure as hell will be glad that I have been whole consumed in the fiery oblivion.

No code

[DefConOne]

Sure, if the six people that were chosen are the progenitors of a new human lineage, the race is bound to be good-looking, but I can't help but wonder why MTV wasn't more loyal to some of the people who helped make them the success that they are today. With that in mind, here is my list of 6 people to carry on our species:

Martha Quinn -- High energy level needed for survival
David Byrne -- Intelligent, also can pass on traditions from many cultures to decendents
L.L. Cool J -- Muscularity and street smarts are important for survival
Madonna -- Superhuman reproductive drive
Dan Cortese -- athletic ability & fearlessness honed by MTV Sports stint
Lauryn Hill -- Rrrrrarrr; also, intelligent and less likely to burn down shelter than Lisa *Left Eye* Lopez

NETHACK!!!

[Mister Attack]

Video Game: Pong (just to iritate everyone else)

That's the only one I disagreed with... The Video game for them has got to be Nethack. The damn thing lasts forever!

My pals Will and Britney

[Skip666Kent]

Will is funny, well-spoken, reasonably intelligent and, at times, downright entertaining.

Britney, seems whip-smart for her age, is plenty cute, and can dance like a true-born freak of nature. If she doesn't blow up like a balloon when she hits puberty, her future looks plenty bright.

Pick on someone else! Pick on...John Katz? No, too easy. William Shatner? Molly Ringwald? No, he's cool and she's suffered enough. Hmph. Who should we pick on?

We are _so_ doomed.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is proof that we are doomed. In so many ways.

I say, we follow the Simpson's Y2K suggestion, and load two rockets full of people.

One with our most brilliant minds and leaders: we shoot that one to a habitable solar system so humanity can start fresh.

The other full of the world's worst idiot/inane/stupid people. That one we shoot into the sun.

That way, whether the apocalypse comes or not, we're better off.

racism?

[Anonymous Coward]

isnt that kinda racist? MTV always seems to pick the most fucked up people for these kinda shows. Whoever is in charge of the psych testing is one sick mofo.

I shoulda known...

[confidential]

I follow the link and the first thing netscape tells me... "Document Contains No Data"

I coulda told you that awhile ago ;-)





-confidential

Re:Geeks should do it - someone will need skills

[ralphclark]

They forgot hairdressers and those people who clean the telephones.

Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction

Asian American race

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, that's a RACE? Since when are Asian AMERICANS considered a race? Maybe an ethnic group but certainly not a race. Asian *IS* a race, so is Caucasian and African. And how the hell is she going to preserve the race when she's the only Asian? Her offspring isn't going to be Asian, most likely African (color of skin) or part Caucasian (half & half features). It goes to show that MTV are run by racist idiots who look leeringly at Britney Spears all day. I'm not trying to sound/be racist, but I believe that in order to preserve a race, you have to do what Moses did by pairing them off, and even then it'll only last one generation. My opinion is that MTV and the six morons should be removed from the gene pool, permanently.

ALIVE!!

[Anonymous Coward]

They should be locked in the bunker and starved until they are forced to eat one of their own. The whole process has to be broadcast via web cam of course.

Asian Americans

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, so there's only one Asian American in the group, and it's a "SHE". Correct me if I'm wrong, but whenever it's a "SHE", the offspring will unlikely behave/think of him/herself as Asian, unless it's a complete moron like the "contestants" (ie lab experiments) who thinks you can be two people at once (maybe a schizo).

"Golly gee whiz, the Asian American race will live on? Please... how much Asian tradition dow you have left in you, and how much of that are you going to pass on to any offspring you have with any of the jerk-offs they leave you in there with?"

I can't agree more. The only reason those three "men" were chosen is because of their appearance (not only that but because the producers are using them as projections of themselves). I wouldn't be surprised if those "men" are abusive (OJ) since MTV doesn't give a fuck about anything but SEX (why else don't you see decent music videos there anymore?).

Nickname: Wiener

[Anonymous Coward]

Correction, "Slutty Porn Fantasy" (hey, why else would Americans chose an asian-american girl? You doubt me? Then ask yourself why they almost always appear in porn). Goes to show the level of intelligence Americans have.

Planet Of The MTVites

[dyskordus]

Picture this:
The space shuttle has to stay in orbit over the new year because adverse weather conditions prevent a save landing.
At the stroke of midnight on January 31'st, the world is brought to an end when of all the non-y2k complaint ex-Soviet nuclear arsenal launches it's self at almost everything, laying waste to the globe.
The astronauts fly the shuttle around the sun, using the slingshot effect to propel the shuttle to near light speed.
After rocketing around the cosmos for a few years, the astronauts decide to return to earth. But because of time dialation, it is now some unknown date very far into the future.
The astronauts land the shuttle on an old highway. They get out and wander around on a new, green earth.
After a few days on the new wild Earth the astronauts discover a city. There are large, granite statues of Brittney Spears, Mariah Carey, and the Backstreet Boys everywhere.
After exploring the city, people come out into the streets. The women are all dressed in miniskirts and platform shoes, with about 50 pounds of makeup on. They all run around giggling, gossiping, and saying things like "math is hard". The men are all dressed in baggy nylon clothing, and seem to have spent more time on their hair then the women. They walk with limps, despite the fact that there is nothing wrong with their legs. All they seem to say to each other is "aaaahhh yeauh boyee".
The astronauts are captured and put on display in a zoo, where they are laughed at and made fun of for not being ultra hip and trendy.
The end.

Let me get this straight...

[Zeinrich]

Six randomly selected people (who have never worked in close concert with each other, as have, say, astronauts, seal teams, whatnot), all in their early twenties, and all, like, you know, like, so, like, you know, are going to be placed UNDER TIMES SQUARE, a prime target for apocalyptic cults and general mass mayhem should the world fail. MTV, which of course is experienced in building military-grade bunkers, no doubt has dug a very long, secure escape tunnel, to lead our hope, joy, and precious future to the safety of upstate New York. Or they've included a manual on how to convert New York city's miles of concrete into farmland... WHAT DOES MTV TAKE US FOR????

M stands for M, T stands for T, MT stands for...

[isaac]

...empty of course. eMpTy-Vee.

So apropos, and right under our noses to boot.

-Isaac

Cabin Fever

[Anonymous Coward]

I can see this appearing on Fox News (after a half hour of *really* useless crap):

New on Fox News, your only news station: MTV's Y2K bunkerites have developed cabin fever.

While Tina Kim (comedianne) was showing off her mad skillz in funktastic comedy, Micheal Michael, the "musician" of the group, apparently flew into a bad-music-video induced rage, swinging his guitar at the performer, decapitating her. All social structure in the group dissolved, and the remaining members munched on the comedianne's corpse, along with Coca-Cola and Dorito's. In an unrelated item, MTV has changed its slogan to "Music for Y2K Cannibals".

More on this late breaking development, right after we answer the question on everybody's mind: What happens when animals attack causing good times to go bad causing the world's worse car crashes caught on police video tape?

How did they find these fuckwits?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my God! MTV couldn't have picked stupider people if they tried. The losers on "Real World" are smarter than these fuckwits.

Couldn't they have run the interviews through a spelling and grammar checker, at least?