And as for the most of them getting dead very soon… I dunno, wildlife survival is not really that hard in general. We only have wildlife left in the regions where it’s very hard for humans to live, so if you drop people into the remaining regions of wilderness, they don’t fare very well. And we didn’t start on the wheat cultivation with the grand plan of going to the moon, we did that because the wheat as it was naturally gave huge and immediate benefits.
I don’t think you’d end up with a culture resembling any culture that existed in history. You have those smartest engineers and scientists, who already know how to make bows, steel, glass, firearms, electrical generators, and so on, and once settled in, they have a lot of free time (because there’s a ton of wildlife—buffalo herds, passenger pigeons, all that other easy to kill stuff that’s extinct—which will take many generations to deplete. They’re not in the modern day wilderness in the region where people can barely survive and almost all the food is extinct. They’re the new predator).
First, hunting with stone age weapons is far fom easy. Second, most engineers and scientists are not hunters, noone of them know how to hunt with spear and almost noone with bow. Third, they have no food supplies and so no time to learn. They will survive olny in very favourable conditions, like on tropical island with plenty of shellfish and tortoises (I think most people can hunt those).
I were thinking of my experience in Russia where engineers, mathematicians, and physicists absolutely loved going out on various nature trips (Didn’t really think of Sheldon and US tv shows). Of course, not everyone did, but we’re dropping a huge number of people, and those who know can teach those who don’t. Healthy person can go for 2 months without food.
Let’s say that they spawn on 1kmx1km zone in a grid with 10m spacing, in the temperate climate in the late spring, clothed in earliest stone age clothing (for same reason why we don’t spawn dolphins into a desert, we don’t spawn people into the Arctic).
Hunter gatherers had a lot of free time, though.
And as for the most of them getting dead very soon… I dunno, wildlife survival is not really that hard in general. We only have wildlife left in the regions where it’s very hard for humans to live, so if you drop people into the remaining regions of wilderness, they don’t fare very well. And we didn’t start on the wheat cultivation with the grand plan of going to the moon, we did that because the wheat as it was naturally gave huge and immediate benefits.
I don’t think you’d end up with a culture resembling any culture that existed in history. You have those smartest engineers and scientists, who already know how to make bows, steel, glass, firearms, electrical generators, and so on, and once settled in, they have a lot of free time (because there’s a ton of wildlife—buffalo herds, passenger pigeons, all that other easy to kill stuff that’s extinct—which will take many generations to deplete. They’re not in the modern day wilderness in the region where people can barely survive and almost all the food is extinct. They’re the new predator).
First, hunting with stone age weapons is far fom easy. Second, most engineers and scientists are not hunters, noone of them know how to hunt with spear and almost noone with bow. Third, they have no food supplies and so no time to learn. They will survive olny in very favourable conditions, like on tropical island with plenty of shellfish and tortoises (I think most people can hunt those).
I were thinking of my experience in Russia where engineers, mathematicians, and physicists absolutely loved going out on various nature trips (Didn’t really think of Sheldon and US tv shows). Of course, not everyone did, but we’re dropping a huge number of people, and those who know can teach those who don’t. Healthy person can go for 2 months without food.
Let’s say that they spawn on 1kmx1km zone in a grid with 10m spacing, in the temperate climate in the late spring, clothed in earliest stone age clothing (for same reason why we don’t spawn dolphins into a desert, we don’t spawn people into the Arctic).