What do you save?

I would want them to save the Terry Redlin Gallery in Watertown So. Dak...because his painting depict a quiet loving life by touching parts of nature....he is my favorite painter.....can you tell?

Hi Ms. D, I am saving the value system that our country would like to preserve--- all the things that i learned from my grandparents, parents and oldies i want to preserve it by continuously and consistently inculcating in my kids' mind and heart the value of respect, honesty, trust and integrity. I am so happy and proud every time i see my kids apply these values these give me the confidence that it will live...

um..pft..lemme see. complete works of mozart. statues of "david" and "the dying slave" statue of "laocoon & his sons" (ancient version) the imperial easter egg collection the golden leopard bier of tutankhamun the wooden coffin of merytamun anything by raphael & titian house of erte small art deco statues i'm sure i can think of more,but this is a starter. some of my faves.

I would wanna save the Monalisa painting..

What I would like to have from previous civilizations are family records and stories, that show what day to day life was like, I would want pictures of animal life and of our world as we know it. The ones of the world from space would be helpful. News and other hints of what went wrong so that these things could be avoided in the future. So looking at what I would like from the past and what I think would be of help to the future are the things I want to save. Right now we can compress so much info that I think we could save many, many things for the future, if not the actual things at least visual records of them.

a DVD copy of The sound of Music, and a dvd player of course. hahahaha. The hills are alive, with the sound of music...

i would like to save the snaps of my kids of their toddler times,when i show them now ,they look at me as if i am showing them snaps of aliens,i wonder what the situation will be after 20 yrs.

Oh' Oh' I know *raises hand* Pick me, pick me, I have a great peace of work to save, and it is all electronic... It takes no real space in an infinite universe such as the web of electronic life given to each person's writings... My Blogs... Heheheheeee... There is a keeper and an idea for others to jump in... Me, me, me... Singing la, la, la, me, me, me, run, run fast... *ducking and hiding, yikes!*

I used to collect a variety of things. Lately, I gave away most everything. I was preparing to move cross-country due to a divorce. Then I was presented with an opportunity to stay put. So now I have no collections of books, statues or other trinkets.

hi dawnald oh by all mean they have to save all of Mozarts gorgeous violin and flute and piano sonatas and Jane Austen works and Louisa May Alcott. and A. Conan Doyle's works, Agatha Christie's works, Sue Grafton's books, all the Beatles works, The beach boys and the Rolling Stones, U2, and well any other musical works they can think of. I am sleepy so my brain, what little I have , is in a brainfog.

ALL of the music and memorabilia of the 60s!!

Books! Save the books! From Dickens to Steven King they must all be saved! What a loss it would be never to see literature again, there is so much to learn in each and every one. From the great novels of Charles Dickens to Wally Lamb’s I know This Much Is True and Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie to Steven King’s Dark Tower series...There are so many I could not bear to lose and I cannot mention them all...It would be a pity to lose the Mona Lisa too...

Thinks: Is it Friday? Well, I would have to take many things so I do hope that they have room for it all. Art is a must and if I could only take one work of art then it would be Chagall - he fills my soul with joy. Literature would be the Bible with commentaries, Book of Hours, Oxford Book of Poetry and the complete works of Charles Dickens that I want to re read. would not take statues as I cannot lift heavy things! Please may I take lots of family photographs - to me they are works of art and please may I bring my antique Blue Plate

If I could only pick my favorites...Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Ruebens, ...can't think of them all. Bach, Beetehoven, all the music of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and throw in some Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters and BB King..and that boxed set of the History of Rock and Roll! All the works of Anne Rice, Stephen King, John Saul, Griffin, (the guy who writes legal thrillers) And a complete set of Britanica encylopedias, All the old masters of literature, The Bible, the Rig Veda, all the art in the Vatican...they can beam up the sistine ceiling can't they? And all the paintings I've done. There, I'm finished. lol

Hhhmmmmm. Let me get this straight. (ever the realist) "Civilisation as we know it" will "Hit a huge roadblock"? Does this mean that civilisation is wiped out - all the people wiped out - but the aliens will save art works? and not the people? If the people are still around, why can't they save the art works? If all the people are wiped out, since none of us and none of our offspring will be here in 1100 years time, what does it matter? If the aliens are taking the people with the art works, I don't think I'd want to go with them. I think I'd opt to stay. Depending on the coming doom I'd probably want my children and grandchildren to go, so I'd want them to take a bit of our family history (photos etc) and of course a Bible - many Bibles - and some of my theology books. I'd hope that others would take literature classics like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens etc so that we would be remembered in a more favourable light than today's literature would give. As far as works of art, I appreciate them and wouldn't want them destroyed, but of more value to me personally are the paintings I have by one of my sons and various craft items by my sons and my grandchildren. I would want their safety assured above any art works. As for music, if my sons are going, they will carry music with them. One will carry Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and all the classics, one will carry music of the 50s-70s and the others will carry other styles. I'm glad this is only "what if"

Hi, D! If I were to give a complete response, it would go on for pages and pages. I'm totally addicted to books and art and music, and it all needs to be saved!

Hmmm good question, and I really have no answer for it at the moment. Except to say, 'my hide'.

Hi dawnald, Beatles music and Michael Jackson's music, wow what a contrast that would be and it is worth saving it for the future. Tamara