Reset Earth with Flood

Backup:

1. Build a large boat (450 ft long x 75 ft wide x 45 ft high) from cypress wood
2. Waterproof it inside and out with tar
3. Construct decks and stalls throughout its interior
4. Put a pair of every kind of animal inside
5. Be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals

Reset:

1. Erupt underground waters
2. Rain for 40 days and nights

Recovery:

1. Wait 150 days for boat to come to rest
2. Open a window and release a raven
3. Release a dove. If dove returns wait another 7 days and release again until dove does not return
4. Lift back the covering of the boat
5. When earth is dry release all the animals

Reset Earth with Asteroid

Backup:

1. Become a mammal

Reset:

1. Slam a massive meteroite into the Gulf of Mexico

Recovery:

1. Survive ice ages
2. Evolve for 65 million years

Reset Earth with Hyperspace Bypass

Backup:

1. Wake up blearily
2. Think bulldozer and yellow
3. Get out of the house and lie down in the mud in front of a big yellow bulldozer advancing to destroy your house
4. Go to the pub
5. Drink 3 pints of bitter
6. Make sure you have your towel with you
7. Lie down or put a paper bag over your head or something if you like
8. Thumb a lift with a passing Vogon Constructor Fleet

Reset:

1. Hang several dozen huge yellow chunky slablike ships in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't
2. Announce that the planet is scheduled for demolition
3. Argue that all the planning charts have been on display in Alpha Centauri for fifty Earth years
4. Energize the demolition beams
5. Coast away into the inky starry void

Recovery:

1. Stick a babel fish in your ear
2. Appreciate Vogon poetry
3. Survive being ejected into space and being rescued with a chance of two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand to one against
4. Find the legendary planet of Magrathea
5. Meet Slartiblartfast and learn that Earth Mark Two is being made
6. Discover the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is 42
7. Escape having your brain sampled
8. Try to make a cup of tea
9. Visit the Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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See also Universe