Seveneves Quiz

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Why do later generations not simply employ digital DNA data from Eve Moira's thumb-drive? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

Reverting to the “rootstock” human race is considered as a kind of autogenocide.

This would result in horrible mutations.

The technological skills have been lost to time.

Political policy forbids this.

Men on Endurance die more frequently than women. Why? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

Self-sacrifice to ensure the greater good.

Men insist on performing the most dangerous extravehicular activities.

They are more biologically vulnerable to radiation, require more air and food, and simply are not psychologically resilient enough to survive decades in crowded indoor spaces.

Inherent violence results in deadly fights.

When U.S. President Julia Bliss Flaherty describes the proposed Cloud Ark Swarm as a "distributed architecture," what does she mean? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

The Cloud Ark's orbit will be modeled with random number generators.

Widely separated sections, in order to decentralize and protect the Human Genetic Archive from incoming lunar debris.

The Cloud Ark is designed to mimic a beehive.

The construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

Geneticist Moira Crewe is on the under-construction Cloud Ark with the Human Genetic Archive, from which the race can be sustained. Also, she stores digitized DNA on a thumb-drive, and this one day will be converted into biological reality. How? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

By the invention of some far-future method after the Cloud Ark Swarm is established.

Through gene manipulation, using the thumb-drive's genome-mapper.

By inserting the drive into a genetic synthesizer.

A DNA strand based on the data can be produced (after labor-intensive effort) with a few simple precursor chemicals.

Why does space entrepreneur Sean Probst risk his and his crews' lives by embarking on the Ymir mission to capture comet "Greg's Skeleton"? (from Section 4, Chapters 10—12)

To establish a colony apart from the Cloud Ark.

To use the water supply as a bargaining tool.

The water will fuel his own Mars mission.

If the mission succeeds, the comet will supply nearly limitless water from which to produce propellant and drinking water, something no government has thought of.