MKS Vastly Important

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Survival 101

You are on a life raft in the middle of the ocean and you only can bring certain items with you. Some items are vastly more important than others and you must rank them in order from 1 to 15 with 1 being the best and 15 being the worst. What would you choose? Here is the order that I choose. Be amazed! I chose water and food as the first two choices because without water you won't survive for a day, and without food you'll only live if you have water and then for only 3 days. The Maps of the Atlantic ocean seemed useless to me, seeing as I don't really have a form propulsion that is reliable and it requires special equipment to be used accurately.

1. Water
2. Army Rations
3. Shaving Mirror
4. Fishing Kit
5. 10 Liters of Oil/Petrol mix
6. Floating Seat Cushion
7. Opaque Sheeting
8. Mosquito Netting
9. 15ft of Nylon Rope
10. 2 boxes of chocolate bars
11. small transistor radio
12. a can of shark repellent
13. Bottle of 160% proof rum
14. Sextant
15. Maps of the Atlantic Ocean

Later, we got into groups and delegated on what is the most important item and what is not. Then we decided on what the order should be and my team changed the order from mine a little bit.
1. Shaving Mirror
2. Water
3. Army Rations
4. Fishing kit
5. Mosquito Netting
6. Floating Seat Cushion
7. Bottle of 160% proof Rum
8. Opaque Sheeting
9. 2 Boxes of Chocolate Bars
10. 15ft of nylon rope
11. 10 Liters of Nylon Rope
12. can of shark Repellent
13. small transistor radio
14. Maps of the Pacific Ocean
15. Sextant

Of course expert opinion differed from my choices almost completely. However my team was a little closer to being correct on the order than me. It surprised me that fishing kit fell lower than many things on the list. However, I will not dispute the decisions of experts. They generally have a better idea of things than me, but remember to always have a healthy disrespect for the system or else you will not be able to move on in ideologies and technology.

The Tennis Ball Challenge!

In this creative team challenge, you are to figure out a time effective way to pass one tennis ball so that it touches everyone once. Using powers of shiftiness, my group decided what constituted a pass was that the ball touches a person. Our first model had me hold the tennis ball and tap everyone on the hands once in a circle. However, or competitors went further and made a ramp out of their hands. Knowing that the tennis ball would move faster than my arm gave them the advantage in one round. Our group then had the idea to join hands in the middle and merely drop the ball into the interlocking hands. This was by far the fastest model and it smoked the opposing team. However, our personal criteria machine decided that no two people could be touching the ball at once, so a new model was needed. At long last our final model came into being, where we had the ball drop through our cupped hands to facilitate ball dropping speed as quickly as possible. In the end, the other group copied our design, but originality led to success and we won the challenge!