>The Sun has fallen out of orbit and is going to crash into the Earth. Humanity has randomly chosen people to enter an underground nuclear shelter with enough food and provisions for the next 50 years until the Earth is habitable again, luckily you were picked.
>You are allowed to bring one scientific instrument with you.
Choose wisely /sci/...
>the sun has fallen out of orbit
A fucking dildo
I want to ram something up my ass one last time before the solar system fucking collapses in the next few minutes
>>8455619
>The Sun has fallen out of orbit and is going to crash into the Earth
I wonder how big the crater in the earth would be if that happened. :^)
>>8455619
What if the sun gets deflected by the moon?
>>8455619
>the sun will eventually crash into the earth
>yeah, lets make underground shelters that'll surely help!
>>8455619
>The Sun has fallen out of orbit
Laugh, since its about fucking time something eradicated us. At least it'll get mouthbreathing retards that still use the geocentric solar system model like yourself.
>>8455657
Geocentric model is for more intelligent beings, not less intelligent.
It's harder to calculate the orbits.
Ignoring how shitty OP's mini story was, and ignoring how little information was given (what counts as a science instrument? What books is new civilization given access to, etc.)
I will say a microscope. Reverse engineering is relatively simple, manufacturing one is relatively simple (so it can be used to make more), and understanding what we cannot see has been one of the most important tools science has ever had.
Meme answer: a solar powered laptop with a memebyte hard rive that has downloaded all relevant human knowledge.
Not your exact scenario OP but this book does go into detail on who would be saved in an end of the world situation.
Spoilers: NDT and Hillary Clinton survive the destruction of Earth.
>>8455623
but that's gay, why would you want to do that?
>>8455619
I'll bring my tricorder.
>>8455619
the earth would not survive that you retard