What If You Had to RESTART Humanity With Your Ex?

IF: tonight, eight billion people vanish. Two don't. You… and your ex. THEN: at 3:07 a.m. she texts you, and for once it isn't "u up?" The future of the human race is sitting in one freezer across town. And it's already running out of cold. THE RULES 1. A tank never runs dry. 2. If a tank sweats, it's dying. 3. If the room is foggy, you don't go in. THE NUMBERS Humans 2 · Frozen embryos 6,412 · Days until number three 431 · Liquid nitrogen −196 °C · Out of the cold 8 seconds, max One old tank, one backup alarm with no battery in it, and every night at 3:07 something checks itself. YOUR CALL: would you restart humanity with your ex? Answer in one word. WATCH: 00:00 3:07 A.M. 00:39 Nice Hoodie 01:16 The River Is the Border 01:42 Megaphones 02:09 I Need Your Truck 02:28 The Other Guy 02:49 A City of People Who Don't Exist Yet 03:56 Lab Baby 04:28 Three Rules 04:55 Tanks Do Fail 05:22 The Last Tower 05:52 Depot Runs 06:14 Screaming in an Empty Room 06:38 Embryo #4471 07:13 A Coin Flip 07:44 The Oldest Tank 08:18 Day 400 09:00 Eighteen Minutes 09:30 Loading Docks 10:02 Eight Seconds 10:31 Day 431 11:18 All Those 3 A.M. Calls 11:49 One Word REAL, NOT MADE UP Liquid nitrogen boils at −196 °C. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth's surface was −89.2 °C. (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, EHS; Vostok Station, 1983) One liter of liquid nitrogen turns into about 700 liters of gas. (USDA Agricultural Research Service, Liquid Nitrogen Safety) You can't feel nitrogen. Your body panics about carbon dioxide, not missing oxygen, so there is no warning. (U.S. Chemical Safety Board, Bulletin 2003-10-B) From 1992 to 2002, nitrogen killed 80 American workers, and about one in ten of them died going in after someone else. (U.S. Chemical Safety Board, Bulletin 2003-10-B) In March 2018, two fertility clinics in two cities lost frozen eggs and embryos on the same weekend. In Cleveland it was more than 4,000, and the remote alarm had been switched off. (CNN, 12 March 2018; WKYC) Smoke alarms chirp at night for a reason: the house is coldest between 2 and 6 a.m., and that's when a weak battery gives up first. (Kidde) About one in every forty kids in America starts in a lab. (CDC, ART Surveillance, 2022 data) Even with doctors, a frozen embryo transfer works about half the time. (SART National Summary, 2022) In 2025, a boy in Ohio was born from an embryo frozen in 1994. His sister came from the same batch, and she was already thirty. (MIT Technology Review, July 2025) A fictional story, not medical or safety advice. Liquid nitrogen is dangerous: never walk into a room where it's venting, and never go in after someone who collapsed there. Call for help and stay upwind. Whatiffy · what if, then what? #Whatiffy #WhatIf #RestartHumanity