Assignment:
Scenario: You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to rendezvous with another ship on the lighted surface of the moon. However, due to mechanical difficulties. Your ship was forced to land at a spot some 200 miles from the rendezvous point. During reentry and landing. much of the equipment aboard was damaged and since survival depends on reaching the mother ship. The most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile trip. Below listed the 15 items left intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank order them in terms of their importance for your crew in allowing them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important, and so on through number 15 for the least important. Your ranking:
___Box of matches
___ Food concentrate
___50 feet of nylon rope
___Parachute silk
___Portable heating unit
___Two .45 caliber pistols
___one case of dehydrated milk
___Two 100 lb. tanks of oxygen
___Stellar map
___Self-inflating life raft
___Magnetic compass
___ 20 liters of water
___Signal flares