[pw0ncakes]

What's true about it? That, within certain contrived scenarios involving existential threats to humankind, humanities knowledge becomes useless?

Science and technology are important, and deserve more respect and funding than they get in this society, but not to the detriment of all else.

[jlc]

I think the standard (and weak) joke about the uselessness of humanities degrees is to some extent a red herring. The real subject of satire here are technophilic power fantasies, such as _The Core_, _Impact_, _Asteroid_, etc., etc.

[Semiapies]

The real red herring is the idea that this is satire with a message and not just a joke.