Good point. The people "saved" are a bunch of useless dimwits. If you wanted to save the human race you absolutely would gather up the most intelligent across the world. You'd also explain the potential before the freeze. You'd waken them and get to work on the plan to continue to live.

I didn't read the books but my biggest issue so far that I'd consider a stupid question that has popped up when thinking about it is: if they can cryofreeze a whole population why weren't they able to erase their memories? So when they wake up they have amnesia and aren't constantly trying to escape to get back to…