Are You Choosing the Passengers on a Spaceship?

The 12 persons listed have been selected as passengers on a spaceship for a flight to another planet because tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed to be destroyed. "It's weird that they specified you should select the eight who should go and not the four who should stay," he says of the passenger list instructions. 'I am 100% reading that as like space limitations, like limitations in space, not like physical'