Doomsday fantasy: what would you do?

I'm not sure that kind of information would be released to the public with fear of mass panic. I know it would leak out though. I also think that 20 years is a lot of time to work on ways to avoid the problem and or devise other options for survival. It would be hard to say I would just quit work and travel the world and part like it's 1999. Oh wait that's over already. What if they were wrong and nothing happens? What if everyone got lazy thinking everything is over, why bother? I think churches would be very popular. Drugs would get even more out of hand I bet. And with that crime would rise.

I wouldn't have any children. That's for sure.

 

"I'd go skydivin'
Rocky Mountain climbin'
I'd go 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu..."

 

No sweat! In tandem with that top-secret study is the top-secret Stargate program (you didn't hear it from me, though!) SG-1 will create a hyperspace window around the asteroid, and it will pass harmlessly through Earth.

To answer your scenario, I would hope "It cannot be avoided" would not end up being be a true statement. I would think the entire world would come together with a single focus: What can we do to save ourselves in the allotted time? Hope is a wonderful thing, it can keep civilization going, where chaos would otherwise result.

I would imagine something like a world-war effort, except against all of mankind. Mankind can be quite creative when confronted with a matter of survival, and in this case the whole planet would be focused to the same end.

This would make me wonder just how the various skirmishes around the world might respond -- might it be like we were being attacked from an extraterrestrial force? Might not the whole world come back together and stop their differences -- at least for awhile?

One can only hope.

 

Lets just say I hope you have guns.

Mass anarchy would ensue shortly thereafter, and only those who band together and hold areas by force would survive, as there sure as hell aren't enough government forces to contain/keep order over the entire country in such event.

I don't think a discovery as such could be held secret for too long. There are way too many independent scientists around the world "watching" the skies.

As for me, I'd become a survivalist, and try to get as far away from any large/organized group of people as I possibly could, thinking up of ways to survive given various information broadcasted over radio/tv.

Think "Mad Max".

 

Most people would do what they do every day and have faith that there really is something we would do.

Governments would come together and #### things up for everyone. Our elected officials would fund their buddies pet project that has no chance of working and starve projects that might make a difference.

With about five years left they would appoint a director of foreight objects security appointed from private industry. He would funnel most of the work to the company he previously worked for and people would complain about the obscene profits the company is making. If they are successful congress will tax the excess profits.

IF they are not successful, the government will say that they will be and minute now. In the last few days there will be some assholes and wack jobs that do bizzare things but most people will reach out to friends and loved ones and make the best of the time they have left.

 

It's hard to answer considering how you posed the question. 25 years is a long time. Even if we couldn't find a viable way to stop it, odds are probably pretty good that some other event in those 25 years could very easily alter it's course or destroy it.

And, with 25 years and a a billion times more effort, just think of where our space program could be?

If it was just a few years, that would be a different story. I'd try to find out as much as I could about what the effects of it would be and try to do anything possible to help give me a better chance at survival.

 

Well, I'm sure things would go pretty much ala Hollywood sci-fi films:

Somehow, some of us would end up in an alternate dimension that's populated by good-looking girls in loincloth bikinis.

 

I would get busy and finish the time machine and go back a hundred years or so to simpler times. Or maybe go ahead a few years and see if it really happened.

 

OK. Jack.

I think you know something, and are not giving us all the facts. Are you trying to tip us prius owners off so we maintain our advantage over the coming few years?

 

I, for one, live every day with the thought that this very thing could happen tomorrow, next week, or in twenty years. But I don't expect an asteroid or any such pedestrain thing.

Actually, this WILL happen IMHO. The Rapture, then Revelations. There is a way to have inner peace. You just have to ask!

 

OK; but when the Rapture occurs, can I have your Prius?

 

think of everyone's disappointment when they find out that the consequences of spewing carbon into the atmosphere makes most of the Earth uninhabitable in 23 years. wont be no one left to witness the big bump.

the scenario has been published by the scientific community, granted a different fantasy but with similiar results and we already know what the reaction is from most of the world right??

your colliding planet will produce the exact same reaction... that i can guarantee you.

 

No matter how/what happens and you die....

When you stand before GOD and He asks,

"Why should I let you into My Heaven?"

What would YOUR answer be ??

You don't have to post your answer, but just think about it.

 

I'd still wait till January to take delivery of my '06.

 

You betcha! I would hate to see it not go to use during that time. I'll try to stow a Bible in there for you :lol:

 

There , there...it'll be allright. Here, have a sugar cookie and go lie down.

 

If there is a GOD, wouldn't a good question be "Why didn't you stop this? What good are you anyway?"