Suppose An asteroid is due to hit Earth in 90 days. How will the world react?

Comhrá

Suppose A large asteroid is discovered to be on direct collision track with Earth in circa 90 days.

How would the worlds leaders re-act? What would the say? How would Obama spin it?

How would people the world over prepare for a certain cataclysm?

me_irl

I guess there would be Armageddon. And then a Deep Impact.

tritium

tippman1 wrote: »

Suppose A large asteroid is discovered to be on direct collision track with Earth in circa 90 days.

How would the worlds leaders re-act? What would the say? How would Obama spin it?

How would people the world over prepare for a certain cataclysm?

"My fellow Americans, I am speaking to you from this secret bunker deep underground......."

Mena

Simpsons nailed this one I'm sure. Cut open each other's heads and feast on the goo inside...

kneemos

With much abandonment and a little alacrity.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Ride everything in sight.

Dravokivich

I'll get "come at me bro" tattoo'd across my arse. Go to the expected crash site of the asteroid, bend over and take it as it comes.

Overheal

Where, and how much platinum?

www.planetaryresources.com

electrobanana

America would probably say its got chemical weapons and try and invade the fcuking thing.

gerrybbadd

I dont wanna close my eyes...

the evasion_kid

Just keep on killing each other...

kneemos

The Christians would flee to the pub and the atheists would flock to the church.

Kylo Ren

I think we'd gather the greatest minds on the planet to come up with the most rational and probable method to save us; sending deep-sea oil drillers to space.

All radios would be forced to play Aerosmith 24/7. After a while, we'd welcome our impending doom.

PARlance

I'd have to plan my weekends carefully because work is busy at the moment.

Fleawuss

I imagine there would be a lot of scores settled.

*Checks drawer for list of most hated people. Yes.

Vandango

tippman1 wrote: »

How would the worlds leaders re-act? What would the say? How would Obama spin it?

They probably say nothing and we'd probably wouldn't even know about it.

Canterelle

Get pally with Richard Branson

Ruu

Free cheese and iodine tablets. Mmmhm.

Antar Bolaeisk

me_irl wrote: »

I guess there would be Armageddon. And then a Deep Impact.

Or lots of deep impacts and then Armageddon?

kneemos

Of all the possible causes of our annihilation it's probably the likely . There's even a hint of it in the Bible I think.

c_man

I imagine they'd move up the release date for the new Star Wars film at least.

Other than that we'd have 90 days to finally settle the score with the Brits.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Confess my sins to the local Padre, and hold up at home with loved ones and crates of liquor and Marlboros.

Omackeral

Somebody somewhere would take offense.

looksee

but...we've been promised variations on this so many times, and so far
a. the vast majority of people have ignored it and
b. nothing has happened.

More of the same.

gctest50

the alienz were only practising with this shot :

You should read the trilogy of books called the Last Policeman. It essentially follows the collapse of society as the world awaits a meteorite heading for the world that nobody can stop.

Sunnyisland

Blame it on the muslims.

Pac1Man

"Hello Mr. Willis. We need you again."

recylingbin

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd build a fort.

Mycroft H

Some complicated maths and an ICBM.

World would go back to killing themselves again anyway

Jan Laco

I think we'd react to it like those "certain types of food are actually bad for you even though we thought they were good for you' info's

ArtSmart

It's the wanton riding I'd be most concerned about.

Wanton, I tells you.

NIMAN

Facebook groups would be set up to moan about it.

Online petition?

TheLastMohican

Celebrate the fact that zombies will be no more

timthumbni

Deleted User wrote: »

You should read the trilogy of books called the Last Policeman. It essentially follows the collapse of society as the world awaits a meteorite heading for the world that nobody can stop.

The guy in the bunker in the LOST series was reading that I think. I hope it wasn't as confusing as lost itself.

Personally, I would try to act as normal and love and protect my family. What else would there to be done? Banks could be fecked though..... All this with a shotgun in my hand though....

ArtSmart

In reality, most folk would ignore the information. Too big to contemplate, and as nothing could be done, better off ignoring it.

however, if one could tap into the wanton classes, with all their abandonment of moral norms and what not...might not be such a bad thing, world annihilation.

wendell borton

Take a drip to Denver international airport.

cassid

Have a great Christmas because when the credit card bill in due, the world will be over.

Deffo will stop going to slimming world now, so what if am a stone overweight, might as well go out with a smile and chocolate on my lips

take the kids out of school and just have fun

Kivaro

tippman1 wrote: »

How would people the world over prepare for a certain cataclysm?

I hated doing cataclysm in school, so if I had to prepare for it again I'd welcome the Asteroid.

TheLastMohican

At least no more Jehovah Witnesses coming to the door

Skoop

I'd say everyone would be really cool about it.

biggebruv

thinking about this seriously its really scary to imagine

would make a great drama movie

about real life people instead of the heros saving the planet nothing can be done life will end in 90 days enjoy the time you have and in the end they all die

gimme the tissues!! lol

Donald Trump

biggebruv wrote: »

thinking about this seriously its really scary to imagine

would make a great drama movie

about real life people instead of the heros saving the planet nothing can be done life will end in 90 days enjoy the time you have and in the end they all die

gimme the tissues!! lol

Jaysus. Is there nothing that you won't **** to?

Laois_Man

ArtSmart wrote: »

In reality, most folk would ignore the information.

In rality, most people wouldn't get the information in the first place.
NASA would deny it
Obama would laugh it off
Anyone who said otherwise would be ignored

Capt'n Midnight

90 days plenty of time to get out of dodge. Unless it's a planet killer the area could be evacuated.

We could try and nudge it so it lands on the moon or Antartica or in the Gobi or Sahara or Himalayas or middle of Oz or Siberia or Northern Canada or the Empty Quarter or possibly Greenland. Oceans wouldn't be so good seeing as how so many live near the coast unless you go for northern Canada.

Might be a long shot but nudging it into orbit would give us a new moon :cool:
Though astrologists would be be upset.

90 days isn't a long lead time but there's fair bit of kit in the pipeline that can get 10 tonnes or more to LEO , between Proton , Atlas, Delta IV, Falcon 9, Zenit , Ariane 5 and H-IIA. India and China also have the capability but nothing that big scheduled in the next 90 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_spaceflight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_spaceflight

Capt'n Midnight

Then again China did launch a rather large satellite for Laos on Friday ...

Now what would a small Marxist country that sold their .la domain to a US business want with a "communications" satellite ?

topmanamillion

TheLastMohican wrote: »

At least no more Jehovah Witnesses coming to the door

Unless they're right! Then maybe hell would be you spending your day continuously opening your door to Jehovah Witnesses.

Sh1tbag OToole

Overheal wrote: »

Where, and how much platinum?

www.planetaryresources.com

Typical yank, too busy trying to make money out of it to be worried about it killing us all:pac:

Kirby

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

We could try and nudge it so it lands on the moon or Antartica or in the Gobi or Sahara or Himalayas or middle of Oz or Siberia or Northern Canada or the Empty Quarter or possibly Greenland. Oceans wouldn't be so good seeing as how so many live near the coast unless you go for northern Canada.

Might be a long shot but nudging it into orbit would give us a new moon :cool:
Though astrologists would be be upset.

Nudge it with what? We dont have a spacecraft capable of rendezvousing and matching speed with an asteroid so it would come down to hitting it with missiles.....which we cant do accurately yet. I think you underestimate the complexity involved in changing the course of an object that large and moving that fast in space. We certainly would have no hope of directing it to a specific spot.

Chimichangas

There would be more protests, and not just in Ireland. There would also be an increase in luxury cars sold.

Canis Lupus

Kirby wrote: »

Nudge it with what? We dont have a spacecraft capable of rendezvousing and matching speed with an asteroid so it would come down to hitting it with missiles.....which we cant do accurately yet. I think you underestimate the complexity involved in changing the course of an object that large and moving that fast in space. We certainly would have no hope of directing it to a specific spot.

Sure we'd all just get out and push.