how would you react if you turned on the news and they said..............?

Question

there would be a comet striking the earth that was big enough to destroy all life on the planet in the next 12 hours. it is big enough to knock earth completely off of its orbit, causing it to fall into the sun within a week after impact.

how would you react to hearing this?

Answer 1

Mary Jane here I come.

Answer 2

I would recall the frightening reaction that many people had to George Orwell's Radio Broadcast back in the 40's and 50's when they did not realize the story was fiction and drama, not reality.

Having heard the story on the news, I would turn off my TV and return to work in the yard because no one is going to do my yardwork for me.

A.) given the speed of travel of typical comets - over 40,000 Miles Per Hour, and some estimate of the comet size - large enough to cause havoc, I would immediately realize there was not one single thing that I COULD DO ABOUT IT. Time to finish that yardwork.

B.) Much more important to consider right now is the total chaos that will result if either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama are elected President of the USA in November of 2008. Neither one has any experience as an officer in the military and yet they would step forward as Commander in Chief of all US Military Forces. What a joke. My estimate is that the world as we know it will end very shortly thereafter.

Answer 3

Try to catch an earlier train home so I don't get caught in the rush and spend as much time as possible with my wife and children before the end. In twelve hours it will still be night here (well, early morning, but before time to get up), so I guess I don't have to worry about those deadlines too much.

If it's that size it will probably shatter the earth anyway. I'd try to find out whether we were on the near side or far side of the planet from the impact point. There doesn't seem to be much point worrying about survival strategies.

Answer 4

If the information was presented like this on the news, I would be sure that it is not true. If you know about physics and astronomy you would detect the details that are not possible and you were able to distinguish truth from a lie.
This is today's problem in the USA: People believe everything in the news - if you don't know what the facts are, you have vaguely believe all the nonsense. Education comes rarely form the news. News editors do not have the goal to educate people but to entertain them in a biased way - to influence them in a subtle way so the can no longer distinguish truth form lies.

Answer 5

I would laugh, because I'd know it was a hoax.

I know, I know, you wanted to know how I'd react if it were real. Well, any comet close enough to be a danger to us would have alerted scientists to its presence -- and subsequently its direction of travel -- long in advance.

In other words, we'd have much longer than 12 hours.

Granted, what would I do if it were really happening, and I only had 12 hours? Probably confess my love for all the girls I had crushes on in high school, and see which one invites me over...

Answer 6

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I will call scienists i know and I will tell them,
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And that is like this........






First of all,
1.With a rocket, send some atom bombs towards the comet.

2. Maybe, 10 are sufficient, but HURRIEDLY.....

3. Then they should be arranged in the path of a comet systematically..

4. Now. When comet comes towards them,
ALL BOMBS SHOULD BE BURSED WITH TRIGGERS AT THE SAME TIME............

This will exert a great pressure on the comet and its path will change........


AND THE EARTH WILL BE SAVED.

Answer 7

That question has been the subject to a public poll in Great Britain. The result was this:
The majority of people answered that they would spend that time with their family and loved ones.
In second and third place, with nearly the same percentage, comes: have sex and ... steal something.
The latter is very interesting because why would anyone steal e.g. a sport car to drive it only 12 hours?

The latter is very interesting because it confirms that our instinct of gathering is extremely strong. It also supports the evolutionist psychology idea that humans became bipeds to free their hands for gathering. That made them attractive to the other sex and the behaviour came in our genes through sexual selectivity.

Answer 8

lol, it wouldn't matter if it could knock the earth out of its orbit into the sun :P, if it was that big it would shatter the earth into tiny bite sized peices... BUT, if by the off chance the media decided to initiate the mass hysteria, i would.. go to the beach and play volleyball in the sand?

Answer 9

i would probably scream and run around in circles for like 20 minutes and then just go crazy and do all the these ive wanted to do, such as running into the whitehouse and kicking Bush's ***, run around naked and becoming a follower of scientology only to bring the 'religion' down from the inside within a matter of minutes.

Answer 10

I would lock the place up and check the security system, because the world will shortly riot and the looting and pillaging would begin almost immediately! They would never let the public know the truth even if you could see the damn thing with your own eyes!

Answer 11

I'd have eleven hours to make love to my wife, play with my kids, and enjoy some of the arts made by the soon to be defunct human race, then I'd get plastered drunk and watch the whole thing from the roof of my house.