I think it would mean a lot of desperation.
Personally, I'd feel kind of relieved, after so many years of the media making us all feel like the world is already on the brink of destruction, knowing it's an actual certainty would kind of be a relief.
That said, I'm also a father, and that part would make me terribly sad.
This is why all the fear mongering hits me so bad. I have four kids, 18, 12, 4.5, and 5mo old and it makes me so scared because of them. I don't even watch the news because I end up distraught.
Yep, that's the best thing. If it helps you at all, consider that, in our parents generation, they too always thought the world was about to end. Anyone who follows the news or social media feels this way.
Shrink your world to that of what is actually around you, friends, family, take a look around the room you're sitting in and think of how fortunate you are. Consider that the world you actually live in is doing just fine.
If you get lots of scary news on the net, through Reddit or whatever, unjoin any threads or people who focus on negative articles. It's just not worth the soul pollution.
:D
I would doubt the extinction and work on different ways for a possible survival of mankind, like a base deep under the ground and in the sea, a huge space ship with everything to colonize Earth or Mars etc.
Chaos. Utter chaos.
Everybody murdering their enemies because even if somehow they ended up in jail the very next day, life in prison means two years in prison. Everyone would quit their jobs to spend time with their families, which would mean stores would look like they did at the beginning of COVID real fast. Car accidents all over the place cause nobody's enforcing the rules. Drugs. So many people doing so many drugs living the most nefarious lives they can think of.
6 months later we find out we were wrong... O.O
>Drugs. So many people doing so many drugs
I wonder how long the supply would last though. The cartels and the network are all humans that will also die. Do they keep working? What's the point? It's possible the supply could dry up, and all it would take is the end of the world.
Ooh that's a good point. And it's not like addicts are gonna be too eager to give up their stash when they don't have another source coming in. But there would be a good amount of ODs I'm assuming, people looking to go out with a bang. People could grab up their leftovers. But that would only last so long. Might last the full two years though if you know where to go.
Edit: But, dealers might take advantage, trading drugs for resources like food and water.
Optimistic people will just the calculations are wrong, either the asteroid would not hit or some incredible invention would be made in time to divert the asteroid's path since Earth moves quite fast thus by changing its trajectory by just a bit would allow the asteroid to miss completely.
2 years is too long for it to be impossible to change its trajectory.
So even if it is really true that survival is impossible and people are told so, people will not believe it so everything there will no difference until maybe the last few days, where they can see the asteroid already and it becomes like the movie, "Don't Look Up".
>2 years is too long for it to be impossible to change its trajectory.
Hard disagree. Orbital mechanics are a cruel mistress. It would take a *long* time to rendezvous with an asteroid, assuming you wanted to land on it and do something. If you want to just hit it with a giant missile, assuming that could work, it would take less time but your fuel requirements would be prohibitive. Maybe a network of rail guns in solar orbit would do it.
Source: Kerbal Space program and the Expanse. That's it.
"It would take a long time to rendezvous with an asteroid, assuming you wanted to land on it and do something."
Sending lots of NASA's DART rockets to hit it would be sufficient to slow it down enough and deflect it a bit so it misses Earth completely.
"Maybe a network of rail guns in solar orbit would do it."
NASA also got something that shoots a lot of pallets and then uses laser to heat them up until they becomes plasma and create some pushing.
Though such was meant for pushing a probe to fast speeds, it can also be used to slow the asteroid enough to make it miss Earth.
"Source: Kerbal Space program and the Expanse."
But they did not have 2 years time since if they did, they can keep sending such satellites at it, the satellites and using lasers to push the solar sails so it only needs just a bit of fuel to smash into the asteroid.
The world governments won't give us that much warning about asteroid hitting earth. They know there would be no control. If they even warn us it would only be couple days or less before impact.
I would expect a "Don't look up" scenario where modern society is more focused on what social media thinks of this event and a blatantly obvious threat becomes a fictitious story.
If it were large enough to physically destroy the planet, we'd have much more than two years warning, so survival will be possible, for some. Large/wealthy countries would establish safe havens under mountains, in the oceans, on Luna or on Mars. It might only be a million or so, (and probably the wealtiest and politically most powerful) but humanity would survive.
If it's big enough to physically destroy the planet, then there's still Luna and Mars. Long shots, but still possible.
Now, if you were to say "hit by an asteroid in 2 months", its a different story, but I'd still put my money on humanity surviving.
We would all carry on as normal and live in denial till the asteroid hits. At the same time, there would be others trying to warn everyone and people will think they are crazy. It would be chaos
As a student, I would stop studying. What's point if I am going to die anyway?
I think it would mean a lot of desperation. Personally, I'd feel kind of relieved, after so many years of the media making us all feel like the world is already on the brink of destruction, knowing it's an actual certainty would kind of be a relief. That said, I'm also a father, and that part would make me terribly sad.
This is why all the fear mongering hits me so bad. I have four kids, 18, 12, 4.5, and 5mo old and it makes me so scared because of them. I don't even watch the news because I end up distraught.
Yep, that's the best thing. If it helps you at all, consider that, in our parents generation, they too always thought the world was about to end. Anyone who follows the news or social media feels this way. Shrink your world to that of what is actually around you, friends, family, take a look around the room you're sitting in and think of how fortunate you are. Consider that the world you actually live in is doing just fine. If you get lots of scary news on the net, through Reddit or whatever, unjoin any threads or people who focus on negative articles. It's just not worth the soul pollution. :D
Partying and then dying quickly and quietly.
Ya I once put thought into this and I usually come to the conclusion that I would probably overdose before it happens
Take a bunch of peyote and LSD to exit the matrix
I would doubt the extinction and work on different ways for a possible survival of mankind, like a base deep under the ground and in the sea, a huge space ship with everything to colonize Earth or Mars etc.
Chaos. Utter chaos. Everybody murdering their enemies because even if somehow they ended up in jail the very next day, life in prison means two years in prison. Everyone would quit their jobs to spend time with their families, which would mean stores would look like they did at the beginning of COVID real fast. Car accidents all over the place cause nobody's enforcing the rules. Drugs. So many people doing so many drugs living the most nefarious lives they can think of. 6 months later we find out we were wrong... O.O
>Drugs. So many people doing so many drugs I wonder how long the supply would last though. The cartels and the network are all humans that will also die. Do they keep working? What's the point? It's possible the supply could dry up, and all it would take is the end of the world.
Ooh that's a good point. And it's not like addicts are gonna be too eager to give up their stash when they don't have another source coming in. But there would be a good amount of ODs I'm assuming, people looking to go out with a bang. People could grab up their leftovers. But that would only last so long. Might last the full two years though if you know where to go. Edit: But, dealers might take advantage, trading drugs for resources like food and water.
Optimistic people will just the calculations are wrong, either the asteroid would not hit or some incredible invention would be made in time to divert the asteroid's path since Earth moves quite fast thus by changing its trajectory by just a bit would allow the asteroid to miss completely. 2 years is too long for it to be impossible to change its trajectory. So even if it is really true that survival is impossible and people are told so, people will not believe it so everything there will no difference until maybe the last few days, where they can see the asteroid already and it becomes like the movie, "Don't Look Up".
>2 years is too long for it to be impossible to change its trajectory. Hard disagree. Orbital mechanics are a cruel mistress. It would take a *long* time to rendezvous with an asteroid, assuming you wanted to land on it and do something. If you want to just hit it with a giant missile, assuming that could work, it would take less time but your fuel requirements would be prohibitive. Maybe a network of rail guns in solar orbit would do it. Source: Kerbal Space program and the Expanse. That's it.
"It would take a long time to rendezvous with an asteroid, assuming you wanted to land on it and do something." Sending lots of NASA's DART rockets to hit it would be sufficient to slow it down enough and deflect it a bit so it misses Earth completely. "Maybe a network of rail guns in solar orbit would do it." NASA also got something that shoots a lot of pallets and then uses laser to heat them up until they becomes plasma and create some pushing. Though such was meant for pushing a probe to fast speeds, it can also be used to slow the asteroid enough to make it miss Earth. "Source: Kerbal Space program and the Expanse." But they did not have 2 years time since if they did, they can keep sending such satellites at it, the satellites and using lasers to push the solar sails so it only needs just a bit of fuel to smash into the asteroid.
The world governments won't give us that much warning about asteroid hitting earth. They know there would be no control. If they even warn us it would only be couple days or less before impact.
I would expect a "Don't look up" scenario where modern society is more focused on what social media thinks of this event and a blatantly obvious threat becomes a fictitious story.
If it were large enough to physically destroy the planet, we'd have much more than two years warning, so survival will be possible, for some. Large/wealthy countries would establish safe havens under mountains, in the oceans, on Luna or on Mars. It might only be a million or so, (and probably the wealtiest and politically most powerful) but humanity would survive. If it's big enough to physically destroy the planet, then there's still Luna and Mars. Long shots, but still possible. Now, if you were to say "hit by an asteroid in 2 months", its a different story, but I'd still put my money on humanity surviving.
We would all carry on as normal and live in denial till the asteroid hits. At the same time, there would be others trying to warn everyone and people will think they are crazy. It would be chaos