Bizarro Posted February 15, 2003 #1 Share Posted February 15, 2003 A scientific adviser to the United States government has suggested that secrecy might be the best option if scientists were ever to discover that a giant asteroid was on course to collide with Earth. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/scienc...sp?story=378392 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 15, 2003 #2 Share Posted February 15, 2003 An excerpt from the article: "If an extinction-type impact is inevitable, then ignorance for the populace is bliss. As a matter of common sense, if you can't intercept it and you can't move people out of the way in time, there's nothing you can do in terms of reducing the costs of the potential impact," As I'm sure most would agree, this makes a lot of sense. Secrecy would be the best option. Of course, if it happened in my lifetime, I hope it would be in the early hours of the morning, when my exhausted, spent body is still sleeping beside my valentine, after an all night session of passion That would be cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j6p Posted February 15, 2003 #3 Share Posted February 15, 2003 I would want to know. I would start smoking again, even cigarettes then I would also engage and go out in an oblivious passonate stupor. Damn, almost makes me want that big hunk of rock to slam us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonboy Posted February 15, 2003 #4 Share Posted February 15, 2003 Speaking of my own opinion - I would definitely like to know, be it a day or a week's notice. I mean, you wouldn't want to spend your last day at work, now would ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted February 15, 2003 Author #5 Share Posted February 15, 2003 exactly, Loonboy. this whole thing has a Lord to Serf sort of mentality to it. i don't like the idea of a group of people deciding that there is nothing i could do about a problem. what if the solution is out there but these people were too cocky to give humanity a chance? that's criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceyKC Posted February 16, 2003 #6 Share Posted February 16, 2003 You're right Homer, that would be a nice way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 16, 2003 #7 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Exactly, KC It would show gross irresponsibility for those in the know to make our extinction public knowledge. The world wide panic, along with world wide lawlessness, would make it inexcusable to inform the public. Thats simply common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Posted February 16, 2003 #8 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Homer Wrote@ I hope it would be in the early hours of the morning, when my exhausted, spent body is still sleeping beside my valentine, after an all night session of passion Ah that is so sweet. I agree that would be the best way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreyKade Posted February 16, 2003 #9 Share Posted February 16, 2003 yes it would, or we can ....try to run away...only to be hit on the head by the asteroid and by some stroke of luck still being alive watching the world end the somethng poops on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmy Posted February 17, 2003 #10 Share Posted February 17, 2003 I can understand why they wouldn't like tell us about an extinction type asteroid, imagine the public hysteria, but I would probably want to know so that I could spend it with the people I love. and definately not at work!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted February 17, 2003 #11 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Better off being anywhere than at work on the last day. I know who I would spend it with. The government would possibly have to flip a coin on wether or not to tell people, people would panic if they knew, but people wuld really be p***ed off if they had to go to work only for 2 hours later they were to become pancakes. The again what would people do in two hours, kill someone, and would it matter if they did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreyKade Posted February 17, 2003 #12 Share Posted February 17, 2003 hmmm, what would people do in two hours? well a bloke could have helluva lota sex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 17, 2003 #13 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Speak for yourself. After two hours, I'm just getting started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted February 17, 2003 Author #14 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted February 18, 2003 #15 Share Posted February 18, 2003 i would spend my last two hours with emmy, or at least trying to get to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 18, 2003 #16 Share Posted February 18, 2003 I would spend my last two hours with my darlin' She's cool and... She's hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Posted February 18, 2003 #17 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Nope would not want to be at work...... Would want to be in the arms of a very special person, and my daughter nearby..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted February 18, 2003 Author #18 Share Posted February 18, 2003 id like to be at a beautiful beach, waist deep out in the surf with a big open sky over my head... playing like a little kid... then i guess my moment would be ruined by all the pervs getting it on out in the open like animals. good god you freaks, its the end of the world, not an orgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadman Posted March 13, 2003 #19 Share Posted March 13, 2003 SERIOUSLY!!! It may gotta happen.... believe it or not..i read the chinese newspaper they say a giant asteroids may hit on Earth between 2005 and 2010 scientist also say it may hit more than 32 COUNTRY.... (not jokin is real) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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