If an asteroid was coming would you want to know?

[Tan3l6]

I read somewhere or watched some expert opinion that there was no "mass extinction level" asteroids near the earth in foreseeable future. Maybe true, maybe not.

Rather I think a supervolcano will trigger a mass extinction before an asteroid.

Yeah, I would want to know when ...

[Murasaki]

Even if i do most important things always happen when im sleeping. Boooooooooooooo..

[Dundee]

13 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

Even if i do most important things always happen when im sleeping. Boooooooooooooo..

LOL, this is very relatable. When I wake up, and I look at the news, and I go like, "oh shit, wtf, that happened last night???"

[Murasaki]

3 minutes ago, dundee said:

LOL, this is very relatable. When I wake up, and I look at the news, and I go like, "oh shit, wtf, that happened last night???"

Yeah from youtube and google in its entirety going offline to earthquakes. I'm definitely dying in my sleep!

[SolarNova]

On 1/19/2021 at 10:18 PM, Tehkast said:

Armageddon is on ITV4 wondering would you want to know if one was coming or rather just get a quick shock one day?

 

The assumption is that its end of the world style so knowing doesn't change the outcome but think you would wanna know?

Most certainly I'd want to know the details, not for the same reason one would want to know when exactly they are going to die, but rather to make sure i have a good seat to watch and observe humanities response.

I guess it depends on the size, composition ..velocity ..basically it would depend on the likely end result.

If its a full 100% ELE (for ALL life), then it wouldnt really matter, but something more akin to past ELEs, i'd be very interested in observing the aftermath.

Remember that even a 100% ELE in most likelihoods would not be an instant erasure of life, but would put events in motion resulting in the rapid die out of life (rapid earth history time scale)

 

On the topic of wanting to know when one is going to die, there are arguments both for and against. I see one above being that you couldnt enjoy anything if u know ur about to die, i'd argue the opposite can also be true.

Knowing that you have little to no reason to worry about repercussion would be incredibly freeing for some. You could do anything u like, throw all the rules out the window so to speak. You could even argue, that at that moment a person could feel more alive than they ever could be not knowing the circumstances of their death.

For me, yes i'd most certainly want to know the details of my death.

 

On a side note, i'd also rather not die by withering away of old age or some slow progressing illness.

As Clarkson once said "If you go though the pearly gates, backwards, in a ball of fire, that's a cool way to die!"

Though, the Pearly Gates are the gateway to Heaven if u believe such things, i'd rather go to Hell, thats were all the fun people go

Not that i beleve in such things

[Sarra]

1 hour ago, SolarNova said:

Most certainly I'd want to know the details, not for the same reason one would want to know when exactly they are going to die, but rather to make sure i have a good seat to watch and observe humanities response.

I guess it depends on the size, composition ..velocity ..basically it would depend on the likely end result.

If its a full 100% ELE (for ALL life), then it wouldnt really matter, but something more akin to past ELEs, i'd be very interested in observing the aftermath.

Remember that even a 100% ELE in most likelihoods would not be an instant erasure of life, but would put events in motion resulting in the rapid die out of life (rapid earth history time scale)

 

On the topic of wanting to know when one is going to die, there are arguments both for and against. I see one above being that you couldnt enjoy anything if u know ur about to die, i'd argue the opposite can also be true.

Knowing that you have little to no reason to worry about repercussion would be incredibly freeing for some. You could do anything u like, throw all the rules out the window so to speak. You could even argue, that at that moment a person could feel more alive than they ever could be not knowing the circumstances of their death.

For me, yes i'd most certainly want to know the details of my death.

Ah, popcorn muncher, gotcha.

 

Say, any chance you'd be willing to save me a seat, and some popcorn? I'd love a front-row seat as well to watch the ants flail in a futile manner before going 'squish'.

[Rym]

Yes.

 

There is no need to panic in knowing the date when the world will end. There is panic in the fear of the unknown, and shock.

 

Knowing that an asteroid would destroy the planet at a certain date is much more calming to me than the shock of simply seeing it happen randomly one day with no preparation.

 

 

I always find it so funny when people go mental in the face of certain death on a certain date. They start rampaging through the streets stealing and hoarding stuff...what for? You'll be dead very soon anyway, why go down in flames causing misery and suffering in your wake or confusion and terror when you could go calmly together with your loved ones?

[jones177]

When I was about 12 years old I was staying at a summer rental cottage(in the winter) in a resort town beside lake Huron called Grand Bend in Canada.

One evening my family was driving back from Sarnia after visiting friends and just a few miles out from Grand Bend the sky lit up as bright as day. It was 11 o'clock at night.  My Father said he thought the the Russians had bombed the US so He drove to the beach to see the mushroom clouds. I thought it was aliens.  In the 10 minutes it took us get to the beach the sky was still bright but fading and I could see the long wide trail in the sky. 

Later we learned that an asteroid about as big as a house had landed in the lake. 

 

I live near the Ocean at about 32 feet above sea level(9.7 meters) so if it lands in the Atlantic I am dead.  I will want to see it coming so It will be off to the beach for me.