Dealing with the end of the world

[Tee Kay]

I'm sorry if a thread similar to this had been posted before, but consider this scenerio:

Yesterday you (yes, you) had , through years of war and diplomacy, gain total control over the whole world. Today a horde of astronomers burst into the White House (His Imperial Majesty's residence number 1348), informing you that because of a freak accident involving the testing of a bomb by an alien civilization somewhere in the vicinity of Alpha Centuri, the moon is on a collision course with planet Earth. As leader of Earth, what would you do?
Would you ? Would you ? Would you have one last , or would you rather play one last game of ? Would you say to your people that everything is going to be , or :thumbdown: or would you .

You have one week until the end of the world.

(Personally I would try to contact the Alpha Centaurians and ask if they could do anything to help us. Still, it will take at least almost 5 years for us to receive any material support)

 

[Abaddon]

well, have 5 days trying to work out a solution.
6th day, plan the party
7th day, P-A-R-T-Y!

 

[Corlindale]

Head down to the Kennedy Space Center with friends and relatives, and tell the people there that they REALLY need to get that Space Program up and running again, and preferably pretty fast.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

because of a freak accident involving the testing of a bomb by an alien civilization somewhere in the vicinity of Alpha Centuri, the moon is on a collision course with planet Earth. As leader of Earth, what would you do?

I'd do nothing. Any explosion that powerful is so improbable that you might as well ask "what if Pi were 3.2 and circles stopped being round and cars couldn't drive and wheels couldn't roll anymore?".

 

[IglooDame]

Head down to the Kennedy Space Center with friends and relatives, and tell the people there that they REALLY need to get that Space Program up and running again, and preferably pretty fast.

Bingo.

 

[Elrohir]

Well, considering that any explosion from 4 lightyears away that would still be powerful enough to knock the moon out of orbit would probably do the same to the Earth. An impact large enough to knock the Earth like that would probably kill everyone and destroy every building and glacier on Earth. (Well, the guys in the Cheyanne Mountain Complex are buried underneath a mountain on giant springs. They might survive long enough to die by Moon)

 

[warpus]

I would send the secret service after Jessica Alba - and have my way with her when she was delivered to me. After that - I could care less what happens.

 

[downwithgravity]

I would start up a drug habit, most likely.

 

[Perfection]

I'd loot all I can get into my spacecraft and return to my homeworld.

 

[Pyrite]

Candyflip 3 days, do dope the other 4.

 

[Perfection]

Candyflip?

 

[El_Machinae]

I'd shuttle people off of the planet, and recall the mining fleet to take advantage of all the goodies inside Earth.

What?

By the time I am running the planet "after years of diplomacy and war" - I'm pretty sure I'd have us space-worthy, as a species, by then.

 

[Raisin Bran]

I would make the world plunder into extreme anarchy by telling them that laws dont exist no more.

Right after that announcement I would get a ton of women to go and party with me at the exact place where the moon is going to hit the earth. (I'll have fun before dying and Ill be the first one to die and let the survivors eat each other.)

 

[Narz]

I'd loot all I can get into my spacecraft and return to my homeworld.

And what world would that be?

 

[Yuri2356]

(I'll have fun before dying and Ill be the first one to die and let the survivors eat each other.)

If the freakin' moon hit the Earth, there wouldn't be any survivors to canabalize.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

well, have 5 days trying to work out a solution.
6th day, plan the party
7th day, P-A-R-T-Y!

Sod that.

1st Day: Start party
7th Day: End party. Abruptly.

 

[skadistic]

Candyflip?

MDNA + LSD.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Id try to distract the nation from its terrible fate by reciting Carlins 'seven dirty words' during a prime time address to the nation on the day before The End.

 

[Perfection]

And what world would that be?

I call it "Perfiworld"

 

[Dreadnought]

Party

Or try to stop the thing with a set of ICBMs