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What if NASA announced tomorrow that in one year, Earth will be hit by an asteroid that can’t be stopped, and will kill all life on the planet?
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In the US, a significant part of the country would believe it’s a hoax like COVID. Even if they could see it with their naked eye the asteroid hurling towards us.
I would adjust your question to a month, or a week till impact. 12 months is way too much time to give us to deflect it successfully, even with that size. Besides, using current technology, it’s impossible to detect an asteroid that far away from Earth in the first place.
But if we all had a week to live, I’d probably find the most attractive woman near me, and steal a boat with her. We could avoid the societal collapse, and spend the last few days getting pirate drunk, and fucking each other in the sun until we saw Armageddon.
we’d still have to work overtime
I would look forward to meeting God, and having every question I have ever had, answered.
The probability of them announcing it a year before is slim to none. That would cause panic and lawlessness.
Theyd send up as much material and man power they could to space. Maybe even a moon base.
The elites not in space get in bunkers and try to ride it out.
The rest of us would be fucked.
I’ve accepted my fate either way, if it ends, well, I’d do my best to live out my life beforehand, if doesn’t, well, I’ve already lived my life to its fullest, done what i wanted, could die happily anyways
“Thank God this is finally over. Time to re-set”
Apparently it will be about the crew of the mission to Mars or something like that.
time to exercise the bucket list? in reality society would collapse, what is the point of working when you know you will be dead in a year? I’d probably try to spend more time with my family
My first thought was that we need to find Bruce Willis, a rocket, and a giant screw but then I remembered he has dementia now 😭. I guess I’d go chill at the beach until we all died.
In reality, I think it would play out exactly like the movie Melancholia
I’m getting a whole bunch of credit cards and spending them like tomorrow doesn’t matter and hope that no one stops the asteroid or I’ll be messed over
The movie ‘Don’t look up’ depicted what would happen.100% accurately.
NASA organises tabletop exercises regularly to simulate this type of scenario. But since it’s based on reality and not fiction, it simulates a much smaller impact producing airbursts capable of destroying a large city. Reality is boring, sorry.
Thankfully, a life ending impact will not happen over the next few centuries. And in the infinitesimal chance it does, we’d probably use up all of resources and money into trying to do something about it. At worse we take a huge gamble and throw all our nuclear warheads at it to reduce it into smaller fragments that could either be deflected or result in localized damage.
If we hadn’t spotted Matilda several decades before it was to hit, we’d deserve it.
I’d have to think hard about which Warhammer models to try and finish painting.
I’d be relieved I don’t have to work until 70.
I don’t think they’d warn us, I think they’d try to keep it hidden for as long as possible until amateur astrologists notice it and then we’d here rumors. Then when the people start asking they’ll say their calculations say that it will be close but miss us. They’d want to keep people calm until the very end.
There’s a couple people I’d take out before the asteroid.
I wouldn’t move forward with my family planning. I’d start crying now about all the things I worked for and didn’t get to achieve. I would drink all the polluted water directly from the river and float away into the deepest goodnight.
Another reason regardless of political ideology stock up on guns and ammo…
Trump would declare himself The President of the Asteroid.