The world ends in a week(a what if?)

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2006-06-13 10:57am

Weird. Yeah, he actually means for the people to die from the asteroid, even though it's possible to survive. Well, then...

I'd just have sex and fun. And try to leave some sort of legacy mail for possible survivors.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2006-06-13 11:27am

Even if you could survive, are you sure you would want to?

I'm sure I would. Hell, I'd cling to life at all costs.

The world would be a very, very different place.

Sure, it would, however, I'm a Russian nature tourist and I have a company of people who are very, very adept at survivalism. I used to be a Russian hobo for some time, so urban survivalism and casual banditism are also known.

Large scale industry, transportation and agriculture would likely cease to exist.

Yeah, a Mad Max-Fallout world. So? Actually, I'd be happy to live as a hermit in the wild, with a company of positively survivalist male and female companions.

Of course, someone with zero skills and zero experience of extreme conditions like extreme cold (-40 Celcius and below, which we experience almost every winter save the abnormally warm ones) and wild life... he might prefer to die.

However, I believe living through is a duty for humanity.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2006-06-13 12:34pm

Stas Bush wrote:Hmm... fatalism seems to be everywhere. Don't you guys even want to try to outlive it?

I mean, it's a giant asteroid, not a planetoid, and thus is probably somewhere in the dino killer level. Effects also depend on the location of impact.

It can't deal enough damage to wipe out life completely, so... why die?

The problem is, a K-T level impact will throw a large amount of debris into space on ballistic trajectories. Sure, if you're nowhere near the impact site when the asteroid first hits, you'll survive, though you'd definitely hear it. And possibly nothing else ever again (given the paltry 200 MT blast of Krakatoa was distinctly audible as far west as the Australian outback.)

The problem comes when all that rock and debris the asteroid kicked up into space comes back down. It would be the Mother of all Meteor Storms, except the friction generated by all that material reentering the atmosphere would temporarily raise atmospheric temperatures to those commonly found in oven elements (literally glowing red-hot.) The only way you'd survive the baking, and the ensuing global firestorm is to be deep underground, or underwater.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2006-06-13 12:41pm

And possibly nothing else ever again

Sound isolation is pretty developed today.

The only way you'd survive the baking, and the ensuing global firestorm is to be deep underground, or underwater.

That's what the underground shelters are for. A week? In the vast space of the former USSR there's so many deep-shelter bunkers and even entire bunker systems as well as entire underground cities, I'd find my way to safety.

KrauserKrauser · Post by **KrauserKrauser** » 2006-06-13 01:12pm

Assuming it was this week?

Fly to Italy and blow my savings and my wad with my girlfriend.

Any other week?

Fly to Italy and blow my savings and my wad with my girlfriend.

Mr. T · Post by **Mr. T** » 2006-06-13 01:39pm

If everyone in the world knew it was ending in a week anarchy would follow soon after. It would be a free for all basically as presumably hardly anyone would go to work (policemen, your boss, store sales people, everyone), so just about everything would cease to function, the old rules wouldn't apply. Murders, rapes, and particularely crimes like stealing would all skyrocket.

That being said, what I would do can be summed up with S-E-X

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2006-06-13 03:50pm

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:Find a nice, deep cave. Commandeer it, see if I can survive the atmosphere being heated to 1200 degrees by the debris from the initial impact falling back to Earth. And then die, smug in the knowledge that I was, literally, the last man alive.
I think the guys on the ISS might have you beat.

Unless they somehow get home in the week.
And, come to think of it, people aboard nuclear submarines would also survive the drastic atmospheric heating. Damn. Too bad there's no way to complete nuclear sub training in one week or less.

I'm not so sure that the ISS crew would survive: detritus thrown up by the impact would reach it if it was a K-T level event.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-13 04:46pm

I'd spend every last minute I had with my family, all together.. including my mother, father, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, everyone, including everyone in Cpl Kendall's family!! I'm a big family person so I would at least want to see them all one last time. We'd probably spend lots of time with all our friends as well.

As for what we would do , I dunno, as long as I'm with them that's all that would matter. Sex to me is not that important even though I want it all the time

It's just not one of the things I would think of if I knew myself and everyone around me are all gonna die.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2006-06-13 07:51pm

Okay, just to clarify, an asteroid coming to kill us all was just an example. It could be Earth spontaneously combusts, it could be A Vogon Constructor Fleet, it doesn't matter, the point of it is, what would you do in your last week on Earth?

Kwizard · Post by **Kwizard** » 2006-06-13 08:03pm

Mr. T wrote:If everyone in the world knew it was ending in a week anarchy would follow soon after. It would be a free for all basically as presumably hardly anyone would go to work (policemen, your boss, store sales people, everyone), so just about everything would cease to function, the old rules wouldn't apply. Murders, rapes, and particularely crimes like stealing would all skyrocket.

Total chaos would be guaranteed. I imagine travel of any distance could be pretty difficult too, since everyone would be hitting the roads at about the same time and airline pilots wouldn't have any reason to work. Kind of defeats all these plans of family get-togethers.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2006-06-13 08:06pm

Seriously, I'd want to get laid, then spend the past few days in the company of my family and friends. Then, see if there really is anything after death, or if my fears are true.

Mr. T · Post by **Mr. T** » 2006-06-13 10:22pm

Kwizard wrote:
Mr. T wrote:If everyone in the world knew it was ending in a week anarchy would follow soon after. It would be a free for all basically as presumably hardly anyone would go to work (policemen, your boss, store sales people, everyone), so just about everything would cease to function, the old rules wouldn't apply. Murders, rapes, and particularely crimes like stealing would all skyrocket.
Total chaos would be guaranteed. I imagine travel of any distance could be pretty difficult too, since everyone would be hitting the roads at about the same time and airline pilots wouldn't have any reason to work. Kind of defeats all these plans of family get-togethers.

There, there, cheer up; in the last week of the world there will hopefully be plenty of vagina to be had

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2006-06-13 10:31pm

Go hunting and get drunk with my friends. Then pray and relax. I would then sit back and watch all my favorite movies and read till the end comes.

The Vodka Vindicator · Post by **The Vodka Vindicator** » 2006-06-13 11:02pm

I would provoke some anarchy

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-14 11:51am

Kwizard wrote:
Total chaos would be guaranteed. I imagine travel of any distance could be pretty difficult too, since everyone would be hitting the roads at about the same time and airline pilots wouldn't have any reason to work. Kind of defeats all these plans of family get-togethers.

Not if most of your family lives close by like mine, although the no flights thing would change the fact that we could see Cpl Kendall's family as well

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 2006-06-14 12:32pm

I'd try to outlive it, but I'd have to accomplish several things first, just in case.

I'd want to start my own terrorist organization.

I'd want to convince my girl that with a week left, a fuck or seven is alright.

I'd want to kill Max, Chris, and a douchebag named Damien

Spend at least two hours with the family.

Take over Cheyenne Mountain using terrorist organization (I'd likely fail and die, but whatever)

Stay in NORAD with my girl and my terrorist organization, and wait out the end, hoping vaguely that the shit won't kill us down there.

Travel through the stargate to another world where we aren't all doomed.

What a wanktastically moronic way to spend the last week of my life.

Honestly, I'd probably freak out just like everyone else in the world.

DesertFly · Post by **DesertFly** » 2006-06-14 03:35pm

I think I would feel a sense of calm about it all. I might try to get drunk and have sex, or I might just get ahold of the girl I like, and have her beside me while I kick my heels up and wait for the end.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 2006-06-14 03:49pm

The trouble with all the posts involving spending time with others and whatnot.. others might not be so accomodating. They may have their own shit to work out.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-14 05:13pm

Have as much fun as possible with my best friend/s. Write a summary of how Dark Councilors was going to end (I'm lame

). Draw. Eat cheesecake again. Probably do pot once. Get fucking wasted. Draw more. Quiet contemplation. More getting wasted

.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-14 06:45pm

Zero132132 wrote:The trouble with all the posts involving spending time with others and whatnot.. others might not be so accomodating. They may have their own shit to work out.

You don't know my family, I'm sure all of them would accomodate getting together, hell we'd always be together if we could. We're a large close family and we all love spending time together, I don't see any of us deciding that having sex or whatever was more important than spending time with one another.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2006-06-14 08:38pm

Ah, I'd love to drive around recklessly in my '71 Grand Prix to put myself and that beast to its limits and to pick up girls. I'd have as much unrestricted sex as possible with anyone who's willing (and hot). STD's don't have much time to develop in a week (at least I don't think so...prove me wrong, please) and even if I get a girl pregnant, it's only a week. So at least there is a week of care-free sex in my life before I die. Of course on the last one or two days I would stay with my family...but I'd like to see the asteroid hit too. So I'd watch it come down and atomize us all, perhaps with some sort of liquor to toast to our end.

But that's what I'd like to do. In reality, probably something very different would happen. Something much more restrained and sobering. My family would probably want me to stay together with them and I'd probably feel guilty leaving them to go out and act like a wild asshole.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2006-06-14 10:43pm

Go on a GTA-esque killing spree in several nearby towns. Gotta burn that ammo off, baby.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 2006-06-15 12:54am

Captain tycho wrote:Go on a GTA-esque killing spree in several nearby towns. Gotta burn that ammo off, baby.

HELLS YEAH!!!