Tell the world the end is nigh?

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

I'd only tell some scientists, and hope we could escape the asteroid by going into an underground bunker or something. Perhaps I could forward it to the news or something, so there would be survivors to help me and my scientist friends.

[Drewcifer]

It would probably take more than two hours to arrange the information in a format that would make your findings believable. If you just run into CNN shouting "We're all gonna dieeeeee!!!!", nobody would believe you.

True. 2-4 hours isn't enough time for anyone to believe you, I suppose. My thinking was a time-frame that would be too short to stop the asteroid. Maybe a time frame of a few days, say 72 hours, would have made for a better question?

Its better to spend your remaining time doing something creative: like driving a bulldozer through a Ferrari car lot (while screaming "We're all gonna dieeeee!!!" of course).

Or, something dramatic like: climb a big mountain and shake your fist at the asteroid while shouting "Best death ever!"

and !!

RE: Planet-killer
Yeah, that would be a big rock. I was thinking along the lines of "mass extinction event", rather than ripping the earth in two but I should have been clearer.

RE: my answer
I originally thought that I would tell the world, but after thinking about it more, I would most likely keep silent, getting in touch with the people I love, and maybe drive a (stolen) tank through a few car lots

If the ETA was longer though, say a week or two, I think I would feel a responsibility to tell the world though -- chaos inducing as it probably would be -- just so maybe there would be chance that some of us would survive, to save as much information and culture as possible, and also because it would just seem like the right thing to do, to tell the world.

[Darth Yoshi]

Tell the world. Watch panic ensue. Have a beer.

But...then the fundies will feel vindicated.

[Enricko]

Forget about the World!
Forget about loved ones and parents!

I'll just buy as much weed as I can and a whole case of tequila and
waste my last few hours in brothel making the widest java you'll ever
see (you'll die anyway).

Smoke those feet long cigars.

Rio de Janeiro power ten!

And probably die in my own puke a couple of hours before the End (by
then, everyone would have seen the Asteroid, and the party would be over).

*by the way who has seen the movie "On the Beach"?)

[Alyrium Denryle]

Considering that in an ideal situation I will be living in Germany, I will book a flight to Swizerland, and hide in a bunker, Taking as many books as possible with me.(herpetologist, amatuer astronomer ) That way, If I survive, I will be the most educated man on earth(or close to it) and as such will enjoy the position of leader in the post apocalyptic(sp) world

[Tom_Aurum]

I know where you can steal a tank in the neighborhood too. Just a pair of bolt clippers and... quickly into the jaws of the local police after a five minute joyride. Only at the end of the world would it be worth it. Really however, the military needs better security on their hardware... <sighs>.

[The Janitor]

I would of course go out on that insane killing spree I’ve always been dreaming of.

As the cops would kill me about three minutes after I'd leave a strange hybrid of both options behind me....

“Why did he kill those people?”
He once said to me he’d only do it if he could absolutely get away with it officer.

3 hours later…

“I don’t know sir I just don’t get it. The whole case is plain bizza…(BOOOOOOOOM)…..

[Enricko]

One thing nobody had thought before.

Go to Skywalker Ranch and ask Georges nicely (with a BFG) to give us the script of Episode 3, read it, then kill him for not showing in the movie Anakin killing/torturing Jar Jar Binks as he should...