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And you have 20 minutes to live and knew it. What would you do in that 20 minutes?
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20 minutes? We'd likely all know for years and years.
Depends - am I alone or with people when I hear this news? I mean if I was on the subway or in the tub or in an airplane that would change things.
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So my guess is that you'd spend that time discussing with yourself what to do. As far as having known for year and years. Yes. but I am saying the last 20 minutes of your life .. if you knew, what would you do.
This is hypothetical. Not meant to be taken too seriously.
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I think he is saying there is no way an asteroid would just show up one day 20 minutes to impact. We would know about it for quite some time beforehand.
As to your hypothetical question: I guess I would try to tell all my loved ones that I love them. Not much you can do in 20 minutes really.
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Originally Posted by cybergoober
I think he is saying there is no way an asteroid would just show up one day 20 minutes to impact. We would know about it for quite some time beforehand.
Right. But even then there would be that last 20 minutes that you had before hitting the earth.
As to your hypothetical question: I guess I would try to tell all my loved ones that I love them. Not much you can do in 20 minutes really.
That is why I made it a short time. To see what kind of creative comments I would get.
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Watch all of the other people over-reacting. Maybe ask if anyone I saw wanted consoling.
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Well, if we knew years in advance I would have told everyone that I love them, etc. So…
I reckon I'd get a 12 pack of beer and a lawn chair, then just watch and wait. *shrugs*
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Find the best spot to watch it come in and bring my loved ones with me. Beer and lawn chair sounds about right. It would be quite a sight! Wouldn't miss it for the world.... Hmmph.
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i'm with cybergoober on this one actually. i have a place here in boston i would just love and sit to watch the sucker come in. and another if i were in california.
*you should have backed the thread title editing idea
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And you have 20 minutes to live and knew it. What would you do in that 20 minutes?
I'd say a prayer then call a heroin dealer (are they in the Yellow Pages under "Heroin"?) and tell him to stop on by for the biggest sale of his life. Then, I'd call my far flung loved ones and exchange good-byes. I'd buy some heroin, crack, meth and pot from the guy and invite my pretty neighbor over for a party and offer her a choice of liquers, foods or illegal intoxicants. I'd tell her we had 10 minutes and if she refused or took too much time to decide I'd bid her well and say good-bye to this world in solitude, finding out why smack is so seductive.
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I'd enjoy one of my fine Nicaraguan cigars.
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I would put my lovely dogs to sleep, and then play some Asteroids until I sleep myself or it is game over…
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I would call up Bruce Willis. Duh.
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Originally Posted by cybergoober
I think he is saying there is no way an asteroid would just show up one day 20 minutes to impact. We would know about it for quite some time beforehand.
So just how would they know it was on its way? What if they weren't looking the right way? I mean, even a little ball of dirt could do a lot of damage.
I mean, it's not like the Tunguska object sent an e-mail before it made a ****ing house-call.
Fair enough, it was a while ago, but all the same...
And it's "an" asteroid, not "a" asteroid. Christ. Reading that here is even more disturbing that the idea of worrying about getting wiped out by an interplanetary dingleberry.
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20 minutes? That's a bit of a stretch. I'm intent on seeing the end of the world from a certain spot in North Sydney, and hell if I can get there in standard traffic in 20 minutes, let alone during armageddon... and that's without even having time to pick up some cold beer and an esky, my iPod with Symphony X primed, my mates and some hotties.
Ah, and of course the whole family thing.
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easy one. Hold my son, smell his hair, and give him the biggest bowl of ice cream he's ever seen.
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Originally Posted by angelmb
I would put my lovely dogs to sleep, and then play some Asteroids until I sleep myself or it is game over…
Ah...irony.
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I would sit out on the porch with a few beers and watch everybody else go nuts.
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Originally Posted by PER3
So just how would they know it was on its way? What if they weren't looking the right way? I mean, even a little ball of dirt could do a lot of damage.
I mean, it's not like the Tunguska object sent an e-mail before it made a ****ing house-call.
Fair enough, it was a while ago, but all the same...
And it's "an" asteroid, not "a" asteroid. Christ. Reading that here is even more disturbing that the idea of worrying about getting wiped out by an interplanetary dingleberry.
A little ball of dirt would disintegrate upon entry of our atmosphere. There are astronomers monitoring the objects in the vicinity, plotting their trajectories. Also, It would take an object of considerable size to wipe us out so, yes we would know about it for quite some time*.
*The scientists and our governments would know about it, at least. Whether or not they decided to share that information with us right away is another issue altogether. Even so, an object of that size would be observable by amateurs as well, so… yeah I reckon we'd know.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I would sit out on the porch with a few beers and watch everybody else got nuts.
You’d sit around watching everybody else’s nuts?!?
Well, to each his own...
I’d probably go make a thread about it on MacNN.
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Originally Posted by cybergoober
*The scientists and our governments would know about it, at least. Whether or not they decided to share that information with us right away is another issue altogether. Even so, an object of that size would be observable by amateurs as well, so… yeah I reckon we'd know.
thought of this line from armageddon when i read your post
"President: We didn't see this thing coming?
Dan: Well, our object collison budget's about a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky."
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Originally Posted by Cipher13
20 minutes? That's a bit of a stretch. I'm intent on seeing the end of the world from a certain spot in North Sydney, and hell if I can get there in standard traffic in 20 minutes, let alone during armageddon... and that's without even having time to pick up some cold beer and an esky, my iPod with Symphony X primed, my mates and some hotties.
Ah, and of course the whole family thing.
Hahaha, Symphony X would be brilliant. Which album do you suppose would be the most fitting? Paradise Lost might work, especially the song "Set the World on Fire."
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I’d probably go interject a grammar critique on MacNN.
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I'd gather my 4-year old son and my 6-year-old daughter in my arms, point to the sky and say "Look, kids...Santa's coming!" Then I'd laugh.
Actually I have no offspring.
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Originally Posted by paul w
To thine own self be true! </polonius>
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I'd call my Mother in Law and say, "see, it did not matter that I was not a MD, or lawyer after all." Then I wold laugh twice and hang up.
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Originally Posted by RobOnTheCape
easy one. Hold my son, smell his hair, and give him the biggest bowl of ice cream he's ever seen.
That is just . . . beautiful.
As for me, I would grab some beer, or a nice bottle of wine if I had one, sit someplace outdoors, and watch the show.
(I would want to do the whole called-the-loved-ones thing but I am assuming all communication channels would be overloaded. And they know anyways that I love them. Although there is this one woman who has captured my heart, I might try and call her . . . )
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Originally Posted by BlueSky
I'd gather my 4-year old son and my 6-year-old daughter in my arms, point to the sky and say "Look, kids...Santa's coming!" Then I'd laugh.
Actually I have no offspring.
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Originally Posted by cybergoober
Hahaha, Symphony X would be brilliant. Which album do you suppose would be the most fitting? Paradise Lost might work, especially the song "Set the World on Fire."
That'd definitely be fitting, though if it came down to it, I'd have to listen to V: The New Mythology Suite in it's entirety, along with Of Sins and Shadows, Candlelight Fantasia, and of course, The Divine Wings of Tragedy.
Music to live to, and music to die to. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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i think a beer and some friends would be all i want.
its funny...i had a dream about that the other night.
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Originally Posted by PER3
I mean, it's not like the Tunguska object sent an e-mail before it made a ****ing house-call.
We have slightly better technology than we did in 1908. We know where the objects out there are now and which direction they're heading.
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I would put on my scuba gear and hope that my tanks where full with the right mix of gas for an extended underwater stay
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Originally Posted by PER3
And it's "an" asteroid, not "a" asteroid. Christ. Reading that here is even more disturbing that the idea of worrying about getting wiped out by an interplanetary dingleberry.
Commenting on a typo is one thing. Criticizing the whole bloody forum for one typo in a title is just over the top. I'll point out that users cannot edit their own titles after a fairly short period of time, so a missed typo in a title is not that uncommon. And not a big deal.
As for me, I'd go about a mile from where I am right now and be with my wife where she is right now. I'd call my son on the way and tell him I love him, and probably call my dad, brother and sister and tell them the same-if I had time.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Commenting on a typo is one thing. Criticizing the whole bloody forum for one typo in a title is just over the top. I'll point out that users cannot edit their own titles after a fairly short period of time, so a missed typo in a title is not that uncommon. And not a big deal.
Ah well some people have pet peeves of grammar mistakes. I can't fault that for that.
I have my own Idiosyncrasies. But yeah, belittling a person, or a forum over such things, and comparing them to ultimate doom is going a bit over the top.
I've heard/read some pretty bad things coming out of the mouths of "known scholars"
It just proves we are human. We make mistakes. Some forum topic mistakes become infamous as well! (The screenshot one)
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Pre-asteroid sex is better than make-up sex.
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I’d probably go make a thread about it on MacNN.
OMG!!! Teh world is down!!!!1
I'd phone my friends and family, tell them that I had a good time with them, appreciate them, and tell one in particular that we're about to find out who was correct about what happens when you die.
After that, I'd probably sit around reminiscing on life, watch people freaking out like it'll help, and wait.
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I'd try to get 'Last Post' on Slashdot.
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Listen to "if I give my soul" by Johnny Cash one more time.
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I'd try to get 'Last Post' on Slashdot.
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bang the woman next door and her sisters and my wife and her sister, oh wait, only 20 minutes, my wife and her sister
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