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How would human society actually react to the discovery of a very large incoming asteroid? (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cosecantphi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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For purpose of discussion, assume that due to bad luck, this asteroid has evaded the detection of all amateur and professional astronomers until about six months from impact. The asteroid is too large to deflect with humanity's current spacefaring capabilities, and the general scientific consensus is that the impact will end all multicellular life on Earth.

What do those six months look like?

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[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Doomsday cults, mass death, and just an absolutely wild amount of grifting. Meteor insurance, meteor bunkers, meteor resistance pills, a piece of meteorite you keep in your body to synchronize your entheic pattern with the asteroid.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

absolutely wild amount of grifting

I don't know why but this really speaks to me as realistic.

meteor resistance pills

There'll be whole ass cults of people who think they are vaporization proof because they're just built different, denying all mortality right until the end

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Some people wanna grift money until there is no more civilization for the money

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Who’s gonna be selling meteor insurance though? At that point all the CEOs will have said fuck you all and head to new zeland, leaving behind all the grunts