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99942 Apophis



Oh, think of the raging parties


If it came to pass that you KNEW the earth was about to be impacted... how would you spend your time?

Would you assume that you are going to survive and make emergency preparation? or would you assume that it's the end and start looting and pillaging? Will you light some candles with the one you love and have great end-of-the-world sex?

I'm thinking for me, alittle of each.

Just for the hell of it, I'd probably set off for the ends of the Earth. Somewhere obscenely remote and as far from the impact zone as possible.
Might not survive, but I'd sure as hell try.

yeah, that's another thing I didn;t think about

THIN KABOUT THE CHILDREN!!

Would you tell them waht's going on?

Head for the hills.

As much as I may enjoy some looting, pillaging and anarchy, I'm sure there's larger and better armed people out there who enjoy it more. At my expense.

head for the hills as well. I figure if there is even a slight chance of survivng, I'd do what I could to keep my family as safe as possible.

Considering looting and pillaging seems a bit of a troublesome topic when it comes to the end of the world.

If you start having people do so when you only have a few years left, you could end up with just a lot of garbage laying around for the last year or two and no farmers trying to bring up more livestock and general food stuffs leaving people in a fairly depressing state. Plus if you try looting a big plasma screen TV and find that the TV stations have stopped airing anything because they've had all their equipment stolen, it could be a bit annoying.

If you do start looting too late then you could find that you don't have enough time to enjoy the things you've looted, which would also be a shame.

So a happy median could be to simply start doing petty shoplifting from now til the end so you can at least curb some of your costs in life and afford some of the nicer bits you would've just gone looting for.

Though I suppose we could always go for some sort of mad max route in the end, enjoying what petro is left or whatnot.

I'd finally get laid, because you know we're all screwed.

I like to think of myself as fairly intelligent and resourceful. And capable of reading a survival guide and with some basic knowledge in horticulture. But I doubt I'm barely ahead of the curve if at all.

So... question! You're thrown out into the wilderness with no hopes of locating civilization ever again. Assume you have the clothes on your back, the location is temperate (i.e. you get all four seasons), wooded, and it's the dawn of spring when you get ditched so you have about 6-7 months to get your act together before it starts getting nasty out there. Because I'm a hell of a guy, you get a survival knife, a camping cook set, 50' nylon rope, 100 waterproof matches and a new pair of hiking boots as well.

How long would you live? I'm giving myself a 60% chance to see my next March 1st.

Edit: Gave you a hundred matches as well. Thank me later

Edited, Tue Apr 4 16:47:00 2006 by Jophiel

Sex while looting.

River Otter will f[black][/black]uck your **** up. They're vicious creations of the Devil. Never trust an animal that can do human things with it's paws, that's just creepy.

Edited, Tue Apr 4 17:02:08 2006 by Buffyisagoddess