04-03-2013, 09:17 PM
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I sleep in your hat
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
But what would YOU do?
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Telephone sanitiser?
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
And if you couldn't get a seat, how would you face being left behind? What would you think? Should at least some humans make it off the planet, and how would you feel then that they are, quite literally, leaving you behind to die? What about a lottery? Would that be fair? And what about the rich scum who are no doubt going to bribe their way onboard?
Would you accept it and let the thing go ahead, or would you riot, try and destroy it, attack people who were chosen? How easy, or not, would it be for you to face death, knowing others are going to live, pretty much at your expense? And if you DID get a place on the ship, how do you think you'd feel, watching your planet explode into gaseous nothingness as you leave?
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I think I would be pretty fatalistic. I would certainly want to make the whole thing easier for my kids. (Of course in 75 years they will be in their eighties and I will be long gone but let's ignore that for now.) If they wanted to go I would do whatever I could to secure their place, if not I would try to help them cope with their impending doom. I imagine an approaching star would make life pretty difficult long before any impact. I do grieve on occasion at the thought of Earth's eventual destruction when our own star burns out. Not so much for me but for life in general. There's just so much amazing life here on Earth it hurts to think how fragile and inconsequential it all is on a cosmic scale.
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