# Cosmic Collision: What would you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011 "2000-11-20T19:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/21 "2000-11-21T10:32:03Z")
Cancel the order I put in for my Tug-Ahoy. With only a week left, what’s the point? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/22 "2000-11-21T11:19:35Z")
I would visit prostitutes and then gorge myself on Krispy Kreme donuts while sitting on the beach listening to the Stray Cats. ---
**Author:** ![SkinnyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@SkinnyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkinnyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/23 "2000-11-21T11:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quasar \* > **----A tsunami, possible several kilometers in height, devastates the Eastern US Coast.** And this is a bad thing? :: ducks and runs :: ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/24 "2000-11-21T12:39:08Z")
No, Skinny, it isn’t. The entire wipe-out of the European West Coast migth be considered inopportune, though 😉 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/25 "2000-11-21T13:40:20Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by quasar \* \*\ ***Chronos** said: > [@](#): > > ----A tsunami, possible several kilometers in height… > > ----Reentering ejecta raises the global temperature above the threshold for global forest ignition… > > ----Volcanism, earthquakes, This could go for millennia. > > ----300 mile/hour winds. > > —Crops obliterated. > > ----Sizeable fragment of the population dead. > > ----Civilization destroyed. > \*\* So I could expect frequent interruptions in my cable TV service, then? Damn. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/26 "2000-11-21T13:55:42Z")
I would go long in plankton. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/27 "2000-11-21T14:13:35Z")
_ahem_ To quote Robert Heinlein… “SEND ME HOORS! T’HOUSANDS AND T’OUSANDS OF HOORS! I MARRY 'EM, I BETCHA!” Was most sensible thing said all afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/28 "2000-11-21T14:19:13Z")
I think I would make peace with certain people, then try to get a piece from certain people. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![idiotb0x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@idiotb0x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotb0x)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/29 "2000-11-21T16:41:53Z")
How’s this for a plan? You calculate where the asteroid will land, (ocean or no) and then swim down to the bottom and start digging a big asteroid shaped hole through the earth. If you carry on through to the other side, then the asteroid will pass straight through. I can’t see any problems with a plan like that. Failing that, I guess whores and drugs it is… ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/30 "2000-11-21T17:09:46Z")
I suggest that we build a giant slide so that the asteroid goes around the planet while having fun at the same time. Either that or assemble everybody together in the Atlantic Ocean to scream at the same time, creating a force of sonic energy to repell the asteroid. ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/31 "2000-11-21T17:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drain Bead \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Hookers and dope dealers take Visa? > > That, my friend, is why God created cash advances. \*\* _points and smiles_ You know me too well! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/32 "2000-11-21T19:25:34Z")
What? No one suggesting we spend 1 day in a DoperOrgyFest, meeting all the people we know electronically in the \* ahem \* flesh? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/33 "2000-11-21T19:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > \*\*What? No one suggesting we spend 1 day in a DoperOrgyFest, meeting all the people we know electronically in the \* ahem \* flesh? > \*\* Nah, lurker. We were saving that one for you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/34 "2000-11-21T20:02:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by struuter \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > > \*\*What? No one suggesting we spend 1 day in a DoperOrgyFest, meeting all the people we know electronically in the \* ahem \* flesh? > > \*\* > > Nah, lurker. We were saving that one for you. 😃 \*\* Yeah, but I KNOW you were thinking it, Struuter - I remember the pillow fight thread… ---
**Author:** ![maidenunicorn41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maidenunicorn41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maidenunicorn41)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/35 "2000-11-21T20:42:33Z")
Count me in on the DoperOrgyFest,lets get nekkid!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011/36 "2000-11-21T20:46:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lurkernomore \* > > I remember the pillow fight thread… \*\* Sssssshhhhhhhhh… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cosmic-collision-what-would-you-do/42011.md?page=1)