If everybody knew they had just 3 years left, I think your visit to Vegas, etc., might be a little disrupted. If you were the only person who knew, well that’d be different.
If I was teh only one with a clue, I’d quit my job & enjoy the heck out of the time remaining.
Not exactly asked for by the OP, but I couldn’t resist.
Astronomers discover a HUGE asteroId on a direct collision course to Earth, due to hit tomorrow at 5:00 PM Eastern time. Newspapers report using headlines thusly.
New York Times
WORLD TO END TOMORROW AFTERNOON. DETAILS ON PAGE 38
Wall Street Journal
WORLD TO END TOMORROW AFTERNOON. MARKETS TO CLOSE EARLY
Washington Post
WORLD TO END TOMORROW AFTERNOON. WOMEN AND MINORITIES HIT HARDEST
Yup. I mean, if I know for sure–quit my job, cash in all my 401(K)s and IRAs and all the rest of that–early withdrawal penalties be damned–I should certainly have enough to live comfortably on for three years.
Travel maybe. See as much of the world as I can, before it ends.
Or just indulge in pure hedonism. Or maybe both; compile the definitive Final Guidebook to All the World’s Hookers and Blow of Planet Earth.
(hey, it wasn’t me who started this hijack…)
okay, so let’s ask what would [should?] the astronomers do, once they discover this asteroid?
Let’s say that after tracking the asteroid for a year, they have enough data to prove that the asteroid will hit earth on Winter Solstice 12/2012. (don’t accuse me of not reading the OP )
Should they announce it to the public?
Destruction is inevitable…
Obama is president…but Bruce Willis is retired, living in an old age home for ex-actors, confined to a wheel chair .