# The World WILL end 12 / 2012, What do you do tommorow? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704 "2009-05-17T02:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/1 "2009-05-17T02:16:01Z")
Winter’s Solstice 2012 is the new Y2K. A lot of people are getting out their “The End is Near” signs. It makes me wonder. One of these days, the World will end. It might not be 2012, but let’s assume for argument it will. What will you do tommorow, that you are not currently doing? I am currently Unemployed, but thankfully, I still have some money in the markets. I would take a Cruise, Hit Japan and Las Vegas. What would you do, knowing that you have just over 3 years left? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/2 "2009-05-17T02:48:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/3 "2009-05-17T03:14:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > 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. Good Call. \*\* You are the only one that knows the world will end in 3 years. What do you do tomorrow? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/4 "2009-05-17T05:13:23Z")
Have as much unprotected sex as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/5 "2009-05-17T16:27:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/6 "2009-05-17T16:48:52Z")
Here’s what I’ll do tomorrow: Stop worrying about creating a sustainable financial future for myself. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/7 "2009-05-17T17:15:18Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Here’s what I’ll do tomorrow: > > Stop worrying about creating a sustainable financial future for myself. 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_. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-will-end-12-2012-what-do-you-do-tommorow/496704/8 "2009-05-17T17:31:48Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > 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. (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 . What happens next?