# What event would we all celebrate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 17, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200 "2013-06-17T18:49:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/21 "2013-06-18T02:29:42Z")
Multiple simultaneous orgasms. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/22 "2013-06-18T02:37:24Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > The kind of extreme joy that causes people to drop what they’re doing and spontaneously run to the streets can only occur after a long period of extreme hardship. In addition, it would have to be a “singular moment” where a victory is clearly defined. An armistice signed after a long war could cause that kind of joy in the victorious countries. Wiping out a disease likely wouldn’t because eradication would be gradual and by the time victory is clear the odds of a spontaneous celebration are much less likely. This is the best serious answer. So, if we manage to deflect the asteroid that’s on a collision course with Earth, that might do it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/23 "2013-06-18T03:13:17Z")
Several years ago, some of the scientists at NASA gave a news conference, discussing the possibility that there had once been life on Mars. To me, even the possibility was a huge event. Like many other people I was glued to the TV. My cousin complained that NASA was pre-empting her soap operas. Even if there were actual Martians landing on the White House roof, some people would be missing their soap operas. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/24 "2013-06-18T19:08:26Z")
When I am installed as Supreme Emperor of the Earth there will be great and jubilant celebrations all over the world. I will command it to be so. They will last until I grow weary of the bother. Then it’s back to work for you peons. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/25 "2013-06-18T19:29:10Z")
What about the Singularity, with the end result being an altruistic artificial intelligence that immediately begins work on making the world a better place (desalination plants, air pollution scrubbers, desert reclaimation, clean energy, etc.)? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/26 "2013-06-18T19:41:07Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > When I am installed as Supreme Emperor of the Earth there will be great and jubilant celebrations all over the world. I will command it to be so. They will last until I grow weary of the bother. Then it’s back to work for you peons. I for one welcome our benevolent Georgian overlord. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/27 "2013-06-18T20:42:36Z")
Ooo! I’ve got it - a direct subway line from NYC to LaGuardia and JFK Airports. …Naw, the cabbies wouldn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/28 "2013-06-19T13:10:21Z")
How about a Replacements reunion? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/29 "2013-06-19T15:07:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I for one welcome our benevolent Georgian overlord. Yes…benevolent…that’s it. When I am S.E.E., there will be an evil smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/30 "2013-06-19T15:19:00Z")
An inexpensive, safe and small-scale cold fusion-based generator. Optimally, it would be fuelled by a natural, organic digestive process based on ingesting boy bands, country pop stars, vapid non-news hosts hosting news programs, and the tears of my enemies. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200/31 "2013-06-19T15:19:44Z")
I am thinking maybe a vaccine or a cure for cancer or the discovery of friendly extraterrestial life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-event-would-we-all-celebrate/661200.md?page=1)