Inspired by the " you have 10 minutes left to live…" thread…
You know for sure that earth will be hit by massive astreroids in next 15 hours, and it has been concluded that resulting tidal waves, ashes,quakes … will kill all life in earth in subsequent 9 hours…
So you have 24 hours left to enjoy life…
No, you don’t have a rocket to escape from earth ( where will you go , by the way ) How will you spend your last 24 hours ??
I assuming that if this scenario did happen, transportation (air travel, train, etc) would all come to a grinding halt, so going home (2000 miles away) is out of the question. I’d probably get together with some of my closest friends and just drink some beer and talk… not much else to do really.
Heroin. I’m going to go score and shoot up heroin for the first and last time ever. It’s been described to me as feeling like a full body orgasm, and I gotta try that once. (My current plan is to wait until I’m diagnosed with an incurable illness or I hit 90 years old; either way I won’t care much if I become an addict.)
Honestly, I’m not sure I’d *want *to be around friends and family. We’d probably make each other feel worse - more terrified and more sad - than if we each just wandered off into the woods and hugged a tree in solitude.
I see a cafeteria, 3 Heathers and a Veronica talking about a lunchtime poll, and some nerdy guys saying, “Holy shit, Heather number 1 just looked right at me!” but I digress…
I’d just cuddle up with my baby, drink a lot of wine, and finish with a bang!
Pray, hug my sons tight and tell them how much I love them, call my parents and sisters and tell them the same, make love with my wife, start a SDMB thread, “I Pit the End of the World!!!”, and write one last check to the Democratic National Committee.
Having been a teetoatling vegetarian for decades, I’d start with a case of wine coolers and an English mixed grill. Then ham & pineapple and wine. Then deep fried turkey skin and more wine. Then Irish coffee.
Realistically, I’d probably spend at least the first 6-12 hours desperately trying to figure out some infinitesimally small chanced strategy that would result in my family and I surviving the catastrophe. If I went into such-and-such a basement or cave, or such-and-such a mountain top, with so much supplies and some weapons, etc.