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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:44 PM Original message |
Would the government tell us about an asteroid set to collide with earth? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. They'd tell everyone the day of |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I'd probably just go ahead and take a personal day. |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. You gotta keep working for that health insurance |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Yeah, Emergency Rooms might be busy... nt |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Could they possibly keep the secret? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. The media is going to go to the bunker to |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Tiger would need a whole stadium sized bunker. |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. Academia would spill the beans long before the government even knew of the impending disaster |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. But the deniers would keep everyone in doubt |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The deniers would only keep the doubters in doubt |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I agree |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. If there was a profit in it for them they sure would |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. maybe not, |
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Fledermaus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. No! |
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thecrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. A few years ago, scientists discussed this point... |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. Only Obama supporters. |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. They are telling us by all the rich asses money grabbing in hopes of a flight out. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. You got it. We'd get tipped off by all them helicopters heading for the redoubt in the Swiss Alps. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
19. Only to help companies sell asteroid insurance. n/t |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. They would debate about it, and by the time the debate was resolved, |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. Only 144,000 of us...the rest would be in rapture.. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. Since you couldn't evacuate anywhere anyway, what would be the harm |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I have a feeling that most people would panic |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. They'd tell us it was just a small asteroid... |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
25. Too many people looking up. |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
26. They'd go on TV and tell us that we need to give another billion to Citibank |
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