The most intriguing one is the asteroid impact. Both it and super volcanoes involve turning the atmosphere into a sulphuric hell, but we're likely to have no warning about the super volcano so there won't be much you can do about it. But the asteroid we may have years of warning about, and still have pretty much no chance of averting the disaster.
So, the question is, if you knew to the minute (but ten years in advance) when life was likely to end or become excruciatingly difficult, what would you do?
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That's a pretty big answer, requiring a pretty big answer.
I like to think I do a pretty good job of living each day like it's my last to begin with...I guess the first thing is I'd be really, REALLY bummed about Lucy & Rose, and how they wouldn't see adulthood. Like, that might just shut me down.
Wow. Am I the only one that knows, or does everyone?
As far as the meteor hit, there we at least would have a chance. Well, if someone were ACTUALLY working on solutions.
Heck, we'll just shoot those Star Wars program lasers at that thing. If that doesn't work, I think Jerry Bruckheimer explained it in great detail how we'd do it back in the summer of 1998.
Dan: definitely an act of purest optimism, that of fathering children (Aaron too)
Aaron: while I think we would be highly motivated to find a way to nudge the asteroid out of the way, or maybe even blow it up, I'm not so optimistic that we would succeed, and certainly not act quickly when it would take the least intervention to correct the course.
Stephen: let's hope Bruce Willis is available.
You last two are avoiding the question.
Those are the times when Apache Chief would come in handy.
Maybe I'm avoiding the question. But this gets at some of the feelings I've been having as Cheri and I go through our place and purge stuff, or give it away, or recycle it, or what have you. Not to make to obvious a statement, but none of this is ours. And I don't mean just our belongings. Whatever means one employs to describe or explain human existence, human existence is pretty nice. And it's not enough to be reverent to life, or say 'life is a gift'. That statement misses the mark, for me. Being is all one has. It's most important to accept that fact as a foundation for all things. And I suck at achieving that. I surround myself with distraction, which only exacerbates the failure.
So can we, as humans, dodge a bullet? It's worth every effort, but I still need to get past that desire for immortality. Or the denial of death. Or both.
Wow. Good answer.
There are many (including many running various governments around the world) that seem to live life in anticipation of an eternity of salvation, as if life were just the dress rehearsal for the real show.
While I may not be living my life like I believe it, I do not subscribe to the notion of heaven. It seems like a weirdly childish concept, like getting ice cream for cleaning your room.
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