Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on ""Don't Look Up" Could Actually Happen | Random Thursday" video.

  1. What I think would happen - denial would happen... conspiracy theorists and whatnot would pop up. Not as much as in relation to pandemic and climate change though, simply because it'd lack the element of profiting out of the demise of others. There would still be the element of keeping the status quo for lots of people, so it'd still be there. Conspiracy theories and denial of stuff like pandemics and climate change nowadays are not just about mental health issues, distrust in government and distrust in science anymore - it's political, has cultist/faith elements, has profiteering elements, and power ones. But it'd take too long to do something about it, so instead of being a rush to avoid it, it'd be a rush for survival after impact. Rich and a few middle class privileged with early information would scramble to move away from areas that will probably get devastated. As the time came, chaos would ensue in several places. It all of course depends on several factors... how visible the thing would be in the sky, how fast approaching, how big, where it'd hit, how much of a forewarning we'd have down to details on where it'd hit, how devastating effects would be. Every single detail of it changes the dynamics. If survival after impact was just plain impossible, then it'd be a completely different thing in comparison to it destroying a single city or region, for instance. As I understand, past a given size, we'd pretty much be screwed... not because of the impact per se, but because of aftereffects. Asteroids are on the full on extinction event class, right? Meteors we could even survive, but asteroids, it's kinda the end. Not even going into a deep nuclear bunker would solve it. It's kinda like full on nuclear war with the major superpowers... a nuclear bunker could protect people from nuclear weapons of the post WWII era, but they are meaningless for strategic nuclear weapons that we have today. Anyways, it's an endless topic.
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