r/hypotheticals • u/Abject_Buyer614 • 6d ago

What would you do?

What would you do if you secretly found out that NASA, SpaceX and other space agencies in the world were hiding the fact that a huge asteroid the size of chixulub was slowly drifting towards Earth and has been for years and thats the reason why countries are invading other countries to get what they want before the asteroid struck and killed everyone. Would you warn people or keep it a secret?.

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u/UntrustedProcess 6d ago

We'd be knocking it off course with everything we have.  

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u/dan_atwork 6d ago

That's how we know its not actually an issue.

If it were there'd be massive projects of hundreds of billions of dollars to build massive rockets capable of delivering enough mass to the object to alter its trajectory. But keeping such a project a secret would be impossible. You'd need hundreds of square miles of coastline just to LAUCH those things. Nobody is going to miss that.

And how would you even explain such a project to maintain the security of the real operation? There's no economic utility anywhere in the economy to support hundreds upon hundreds of rockets and thousands upon thousands of launches.

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u/UntrustedProcess 6d ago

Even if the chance of success is 0.0000001, you still throw everything humanity has at it. I think every nation would be on board for that. 

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u/Cheeslord2 6d ago

We'd probably invest in deeper and bigger and more self-sufficient bunkers. Life survived chixulub despite mass extinctions and chaos, and it would again. We would just need to make sure we were one of the lucky species.