Earth Destroyed By Asteroids

[All Seeing Eye]

You wake up in bed from a loud explosion. You look outside and you can see mass destruction and huge fireballs falling from the sky. You turn on the news and just before the signal cuts out it's made clear to you that the Earth is under Asteroid bombardment. According to the astronomers so many Asteroids are heading toward the Earth that they're going to be hitting the Earth for the next 30 hours and no area on the surface of the Earth is safe. Nobody knows how or why they suddenly got flung toward us but they have.

You hide out in your basement for over 30 hours. You come up from the basement to find your house completely blown apart, your entire town city or wherever is completely destroyed and laying in ruin. You search and search but you can't find any survivors for miles around, only death.

What do you do?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You wake up in bed from a loud explosion. You look outside and you can see mass destruction and huge fireballs falling from the sky. You turn on the news and just before the signal cuts out it's made clear to you that the Earth is under Asteroid bombardment. According to the astronomers so many Asteroids are heading toward the Earth that they're going to be hitting the Earth for the next 26 hours and no area on the surface of the Earth is safe. Nobody knows how or why they suddenly got flung toward us but they have.

You hide out in your basement for over 26 hours. You come up from the basement to find your house completely blow apart, your entire town city or wherever is comletely destroyed and laying in ruin. You search and search but you can't find any survivors for miles around, only death.

What do you do?

Die, probably.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Die, probably.

Don't be like that man. Surely you have some kind of list in your mind of what you would do?

 

[Mallory]

Food, water, shelter. Of course, we always have our "go bags" ready and with 30 minutes lead time could put away even more. Even after a catastrophe of the dimensions you're describing, there will still be plenty of things to be culled from the debris. I imagine my family and I would be able to survive indefinitely under those conditions.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Die, probably.

Don't be like that man. Surely you have some kind of list in your mind of what you would do?

No, not really. I would accept my fate (perhaps even help it along a bit ). I'm not hardy enough to survive in an environment like that. I'd fold up like a deck chair.

If neither the initial bombardment nor the subsequent violence, famine, drought, disease, etc. killed me, despair certainly would.

 

[Plecostomus]

Log on to the internet and write up a post in my LJ bitching about the lack of survivors.

Then I'd go looting.

 

[RandyS]

If I'm in bed with my girlfriend, we will act accordingly until death claims us.

Or doesn't.

Whatever.

 

[Pegaritaville]

Food, water, shelter. Of course, we always have our "go bags" ready and with 30 minutes lead time could put away even more. Even after a catastrophe of the dimensions you're describing, there will still be plenty of things to be culled from the debris. I imagine my family and I would be able to survive indefinitely under those conditions.

Yeah, if you're the only one left, you should be able to scavenge for most of you basic needs.

After that, I think I'd go golfing. Playing a round of golf on my own private course would be just the thing to take my mind off the fact that I'd have a pretty miserable existence awaiting me.

 

[captcalhoun]

start learning to drive using stolen cars. find a surviving Lambo dealers. nick a Gallardo.

get to an RAF base, read the manual for the Typhoon. fly some where else.

 

[SeerSGB]

Grab a towel, find a hill, stick up my thumb, and hope for the best.

Failing that: Inventory on hand supplies, then begin scavenging for what else is needed and planning from there.

 

[Aragorn]

As the last survivor on earth, I need to prepare myself and obtain the necessary materials and equipment to fight off the impending zombie uprising.

 

[Lindley]

I implement my Zombie Plan. Duh.

I mean, it's not quite the same problem, but you've got to figure the same basics apply. Keep a baseball bat or shovel with you, and swing at any asteroids that get too close.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well there are no survivors for a few miles but that doesn't mean there'd be no survivors.

Personally I would:

1. I'd take my family and make my way to the nearest supermarket and hope enough of it has survived to get some supplys. If there was a van around capable of being driven i'd use that to stock up heavily.
2. I'd try to locate a DIY store and salvage anything I could such as nails etc etc
3. I would try to locate a building nearby to the supermarket that wasn't in total ruin and is well hidden and do some DIY to try and make it into a decent shelter. I'd also make the place as safe as possible incase any 'insane' survivors came by.
4. I'd collect together as many weapons as possible for defence.
5. Over the years i'd build a huge fortress that would protect future generations of my family.

 

[Starkers]

Steal a postman's uniform

 

[Plecostomus]

Over the years i'd build a huge fortress that would protect future generations of my family.

Ok it's good you qualified the "no survivors" thing otherwise I'd have to break out my Bucket Of Incest Jokes. Believe me no one wants that.

 

[iguana_tonante]

What do you do?

Proclaim myself Emperor of the Earth and claim possession of the planet in the name of My Own Fucking Majesty, obviously.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I just realised, I could go to the police station and search the wreckage for proper real guns!! and even Tasers!!!! if I was able to get a map of the nearest army base I might even score a rocket launcher!!!

 

[Rii]

I'd reload and try to aim the defence cannon more accurately next time around.

 

[Squiggy]

If you can "hear the explosion" from an impact, that means your death is a few seconds away.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

If you can "hear the explosion" from an impact, that means your death is a few seconds away.

Not all the asteroids are enormous, some are the size of golf balls after they've made it through the atmosphere. Even a golf ball sized asteroid/meteor is going to make a bang, especially if it's just totalled a car on your street.

and you say you work for NASA?