Let's say we discover that our world, planet in maximum 5 years (or less) will be destroyed totally by something so big that we cannot avoid, prevent or evade it. The planet will be evaporated, became dust.

What will be your first 5 actions you will do?

Please explain in just few words, no need for much details or stories. I just want to see what are people's priorities in such an extreme case. No judgement, no comments, free your mind.
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Good question.
The only way humanity survives is leaving the solar system, since without Earth, all we have here are dead rocks, gas giants, and shitty little moons.
  1. Everyone everywhere needs to shift focus to one thing: storm your govt buildings, bases etc. and figure out what they know about UFOs and anti-gravity. Without new physics we're trapped here with Elon and his chemical rockets to nowhere.
  2. Spread this info as far and wide as possible and try to anticipate the problems that will arise when trying to move 8 billion people from one planet to another.
  3. We would need groups focused on:
    • what planet do we even go to?
    • do we need ships or is a portal possible?
    • is there a safe zone in our solar system where we can spread to temporarily?
    • how do we keep the world running for the next 5 years while we evacuate?
    • are you aliens going to fking help us out here or just watch??
  4. Find out what the world govts knew about this, and tell the world how they lied to humanity.
  5. Bring a copy of the timechain.
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Nice organized answer, this is good. Is all I can say for now. To not influence others. Thanks.
One additional question: do you think in 5 years we will be capable to fly spaceshipas with lots of people?
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One additional question: do you think in 5 years we will be capable to fly spaceships with lots of people?
Not without physics that go beyond Einstein's world of relativity. If we can control gravity, I have no doubt that 5 years is plenty for humans to solve this.
Maybe:
  • you might not need a ship
  • we can build a vessel that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside
  • the journey to our new planet is only a few minutes round trip with this new tech
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497 sats \ 14 replies \ @k00b 5 Apr
Join a space startup/company/program so we can get people off world.
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Same. Literally dedicate the remainder of my life to slavery to send the billionaires and their family's to space. Its not me, its not my family, I will be about as remembered as the slaves who built the great wall of China, but at least humanity will still exist I guess.
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To add, I'm aware of what that might mean in terms of job availability. Even if working the mines is the only available position for my skillset.
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I'm glad someone will be motivated enough to save us.
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But it seems would be a BIG competition - who would be saved and who is going to decide? and then ppl might end up fighting with each other, wasting time dealing dramas than actually saving. 😂
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5 Apr
who would be saved and who is going to decide?
Not my problem lol. In a few years I don't think we'd manage to get more than a couple hundred people off earth at most.
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very good question
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129 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5 Apr
It's just that I don't have anything better to do.
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I said, we have only 5 years until the even to happen, do you think in 5 years we are capable to take everybody in some sort of spaceships and go?
Also boarding on a ship is only 1 action. What will be the other 4?
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209 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 5 Apr
We won't be able to get everybody off but we can get some people off.
I don't have other actions that I'd do.
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As I said, I will not comment or judge any answer, because I could influence the reply from others. At the end of this ad-hoc "questionnaire" maybe will discuss it in another post.
Thanks for answering.
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Off topic, but I can't select territories on desktop, mobile, or the PWA. Is there an update going on?
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75 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5 Apr
There was a small bug. I'm pushing a fix now.
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Fixed
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294 sats \ 2 replies \ @Wumbo 5 Apr
Nothing to worry about here, Darth is just asking for a friend.
I am sure he doesn't have a planet destroying space station with a laser available.
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😂😂😂😂 The only planet Darth will destroy it will be this one
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In fact, my question have a catch, but don't want to reveal it from the beginning, just want to see how people think about this world....
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  • calm down and dig how people survived the big flood - is it really impossible to survive this time?
  • stack more survival life skills just in case
  • keep learning, e.g.how afterlife will work? Maybe it shouldn't be so scary at all?
  • fly home to spend some time with parent
  • being around the people who I care about and love with all the time that I have
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I like the bullet points 😂😂 you are well organized, seems that you know what you want. sorry I cannot comment yet your answer
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okay, waiting patiently
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This would have been a great ~FiresidePhilosophy post.
Five years is a tough timeline. It's long enough that you have to carry on somewhat like normal.
The short answer for me is that I'm maximizing my daughter's joyful experiences.
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Five years is a tough timeline.
Good point, Exactly that I set that strict timeline, to see exactly how people think. Thanks for answering.
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  1. Verify that this whole doomsday scenario isn't yet another government psyop.
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And the rest of 4 ? As I said, we have 5 years, is not a psyop, is a certain thing that we all agree.
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Hmm...
  1. Download every important piece of media and software (including Bitcoin Core!), stick it onto extremely durable storage devices, and launch them into space. Who knows, some alien civilization might discover them eons from now.
  2. I'd want everyone possible to be happy in their final years. People who are wrongly imprisoned, people who are lonely, etc. Perhaps I'd donate the remainder of my stack to these causes.
  3. I would probably move myself and my family to some remote wilderness to appreciate nature, which I probably have not done enough of in my life. I'd cut off all distractions, no need for any of that.
  4. Would continue to learn about all the things that interest me, and study stuff that I've always wanted to learn but never had the time for.
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Thank you for additional answer.
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150 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fabs 5 Apr
Instead of coming up with ideas that focus on "saving" humans à la getting them out of the solar system et cetera, why not simply focus on leaving behind a collective (human) legacy?
What would keep the world together in such a scenario, would be a collective feeling of hope, and not a selective one, I.e: The world works towards the "goal" of getting a very select club of people off this rock, while leaving the rest to their inevitable demise.
What could a collective effort look like?
Well, I'd say we prepare some new and sturdy shuttles containing the building blocks for life, our DNA as well as the DNA of many other species from the animal,- insect,- and botanical kingdom, and try to stuff as much of our knowledge about the world, our science, us humans et cetera into it as well.
And then? Well, we simply hope that either some other intelligent life form finds one of those shuttles and makes use of the information, or we hope that a shuttle crashes unto a habitable planet.
That's it. That's our last-ditch effort. Everything living on this rock will die, but at least there's a chance of continuation.
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You are close to the good answer...
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Hm 😜 Care to share the final piece to the puzzle?
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Yes, maybe next days, I need to process based on the "Why" I posted this question. Some people thought it was a joke, but is a very serious question.
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"but is a very serious question."
... And therefore I gave it only my best answer, chief.
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54 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 5 Apr
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 5 Apr
@lux be like I will stock enough beer for five years 😂
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 5 Apr
I guess there's enough time to have a drink with you too ;)
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The world would become crazy, so it would be almost impossible to live among humans, that would be in panic and wouldn't be able to think (even less than now!) so I would:
  1. Collect all the information I can in a laptop, book reader, tablet, etc.
  2. Buy all the food and tools I can.
  3. Buy a 4x4 car or truck-motorhome.
  4. Retire to the most remote place I can find with water and deep caves.
  5. Build a refuge and wait for the end, meditating a lot.
That's it.
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  1. Buy an axe
  2. Quit my job
  3. Buy more bitcoin
  4. Travel the world spending bitcoin
  5. Wait for destruction near family and friends
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I guess the most important outcome of the question and the set of answers is going to be something like "Then why don't you do it today, even if the world is not ending"?
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very good point
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  1. Process and come to peace with the gravity of the situation myself, first. I can't be helpful to anyone else or my own family until I am able to act in a calm and measured manner
  2. Create a compliance checklist broadly scoped for most situations
  3. Discipline myself to adhere to the checklist in all circumstances, regardless of my initial emotional reaction
  4. Focus on being a good example for others and be a walking blueprint to follow
  5. Hope that I can comply my way out of the situation
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Compliance is important. Thanks for answering.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 5 Apr
  1. do nothing and take in the situation
  2. make sure all loved ones don't freak out and tell them all I need to
  3. quit job
  4. share love, compassion and live every minute
  5. get you drunk
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Quit work. Massively stock up on canned goods beyond my normal precautionary amounts.
I don't know the other three, but they'll all be to maximize time spent with family and loved ones and to enjoy the five years left as best I can.
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-- what will you do if tomorrow will be the end of the world? -- I'll start to fcuk everything what is moving. What about you? -- I'll try to move as less as I can
btw, it's a big question: Why do people act like they're going to live forever
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 6 Apr
If we cannot prevent it means it is already too late. Enjoy the time we have left at maximum. We were going to die anyway. I would try to avoid being angry and I would enjoy the landscape and the sunset one last time thinking there will be some other more intelligent species somewhere in the Universe that could prevent it in time.
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  1. Find the means over the course of several days to validate the claims (rather than blindly trusting hysterical herds)
  2. Surround myself online and in meatspace with people more intelligent, in order to be able to adapt to ever-changing circumstances & information asymmetry.
  3. Drop everything to contribute with friends to open-source initiatives or reputable companies with whom I trust. Last thing I’d want is to waste 5 years of PoW on a dud or irrelevant cause.
  4. Consolidate several UTXOs. Just in case.
  5. Take 1 dedicated day a week offline with friends, family & nature. Work on developing new transferable skills & critical projects for 6. 1 week off every 6 months.
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  1. Go to my wife and do as much as we can together.
  2. Visit our children.
  3. Continue my meditation practice.
  4. Eat
  5. Help people get things done.
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Who knows about this?, that answer changes everything.
If everyone knows, then people will freak out in the beginning, then slowly accommodate to the new life, then panic at the end. I would plan to take advantage of this in the short term.
If only I know, then I would take a lot of long term credit (30 years for example) and stop working for an income. This would allow me to travel the world freely, experience new cultures and ways of life, meet a lot of people, exercise often, and learn as much as I can about life.
Writing this reminded me that most people on Earth are basically exchanging most of their time in their whole life, specially their prime years, to get paid an amount of money that barely allows you to live, maybe save a little bit. It's kinda like being a slave with extra steps.
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Sell most of my bitcoin for food and guns
Hunker down at the house
Contact and get closer to friends and family
Sell the rest of my stash for drugs ciggeretes ,alcohol, movies, books, and video games
Water the wife everyday until the world ends
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Smoke cigarettes and cook some steaks. It's out of your control if its inevitable.
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Everyone dies. It's the same as getting a diagnosis that your stage-4 cancer is not operable. Make peace, be kind, accept the inevitable. No way to sustain humanity anywhere off world given 5 years.
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Yes we know that all die, but the question what would you do in those 5 years, what will be the most important 5 things for you?
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  1. Shift focus from thinking about my unborn family and my future lineage to helping as many people now as possible. No point in worrying about a legacy or heirs or future generations.
  2. Study the works of people who face knowing the time of their inevitable death with the goal of finding a path towards acceptance and peace.
  3. Be present in the moment. The future is coming to an end. All we have is now.
  4. Share everything. Give everything away. Help as many people alleviate current suffering as possible.
  5. Be with the people I love and who love me.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @nym 5 Apr
I think the population would go crazy with violence after that news, so I’ll just hang out in the forest until the end times come. Travel likely wouldn’t be safe, so I’m not gojng to try to see all the sites of the world, I would just continue to make peace with myself and higher power.
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Can you list those 5 things you will do? Just going to the forest is quite general answer. What are the 5 most important things you will do?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 5 Apr
Good question.
  1. Maximize time with immediate family. That gives me more joy than traveling or anything else.
  2. Leave instructions to find cold storage wallet in low case we survive.
  3. Fly to another planet of possible, but I’m not smart enough to design that system.
  4. Learn how to trap animals.
  5. Learn some hobbies I didn’t have time for because of work.
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Definitely BOAKYAG for me.
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please can you explain what is that?
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127 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 5 Apr
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"Bend Over And Kiss Your Ass Goodbye"
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Preparation is better than reaction. I feel like it is already happening in slow motion so I have already.
I am doing everything I can to make self self sustaining. Still have a lot to do.
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Everyone that was toting cold storage will be wrong because it wont matter lol
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Declare it's a psyop and take out call options on it not actually happening
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This question have nothing to do with Bitcoin. But ok, you gave us an answer.
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Sit down, and just breathe...
(I am pretty sure that at least half of the people would die of stress within a couple of years)
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I am pretty sure that at least half of the people would die of stress within a couple of years
agree, and living in a place far away from people so to think is a must.
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Same thing as always. Keep trying to get as spiritually right with God as possible.
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First I'd come to SN and ask all the stackers... Hey, wait a minute!
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and then? 😂
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Isn't meta supposed to be meta [about SN], not meta [about life/fiction/anything-without-a-territory]?
I want to subscribe to release notes about SN, but I'd like to unsub from hypotheticals about extinction level events. No offense, it's actually a fun question. Just, I could do without it.
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I don't care anymore.
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💩
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I wonder what @nemo would do too
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