Join a space startup/company/program so we can get people off world.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

Definitely BOAKYAG for me.

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

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.

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"?

1. Verify that this whole doomsday scenario isn't yet another government psyop.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

-- 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Smoke cigarettes and cook some steaks. It's out of your control if its inevitable.

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.

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)

Everyone that was toting cold storage will be wrong because it wont matter lol

First I'd come to SN and ask all the stackers... Hey, wait a minute!

Declare it's a psyop and take out call options on it not actually happening

Same thing as always. Keep trying to get as spiritually right with God as possible.

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.

I wonder what @nemo would do too

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