If scientists knew beyond a doubt that a huge asteroid was heading for the earth and would destroy the entire world within 12 hours, would you want to know, or would you rather be kept in the dark?

I’d rather know so I go out as I’d like, with my family.

I would rather know. There are people I want to say I love once more.

The panic, rioting and chaos that would be unleashed make me want to have this news suppressed.
Live like every moment is your last, and you won’t regret not telling someone you love them one more time.

I’d rather know so I can get some earplugs and think up a good way to tell the kids, then give them all a big forever hug.

I would want to know.
So that in the last few hours, I can turn my bedsheets into a Jesus robe, stand on a street corner, and scream at the top of my lungs how the imminent apocalypse is divine punishment for child raping priests.

It wouldn’t make any difference really.

Choice A: Everyone dies.

Choice B: Everyone dies.

@Kropotkin
But would you not want to know, so you do not needlessly do the dishes, and have a 12 hour wank instead?

I’d rather not know. Why would I want 12 hours of misery inflicted upon myself and my loved ones?

As an exercise, however, it’s interesting to contemplate that we are in this scenario right now. If there are things that you haven’t done or people that you need to talk to, it might make sense to really do those things and have those conversations now. Nobody knows when they are going to die.

Silly @ragingloli. God doesn’t send an apocalypse for child raping priests. Only for gay people who are minding their own business.

@ragingloli Would rather do the dishes to be honest.

12 hours? Don’t tell me.

Agreed with @Dutchess_III God is only after the two gay people walking down a street holding hands, minding their own. The pedo priests, greedy self serving televangelists, and terroristic Mullahs will be spared. I mean, a Big Sky Daddy has to set his priorities.

Please tell me. I at least want to go outside with a bottle of bourbon and watch the thing crash. Once in a lifetime astronomical event.

I would like to know about it so I can get to a safe place before it hits earth.

@KRD, exactly where would be a safe place you could get to if something was going to destroy the entire world (as per the details)?

Like where @KRD? Earth will be destroyed.

I definitely would want to know! Say my last words to both friends and enemies. Then ask friends I find sexy if they want to have a drunken orgy.

I would want everyone to know. They have that right. And the chaos that would ensue would be utterly hilarious!! Like chickens with their heads cut off!

Nah, them good ol’ boys will shoot that puppy plumb down. No worries. They don’t maintain an arsenal in the garage fer nothin’ you know.

I would probably hope that the military would shoot down the asteroid and get somewhere same from all the smaller rocks form the asteroid.

I would not want to know.

This is a “would you want to know?” thought exercise, not a “Do you think they could fix it? thought exercise.

^Correct. There is no fixing this.

I wouldn’t want to know. I’d be anxious, panicking and probably inconsolable for the 12 hours so what would be the point. People might be going nuts around the area, trying to drive someplace or other crazy stuff.

I wouldn’t want to know on one hand, but I’d want to be with all of my family on the other.

I would want to know so I could be in touch with those I love.

While I would want to contact loved ones, it really wouldn’t matter, would it? It all ends the same and I think there is a certain beauty to our destruction happening suddenly without the public knowing about it.

@loonylune Welcome to Fluther!

I would want to know so that I could log off of work, call the kids, and take the dog out for a walk. No use doing any more work at that point.

I’d want to know so I could have my Melancholia experience.