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What would the world be like if all people over the age of 20 instantly disappeared?

Asked by FreshApples (202points) December 17th, 2009

Imagine every person over the age of 20 disappeared within the next 20 minutes. What do you think would happen to the world?

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trailsillustrated's avatar

terrible! it would be terrible!!

gemiwing's avatar

Everything requiring a high school or higher education would stop.

Dr_Dredd's avatar

Did you ever see the sci-fi show “Jeremiah”? It postulated that everyone above a certain age (mid-teens, I think) was killed by a plague they called the Big Death.

Basically, the older teens became adults before their time and tried to function in the collapse of society.

chocstar's avatar

Negate the need for Botox/Fillers etc.

erichw1504's avatar

The world would be an amusement park.

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

Well, I bet a lot less vegetables would be eaten for dinner.

flameboi's avatar

can we move the age limit to 30 to make it more interesting?

Poopy's avatar

Immature/without wisdom

baileysmom12's avatar

Seeing as how I’d be gone, I really don’t know what would be happening….

Jude's avatar

Everyone would be walking/hanging out on everyone else’s lawn and the dude from Twilight would be president.

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75movies's avatar

No one would hang out in the parking lot of Seven Eleven waiting to ask me to buy beer or for them.

erichw1504's avatar

@jmah That is spot on!

erichw1504's avatar

Marijuana would finally be legalized.

john65pennington's avatar

The people under the age of 20 would all be drunk. there would be no police to enforce the drinking laws, so there you have it.

SABOTEUR's avatar

High school.

smartfart11's avatar

I was thinking that this morning! But something like if everyone but one age group died. That would be extremely strange.

Blondesjon's avatar

It would be like The Lord of the Flies, only not as funny.

Darwin's avatar

I don’t know and I don’t care because I wouldn’t be here.

I would suspect it would turn rather Lord of the Flies-ish.

pjanaway's avatar

Fluther would fill up with txt speak.

hug_of_war's avatar

lots of death, direct and indirect

mattbrowne's avatar

Critical infrastructure would fail quickly, like electricity and water supply.

All people under the age of 20 would wonder why the screens of their Xbox and Nintendo Wii game console go black.

Zen_Again's avatar

In conversations, the word like would be used much more.

SABOTEUR's avatar

lol…clever, @Zen_Again.

mattbrowne's avatar

@Zen_Again – Like well I kind of like your answer like sort of you know like they are so cool.

SeventhSense's avatar

OMG You guys are like old…WHAAATEVER…

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