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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5557050" data-attributes="member: 158">Everyone? No, you'd have your fair share of glam-hedonist types who'd blow through everything they had to live for the moment, and your share of end-of-the-world types who would shave their heads, flagellate, and/or go all introspective, but in even most localized disasters, there's a pretty large percentage willing to dive in and help, even at the cost of their lives. Now, couple that with some sort of Super-Lottery that says,&quot;Well, we've already got the top scientists, athletes, engineers, DNA samples of all the animals, etc. loaded on the Space Ark, and we've allocated room for 0.00000001% of humanity to be in a lottery -- you win the lottery, you're coming too&quot; and you'd be surprised how many people would pitch in on the sliver of hope that they're in the lottery.You don't have to get everyone on board with the plan -- just 60% or so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Plus, who says there has to be one plan? One team works on Ark Technology, while the other works on veering the asteroid off course. Matter of fact, with 30 years worth of warning, many physicists agree that we could save ourselves now with current technology in the form of an ion drive or ten that would touch down on the asteroid, and apply enough constant minute force to drive the thing off course and miss us. A small course correction now, and even an asteroid the size of JUPITER would still miss us in 30 years. (Probably an exaggeration, but you get my point.)(Although there's a thought -- Rogue gas giant? That might be impossible to stop. Nothing to attach to to impel it out of the way.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 5557050, member: 158"] Everyone? No, you'd have your fair share of glam-hedonist types who'd blow through everything they had to live for the moment, and your share of end-of-the-world types who would shave their heads, flagellate, and/or go all introspective, but in even most localized disasters, there's a pretty large percentage willing to dive in and help, even at the cost of their lives. Now, couple that with some sort of Super-Lottery that says, [I]"Well, we've already got the top scientists, athletes, engineers, DNA samples of all the animals, etc. loaded on the Space Ark, and we've allocated room for 0.00000001% of humanity to be in a lottery -- you win the lottery, you're coming too" [/I] and you'd be surprised how many people would pitch in on the sliver of hope that they're in the lottery. You don't have to get everyone on board with the plan -- just 60% or so. :) Plus, who says there has to be one plan? One team works on Ark Technology, while the other works on veering the asteroid off course. Matter of fact, with 30 years worth of warning, many physicists agree that we could save ourselves now with current technology in the form of an ion drive or ten that would touch down on the asteroid, and apply enough constant minute force to drive the thing off course and miss us. A small course correction now, and even an asteroid the size of JUPITER would still miss us in 30 years. (Probably an exaggeration, but you get my point.) (Although there's a thought -- Rogue gas giant? That might be impossible to stop. Nothing to attach to to impel it out of the way.) [/QUOTE]

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