Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

 Here is a question for you. What are you going to do when they announce the end of the world? For some that will be when Trump doesn’t get reelected for others it will be because something important happened, like getting hit by a meteor.  

   If you are like the NCO I had near me in Desert Shield Desert Storm when they told us the air war had started, he sat on his cot, read his bible and cried the rest of the night. Since the air war did not require any effort from me I went back to sleep. 

   So the question is should that kind of thing be made public information or should we keep that kind of information confidential until all hope is lost in trying to stop it from happening? If the public is informed are people going to go to work and keep the lights on? Will panic occur and people go out and do things that they would not normally do? Keeping the status quo may be a terrible lie for the government to tell the public but if a last minute save happens it would not be necessary to re establish the grid, If nothing saves the situation then it will make no difference anyway.

    If you knew in advance what kind of things you would do, make sure those you love know you love them. Would go out and get drunk, get laid as often as possible, eat yourself sick or spend your time on your knees praying for some intervention. 

    We all have different ways of dealing with crises and the news of total destruction would probably bring some really outlandish reactions.  We have people that have built elaborate facilities to survive the most terrible things that man can throw at man. I don’t believe those efforts will help if total destruction is the outcome.

  Are our efforts to pollute helping to weaken the systems such as the ozone layer to offer protection of a natural type? Has our development of rockets and explosives been advanced enough to protect us from everything except the loss of our sun?  

    These are questions of total destruction not personal loss so in order to wrap your head around this problem take a much broader view of the term loss. We may have developed technologies that have a good chance of accomplishing the task of saving earth but at what cost. Will our technology work after that effort has been expended? Are enough of us versed in how to survive to make the effort to save the earth worthwhile? All valid questions and concerns the real answer is when we either do or don’t survive and prosper.

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