If there was going to be a dinosaur killer sized asteroid about to slam into Earth, would the world's governments just not tell the public?
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ReductioAdAstronomicus say: Probably not. It would be doom for everyone.
If you were a politician would you waste your last remaining days stuck in some office building juggling phones, suffocating with boredom in tedious meetings, and signing off paperwork? Me neither. Government would be non existent as soon as they heard the news.
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aladdinwa say: It's not something that governments could keep secret. There are hundreds of amateur astronomers around the globe that would know it, too.
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Const. King say: Nobody would be notified so that panic would not occur. The War of the Worlds radio show is an example of what could happen. If an asteroid is going to hit us nothing will change that.
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Ronald 7 say: They would do just what any self centred Liberal would do
Live Underground for a lot of years
Of course they wouldn't
they would save themselves
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nineteenthly say: It would be impossible to hide because astronomers would be able to see it.
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daniel g say: Impossible to keep such event any secret for very long.
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Jeffrey K say: They couldn't keep such a rock a secret. Amateur astronomers could easily see it coming for years.
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Starrysky say: Many government programs to spot that size have failed already. Lots of close flybys of 2000 foot asteroids from sunward size not seen until after closest pass.
And also the interstellar ones like `Oumaumau in 2017-18 not spotted until on way out. Might be more at any time.
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say: if it did the government would say it was the baphomet and celebrate the last few moments drinking blood out a goats horn
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Acetek say: it would be all over the news. Professional astronomers and amatuer alike would see it comming. that is why the rogue planet nibiru is a load of nonsense because you would see it with the naked eye
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DON W say: It wouldn't be up to the governments--the individual astronomers would make the announcement.
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ReductioAdAstronomicus say: Probably not. It would be doom for everyone.
If you were a politician would you waste your last remaining days stuck in some office building juggling phones, suffocating with boredom in tedious meetings, and signing off paperwork? Me neither. Government would be non existent as soon as they heard the news.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: I don't think a government could keep a lid on it; the best that could be expected would be to attempt to manage the hysteria, but... I doubt they could for very long.
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Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. say: You make "Great Britain" an oxymoron. What they said.
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Arimatthewdavies say: No if scientists in the know found out that there's a killer asteroid headed our way they would do whatever they could do to divert it with nuclear bombs or whatever but they wouldn't tell the general public no sense in starting a panic when there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Let everybody be oblivious to the fact that we're about to die. And when the asteroid hits annihilation will swiftly come and people will suffer less
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Tomalochk say: What would be the problem ?? ...There ARE no dinosaurs .
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Nyx say: The legions of incredibly good amatuer astronomers would find it, plot its trajectory, and tell the world.
The professional astronomers that are not affiliated with any government would also be doing the same.
It simply would not stay secret for very long.
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Zardoz say: It wouldn't be their news to tell. The government couldn't find an asteroid if it weren't in a crater.
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Pearl say: i would hope they do unless they dont want to scare people
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Dan say: Someone would probably leak it.
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say: Why upset everyone? Good time to short the stock market though.
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