Make your choice

Make your choice Anon 03/04/2025, 19:27:55 No.13193

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You are the President of Earth, and a mysterious planet from another galaxy is hurdling towards our planet.

Transmissions from the mysterious planet have been sent directly to you by those who live there. It has life with sentient intelligent beings. They have double the population of our world's. Their technological tier is unclear, but it's at least roughly equivalent to ours, if not superior. Just when they were about to state if they were friendly, hostile, or otherwise, a solar storm flares and blocked their communications from us. Their intentions are unknown.

The scientists have calculated a 70/30 percentage chance of one-of-two outcomes of where this planet will go. There's a 70% chance this planet will shrimply be caught by the suns gravity and will orbit harmlessly between Earth and Mars, giving us a new neighbor (for better or worse). But, there's also 30% chance this planet will collide with Earth, mutually destroying their world and our own.

The planet is closing in and will be here quite soon, and the solar storms are keeping communications of the otherworldly beings blocked. As President of Earth, you exclusively have the activation code for a planet destroying super weapon. It is charged ready to fire on your command. If it is not fired now it will have to be deactivated to prevent a massive overload, and will take 2 years for it to charge and be ready again.

You can either destroy their planet and kill all the otherworldly beings, or you can do nothing and take your and eberryone's chances for our potentially new but mysterious neighbors.

Make your choice, President of Earth.

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Anon 03/04/2025, 23:17:38 No.13195

I wood use the superweapon as a thruster to adjust the Earth's orbit for a 0% chance of collision. Once we're safe and communications are back up, I hire /comfy/posters to work as ambassadors. They'll win our new neighbors over whether they're hostile or no.

This is definitely a bit of a silly question, though.

Anon 03/04/2025, 23:46:27 No.13196

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>>13193 (OP) 
>Make your choice, President of Earth.

Anon 04/04/2025, 05:16:26 No.13197

I will start establishing taxes for interplanetary trade. And also berate idiots who made such useless planetary destruction weapons.

Anon 04/04/2025, 18:21:59 No.13201

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>>13193 (OP) 
the first problem i see with your hypothetical situation is that a planet coming our way doesn't make a lot of sense to me; if they were in control of the planet of course their technology wood be much superior than our own — if they were not, it wood either collide with earth, the sun or any other planet, also a massive planet coming our way woodn't just lock in orbit with the sun next to our own.
it wood make more sense if they were coming in a space ship, or many if you will.

anyway, i woodn't shoot them, the death of billions of alive creatures woodn't come from my hands; first, because if we destroy their planet theres a great chance of the fragments of such massive destruction hit our own (since their planet is heading our way) causing a mass extinction here; second, showing hostility first wood send the wrong message, imagine for a moment that they are not alone, maybe they are the first planet heading to our solar system because their star is dying out there and they need a new sun, maybe they called other planets too, who knows whos coming next?

in such pressure to take action, you just need to remember that you can always and will mostly regret whatever you end up doing; kill them or not, the result could be a disaster either way, so i choose not.

Anon 06/04/2025, 01:58:36 No.13211

>>13193 (OP) 
I wood not destroy them. 

I can't see why a planet of beings wood want to set themselves on a suicidal collision course.  What wood be the point?
Also, I wood be berry concerned why were we using taxes to fund a planet destroying weapon.

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