Hit The Asteroid! 🌠 [Win Exciting Prizes]

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Welcome Fellow Community Members to our weekly Community Contest, your one-stop place for you to win exciting prizes. :tada:

A new contest will be announced on Monday of each week. Next Contest: 25th Nov '24

We want to give our lovely community members a fun and enjoyable way to win some bitcoin. Check out the contest below:

::stars:: Hit The Asteroid!

Introduction:
An asteroid bigger than the size of Mount Everest is on a collision course with Earth, and its impact is guaranteed in two months. Humanity has little time to act, and every decision could mean the difference between survival and extinction.

In this contest, you are to devise a plan to respond to the impending catastrophe. You can take on the role of your present self, a world leader, a scientist, or a member of a survivalist group, or you can take a completely unconventional approach.

You can choose to devise a plan that just saves you, your loved ones, your country, or humanity as a whole. It is completely up to you what role you are taking and who your plan saves.

Note: This event is set in the real world with its current technology, developments, leadership, challenges, and differences.

How to Participate?

  • Your Role: What role did you take on to tackle this emergency?
  • The Plan: Your plan to respond to this impending catastrophe in about 200-400 words.

The most creative, imaginative, and shockingly bizarre answer(s) win!

Deadline: 24th November 2024, 11.59 PM EST.

1 winner,
Prize: $50

  • All contests must be played within the community thread.
  • Do not copy or refer to answers from the internet.
  • Use of AI is prohibited.
  • Do not share any personal information in the community thread.
  • Only one entry per user.
  • Take into consideration the contest deadline.
  • Please mention your Bitcoin address in your post

Edit: Thank you all for participating!

Winner Announced: @traggeano

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My Role: Global Crisis Coordinator

Taking on the role of a Global Crisis Coordinator appointed by the UN, I’m tasked with leading a collaborative, international effort to prevent the asteroid from striking Earth or mitigate its devastating effects.

The Plan: “Operation Deflect and Protect”

Phase 1: Identify and Analyze (Week 1)

  • Enhanced Observation: Mobilize all space agencies, including NASA, ESA, ISRO, and CNSA, to monitor the asteroid’s trajectory and characteristics. Use telescopes and radar systems to determine its composition, size, and exact impact location.
  • Predictive Models: Employ AI-powered simulations to predict the impact zone and aftermath, focusing on high-risk regions.

Phase 2: Deflection Mission (Weeks 2-6)

  • Kinetic Impact: Launch a coordinated kinetic impactor mission, akin to NASA’s DART experiment, targeting the asteroid’s center of mass to slightly alter its trajectory. This requires rapid production of impactor spacecraft by major aerospace companies.
  • Nuclear Option: If kinetic impact fails, prepare a nuclear detonation mission, designed to push the asteroid off course rather than destroy it (to avoid dangerous fragments). Global leaders must agree on nuclear protocols.

Phase 3: Ground Preparation (Weeks 2-8)

  • Evacuation and Shelters: Mobilize nations to construct large-scale underground shelters and relocate populations from predicted impact zones. Pre-existing bunkers and metro systems can be repurposed.
  • Emergency Supplies: Distribute food, medical supplies, and communication devices globally. Use military and private cargo fleets for expedited delivery.
  • Climate Impact Mitigation: Stockpile resources to counteract post-impact nuclear winter scenarios, including UV lamps for agriculture and water purification systems.

Phase 4: Communication and Unity (Weeks 1-8)

  • Unified Command: Establish a global command center for coordinated decision-making.
  • Public Awareness: Provide transparent, fact-based updates to reduce panic. Utilize social media and news outlets to encourage preparedness.

Outcome:
If successful, the deflection mission averts catastrophe, ensuring humanity’s survival. If deflection fails, the global preparedness effort minimizes casualties and equips humanity to rebuild after the impact.

In this real-world scenario, humanity’s combined ingenuity, resources, and collaboration are our best chance of survival.

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I would be taking the role of my current status.

  • A University Law Student
  • Web Developer
  • Choir Master
    Hypothetical Status
  • My Dad is politically influenced
  • My mother is a school teacher
    I would be combining these statuses and generalize in two categories.
    a. The virtual approach
    b. The physical approach.
    i. Topdown level
    ii. Grassroot level

The Plan: “Operation Shield and Sustain”

A. Virtual Approach

Using my web development skills, I create a platform named Asteroid Shield Africa to:

  • Disseminate scientifically verified information about the asteroid and its potential impact.
  • Provide real-time updates on global mitigation efforts.
  • Coordinate local evacuation strategies and survival plans, tailored to Nigeria’s specific needs and vulnerabilities.

B. Physical Approach

i. Topdown level
With my father’s political influence, he can initiate discussions with African leaders to prioritize this crisis. This includes:

  • Advocating for Nigeria’s involvement in international asteroid mitigation plans, such as space-based deflection missions led by NASA or other agencies.
  • Securing funds for large-scale survival preparations, including building bunkers and stockpiling essential supplies.
    As a law student with advocating skills, I can work hand to hand with him, and make sure it is effectively handled like:
    Advocating for International Cooperation through webinars and forums hosted on my platform on in my school, I urge my school authorities to collaborate with African powers on asteroid deflection missions. These discussions emphasize how pooling resources can increase humanity’s chances of survival.
    ii. Grassroot Level
    As a choir master, I organize local groups to:
  • Educate the masses on basic survival techniques and the importance of cooperation.
  • Prepare religious and emotional support systems to maintain morale during this crisis.
    Working with my mother and other educators, I help design curriculum-like materials that focus on:
  • Teaching practical skills for survival, such as water purification, farming, and basic first aid.
  • Raising awareness about the importance of collective action over panic.
  • Going house to house, or during parents teachers meeting, involve the parents on what to do.

Outcome:

This plan ensures Africa is not left out of global efforts while preparing its citizens to face the catastrophe head-on. There are some places technology, leadership cannot reach and thats the grassroot level. By uniting technology, education, and leadership, I aim to save as many lives as possible and give humanity a fighting chance.

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Role:
The Sentient Cockroach Cult Leader-head of a secret society that has been preparing for this moment for centuries.

The Plan:
Forget rockets, forget lasers, forget diplomacy: Humanity is doomed, and the only creatures worthy of inheriting the Earth are cockroaches-nature’s ultimate survivors. I, the leader of the underground cockroach Ascendancy, have spent decades breeding a hyper-intelligent strain of cockroaches capable of feats beyond human comprehension. Our plan? We’ll turn the asteroid into a giant spaceship for cockroachkind, while humans are left to their own chaotic devices.

Here’s how it works:

(1). Phase One: Roach Activation

Deep beneath the Earth’s crust lies a massive biolaboratory where billions of genetically enhanced roaches have been secretly bred. These aren’t ordinary roaches-they possess adhesive limbs, extreme radiation resistance, and micro-terraforming capabilities. Upon my signal, they will swarm the asteroid using stealth rockets disguised as falling stars.

(2). Phase Two: Cockroach Engineering

Once on the asteroid, the roaches will rapidly construct a colossal exoskeleton around Doomrock (yes, I’ve named it), using their adhesive secretions and space-resistance carapaces. The exoskeleton will include thrusters made from scavenged satellite debris, which the roaches will pilot using their neural hive-mind intelligence.

(3). Phase Three: Earth Escape

As Doomrock closes in on Earth, the roaches will ignite the thrusters and steer the asteroid away from collision. But they won’t stop there: They’ll set a course for a distant star system, claiming the asteroid as the mothership for a new era of cockroach dominion, leaving Earth behind as humanity grapples with its failure.

(4). Phase Four: My Grand Departure

As the chosen human emissary of the cockroach empire, I alone will join them on their celestial voyage, leaving behind a cryptic message for humanity: “you had your chance”.

When the asteroid vanishes into the cosmos, the world will wonder: was it genius, madness, or simply the inevitable rise of the true inheritors of Earth?

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Role: The Asteroid Vanguard - Visionary Scientist

The Plan:

Create a unique machine that can prevent the impact of the asteroid from proving too fatal and forcing the government to implement it by any means necessary.

Phase (1):
As a brilliant astrophysicist/inventor who predicted this calamity years back, which was met with deaf ears by those in policy positions, I will gather my team of renegade scientists-engineers, programmers, and former astronauts-and with them developed a state-of-the-art device capable of nudging the asteroid safely off course, using controlled kinetic force and targeted bursts of plasma.

My machine utilizes an advanced targeting system in conjunction with sonic propulsion technology, enabling us to execute calculated strikes upon the asteroid’s surface. These impacts break off small chunks in a very controlled manner, gradually shifting its course without the risk of fragmentation. The challenge? Convincing the government to approve and launch the plan before it’s too late.

Phase (2):

When repeated pleas to the authorities get little or no response, my team and I will take control of major space facilities, including a top-tier launch site and a government satellite command center, by way of a sophisticated technology we will have developed specifically to bypass their cybersecurity systems. We will do this while occupying key government offices and taking government officials hostage-not to harm them, but to force them to listen.

Our demands are simple: devote the requisite rockets, atomic reactors, and resources from across the globe to launch the device within the next 30 days. We shall use a live, Earth-orbit-based fragment of an asteroid and successfully deflect it in real time as proof that this machine works.

Phase (3):

Under public pressure and the undeniable success of our demonstration, the world leaders are complying-inadvertently. The machine will be launched to space, with my team overseeing operations remotely. Of course, the machine will perform flawlessly, diverting the asteroid and saving billions of lives.

As I have forseen in the future, we will be hailed by some as saviors, but branded as terrorists by others. Several governments will call for our arrest and prosecution, but having prepared for that, I, together with my team, will quietly disappear underground.

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My Role: Volunteer Community Leader - ‘The Shepherd of the Forgotten.’

The Plan:
As news of the asteroid spreads and the wealthy and powerful are given priority in the governments’ evacuation plans, the “forgotten” are having to fend for themselves. Homeless, orphans, elderly, destitute—those whose existence has always been ignored—are now sure to die. (I will not let that happen, obviously)

With the help of a friend, an anonymous politician who shares my outrage, I will have access to funds and to a secret, safe bunker— A
a personal property of the politician hidden deep beneath the city. With their backing, I will gather a small army of volunteers to locate and bring the forgotten to sanctuary.

I will also expand my reach globally, with members of my team in alliance with philanthropists and well-meaning politicians to secure more funds and bunkers in strategic locations all over the globe. This way I can save lives that the society has deemed useless, those who cannot pay their way to safety.

Although my team and I will have much territory to cover in such little time, we will make sure comb the streets, the shelters, and the orphanages, providing shelter for all those who have none. We will disguise our true intentions by dressing as a relief organization passing out food and rations. We will communicate genuinely to the individuals and families we hope to rescue, and upon their consent, they will have to board a bus to the bunker’s hidden location immediately.

The bunker will be stocked with supplies of food, a water filtration system, medical supplies, and dormitories to accommodate hundreds.

Of course when word of this eventually gets out, there will be resistance and the authorities will say that we are interfering with “official” evacuations, but we aren’t going to let that stop us. My team will work without rest, rescuing as many as possible.

On the day of impact, our bunker will be at full capacity. We will huddle together underground as the earth shakes and the sky burns, terrified yet hopeful, knowing that we have given these forgotten souls a chance.

When the dust settles and a new reality dawns, our bunker will be little more than a haven; it will be a community. We will prove that even at the darkest hour of humanity, compassion and solidarity can preserve life. On the ashes of the old world, we will become the foundation on which a better and kinder society will be built, one that remembers everyone— rich or poor.

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Role: Doomsday Cult Leader

The Plan:

As the self-proclaimed Prophet, I am able to amass a group of followers who would believe that the asteroid was not meant to be some harbinger of doom but a Celestial gift sent to purge Earth from its corruption. Through fiery sermons and grandiose proclamations, I preach that the asteroid contains an otherworldly energy, nicknamed Starfire, that will awaken latent powers in those who prepare correctly for its arrival.

Our hidden fortress, our Sanctum had been constructed deep within a mountain range deep in the Grand Canyons, fortified against the chaos to come. Stocked with enough supplies to last for many years, hydroponic gardens, filtration systems, and weapons to fend off the non-believers, my followers are a steadfast, ritualistic people known, and are trained in survival tactics and martial arts in preparation for the “New Dawn.”

In order to extract Starfire from the asteroid, I institute rigorous practices: fasting for “purification of the body,” meditation to “open the mind,” and the wearing of silver tattoos to “attune to celestial frequencies.” Chosen few are made Vessels of the Starfire, persons who will supposedly become incredibly powerful and lead humanity into a new age following the impact.

Our hidden ace is a heavily modified 3D printer capable of producing tools, weapons, and medical supplies post-impact. Additionally, I have secretly made a deal with a rogue astrophysicist to provide updates on the asteroid’s trajectory and expected impact zone.

The Result:

Chaos will be unleashed on the surface at the moment of the asteroid’s impact, but we will rise in the belly of our Sanctum as the new world order. Whether this asteroid does or does not bless us with Starfire, the belief of my followers makes them unshakeable. We will then emerge afterward as the architects of either humanity’s rebirth or its rulers.

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My Role: As Joe Biden, the president of the United States, I have convened a special emergency security meeting to make sure that impending disaster is averted. This special meeting has been expended to include knowledgeable members of the scientific community such as astronomers and action group from NASA and SpaceX. At the meeting, I called for actionable plan to avert a collision with the asteroid. This plan must be put in effect within one week.

The Plan:
Members reached the consensus that the best approach is to reach the asteroid, drill some holes down to it’s core, place the most powerful nuclear bombs mankind has made in it’s core and blow it to pieces.

Our scientists consulted with others to select the most appropriate bombs to use and chose a combination on bunker-busting clutter bombs capable of drilling down the asteroid before exploding and a couple of nuclear bombs. We agreed that four teams consisting of two nuclear bombs-armed groups and two bunker-busting bombs armed groups would work in synergy to rig the asteroid with the bombs, and remotely explode them after placing them in the core of the asteroid.

The shuttle pilots would land on the asteroid, the four groups will get to work and drill to the core of the asteroid, place the explosives and get off the asteroid before detonating them. The location of these four holes and their coordinates were determined to ensure that no large chunk of the asteroid impacts the earth.

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