Dear Reddit, if you had learned that a large asteroid is headed towards Earth in 4 months and there's a 60% chance of avoiding it, what would be the first thing you do?

Continue on with life. Keep smashing kids with Gangplank in league
— BlakeGarrison62

I'd design a spacecraft in Kerbal Space Program that could redirect the asteroid. Unless I get a job as a spacecraft engineer, in which case I'd design the damn thing in real life.
— alric8

Depends how big we're talking about. Dinosaur-level? Start doing what I can to stockpile food. Depending on how many other people heard about it, not good odds. Thinking about survival techniques. Ceres-size? (For reference, the size of the asteroid in Armageddon is about as big as Ceres.) Nothing would change other than bucket list stuff. Because there's no surviving that, period, for anyone, anything, period. It hits wherever, everything on earth dies within 24 hours, as it sends a wall of super-heated evaporated rock across the planet, flash-scorching the world, evaporating all the oceans. Oceans would not come back for hundreds of years, the planet would be too hot for liquid water to stick around. (to calm fellow anxiety-havers we know exactly where all asteroids of this size are and they're all in stable orbits, being dwarf planets more than traditional asteroids).
— SkyShadowing

Take out all of my savings, leave my job, and just have as much sex as humanly possible.
— BrianPillmansGun

Weird scenario. There's a 40% chance of complete destruction, but there's also a better than even chance we'll all be fine. If it were a 100% chance of doom, I'd be trying to break down all the behavior-patterns I follow for long term gain, and try to do whatever will be most fun in the remaining time. But this wouldn't be good in the case of only a 40% chance of doom. Like, quitting my job and maxing out all my credit cards and stuff would be pretty bad in the 60% scenario where it misses us. I presume that the percentage is going to either rise or drop as the asteroid gets closer. So, I'd at least work on a plan -- say, what am I gonna do if it gets closer and we revise the prediction so that it's only 10% likely to die? (In which case: do nothing special.) Or 80% likely to die? (In which case: take time off work but don't quit, maybe run some cards up but fall short of maxing them out in case of later emergency) -- would also need to figure out specifically what I'd wanna go do, and what I'd wanna spend money on. Get drugs for all my friends who wanna be in orgies together, probably.
— Chimerasame

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