[Foss-cafe] a little piece i wrote on the end of the world

[Daniel Cassidy]

Pupeno wrote:

>>so a president gets word a big space rock is headed for us: what does he
>>do? what *can* he do?
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>Answering your question... from any leader (any president of the country where i happen to be living now or any other country) I would expect him to deploy all the means of evacuation and expose all the facts to the population.
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Agreed. Bearing in mind that people are going to evacuate whether you 
organise it or not, it is clear that economic disruption is unavoidable. 
The best choice, therefore, is to organise an evacuation but not to make 
it mandatory.