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For all of you who are unfamiliar with a comet collision, I will make this brief.

The comet with hit earth. Fragments may break off into the atmosphere, possibly causing multiple collisions. Six teratons, was it? Twenty-five megatons would flatten reinforced concrete buildings in a radius of five miles around ground zero. This would be four-hundred thousand times the force. And the worst they're worried about is a few tsunamis? It's enough to knock the earth from its axis. This tiny island, if not already obliterated by the impact, will be at the bottom of the ocean before it hits.

If we somehow do manage to survive the impact and its immediate after-effects, we can look forward to a post-impact winter. The comet should have enough force to knock enough dust into the atmosphere to make it bone-chillingly cold until the turn of the next century.

Classes will continue as scheduled.

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I'm gonna make a prediction about this being one of the calmest, but also most terrifying reaction posts to this whole thing. I'll take bets.

Wait, no. Given this place that's probably not a good idea, right? Nobody bet with me.

We'll see if it follows through.

You think it won't?

Either way it's out of our control.

It's probably about to get a lot worse around here, anyway.

We'll see how desperate people can get.

It's not gonna be pretty! Though I doubt 'pretty' is something you can say of the end of the world all that often.

WOW

You have quite a lot to look forward to.

It hardly seems worth the effort.

Yeah yeah I know. You've been through this before?

I don't know, if I was in charge of the end of the world, I'd make sure there were fireworks and nice decorations. Maybe little giftbags on the way out.

I have.

There's nothing special about it, we're merely victims of circumstance.

And?

And what part would you like me to expand upon?

Clearly you lived.

I wasn't within fifteen miles of impact.

Well wouldn't it be fucking fantastic if we could leave!

Yes, and then what? Even though you're immortal, I doubt that you would survival the social conditions after the post-impact winter set in.

Is that a challenge?

Do I need to count the times you freeze to death?

I imagine it'll lose its novelty after a while, yeah.

Well thanks for somehow making an apocalypse MORE depressing, love.

I hope, for your sake, that the meteor obliterates the barrier along with the rest of this island. Otherwise you may find yourself stuck in the middle of an unrelenting ocean.

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