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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
If you were an astronomer and you discovered a doomsday object on a collision course with Earth, what would you do?
Double check, discuss internally with colleagues to verify, discuss with military to analyze impact and solve issue. If world is doomed, sue the Vatican for violation of Human Rights plus everything else <fill_in_deity> and <fill_in_law> forbid me to, like here.

One could say don't release this to general public because it will destabilize society but one could also say they have the right to know. It is a difficult question to answer, very much related to ethics and self-interest. In some situations it isn't desired to teach someone (or whole society) a fact because the prospected outcome is seen as negative, and cannot be worked around to become positive while still teaching the fact although a marketing drone may be able to mitigate the negative effect as much as possible. Perhaps, the best solution is to find the best marketing drones on earth and discuss the matter. These top notch marketing drones tend to reside in politics...
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Last edited by allnameswereout; 2009-11-14 at 20:13.