Only you know that doomsday's coming

[ThrillingHuman]

Imagine following scenario:
You are an astrophysicist that has detected anomalous behaviour on the surface of the Sun. You realise that, according to the established models, this behaviour will result in a massive Sun flare and through running the calculations you find out that this flare will inevitably hit the Earth and destroy the Earth's atmosphere rendering the surface of our planet uninhabitable. This will happen in a year at the latest. You do not doubt your findings. Nobody else knows because you are working in a uniquely equipped laboratory and are the only person dealing with the specific readings you have received.
What do you do?
-based on a dream

 

[CrimsonGenius]

We’re doomed. Don’t tell anyone. Nothing we can do with the current tech. Eat waffles. Be real.

 

[Dieter]

I feel like there is already a manga or manhwa made based on this. Almost literally the same plot (except he is a kid and has to become a scientist first, which he does, and fails multiple times, each time regressing back).

 

[RainyLiquid]

Nothing?

What do you want me to do, box the sun and make it not flare?

 

[Jaicodonutsz]

Nah, I'd reset the Universe

 

[Insomniologist]

Infinite Lions.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Post it in twitter and be done with. That's about the only thing you can do if you're by some kind of cosmic comedy the only one that can notice this. Maybe contact your colleagues and THE GOVERNMENT (not the Murricans, they would just try to nuke the sun) and maybe try to buy and build yourself a thermo-nuclear bunker on one of the geographic poles. But first of all, doomsaying on Twitter and Instagram.

 

[jrell]

Simply fly to the sun at night and fix the issue

 

[FluffyGura]

Live my best live! Take my car for a spin through the world bank! Break every law there is! (Of course nothing morally compromising actions) Maybe tick a bucket list? Hijack a motorcycle and ride it at full speed, anything as long as I don't need to see humanity ends as we know it, maybe go out in a blaze of glory too. Of course I can also just beg for help from some of the mystical creatures that live in this forum. Cough cough

 

[Representing_Tromba]

If there was nothing we could do then telling people would just cause panic and the purge, sometimes. Plus, it's not like an average Joe would be believable to people, astrophysicist or not.

 

[ElijahRyne]

Imagine following scenario:
You are an astrophysicist that has detected anomalous behaviour on the surface of the Sun. You realise that, according to the established models, this behaviour will result in a massive Sun flare and through running the calculations you find out that this flare will inevitably hit the Earth and destroy the Earth's atmosphere rendering the surface of our planet uninhabitable. This will happen in a year at the latest. You do not doubt your findings. Nobody else knows because you are working in a uniquely equipped laboratory and are the only person dealing with the specific readings you have received.
What do you do?
-based on a dream

Report it, and hope it is a malfunction/mistake in the equipment and/or data gathering…

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

Infinite Lions.

I think you meant loans....

 

[Pixytokisaki14]

Imagine following scenario:
You are an astrophysicist that has detected anomalous behaviour on the surface of the Sun. You realise that, according to the established models, this behaviour will result in a massive Sun flare and through running the calculations you find out that this flare will inevitably hit the Earth and destroy the Earth's atmosphere rendering the surface of our planet uninhabitable. This will happen in a year at the latest. You do not doubt your findings. Nobody else knows because you are working in a uniquely equipped laboratory and are the only person dealing with the specific readings you have received.
What do you do?
-based on a dream

Live my life like i do, then at the final day, I'd just grab a beer and sit in a bathtub wearing a pair of shades to become one of those environmental storytelling skeletons from fallout.

 

[xuduxixi]

Think about how did I get the budget and resources to build my own advance facilities and why the hell the government doesn't know of it.

 

[Indicterra]

Inform government, as much as I like to shit on them. There isn't anyone else better deal with this shit

And I like to think they have some contingency for this type of shits. Hell they have a plan for actual zombie apocalypse

 

[Lloyd]

Nothing.

 

[melchi]

Considering in the dream I'm a scientist, peer review of the data would be the next step.

Until they can reproduce the same data then it could be something as simple as a calibration error or a calculation error.

 

[ManwX]

The sun turns off at night so just chil

 

[Insomniologist]

I think you meant loans....

No…

(This isn’t the exact video I was thinking of, but you get the idea. If you had infinite of anything you could theoretically force the sun to destroy the earth long before the forecasted apocalypse)

 

[ThrillingHuman]

No…

(This isn’t the exact video I was thinking of, but you get the idea. If you had infinite of anything you could theoretically force the sun to destroy the earth long before the forecasted apocalypse)

The Sun is a miasma / Of incandescent plasma

This goes hard