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And You Thought All You Had to Worry About Was H-bombs
2000-10-16 23:15:37
Discover Magazine has developed a list of 20 potential ways the world could end. Some of them are pretty cool. Others are Sci-Fi clichés. They obvious had to stretch to make it to 20.
I'm not buying #3 (Vacuum Collapse) or #5 (Magnetic Field Failure). #18 (Alien Invasion) has some promise... but space is pretty big, so those Damn Ay-leens are probably pretty far away and not very interested in us. Personally, if I had my choice, I take #20... but that's just me.
The complete list:
- Asteroid impact
- Gamma-ray burst
- Collapse of the vacuum
- Rogue black holes
- Giant solar flares Solar flares
- Reversal of Earth's magnetic field
- Flood-basalt volcanism
- Global epidemics
- Global warming
- Ecosystem collapse
- Biotech disaster
- Particle accelerator mishap
- Nanotechnology disaster
- Environmental toxins
- Global war
- Robots take over
- Mass insanity
- Alien invasion
- Divine intervention
- Someone wakes up and realizes it was all a dream
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