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I would disarm the entire world, because it would be cool to see people have massive battles using only their teeth and nails. Those of us who floss regularly would soon rule the earth!
-- Mr. Bad
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
If you want to read more about it...
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