Doomsday scenario

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*A black hole drops in on the solar system
 
*A black hole drops in on the solar system
 
*The sun becomes a red giant (no need to hurry)
 
*The sun becomes a red giant (no need to hurry)
*Burst of magnetism kills Earth's magnetic field
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*Burst of magnetism from a solar flare kills Earth's magnetic field
 
*Quantum fluctuations in gravity suck the earth into the sun (unlikely)
 
*Quantum fluctuations in gravity suck the earth into the sun (unlikely)
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*Gamma ray burst from two stars colliding (absurdly unlikely)
  
 
===Biological===
 
===Biological===

Revision as of 01:45, 4 May 2009

A doomsday scenario is a story of how we might meet our horrible end as a species, or even how the earth might be destroyed. These range from the mythical, to the silly, to the paranoid, to the scientific.

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Mythical

Silly

Paranoid

  • The New World Order takes over, and finally tires of anally probing us and vapes the planet.
  • A "Camp of the Saints" scenario, from the novel by Jean Raspail of the same name, in which civilization collapses due to hordes of illegal immigrants

Scientific

Outer space

  • A large meteorite surprises us and impacts the Earth, totally screwing up Archer Daniels Midland's monopoly on genetically modified soybeans.
  • A black hole drops in on the solar system
  • The sun becomes a red giant (no need to hurry)
  • Burst of magnetism from a solar flare kills Earth's magnetic field
  • Quantum fluctuations in gravity suck the earth into the sun (unlikely)
  • Gamma ray burst from two stars colliding (absurdly unlikely)

Biological

  • A new virus/bacteria/parasite evolves and eliminates mankind (not exactly doomsday because life will go on)

Planetary

  • Runaway global warming on a scope of Venus
  • Yellowstone National park blows its top (the entire park lies on a supervolcano that has gone off several times in the past) <insert fart joke here>

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