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Computer game forecasts EOTWAWKI by 2042

stbalbach — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:16:38 -0800

According to the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS, by the Institute For the Future) - a simulation based on "the worlds’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game" - by the year 2042 AD there is a potentially terminal combination of five so-called “super-threats” which represent a collision of environmental, economic, and social risks. Acting together, the five super-threats may irreversibly overwhelm homo sapiens ability to survive. Spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General “We are grateful for GEAS’ work, and we treat their latest forecast with seriousness and profound gravity.”[[press release]]. The game runs from Oct.8 to Nov. 6, players wanted.

End of the World? ABC wants your ideas

stbalbach — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:14:46 -0800

Earth2100.tv is a project by ABC (video preview) to solicit ideas from the public and experts about the dangers facing world in the next 100 years. "The world’s brightest minds agree that the “perfect storm” of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results. We need you to bring this story to life."

This is the way the world ends

Artw — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:53:59 -0800

Superstar Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison is about to tear the DC Universe apart again with Final Crisis, the latest in a series of apocalypses and world ending events he's inflicted on various comics worlds over the years. But there was a time before fame when he wrote the tie-in comic for ZOIDS, the robot dinosaur children's toy. So what did he do? Ushered in the apocalypse, in the form of THE BLACK ZOID.

And I Feel Fine

amyms — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:32:04 -0800

The End Of The World As We Know It. If you want to imagine the catastrophe - how you would cope, what would you do to save yourself and your family - where do you turn for advice?... The idea of dying together, all of us, in some ways seems less appalling than the thought of going alone. Via.

At The End Of The World, No One Can Hear You Scream.

amyms — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:44 -0800

10 Disasters That Could Cause The End The World At Any Given Second. [Via, via].

Rapture ready, underground

Artw — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:58:29 -0800

Russian sect says world ends May 2008. And no, you can't borrow their cave. ...other dates for the end of the world, some of which may have been a little pre-emptive.

Strangelove's Doomsday: fiction meets facts

craven_morhead — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:32:27 -0800

Dr. Strangelove's Doomsday device may be more fact than fiction. We've had doomsday stories here before, but what if dead hand control of nuclear devices is real? Perhaps live-hand control is better. You could always try your hand at a nuclear apocalypse.

The End Of The World Is Coming. No, Really. It Is.

RayOrama — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:39:43 -0800

The end of the world has been foretold so many times we have come to dismiss it. But it's fun to think of how it will all happen.

10,000 Reasons Can't Be Wrong

keswick — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:33:24 -0800

Ten thousand reasons the world is doomed.

sun go boom

languagehat — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:02:58 -0800

Life (Briefly) Near a Supernova (pdf, Google cache) by Steven Dutch (UW-Green Bay). What might it be like on a planet orbiting a star that went supernova? "It would take on the order of 100,000 seconds, or about a day, to receive enough energy to vaporize the Earth." Yes, Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven are name-checked. (And yes, the Sun is too small to actually go supernova, killjoy.) Via the nonist.