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  2. Global catastrophic risk - Wikipedia

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    A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, [2] even endangering or destroying modern civilization. [3] An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential is known as an " existential risk ".

  3. Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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    Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on salted hydrogen bombs creating large amounts of nuclear fallout.. A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.

  4. Doomsday (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday was developed in one of the harshest habitats in all of existence: prehistoric Krypton. Through cloning technology, the infant continually returned to life and evolved, becoming resistant or immune to whatever killed him before, ultimately permanently acquiring the capability to regenerate and evolve without technology.

  5. Category:Doomsday scenarios - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday scenarios are possible events that could cause human extinction or the destruction of all or most life on Earth (a "true" or "major" Armageddon scenario), or alternatively a "lesser" Armageddon scenario in which the cultural, technological, environmental or social world is so greatly altered it could be considered like a different world.

  6. Doomsday - Wikipedia

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    Doomsday may refer to: Eschatology , a time period described in the eschatological writings in Abrahamic religions and in doomsday scenarios of non-Abrahamic religions. Global catastrophic risk , a hypothetical event explored in science and fiction where human civilization or life is at risk of partial or complete destruction.

  7. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    Here are 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly. ... However, if one measuring 50-meters-wide and speeding towards Earth at roughly 9 miles per second exploded in the air, it would be ...

  8. What is superintelligence? How AI could wipe out humanity ...

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    In the ‘Unfinished Fable of the Sparrows’, a group of small birds come up with a plan to capture an owl egg and raise the chick as their servant.

  9. Existential risk from artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    An existential risk is "one that threatens the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent and drastic destruction of its potential for desirable future development". [67] Besides extinction risk, there is the risk that the civilization gets permanently locked into a flawed future.