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  2. Impact winter - Wikipedia

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    A human is more likely to die in a fire, flood, or other natural disaster than to die because of an asteroid or comet impact. [2] Another study in 1994 found a 1-in-10,000 chance that the Earth will be hit by a large asteroid or comet with a diameter of about 2 km (1.2 mi) during the next century.

  3. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. [1]Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

  4. Future of Earth - Wikipedia

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    An uncertain factor is the influence of human technology such as climate engineering, [2] which could cause significant changes to the planet. [3] [4] For example, the current Holocene extinction [5] is being caused by technology, [6] and the effects may last for up to five million years. [7]

  5. What fate awaits the Earth when our sun dies? - AOL

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    After the sun celebrates its 11 billionth birthday, scientists believe it will continue to expand to the point where it is 166 times bigger than it is now.

  6. Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, however, all multicellular life will die out. [83] The first sea animals to go extinct will be large fish, followed by small fish and then, finally, invertebrates. [80] The last animals to go extinct will be animals that do not depend on living plants, such as termites, or those near hydrothermal vents, such as worms of the genus ...

  7. Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we ...

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  8. Nuclear winter - Wikipedia

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    Pollack, Toon and others were involved in developing models of Titan's climate in the late 1980s, at the same time as their early nuclear winter studies. [224] Similarly, extinction-level comet and asteroid impacts are also believed to have generated impact winters by the pulverization of massive amounts of fine rock

  9. Humans Will Soon Go Extinct Unless We Can Find 5 More ... - AOL

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    Humans will soon go extinct unless we can find 5 more earths. We’re basically in the days of the dinosaurs, according to Stanford scientists.