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Another is in the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine (1967), where the crew of the Enterprise fights a powerful planet-killing alien machine. However, doomsday devices also expanded to encompass many other types of fictional technology, one of the most famous of which is the Death Star, a planet-destroying, moon-sized space station. [6 ...
The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, the World's Most Dangerous Fuel is a 2012 book by Martin Cohen and Andrew McKillop which addresses a broad range of concerns regarding the nuclear industry, the economics and environmental aspects of nuclear energy, nuclear power plants, and nuclear accidents.
The Time Machine: H. G. Wells: Towards the end of the book the Time Traveler witnesses the Sun's expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth. Novel 1898 Aliens The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells: Novel 1901 Eco The Purple Cloud: M. P. Shiel: A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. Story 1906 Sun "Finis" Frank Lillie Pollock
Paul Davies, How to build a time machine, 2002, Penguin popular science, ISBN 0-14-100534-3 gives a very brief non-mathematical description of Gott's alternative; the specific setup is not intended by Gott as the best-engineered approach to moving backwards in time, rather, it is a theoretical argument for a non-wormhole means of time travel.
In January, the leaders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the world was at “doom’s doorstep.” The group declared that the Doomsday Clock stood at 100 seconds to ...
Doomsday Machine may refer to: Doomsday device, a hypothetical weapon which could destroy all life on the Earth; Doomsday Machine, a 1972 science-fiction film; The Doomsday Machine, a 2012 non-fiction book arguing that nuclear energy is a kind of 'Doomsday' strategy "The Doomsday Machine" (Star Trek: The Original Series), a 1967 episode of Star ...
The Doomsday Clock has moved closer to midnight than it has ever been, and is now just 90 seconds away from striking 12, scientists have said. ... the world has entered a time of nuclear danger ...
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 ".