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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.
Gray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves, [1] [2] a scenario that has been called ecophagy (the literal consumption of the ecosystem). [3]
Decker evacuated his crew to a nearby planet, remaining aboard the Constellation until last; however, the machine subsequently destroyed the ship's transporter, and then the planet, killing the entire crew. Kirk theorizes that the machine is an ancient doomsday machine, which must be stopped before it reaches more populated sectors of the galaxy.
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.
A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass: Poem 1956 War "The Horses" Edwin Muir: Deals with society's regression to pre-Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war Novel 1957 War On the Beach: Nevil Shute: Also the films based on the book Novel 1957
After Bill destroys it with a hit from a rocket shot, the survivors board a sailboat and set sail for Haven. Two days later, the machines go silent when a UFO hiding in the comets tail is destroyed by a Soviet space platform disguised as a weather satellite, equipped with class IV nuclear missiles and a laser cannon. Six days later, Earth ...
The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines strive to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the human berserker warriors of Norse legend , are doomsday weapons left over from an interstellar war between two races of ...
In the Universal Studios theme park attraction T2 3-D, based on Terminator 2, a T-800 machine and a young John Connor journey into the post-apocalyptic future and attempt to destroy Skynet's "system core". This core is housed inside an enormous, metallic-silver pyramidal structure, and guarded by the "T-1000000", a colossal liquid metal shape ...