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In Chodenji Machine Voltes V, a Magmite bomb was planted by general Oslack to destroy the Earth. In the cartoon Invader Zim, the Planet Jackers tried to feed the Earth to their sun to keep it from going out. In Gunbuster, Buster Machine #7 and #19 work in tandem to destroy an Earth-sized life form and a black hole which it carries in tow.
In the 2017 episode "The Pyramid at the End of the World", the Monks changed every clock in the world to three minutes to midnight as a warning about what will happen if humanity does not accept their help. Representatives of the three most powerful armies on Earth agreed not to fight each other, believing a potential war is the catastrophe.
A powerful solar flare, solar superstorm or a solar micronova, which is a drastic and unusual decrease or increase in the Sun's power output, could have severe consequences for life on Earth. [146] [147] Conjectured illustration of the scorched Earth after the Sun has entered the red giant phase, about seven billion years from now [148]
On the other hand, extraterrestrial civilizations with malicious intent could send (unfiltered) information that could enable or facilitate human civilization to destroy itself, [115] [116] such as powerful computer viruses, knowledge to build an advanced artificial intelligence [116] or information on how to make extremely potent weapons that ...
Being unable to compete with AI in this new technological era, Professor Bostrom warns, could see humanity replaced as the dominant lifeform on Earth. The superintelligence may then see us as ...
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.
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).
Controlling the technology may protect humans (and human intelligence) and lead to transformational changes, Hill says, but an unfettered proliferation of the technology could reap a variety of ...