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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 ".
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.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man made, such as nuclear holocaust; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; religious, such as the Rapture or Great Tribulation; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.
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.
It’s a bizarre and tragic case of murder, unexplained deaths and apocalyptic cult beliefs about killing zombies – which played out in court for the first time when Lori Vallow stood trial. Now ...
The high-profile trial of “doomsday cult mom” Lori Vallow is underway in Boise, Idaho. Ms Vallow, 49, is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and grand theft over the deaths of ...
And her husband had been shot dead by her brother (who would also soon be dead) not long before. ... the company that released his doomsday books. Just one month after the children vanished – on ...