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Jan 23, 2024 · CNN — The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90...
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The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru , or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion ; or a supernova .
The Extinction Clock shows the date and source of various claims about the end of the world or the extinction of species. See how climate change, natural disasters, and human activities could affect the planet and its inhabitants by 2050 or beyond.
Extinction ClockDate & SourceClaimDoomsday Date75 Years 193 Days 15 Hours 24 Minutes 46 ...80% of Emperor penguins will be extinct ...December 31, 209945 Years 186 Days 15 Hours 24 Minutes 46 ...Increasing natural disasters, drought and ...December 31, 206932 Years 321 Days 14 Hours 24 Minutes 46 ...Within a lifetime, humans might be living ...May 18, 205725 Years 181 Days 15 Hours 24 Minutes 46 ...'Planet will be uninhabitable for ...December 31, 2049- Asteroid Impact. Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously. But there is no question that a cosmic interloper will hit Earth, and we won't have to wait millions of years for it to happen.
- Gamma-ray Burst. If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi. Once a day or so, you would see a bright flash appear, briefly outshine everything else, then vanish.
- Collapse of the Vacuum. In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine," a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature.
- Rogue Black Holes. Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide. How full? Tough question. After all, they're called black holes for a reason.
Jul 14, 2016 · In a dingy apartment building, insulated by layers of hanging rugs, the last family on Earth huddles around a fire, melting a pot of oxygen. Ripped from the sun's warmth by a rogue dark star, the planet has been exiled to the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
Jan 24, 2023 · Humanity is closer than ever to the end of the world. That was the dire warning this week from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which, since 1947, has been estimating how close the world...
Dec 20, 2012 · The Earth will face its actual apocalypse when the Sun becomes a red giant and engulfs our planet in a few billion years. Learn what will happen to life on Earth and how some microbes may survive in extreme conditions.
6th trumpet war - 2 billion dead! The beast of Revelation - the False Prophet
