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  2. Doomsday device - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    [80] [81] Nuclear war could yield unprecedented human death tolls and habitat destruction. Detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons would have an immediate, short term and long-term effects on the climate, potentially causing cold weather known as a " nuclear winter " [ 82 ] with reduced sunlight and photosynthesis [ 83 ] that may generate ...

  4. Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat ...

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    Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth ...

  5. Every challenge that would occur if humans tried to land on ...

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    If you could somehow make it through all of that, then a blistering hot core made of iron and nickel awaits you at the planet’s center—along with a surprise, as scientists have yet to discover ...

  6. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    The spice, in larger quantities, has a hallucinogenic effect, and when consumed in excess can cause psychosis and death. Number 5.Underestimating a cow. 22 a year. That is how many annual U.S ...

  8. Teleportation - Wikipedia

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    A generalization of quantum mechanics suggests particles could be teleported from one place to another. [24] This is called particle teleportation. With this concept, superconductivity can be viewed as the teleportation of some electrons in the superconductor and superfluidity as the teleportation of some of the atoms in the cellular tube ...

  9. Tay al-Ard - Wikipedia

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    Tay al-Arḍ (Arabic: طيّ الأرض, romanized: folding up of the earth or "traveling long distances in the twinkling of an eye." [1]) is the name for thaumaturgical teleportation in the mystical form of Islam and Islamic philosophy.