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  2. Planetary Annihilation - Wikipedia

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    Planetary Annihilation is a real-time strategy PC game originally developed by Uber Entertainment, whose staff included several video game industry veterans who worked on Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. The game was released in 2014, and the stand-alone expansion Planetary Annihilation: Titans was released in 2015.

  3. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    In April 2008, it was announced that two simulations of long-term planetary movement, one at the Paris Observatory and the other at the University of California, Santa Cruz, indicate a 1% chance that Mercury's orbit could be made unstable by Jupiter's gravitational pull sometime during the lifespan of the Sun. Were this to happen, the ...

  4. Human extinction - Wikipedia

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    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), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

  5. List of video game crowdfunding projects - Wikipedia

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    Uber's second Kickstarter project after Planetary Annihilation in September 2012. The campaign was cancelled before its scheduled 4 November end date after it looked unlikely to succeed. Not funded [126] [127] Pathologic: Ice-Pick Lodge: Kickstarter: Oct 7, 2014: $250,000 $333,127 Psychological horror video game.

  6. Global catastrophic risk - Wikipedia

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    Further, in 2019, the Club published the more comprehensive Planetary Emergency Plan. [ 52 ] There is evidence to suggest that collectively engaging with the emotional experiences that emerge during contemplating the vulnerability of the human species within the context of climate change allows for these experiences to be adaptive.

  7. List of fictional doomsday devices - Wikipedia

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    The Annihilaser from Planetary Annihilation is used by building 5 massive Catalysts on the north pole of a metal planet, allowing the player to fire a weapon from it. After a short charge, the planet will rotate to its target and fire an extremely powerful beam of energy that goes straight though a planet, expanding and destroying it.

  8. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union contribute to the danger of nuclear annihilation as they each deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe. The adjustment also accounts for the Iran hostage crisis , the Iran–Iraq War , China's atmospheric nuclear warhead test, the declaration of martial law in Poland , apartheid in ...

  9. Planetary boundaries - Wikipedia

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    The Planetary Boundaries framework contributes to an understanding of global sustainability because it brings a planetary scale and a long timeframe into focus. [ 7 ] The framework described nine "planetary life support systems" essential for maintaining a "desired Holocene state", and attempted to quantify how far seven of these systems had ...