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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion - Wikipedia

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    Annihilation reactions, which would start soon after the Penning trap is destroyed, is to provide the energy to begin the nuclear fusion in the thermonuclear fuel. If the chosen degree of compression is high, a device with increased explosive/propulsive effects is obtained, and if it is low, that is, the fuel is not at high density, a ...

  7. Roland Emmerich - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. German filmmaker (born 1955) Roland Emmerich Emmerich in 2016 Born (1955-11-10) 10 November 1955 (age 69) Stuttgart, West Germany Citizenship Germany United States Alma mater University of Television and Film Munich Occupations Film director producer screenwriter Years active 1979 ...

  8. Planetary protection - Wikipedia

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    Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth in the case of sample-return missions. Planetary protection reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to ...

  9. Worlds in Collision - Wikipedia

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    Worlds in Collision was first published on April 3, 1950, by Macmillan Publishers. [1] Macmillan's interest in publishing it was encouraged by the knowledge that Velikovsky had obtained a promise from Gordon Atwater, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, for a sky show [clarification needed] based on the book when it was published. [2]