Catastrophes
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- Armageddon Online
- Notes, news and links on destructive forces of the universe from volcanoes, tsunamis, plagues and nuclear weapons on Earth to stars collapsing and exploding into hypernovae across the galaxy.
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- Possible Future Global Catastrophes
- This survey considers earthquake, pandemic, alien aggression, interplanetary impact, supernova, ice age, nuclear catastrophe, bioterror, and nanotech robot aggression.
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- WWW Bomb Shelter
- Virtual "bomb shelter," based on instructions from Soviet Union Cold-War-era pamphlets, offers information on preparing for nuclear attacks, as well as histories and descriptions of various nuclear weapons.
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- Challenges of Nanotechnology Misuse Cited in Leslie's 'The End of the World'
- From the Foresight Institute (which specialises in nanotechnology). (September 15, 1996)
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- Book: The End of the World - The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
- by Prof. John Leslie. The first comprehensive survey of potential catastrophes speculated upon by scientists, from comet and asteroid impacts to nuclear or chemical warfare, from ozone layer destruction to overpopulation and poisoning of the environment or the risk of disaster through genetic engineering. Also covers philosophy and ethics. 1996
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- Existential Risks
- Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity.
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- Musing on Beginning and End
- Thoughts on the enormity of the cosmos and the life cycle of civilizations, including our own.
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- The Future Watch
- The site intended to prevent the cataclysmic end-of-the-world scenarios caused by advancing technology. Articles, news and media references.
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- The Universal Extinction Constant
- The site author, Alan J Bessant, introduces his thesis and promotes understanding of the Universal Extinction Constant and Extinction Threat Level.
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- Cambridge Conference Correspondence
- Home page and archives of forum discussing geological, historical, and potential near-earth-object (NEO) impacts, NEO research and risk assessment, and social policies and social change to ameliorate impact effects.
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- Future Asteroid Interception Research
- An organization raising funds for projects that search for threatening asteroids.
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- Impact
- Describes the threat posed by a comet or asteroid impact and provides disaster preparedness planning for such an event.
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- Revelation 13: Could an Asteroid or Comet Hit Earth?
- The prophecies of the Bible and Nostradamus predict that an asteroid or comet could hit earth.
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- Horizon - Supervolcanoes
- It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. The impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend - huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die.
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- Australian Spaceguard Survey
- (Unofficial homepage) Status of the Australian NEO search, Draft Proposal for Australia, News, Risks of impact, Tsunami, Books, and links.
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