Basically this post highlights the ways in which we could die.
Happy thoughts. If you're reading this in the morning, Hi! Enjoy your day.
Let's jot down the ways you and I and everything can be destroyed.
Let's tear apart this house of cards. And not worry about the mess we make.
Again, happy thoughts.
This list starts from stuff that we find easy to imagine, to stuff
that will take an infinite time to happen. But these have a very real chance of
happening nonetheless. Some stuff I cooked up from my morbid imagination. Good
luck figuring out which is which.
So, here goes:
- An asteroid larger than 1.6 km across strikes Earth. This could create a mass extinction similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Unless…we stop it first.
- A massive solar flare tarnishes all our satellite technology, and sends the digital age back to square one. Or negative infinity…
- The sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the Earth. In 5 billion years. The Earth will be charred, and so will humans, unless we become spacefarers.
- A supernova ravages Earth from just a few dozen light years. We won’t even know what hit us. Betelgeuse is pretty close…
Now, the next few will destroy humanity assuming we’ve braved the
aforementioned disasters. And no amount of hope and prayer will save us. But
they will have to wait. I think this enough to ponder, though we haven’t even
gotten to the good stuff yet.
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