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- End of the Week, End of the World 08-01-09
In case you want to get that 5-minute warning regarding your imminent doom as an asteroid is about to strike the Earth, you can follow NASA's Asteroid Watch on twitter: @asteroidwatch Sleep well. Stopping Armegeddon, XKCD-style! The prope ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-08-01 03:03 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 10-30-09
From the democratization of violence to the democratization of virulence : how a garage lab mistake could wipe us out. A mistake in a factory can result in scores of injuries or deaths. A mistake at a chemical plant can kill thousands. But a mi ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-10-22 00:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 10-23-09
Here's some discussion of an apocalypse that fits right into Eclipse Phase : 11 Ways to Avoid an Extremely Bad Singularity . See also this response . (EotW, singularity) ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-10-22 00:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 04-10-09
How does death by death star sound? No, not the Star Wars kind -- the kind of star that dies, explodes in a supernova, and sends a wave of killer gamma-ray radiation across the nearby stellar neighborhood, wiping out life. ObEP: A group of g ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-04-10 21:11 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 05-22-09
Humanity Plus magazine asks several sci-writers, AI researchers, and other tech-thinkers if a Terminator-style scenario is possible . The results range from interesting to humorous. Well, if someone built a global computer security system and i ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-05-22 15:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 02-20-09
Add " dark comets " to the category of death-by-meteor-strike. Dark comets are comets that have already burned off their icy layers and so are too dark to see. (EotW) ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-02-20 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 01-09-09
All of the talks from November's Global Catastrophic Risks conference are now online. (EotW) ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-01-10 01:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- End of the Week, End of the World 01-03-09
The recent earth-shaking going on over at Yellowstone may be foreshadowing a mega-eruption that could have a catastrophic climate impact , equivalent to a major asteroid strike. (EotW) ...
Blog entry - RobBoyle - 2009-01-03 13:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
