5 Kick-Ass Sci-Fi Apocalypses (That Could Actually Happen)

5. Already happened. Didn't actually kill the dinosaurs but turned them into birds. I'm not sure how but it did.

4. Starting to happen? Surveys show the 'computer literate' among us have a distinct advantage. Tila Tequila turned minor MySpace celebrity into actual dollars and a pseudo-career. Make friends with the machines now.

3. Already happened, several times. I'm not too worried about it, a resistant few always survive and evolve. Gotta love nature!

2. Business as usual, happening on a daily basis. Don't be afraid of the sunrise, people.

1. Did you even see "An Inconvenient Truth"?? We've already designed/built ourselves into an incredibly deep hole. But I'm an engineer, I believe we can design/build ourselves out of it. If we bother.

Derek from Bad Taste will save us all. Dereks don't take s**t from anyone. ANYONE.

Unfortunately for us Daleks can swim. Or at least, go along the bottom of the Thames

I just realized, we humans tend to worry about how we're all going to die a lot.

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murphy's law. sorry

robots don't have human instincts and notions like brotherhood, country. besides when humans make a complex plan about something it usually blows up in our faces. also take into account merfy's law

The robot problem would be easy, just have magnetic weapons, it'd f**k their circuits up reeeal good

If the purpose of the robots is to protect their country how would eliminating humanity be a solution..

The robot problem is easy. Just make sure everyone lives nearby factories which have random pits of incredibly hot robot-killing lava placed inside.

great article. Whenever I think of world ending catastrophes nowadays all I can think of is the movie Idiocrisy where stupid people breed intelligence out of existence. The world doesn't end with a bang but a loud farting noise.

Draykir you silly little man, have you even followed the success rate of missile defense? it doesn't work. They needed to cheat the system in order to get positive results (and they explain this part in any article on the topic) they tagged the missiles with locators and in some tests they didn't even bother using missiles, just hot air balloons. And the gap between a "fix" and a catastrophic problem, as the dead people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will tell you, is a little too long for it to matter, since in the meanwhile millions can still die that way. Also- in the medical context- each layer of complexity we add not only makes the next solution harder and more time consuming to find- it makes it far more expensive and further out of the reach of the financial means of many who would need it. I mean, we all understand you have a hard-on for technology. Hooray for you. But that doesn't make your half-assed defense of it any more coherent or plausible.

Lord Drayakir - Dude, seriously... It's not supposed to be serious, it's supposed to be freaking FUNNY!!! And it was, btw... I laughed a lot, as I always do...

This last one is f*****g stupid.

America has the Frankenstein complex, a term created by Asimov to explain humanity's fear of robots, but in general, it extends to all scientific progress.

Nanobots, or evolution, or unrestrained scientific research is a good thing, you asswipes. Just because it has the potential to create something horrible, chances are, it will also be able to undo it. DUH. Just like we have nuclear bombs now, well, now we have anti-missile defense.

Honestly, grow the f**k up. People that are afraid of this are probably afraid of fire, and think we should go live in caves.

On reflection, that sounded like spam. No really, the scary bug thread drew me here, then I invested most of an hour in enjoying the rest. I actually had other things to do, but it was worth postponing them.

Just stumbled on this site. Thanks for taking the time to add to gaity of nations. Wonderful stuff.

In the list of pandemics, the author forgot the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, which killed lots of healthy 20- and 30-year-olds rather than the usual children and old people.

Sorry, Obby. You're wrong. We do that with satellites and space-shuttles all the time by "sling shotting" them around planets and/or moons. In fact, that was one of the major problems encountered by the Apollo 13 craft was the possibility of coming in too shallow and skipping off into space. It's like skipping a stone on water. Size doesn't matter. It's based more on speed and friction and very little on gravity at that point.

Astro, you're a dumbass. Look up the physics of planetary-scale gravity. Anyway, everyone knows *rolls eyes* that asteroids are styrofoam.

@ Obby
When the asteroid nicks our atmosphere it already was pulled towards earth. But not close enough for an impact. The path of the asteroid will be altered.
Get some knowlege of astronomy before commenting.