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Jan 23, 2024 · The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90 seconds...
The Extinction Clock shows the date and source of various predictions of human extinction or catastrophe. See how climate change, natural disasters, and other factors could end the world by 2050 or later.
Extinction ClockDate & SourceClaimDoomsday Date75 Years 236 Days 16 Hours 8 Minutes 26 ...80% of Emperor penguins will be extinct ...December 31, 209945 Years 229 Days 16 Hours 8 Minutes 26 ...Increasing natural disasters, drought and ...December 31, 206932 Years 364 Days 15 Hours 8 Minutes 26 ...Within a lifetime, humans might be living ...May 18, 205725 Years 224 Days 16 Hours 8 Minutes 26 ...'Planet will be uninhabitable for ...December 31, 2049The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru , or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion ; or a supernova .
DateClaimant (s)Description1901This church, founded in 1831, claimed ...1901Keeler, a prominent doctor in ...1910Flammarion predicted that the 1910 ...1892–1911This pyramidologist concluded from his ...Jan 24, 2023 · Humanity is closer than ever to the end of the world. That was the dire warning this week from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which, since 1947, has been estimating how close the world is...
- Asteroid Impact. Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously. But there is no question that a cosmic interloper will hit Earth, and we won't have to wait millions of years for it to happen.
- Gamma-ray Burst. If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi. Once a day or so, you would see a bright flash appear, briefly outshine everything else, then vanish.
- Collapse of the Vacuum. In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine," a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature.
- Rogue Black Holes. Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide. How full? Tough question. After all, they're called black holes for a reason.
In a dingy apartment building, insulated by layers of hanging rugs, the last family on Earth huddles around a fire, melting a pot of oxygen. Ripped from the sun's warmth by a rogue dark star, the planet has been exiled to the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
Jul 18, 2013 · Artist Ron Miller illustrates various scenarios of Earth's demise, from asteroids to black holes, based on scientific research and speculation. See his stunning and realistic paintings of the apocalypse and learn about the possible causes and effects.
