Doomsday event

A doomsday event is a specific plausibly verifiable or hypothetical occurrence which has an exceptionally destructive effect on the human race. The final outcomes of doomsday events may range from a major disruption of human civilization, to the extinction of human life, to the destruction of the planet Earth, to the annihilation of the entire universe. A 2006 poll by SciFi.com revealed that virtually all Americans believed that some sort of doom... more
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