10 Terrifying Scientific Theories and Hypotheses

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10. There’s a “zombie apocalypse” waiting to happen
9. There won’t be time to stop an impact event
8. Climate change will cause super-eruptions
7. The Sun could destroy us tomorrow
6. Strangelets could make Earth a “strange star”
5. Either we’re alone or the end is nigh
4. We’re living in one Matrix of many
3. Nanobots will eat our planet
2. Vacuum decay will delete the universe
1. The technological singularity will end us

Source/Further reading:

https://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/N100/2k4prions.html
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/how-would-we-save-the-planet-from-a-killer-asteroid
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/faqs_supervolcanoes.html
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare
https://web.stanford.edu/~ajlucas/Strangelet%20Matter.pdf
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xDSrf3XAifsCuc3jg/the-great-filter-isn-t-magic-either
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/planck-length/
https://youtu.be/BxJPceCV51g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pbump/9305155743
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great._Courses_Plus_-_App_Screen_Shot.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_626_Mad_Cow_Disease_or_bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy_BSE.jpg
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Variant_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease_(vCJD),_typical_amyloid_plaques,_H%26E.jpg
https://www.maxpixel.net/static/photo/1x/Outdoors-Stockyards-Livestock-Beef-Bovine-744884.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnIj92YOmmc
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:PIA20041-Asteroid-2015TB145-Animation-20151030.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparative_nuclear_fireball_sizes.svg
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:STS-87_launch.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_TB145_orbit_2015.png
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA20043_hires.jpg
https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/nature/images/2014-7-18_Emmons-Sunrise_KLoving_web2_sml.jpeg?maxwidth=1200&maxheight=1200&autorotate=false
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Yellowstone_Caldera.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrington_Richard_sunspots_1859.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Components_of_the_electromechanical_telegraph_network._Proce_Wellcome_V0025510.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_-_August_1,_2010.jpg
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/170000/velka/solar-flare.jpg
https://picryl.com/media/solar-flare-sunlight-eruption-science-technology-8d2de5
https://image.roku.com/channels/images/b9efbbb66c9d4455859e9b4cc3b83182-hd.jpg

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