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| Study: Human Beings Almost Became Extinct
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| posted on Friday, April 25, 2008
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Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an
extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was
reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of
drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.
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| Why The Demise Of Civilization May Be Inevitable
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| posted on Sunday, April 06, 2008
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Doomsday. The end of civilisation. Literature and film abound with
tales of plague, famine and wars which ravage the planet, leaving a few
survivors scratching out a primitive existence amid the ruins. Every
civilisation in history has collapsed, after all. Why should ours be
any different? ... A few researchers have been making such claims for years. Disturbingly,
recent insights from fields such as complexity theory suggest that they
are right. It appears that once a society develops beyond a certain
level of complexity it becomes increasingly fragile. Eventually, it
reaches a point at which even a relatively minor disturbance can bring
everything crashing down.
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| Large Hadron Collider Doomsday Fears Spark Lawsuit
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| posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008
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The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in
federal court over fears that the experiment might create
globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that
would destroy the planet.
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| Documentary: Life After People
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| posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly
disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our
industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From
the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by
natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many
more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking special LIFE AFTER
PEOPLE.
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| Mankind's Secrets To Be Stored In Lunar Ark
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| posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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If civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space.
Plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon containing
the essentials of life and civilisation, to be activated in the event
of earth being devastated by a giant asteroid or nuclear war.
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| Current Near-Earth Asteroid Statistics & Research
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| posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007
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There are between one and two million near-Earth objects (NEOs) --
chunks of space rock whose orbits may pass within 30 million miles of
Earth -- that pose a significant impact threat to the planet. Of the
4,535 NEOs detected and tracked (704 of which are real whoppers), none
are on a definite collision course, but there could be millions more,
many of them potentially lethal, lurking in the cosmos.
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| Earth Might Survive Sun's Explosion
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| posted on Sunday, September 16, 2007
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About five billion years from now, astronomers say, the Sun will run
out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in
diameter into a so-called red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and
dooming life on Earth, but perhaps not Earth itself.
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| Book: The Collapse of Complex Societies
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| posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007
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Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The
Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will
therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any
explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study
of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both
the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of
collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then
develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among
diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the
processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and
Chacoan collapses.
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