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 | I added this article from the Sci Fi Channel as an indicator for how the general public thinks about the scenarios we feature on this site. The results of their poll were quite interesting. One thousand Americans were polled in April 2006 regarding their thoughts and concerns about possible real-life "doomsday" events. This online study was conducted by TNS market research. |  | A doomsday event is a specific 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. |  | An extinction event (also extinction-level event, ELE) is a period in time when a large number of species die out. The normal background rate of extinctions is about two to five families of marine invertebrates and vertebrates every million years. Since life began on Earth, this background extinction rate has been punctuated by seven major extinction events.
|  | Various scenarios for the extinction of the human species have originated from science, popular culture, science fiction, and religion (see apocalypse and eschatology). The expression existential risk has been coined to refer to risks of total and irreversible destruction of human life , or of some lesser, but universal and permanent detriment to it. |  | A hypothetical disaster is any sort of major world disaster, human-wrought or natural, for which there is no known historical or geological evidence but scientists have speculated to be possible. Article contants a big List of Hypothetical Disasters.
|  | Mega Disasters is a History Channel original series that explores hypothetical catastrophic threats to individual cities - countries and the entire globe. The two mega disasters of the 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 inspired the series and provided a reference point for many of the episodes. Excepting only two shows devoted to man-made disasters , the threats explored can be divided into three categories: meteorological, geological, and cosmic. |  | Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth are existential risks that would imperil mankind as a whole and/or have major adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, human extinction or even the end of planet Earth . The concept finds expression in various idiomatic, phrases such as "End of the World", "Doomsday ", "TEOTWAWKI", "TEOCAWKI" and others. |  | The end of civilization or the end of the world are phrases used in reference to human extinction scenarios , doomsday events, and related hazards which occur on a global scale. These are risks that would imperil humankind as a whole and/or have major adverse consequences for the course of human civilization. The term existential risk is sometimes used in this context. |  | |
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