What could cause an apocalypse? - publié le 06/05/2020

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Quelques hypothèses de ce qui pourrait causer la fin du monde, l'apocalypse (travail réalisé en 2019)

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[...] The only way to survive is if scientists find an antidote. However, by the time hundreds of people would have already died. So, we can say that most of the threats we face come from the progress we have made in science and technology. But we also have to be afraid of natural pandemics. For example, in 1918 we had one of the greatest pandemics ever to hit humans. It wiped out over 40 million people more than that died from the world war one. [...]

[...] December 2019 What could cause an apocalypse ? Biological warfare and diseases : As lethal as nuclear bombs can be today, man can be much more deadly. One of my colleagues Stephen Hawking has devoted his life discovering the secrets of the universe and he said that "The earth is in much more danger from human action than from natural disasters". We have used germs and bacteria as weapons over centuries. Just like the couple of radicalized Islamists who were planning a "biological bomb attack" in Germany. [...]

[...] At the beginning they thought we have nothing to fear because black holes were motionless but then in 2000, they discovered wandering black holes right next to us in our own backyard of the galaxy. And if a black hole got closer to earth, the effects would be extreme : the ocean will wash over the continent. If they were survivors and the black hole's gravity starts to dominate the gravity of the earth, the atmosphere would be suck off through space towards the black hole followed by everything that isn't nailed down on the surface of the earth. [...]

[...] Volcanoes : Another topic that we have to think about is volcanoes. In fact, we exist on this planet purely by nature's consent, if nature decides she's had enough of us, we're out. This threat is the only one which comes from beneath. Super volcanoes generate the biggest eruptions, something big enough to cover the entire UK in a vast amount of debris sort of ten meters deep. There are about 20 known super volcanoes on Earth, we can never know when they will erupt but one thing sure is that sooner or later one of them will do. [...]

[...] Indeed, Stephen Hawking thinks that computer can imitate human intelligence or even better it, that computers are likely to overtake humans in intelligence in the next hundred years years ago, the world's most powerful computer weighed 30 tones today a device billions of times more powerful can fit into your pocket. Artificial intelligence has already given us devices smart enough to diagnose our illnesses, run our factories, invest our money and even beat us at chess. The more advanced our technology becomes the more control we give it. If we produce these godlike creatures, they may turn against us and it will be too late to save humanity. [...]