Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody

Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody
Authors
Brockway, Robert
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Tags
non-fiction , humour , science , sociology
ISBN
9780307464347
Date
2010-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
Size
2.77 MB
Lang
en
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*Just when you thought you’d accepted your own mortality . . . *Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody* is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing 
essays reveal the chilling and *very real *experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could*—*or very nearly already did*—*bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobody’s told you about it*—*until now:*

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•   Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny “contained” sun; it’s an idea that could save the world if it doesn’t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first.

•   Global disasters like the hypercane—a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!

•   Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat*—*an invention in the running for “Worst Decision Made by Anybody.”