Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody · The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
- Authors
- Brockway, Robert
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Tags
- hazardous substances , technology & engineering , nature , humor , sociology , general , science , social science , ecology , humour , environmental , system failures (engineering) , engineering (general) , natural disasters , death & dying , disasters & disaster relief
- ISBN
- 9780307464354
- Date
- 2010-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.59 MB
- Lang
- en
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:
• 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.”
From the Trade Paperback edition.