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Now that we've got "global pandemic" marked off our bingo card, I'd put this at the top of the most likely "unforeseen" worldwide disasters. Some kind of superv
by dmurray 7y ago
Now that we've got "global pandemic" marked off our bingo card, I'd put this at the top of the most likely "unforeseen" worldwide disasters. Some kind of supervolcano eruption is the other candidate.
Of course, not all disasters are global and every country or region will have its own rare disasters to prepare for.
- FlyMoreRockets 7y agoAdd asteroid strike at with the energy level of a nuclear warhead to that list. Fortunately, it is 71% likely to come down in the ocean.
- dmurray 7y agoIt would have to be a lot bigger than "a nuclear warhead" to cause a global catastrophe rather than a local one, and it has to be more unfortunately aimed than just coming down over land. It would be pretty bad if the Chelyabinsk meteor had hit Tokyo or Mexico City, but as it happened it troubled glaziers more than doctors.
- FlyMoreRockets 7y agoThe problem with a sudden nuclear scale explosion is that it could trigger a nuclear exchange.