Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
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 â¨essays reveal the chilling and very real experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that...
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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 â¨essays reveal the chilling and very real experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon couldâor very nearly already didâbring 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 itâuntil now: •Â  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. •Â  Global disasters like the hypercaneâa hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space!•Â  Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meatâan invention in the running for “Worst Decision Made by Anybody.”
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307464347 (0307464342)
ASIN: 307464342
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Science,
Technology,
Environment,
Nature,
Biology,
Ecology,
Sociology,
Social,
Death
While I thoroughly enjoy Robert Brockway's articles on Cracked.com, this book, informative though it may be, fell flat on most levels for me. It just wasn't all that funny - tossing in a "@&$#" here and there just doesn't cut it. I think Mr. Brockway unfortunately took writing for a slightly differe...
Four and a half stars.Oh my god, we're all going to die!**Eventually. Somehow.This book covers a range of topics from things which almost wiped out humanity/life on earth to things that might do so in the future. It's written with a lot of humor and in the tone of your local newscast (2 flakes of sn...