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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 Everybodyis 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."

Mood
funny
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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