Questions tagged [mass-death]
For questions concerning the simultaneous death of many living beings.
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How could I justify a fast apocalypse?
Most apocalypse scenarios involve a slow, sad death for humanity. Even the faster ones take a few weeks to start genociding everyone. This question aims to find a way to change that. Basically, I want ...
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Dangerous but efficient future energy source
In my story, I want a Chernobyl analogue, but much, much worse. Like Chernobyl, it will be a clean, powerful, and reliable source of energy that fails catastrophically due to a preventable flaw. The ...
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How can I make a solar-system-wide plague?
My world is set in the distant future. There are permanent populations on Mercury, Venus has been colonized, and Mars is completely terraformed. We’re still working on the gas giants. I want an ...
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What would be a potential way to completely wipe all humans from Earth while still rendering it somewhat habitable? [duplicate]
I would prefer if it was something fire related, as it lines up best with my story. The current candidate is a beam from a quasar, but it seems to be too powerful and far away to work. I don't need ...
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Would my reduction in these specific insect populations have a severe negative impact on Earth's ecosystem?
Setting is modern Earth. Earth has attracted the gaze of a cosmic horror. In around 5 years, the entity would fully descend on Earth.
One of the effects of his gaze is the sudden mass deaths of ...
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If I'm turning humans into crude oil, would removing their skeletons accelerate this process?
The Chthonic Hivemind is currently terraforming a barren Earth into a corpse world for it to live in. It intends to fill the empty oceans with crude oil made from countless human corpses to form the ...
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Would killing 444 billion humans leave any physical impact on Earth that's measurable?
Setting is modern day Earth. North Korea has been secretly mentally corrupted and assimilated into the collective consciousness of the Chthonic Hivemind. Wishing to manifest itself into Earth for ...
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Evidence of lightning-caused mass extinction
For context, modern humanity can travel to alternate versions of their planet through portals. They still only have our modern day technology and science. They stumble upon an Earth tens of million ...
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Can a war in an 1800's level society kill a billion people in 17 years?
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The planet has a level of technology of about the early 1800's. They have some basic steam transportation, muskets and bayonets, cannons and other basic artillery, and some less ...
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How hard would it be for a cockroach to massacre over a dozen humans at around the same scale 'barehanded'?
I know ANOTHER weird cockroach question, but bare with me.
I have this very W.I.P story about an non-governmental organization that wants to send out people to make peaceful first contact(not ...
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How deadly would a singe mutant cockroach be in modern day Florida?
Ok, so this is a modified question from yesterday to hopefully meet WB.SE's rules about not being too plot- or opinion-based.
I had an idea about a freak incident in Florida where a cockroach sprayed ...
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How high would the bodycount of a 6 foot tall mutant killer cockroach be in modern times before it is taken out by military/police/armed citizen(s)? [closed]
Ok, so another weird cockroach related question from me.
Anyway, I had an idea about a freak incident in Florida where a cockroach sprayed with (probably Raid)insecticide inadvertently getting into a ...
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How to quickly dispose the bodies of 100 million individuals?
In a country of a typical dictatorship, the government has planted within each person an obedience chip. This chip has a kill switch that could be triggered if the government wanted a particular ...
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all human females except one is dead, how screwed is humanity?
inspired by this and this question. I'm wondering how screwed is humanity if the event like y: the last man is happening, but this time, it's the reverse.
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by asb will, all human ...
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