How it Ends: The Most Likely Extinction Events

<p>Like it or not, the earth has an expiration date. Billions of years from now the sun will expand and swallow the planets of our solar system...but there’s no guarantee humanity will even make it that far.  </p> <p> </p> <p>So what are the most likely end-time scenarios? Will the end of civilization  come at our own hands via nuclear conflict or rogue Artificial Intelligence? Or will nature take us out via plagues or asteroids or super-volcanoes?</p> <p> </p> <p>Listen along for a final countdown...</p> <p>~</p> <p>Join the MFFI community and vote on episode topics via <a href='https://discord.gg/4KUWbgj4PN'>DISCORD</a></p> <p>~</p> <p>In this episode: </p> <ul><li>The Doomsday Clock</li> <li>The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists</li> <li>Anthropogenic Risks vs Non-Anthropogenic Risks</li> <li>The Global Catastrophic Risk Conference</li> <li>Close Calls (NORAD fails)</li> <li>Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)</li> <li>Gold Bullion</li> <li>International Rivalries</li> <li>Nuclear War</li> <li>Asteroids (Boomsplode Cataclysm)</li> <li>Artificial Intelligence</li> <li>Super-volcanoes</li> <li>Yellowstone Caldera</li> <li>Long Vally Super-Volcano</li> <li>Climate Change, briefly</li> <li>Pandemic, briefly</li> <li>The Great Deoxygenation</li> <li>Red Giant/White Dwarf</li> </ul> <p>~</p> <p>Join the Midnight Masses! </p> <p>Become an Insomniac by dropping a review, adding us on social media, and contacting us with episode ideas. </p> <p>And we now have Midnight Merch! Show your Insomniac pride and pick up a tee shirt or coffee mug to spread the word! </p> <p><a href='https://midnightbonus.weebly.com/midnight-merch.html'>Midnight Merch</a></p> <p> ~</p> <p><a href='https://www.podpage.com/midnight-facts-for-insomniacs/voicemail/popup/?from=https://www.podpage.com/midnight-facts-for-insomniacs/'>Leave an Audio Message!</a></p> <p>~ </p> <p><a href='https://www.instagram.com/midnightfactsforinsomniacs/'>Instagram</a></p> <p>~</p> <p><a href='http://www.shaneroge