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Cake day: May 26th, 2024

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  • the OG one would be the Doomsday Clock

    The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.

    When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race. The *Bulletin *considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations for the first time in 2007.






  • George R. R. Martin edited a terrific series called Wild Card that is really well grounded. The premise is an alien virus that gives people random mutations and some of them are horrific (the Jokers) but some get fantastic powers (the Aces).

    It’s pretty gritty and ‘realistic’ like they really go deep into how the various powers would realistically affect people and be used.

    I really liked it up until

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    one of the authors decided that ALL of the abilities and powers were all just forms of telekenesis , really sucked all the fun out of it!