11. NANOLITTER
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. “Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing.” www.crnano.org/dangers.htm.
ETC Group. “No Small Matter! Nanotech Particles Penetrate Living Cells and Accumulate in Animal Organs.” ETC Group 76 (May/June 2002). www.etcgroup.org.
Brown, Doug. “Nano Litterbugs? Experts See Potential Pollution Problem.” Small Times, March 15, 2002.
Mortensen, Luke J., Gunter Oberdörster, Alice P. Pentland, and Lisa A. DeLouise. “In Vivo Skin Penetration of Quantum Dot. Nanoparticles in the Murine Model: The Effect of UVR.” Nano Letters 8(9) (August 8, 2008): 2779–2787.
12. ASTEROIDS AND EXTINCTION-LEVEL EVENTS
ScienceDaily. “What Hit Siberia 100 Years Ago? Tunguska Event Still Puzzles Scientists.” www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701105330.htm.
Revkin, Andrew C. “Apocalypse Then. Next One, When?” New York Times, June 30, 2008.
Giorgini, Jon D., Lance A. M. Benner, Steven J. Ostro, Michael C. Nolan, and Michael W. Busch. “Predicting the Earth Encounters of (99942) Apophis.” Icarus 193 (2008): 1–19.
Yeomans, Don, Steve Chesley, and Paul Chodas. “Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches Highest Score to Date on Hazard Scale.” NASA’s Near Earth Object Program Office, December 23, 2004.
Physorg.com. “Space Rock Gives Earth a Close Shave.” www.physorg.com/news155287963.html.
Jaggard, Victoria. “Surprise Asteroid Buzzed Earth Monday.” National Geographic News, March 2, 2009.
American Friends, Tel Aviv University. “How to Destroy an Asteroid.” www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8125.
Chandler, David L. “‘Gravity Tractor’ Could Deflect Asteroids.” New Scientist, July 28, 2008.
13. VERNESHOT
Morgan, J. Phipps, T. J. Reston, and C. R. Ranero. “Contemporaneous Mass Extinctions, Continental Flood Basalts, and ‘Impact Signals’: Are Mantle Plume-Induced Lithospheric Gas Explosions the Causal Link?” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 217, issues 3–4 (January 15, 2004): 263–284.
Ravilious, Kate. “Four Days That Shook the World.” New Scientist 2446 (May 8, 2004).
14. POLE SHIFT
Hoffman, Kenneth A. “Ancient Magnetic Reversals: Clues to the Geodynamo.” Scientific American 258 (May 1988): 76–83.
Pétrélis, François, Stéphan Fauve, Emmanuel Dormy, and Jean-Pierre Valet. “Simple Mechanism for Reversals of Earth’s Magnetic Field.” Physical Review Letters 102, issue 14 (2009).
McKie, Robin. “Sun’s Rays to Roast Earth as Poles Flip.” The Observer, November 10, 2002.
Cottrell, R. D., and J. A. Tarduno. “Late Cretaceous True Polar Wander: Not So Fast.” Science 30, vol. 288, no. 5475 (June 2000): 2283.
Jacobs, J. A. “What Triggers Reversals of the Earth’s Magnetic Field?” Nature 309, 115 (1984).
15. BIOTECH INCENTIVE
Narkar, Vihang A., et al. “AMPK and PPARdelta Agonists Are Exercise Mimetics.” Cell 134, issue 3 (August 8, 2008): 405–415.
Randerson, James. “Scientists Raise Spectre of Gene-Modified Athletes.” New Scientist, November 30, 2001.
LiveScience Staff. “Fountain of Youth: Drug Restores Muscle.” LiveScience, November 4, 2008. www.livescience.com/health/081104-frailty-drug.html.
16. BIOTECH CONTAGION
Whitehouse, David. “Mice Make Human Proteins in Semen.” BBC News Online: Sci/Tech. news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_485000/485123.stm.
Lieberman, Philip. “FOXP2 and Human Cognition.” Cell 137, issue 5 (May 29, 2009): 800–802.
Enard, W., et al. “A Humanized Version of Foxp2 Affects Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuits in Mice.” Cell 137, issue 5 (May 29, 2009): 961–971.
17. BIOTECH LETHALITY
Torrey, E. Fuller, and Robert H. Yolken. “Toxoplasma gondii and Schizophrenia.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 9, no. 11 (November 2003): 1375–1380.
McKie, Robin. “Shampoo in the Water Supply Triggers Growth of Deadly Drug-Resistant Bugs.” The Observer, March 29, 2009.
Ho, Mae-Wan, and Joe Cummins. “Xenotransplantation: How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics.” ISIS Sustainable Science Audit #2 (2000). www.i-sis.org.uk/xeno.php.
Nowak, Rachel. “Killer Virus.” New Scientist, January 10, 2001.
Westphal, Sylvia Pagàn. “Ebola Virus Could Be Synthesized.” New Scientist, July 17, 2002.
Broad, William J. “Bioterror Researchers Build a More Lethal Mousepox.” New York Times, November 1, 2003.
Groopman, Jerome. “Superbugs: The New Generation of Resistant Infections Is Almost Impossible to Treat.” The New Yorker, August 11, 2008.
Watanabe, Tokiko, et al. “Viral RNA Polymerase Complex Promotes Optimal Growth of 1918 Virus in the Lower Respiratory Tract of Ferrets.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 2 (January 13, 2009): 588–592.
Medical News Today. “Francisella Tularensis: Stopping a Biological Weapon.” July 28, 2008. Adopted from Lucy Goodchild, Society for General Microbiology.
18. ROBOT AUTONOMY
Graham-Rowe, Duncan. “Feed Me.” New Scientist, July 22, 2000.
Wilkinson, Stuart. “‘Gastrobots’—Benefits and Challenges of Microbial Fuel Cells in Food Powered Robot Applications.” Autonomous Robots 9, no. 2 (September 2000): 99–111.
Finkelstein, Robert. “Brief Project Overview. EATR: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot.” DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292, January 15, 2009.
Warwick, Graham. “Bird on a Wire—Flying Wing UAV Recharges on the Fly.” Ares: A Defense Technology Blog, Aviation Week. Tinyurl.com/ykrel5×.
DeMarse, Thomas B. “The Neurally Controlled Animat: Biological Brains Acting with Simulated Bodies.” Autonomous Robots 11, no. 3 (2001): 305–310.
Kloc, Joe. “The Living Robot.” SEED Magazine, March 26, 2009.
Blow, M., et al. “Perception of Robot Smiles and Dimensions for Human-Robot Interaction Design.” Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2006): 469–474.
Degallier, S., et al. “A Modular, Bio-Inspired Architecture for Movement Generation for the Infant-Like Robot iCub.” IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (October 19, 2008): 795–800.
Gaudin, Sharon. “NASA: Robotic Arm on Mars Lander Shuts Down to Save Itself.” PC World, July 16, 2008. www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/253265/nasa_robotic_arm_mars_lander_shuts_down_save_itself.
19. ROBOT IMMORALITY
Lipson, H. “Evolutionary Robotics: Emergence of Communication.” Current Biology 17, issue 9 (May 2007): R330-R332.
Floreano, D., S. Mitri, S. Magnenat, and L. Keller. “Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication.” Current Biology 17 issue 6 (2007): 514–519.
Lin, Patrick, George Bekey, and Keith Abney. “Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design.” U.S. Department of Navy, Office of Naval Research, December 20, 2008.
www.ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf.
Alleyne, Richard. “A Robot with Feelings Is Star of Science Museum Show.” The Telegraph, July 29, 2008.
20. ROBOT ABILITY
Brandon, John. “Robots That Hunt in Packs: The Department of Defense Wants Your Designs for a Collaborative Robotic Team.” Popular Science, November 5, 2008.
SITIS Archives. “Multi-Robot Pursuit System.” Topic Number A08–204 (Army). www.dodsbir.net/Sitis/archives_display_topic.asp?Bookmark=34565.
Personal Robots Group. “Project Overview, MDS.” MIT Media Lab. robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/robots/mds/overview/overview.html.
Cho, Joohee. “Robo-Soldier to Patrol South Korean Border.” ABC News, September 29, 2006. abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2504508&page=1.
Kumagai, Jean. “A Robotic Sentry for Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.” IEEE Spectrum, March 2007.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the help and patience of many people. I would
like to thank my girlfriend, Meagan Kennedy, for reminding me, when I was caught in the depth of a screaming existential panic, that I “liked the apocalypse” and should write about that. It is not her fault that I “like” the end of humanity; that is a personal issue. I would like to thank my agent, Byrd Leavell, for always being my ardent supporter, at times to the point of psychosis. I would like to also thank Lucinda Bartley, for plucking me from the choking miasma of the internet and dropping me into the esteemed realm of literary publication. She also deserves a great deal of gratitude for all her hard work editing this book, and for holding my hand through the entire process even though I frequently became distracted chasing after shiny things. I would like to thank Tom Bordonaro, for sending me roughly one-third of the disturbing material in this book, even after several court orders asking him politely to stop. I’d like to thank Jason Pedegana, whose amazing illustrations grace the pages of this book and who, when faced with depicting these foul words of mine, not only avoided visibly shuddering, but even feigned some very convincing enthusiasm. I would also like to thank my dad, Robert Brockway III, and my grandpa Robert Brockway II, who have always been endlessly supportive even if they kind of suck at naming things. I would like to thank my dogs, Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, for being totally ridiculous and stupid, and also for keeping my legs warm while I wrote this. Finally, I would like to thank Cracked.com, whose open-door policy for writers has given me and countless other aspiring comedians the opportunity to shine. Anybody can sign up to write for them, and everybody should do so now. If I have forgotten anybody who has helped in the making of this book, please believe that it was not intentional. I realize there are many others not named here whom I owe dearly, and I have omitted you only because I am doubtlessly a terrible person, and will certainly one day answer for my many misdeeds.
Praise for Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody
“The book is proof that the ridiculous and the horrible are joined at the hip and will never be separated; in a universe that seems to continually be thinking up new ways to kill us, Brockway knows there is but one rational response: to point at it and laugh.”
—David Wong, author of John Dies at the End
“There has never been a hipper Prophet of Doom. Irreverently entertaining and terrifyingly accurate, the probability of our future death has never been more fun.”
—Michael Largo, author of Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
“This book is hilarious. As if I wasn’t already afraid to leave the house. What’s that? Brockway suggests the apocalypse doesn’t knock? What if I cower under a desk? Well, damn. I might as well have another nacho.”
—Garth Sundem, author of The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by Robert Brockway
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Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Everything is going to kill everybody : the terrifyingly real ways the world wants you dead / Robert Brockway.
p. cm.
1. Hazardous substances. 2. Natural disasters. 3. System failures (Engineering). I. Title.
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Illustrations by Jason Pedegana
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