The worst imaginable disaster?

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Destructionator XIII wrote:Imagine this: a passing astronomical object swings by the solar system, passing kinda close to Earth and giving it a speed boost.

One of two things happens.... we're in an elliptical orbit now, so talk about extreme fucking seasons and climate change...

Or we're ejected from the solar system entirely.
Been done, albeit to a random Colony world in Frederik Pohl's The World at the End of Time.
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Other than the local Dark Eldar analogues turning up and torturing us all to death over several eons it’s unlikely, death is an end regardless of whether the rest of the universe is going with you.
Unless of course if it turns out that death works like it does in Nights Dawn, were you go to an infinite black for ever conscience! that's worse then any life.
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Nope, that at least seem quiet. It would be worst if our souls go to something like the 40K warp.
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Lord Baal wrote:Nope, that at least seem quiet. It would be worst if our souls go to something like the 40K warp.
I personally would rather go to the warp, at least there you still feel pain!
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You would rather be tortured eternally than left alone with only your thoughts and memories?

I’d imagine madness lies in both directions but I’d rather not get their screaming in agony.
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Darth Tanner wrote:You would rather be tortured eternally than left alone with only your thoughts and memories?

I’d imagine madness lies in both directions but I’d rather not get their screaming in agony.
Eternal alone is the worst fate i can imagine. especially sense in the Night's Dawn when you die eventfully you come back to kill sentient life,and take over there zombie body's! Also the warp's torture will make it hard for me to think about how painful it is, while the Black is a more subtle torture that glows you to contemplate it.
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The assumption here, of course, is that you retain the same cognition as you do right now. The reason why people can't handle sensory deprivation lies in the way the brain is set up. If humanity transcends mortality long enough to survive until the heat death of the universe, we'd have to alter our brains to a level that would make it unrecognizable ; Likewise, we have no idea how it will work when your PSYCHIC SOUL is cast into THE WARP.
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PeZook wrote:The assumption here, of course, is that you retain the same cognition as you do right now. The reason why people can't handle sensory deprivation lies in the way the brain is set up. If humanity transcends mortality long enough to survive until the heat death of the universe, we'd have to alter our brains to a level that would make it unrecognizable ; Likewise, we have no idea how it will work when your PSYCHIC SOUL is cast into THE WARP.
I am speaking specifically of the afterlife portrayed in Nights Dawn, in which you retain the same form of conscientiousness as when you were alive. The way the Warp uses your soul was described in a few of the 40K novels, you soul is eaten exacly how it sounds your soul(a ball of psykic energy) enters the warp and is fucked with till it brakes apart and the daemons or Gods use it as fuel.
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Ultra-advanced aliens with the morals of Marquis de Sade take over Earth and delighted to see humans are sapient beings, basically breeds them for a life of the treatment seen in 120 Days of Sodom.
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