{"id":1972,"date":"2011-10-26T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2011-10-26T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:44:36","slug":"a-plausible-end-of-the-world-scenario-you%e2%80%99ve-probably-never-thought-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/10\/26\/a-plausible-end-of-the-world-scenario-you%e2%80%99ve-probably-never-thought-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A plausible end-of-the-world scenario you\u2019ve probably never thought of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the world end with fire, earthquakes, and WTF in movies like\u00a0<em>2012<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Core<\/em>. But to find out about truly horrific, plausible scenarios you need to ask a scientist. We talked to Cal Tech&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gps.caltech.edu\/~jkirschvink\/\">Joe Kirschvink<\/a>, a geobiologist who studies the ancient history of life \u2014 and mass death. He gave us a nightmare scenario where one evolutionary shift in ocean microbes leaves humans unable to breathe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5853522\/a-plausible-end+of+the+world-scenario-youve-probably-never-thought-of\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the world end with fire, earthquakes, and WTF in movies like\u00a02012and\u00a0The Core. But to find out about truly horrific, plausible scenarios you need to ask a scientist. We talked to Cal Tech&#8217;s\u00a0Joe Kirschvink, a geobiologist who studies the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/10\/26\/a-plausible-end-of-the-world-scenario-you%e2%80%99ve-probably-never-thought-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}