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** '''Hell on Earth''': North Korean worker dumping a [[Nuclear Option| bomb]] into Paektu Mountain in order to prevent a series of super volcanoes from erupting {{spoiler| it doesn’t work}}. The founder of a place called Safe Haven for allowing rebellious people in.
** '''Hell on Earth''': North Korean worker dumping a [[Nuclear Option| bomb]] into Paektu Mountain in order to prevent a series of super volcanoes from erupting {{spoiler| it doesn’t work}}. The founder of a place called Safe Haven for allowing rebellious people in.
** '''Frozen Earth''': {{spoiler| a man walks outside on the surface of an abandon city inside of a bio-dome just as a meteorite breaks into it. [[An Ice Person| He freezes and shatters.]]}}
** '''Frozen Earth''': {{spoiler| a man walks outside on the surface of an abandon city inside of a bio-dome just as a meteorite breaks into it. [[An Ice Person| He freezes and shatters.]]}}
* [[Where's the Kaboom?]]: Okay, maybe that [[Earthshattering Kaboom| destroy the Earth]], but the primordial black hole did leave its mark when it came to the volcanic system and left a huge crater behind.
* [[Where's the Kaboom?]]: Okay, maybe it wasn't big enough to [[Earthshattering Kaboom| destroy the Earth]], but the primordial black hole did leave its mark when it came to the volcanic system and left a huge crater behind.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Zombie Earth – airborne strain of rabies.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Zombie Earth – airborne strain of rabies.



Revision as of 17:40, 6 March 2014

As the title suggest, this National Geographic program is about apocalyptic scenarios and how humans would have methods in order to survive. The show uses simulations of different scenarios including news feed while a panel of specialists ranging from science writers, professors, physicians, and media analysts provide details of each disaster and humans would have to adapt in order to survive.

Examples of How to Survive the End of the World include:


  • Apocalypse How: The main purpose of the program, mainly at a Class 3, though in the Monster Storm Class 4 seems like a likely outcome provide the survivors eventually will out of resources. However, Frozen Earth has the Class X-2 situation as the Earth voyage away from its place in the solar system.
  • Chekhov's Volcano: Hell on Earth thanks to an impact by a black hole.
  • Depopulation Bomb: Each scenario results in this.
  • Kill the Poor: Hell on Earth, only those who can afford it gets into Safe Haven. However, the episode ends with a woman from a poor family coming out of an underground bomb shelter that she found as a teenager while collecting food and water with her parents.
  • The Immune: Zombie Earth has people trying to isolate themselves away from rabid people. though, it revealed a potion of the earth’s population is unaffected because they happened to be immune to the virus.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Type P due to the rabies in the Zombie Earth scenario without merging to Type F.
  • Too Dumb to Live: There’s a few in the simulations
    • Zombie Earth: Russian waste management workers dumping bio-waste in the oceans
    • Monster Storm: Japanese off-shore workers causing a methane explosion, and a hiker touching a ball lightning
    • Hell on Earth: North Korean worker dumping a bomb into Paektu Mountain in order to prevent a series of super volcanoes from erupting it doesn’t work. The founder of a place called Safe Haven for allowing rebellious people in.
    • Frozen Earth: a man walks outside on the surface of an abandon city inside of a bio-dome just as a meteorite breaks into it. He freezes and shatters.
  • Where's the Kaboom?: Okay, maybe it wasn't big enough to destroy the Earth, but the primordial black hole did leave its mark when it came to the volcanic system and left a huge crater behind.
  • Zombie Apocalypse: Zombie Earth – airborne strain of rabies.