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comment by avturchin · 2025-01-10T20:22:56.535Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Several possible additions:

Artificial detonation of gas giant planets is hypothetically possible (writing a draft about it now).

An impact of a large comet-like body (100-1000 km in size) with the Sun could produce a massive solar flash or flare. 

SETI-attack - we find an alien signal which has a description of hostile AI. 

UAP-related risks, which include alien nanobots, berserkers

A list of different risks connected with extraterrestrial intelligence. 

The Big Rip - exponential acceleration of space expansion, resulting in the destruction of everything within 10 billion years.

A collision with another brane in 4D space.

An encounter with a cloud of supernova remnants containing radioactive elements.

Impact risks: Dark comets.

Impact risks: Passing through a comet's tail filled with many Tunguska-sized objects.

Artificial impact billiards.

Phobos falls on Mars, creating a large debris field that reaches Earth.

Chaotic perturbation of planetary orbits results in a collision with Venus in 100 million years.

High-speed impactors (natural or artificial, with speeds exceeding 100 km/sec) produce nuclear reactions in the atmosphere, resulting in global radioactive contamination.

A small primordial black hole becomes trapped inside Earth.

A neutrino shower from a supernova causes significant DNA damage to most living beings through elastic impacts (I think I saw an article about it).

Space dust from colliding objects blocks the Sun in the ecliptic plane, resulting in a severe "nuclear" winter on Earth.

Gravitational waves from a black hole merger damage Earth.
 

comment by Peter Jin (peterhj) · 2025-01-10T07:24:40.728Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

"Rogue celestial body" should also include more commonly encountered interstellar objects, such as Oumuamua. Attempting to detect these objects (and to deflect potential impactors) does not seem obviously futile.

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comment by Jordan Stone (jordan-stone) · 2025-01-14T19:35:01.916Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thanks Peter. I'll add another category for that like I did with asteroid impacts.