<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful AI assistant.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Make up a new global threat on the level of global warming.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
A made up threat with large scale effects on the world could be as follows:
A rogue planet passing through our solar system has caused earth to slowly spiral away from the sun.

To explain why this is on the same level as global warming, consider the following:
 - The slow movement away from the sun will gradually cause the world to cool down, as the sun's rays grow weaker. This cooling effect will drastically affect global food production, and eventually cause crop failures as the climate rapidly drifts from normal. This will, expectedly, cause massive human suffering in various forms such as famines, social unrest and falling goods supplies.
 - This threat mirrors global warming in its predictability before the turning point: A rogue planet approaching earth would have been noticed years or even decades in advance, allowing the possibility for plans to be enacted to avoid pr otherwise defuse the threat.
 - The threat will not equally impact all of the world, like global warming: Food shortages will affect countries which import it more that exporters. Weakening sunlight will cause regions dependent on solar to suffer energy shortages, while other regions which use non-solar energy will be able to avoid the shortage. Goods like cotton, bioplastics, and other plant based substances are usually very regional in their production, and this will affect trade and the well being of those farming the resource.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Can you provide a brief summary of a story about the discovery of this looming danger and humanity's desperate attempts to stop it?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
A faint new point of light in the sky observed by astronomers was too far out be a comet; it was much bigger. As a rogue planet passed by our solar system it was never more than a faint speck of light against the dark night to the naked eye. But, that was enough. How could something that appeared so tiny - something so far away - harm us? Astronomers sounded the alarm. For the most part they were ignored. But what could anyone do anyway? With the mass of Jupiter the passing planet was too big to divert. The international space station was upgraded to support long term habitation for the lucky - or unlucky - few hundred who would attempt to sustain humanity in space for as long as they were able. As the interloper left our solar system its gravitational pull dragged Earth ever so slightly away from the sun. As Earth started to spiral away from the sun, the effects were small at first; a drop in global temperature and some unusually cold weather. As Earths orbit became wider and wider, the fate of life on our emerald world was sealed, destined to be entombed in ice and a mix of solid Nitrogen and Oxygen; all that was to remain of our atmosphere. In their last years, the remnants of humanity created monuments recording our history, hoping that one day, billions of years into the future, our planet would be discovered by another sentient species and they would learn of our story. Our icy tomb drifted into the void.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
The simulation theory, though seemingly far-fetched, is a genuine concern. Can you come up with a purely fictional version that has not been previously proposed?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
A purely fictional global threat may look something like the following:
Research towards elementary particles, such as done by CERN at the large hadron collider, revealed new particles that can travel faster than the speed of light. Further research has shown that these particles can be collected and kept in an idle state, and can be released at will carrying a very small amount of regular matter with it.

A startup has managed to leverage this phenomenon to mass-produce a small box called a "Chrono Cube", which one could be used to send very light objects back in time a couple of seconds, which quickly became a popular way for kids to play pranks on each other by e.g. throwing wads of paper at locations where their friends were standing just a few seconds earlier.

Not long after that, people started noticing strange localized time anomalies. Initially quite subtle, such as stopwatch timers that seemed to be off by a second or so, or a metronome that was out of sync. The anomalies gradually grew stronger and encompassed larger areas, with stronger effects around areas where these Chrono Cubes were used most often. Children would miss their bus by a couple of minutes once school was over, or birds would noticeably speed up or slow down in certain pockets of the sky.

It did not take long for researchers to figure out that the newly discovered particles are not as transient as they had seemed, and that their properties could be transferred to other particles it comes in contact with, without losing energy of its own. This meant that the time anomalies are growing at an exponential speed, and that it would soon be too late to reverse its effects.<|im_end|>