In Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953), the universe ends when Tibetan monks (making use of a specially-written computer program) finish writing all of the nine billion possible names of God. The story won a retrospective Hugo Award.The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) is a film by Val Guest about an Earth thrown out of its orbit around the Sun by excessive nuclear testing. It paints a picture of a society ready to believe that humans could destroy the planet, hoping that science could fix what it has broken but resigned to the possibility of irreversible doom.
in arthur c clarke':s short story "the nine billion names of god" (1953) the universe ends when tibetan monks (making use of a specially-written computer program) finish writing all of the nine billion possible names of god the story won a retrospective hugo awardthe day the earth caught fire (1961) is a film by val guest about an earth thrown out of its orbit around the sun by excessive nuclear testing it paints a picture of a society ready to believe that humans could destroy the planet hoping that science could fix what it has broken but resigned to the possibility of irreversible doom