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100,000,000-1,000,000,000 people
Total Extinction (1,000,000,000 or more)

Death ray could save us from over population. Sometimes, we might go extinct from a death ray.

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What is this overpopulation problem?

@JoeCurtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Can you be more specific what a death ray is and how it would be used in this scenario?

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