Meaning of mundicide | Babel Free

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The destruction of the (or a) world.

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“But the task of actually destroying the planet, or 'mundicide' as UK Cambridge University mathematics student Sam Hughes calls it in his amusing website (http : // ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html) is unimaginably difficult. Nevertheless we all like a challenge,[…]”

“There are echoes here of Mitchell's concept of "mundicide." See Audra Mitchell, “Only Human? A Worldly Approach to Security,” Security Dialogue 45, no. 1 (2014): 5–21. 35.”

“Necroplanetology is the study of mundicide and everything after. Planets (and objects of their ilk) can be destroyed in collisions, by stellar vaporization, or tidal forces.”

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