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Extinction is a post-apocalyptic action film released in 2018. Starring Michael Peña, the film focuses on a family man who has repeated dreams that the Earth will be destroyed. His nightmare turns into a reality when aliens invade.

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Multiple alien species on Earth at the same time: one species destroys Earth but the other preserves a small group of humans

Summary: An alien craft lands, it's referred to by one scientist as a "cinder cone", an alien representative comes out and talks to humanity, but it was all a delay tactic. It was later ...
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Sci-Fi story where Humans body modify to assimilate into an alien society and cause the unintended extinction of the aliens

I’m trying to find a sci-fi novel or short story my dad told me about. It involves discovery of a peaceful alien race and humans study them, admire them and many start to body modify themselves to ...
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Why did they evacuate the planet?

I just finished watching Netflix’s Extinction. Throughout the movie we understand that following a robot riot/resistance humans left Earth. Doesn’t it seem a little extreme to abandon Earth? The ...
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