catastrophe

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A preliminary report suggested the track may have been cracked before the catastrophe in Andalusia.

From Barron's

“I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out,” Musk said on Monday.

From MarketWatch

“I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out,” Musk said on Monday.

From MarketWatch

A very different scenario appears in a phenomenon known as Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe.

From Science Daily

"It would be a catastrophe. We're going to have to halt projects that were put into the budget by the previous administration, things that maybe were 'nice to have', but we can't afford them."

From BBC