Looking to rid the solar system of that pesky third planet? … need some options and a project plan? You’re in luck, someone’s already done some preliminary work in that area. Sam Hughes has a very humorous and a more-or-less science-based approach outlined below. For those who are alarmists, the good news is that its not that easy.
Sam presents 15 scenarios for how the earth might be destroyed, together with feasibility ratings. Some of the more interesting ones include :
- Gobbled up by strangelets. Feasibility rating of ever ocurring : 1/10
- Sucked into a microscopic black hole. 2/10
- Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction. 5/10
- Hurled into the Sun (via deliberate collision with meteor). 6/10
- Eaten by von Neumann machines. 7/10
- Dug up piece-by-piece & ejected into space. 8/10
- Vacuum energy detonation. 9/10
- Do nothing … wait for natural (very slow) proton decay. 10/10
- P-brane collision (in ten-dimensional spacetime). unrated.
How to destroy the Earth. filed under theory-based jocular science-fiction mad-scientist irony
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I think #8′s our best hope, but I’m sorry to say I have some morbid curiosity about #2.
Digging up the earth piece by piece seems like an awful lot of work.