Forums · The Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth.
Being an astronomy buff, I found this rather interesting. Here are the top 10 ways to destroy our lovely planet, using an assortment of mostly extremely high tech methods. Some are a tad more feasible than others...>_>
10: TOTAL EXISTENCE FAILURE
Feasibility rating: 0/10
You will need: nothing.
Method: None. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed.
Utter, utter rubbish.....>_>
09: STRANGELET ABSORPTION
Feasibility rating: 1/10
You will need: a stable strangelet.
Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange matter (a 'liquid' composed of up, down and strange quarks). Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible.
A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero.
Earth's final resting place: a huge glob of strange matter.
08: MICROSCOPIC BLACK HOLE
Feasibility rating: 2/10
You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore your microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of Neutronium (neutron-degenerate matter), but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Method: simply place your micro black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
07: MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION - ANNIHILATION
Feasibility rating: 5/10
You will need: 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter.
Antimatter - the most explosive substance known - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible - and much easier - simply to "flip" 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.
Method: This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces.
How hard is that?
The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is - if you do the lengthy calculations - given by the formula E=(3/5)GM?/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT.
To liberate that much energy requires the annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc?) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces.
Earth's final resting place: A second asteroid belt around the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require - which is not necessarily the case - then smaller antimatter bombs should be around long before then.
06: VACUUM ENERGY DETONATION
Feasibility rating: 5/10
You will need: a light bulb.
Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too.
Slightly possible.
Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of energetic particles.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2060.
05: STELLAR BLACK HOLE
Feasibility rating: 6/10
You will need: a stellar mass black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to planet Earth is 1600 light years away in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting the visible star V 4641.
Method: after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you'd most likely move both at once.
Very, very difficult, but definitely possible.
Earth's final resting place: part of the mass of the black hole.
Earliest feasible completion date: The necessary technology should be available by AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That's in an external observer's frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.)
04: METICULOUS AND SYSTEMATIC DECONSTRUCTION
Feasibility rating: 6/10
You will need: a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them; ready access to roughly 2*10?? Joules of energy.
Method: Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit. Yes. All six sextillion tons of it. A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic railgun, which was once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the Moon to Earth - basically, you just load it into the driver and fire it upwards in roughly the right direction. We'd use a particularly powerful model - big enough to hit escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second even after atmospheric considerations - and launch it all into the Sun or randomly into space.
Alternate methods for boosting the material into space include loading the extracted material into space shuttles or taking it up via space elevator. All these methods, however, require a - let me emphasize this - titanic quantity of energy to carry out. Building a Dyson sphere ain't gonna cut it here. (Note: Actually, it would. But if you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, why are you reading this?) See No. 6 for a possible solution.
If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.
Earth's final resting place: Many tiny pieces, some dropped into the Sun, the remainder scattered across the rest of the Solar System.
Earliest feasible completion date: At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.
03: COSMIC IMPACT PULVERIZATION
Feasibility rating: 7/10
You will need: a very large, heavy rock, of asteroid size or greater.
Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. The concept is simple: find a really big asteroid or even a planet, accelerate it up to some dazzling speeds, and smash it into Earth, preferably head-on but whatever you can manage. The result: an absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in Earth being pulverized out of existence - smashed into any number of large pieces which if the collision is hard enough should have enough energy to overcome their mutual gravity and drift away forever, never to coagulate back into a planet again.
A brief analysis of the size of the object required can be found here: falling at the minimal impact velocity of 11 kilometers per second and assuming zero energy loss to heat and other energy forms, the object would have to have roughly 60% of the mass of the Earth. Mars, the next planet out, "weighs" in at about 11% of Earth's mass, while Venus, the next planet in and also the nearest to Earth, has about 81%. Assuming that we would fire our "missile" into Earth at much greater than 11km/s (maybe around 50km/s), either of these would make great possibilities.
Obviously a smaller rock would do the job, you just need to fire it faster. A 10,000,000,000,000-tonne asteroid at 90% of light speed would do just as well.
This scenario is quite plausible.
Earth's final resting place: a variety of roughly Moon-sized chunks of rock, scattered haphazardly across the greater Solar System.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500.
02: VON NEUMANN CONSUMPTION
Feasibility rating: 8/10
You will need: a single von Neumann machine.
Method: A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design.
So crazy it might just work.
Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion dates: between AD 2045 and AD 2050 , or even earlier.
01: SOLAR VAPORIZATION
Feasibility rating: 9/10
You will need: Earthmoving equipment.
Method: Hurl the Earth into the Sun. Sending Earth on a collision course with the Sun is not as easy as one might think; even though you don't actually have to literally hit the Sun (send the Earth near enough to the Sun (within the Roche limit), and tidal forces will tear it apart), it's surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight. But careful planning can avoid this.
This is impossible at our current technological level, but will be possible one day. In the meantime, it may happen by freak accident if something comes out of nowhere and randomly knocks Earth in precisely the right direction.
Earth's final resting place: a small globule of vaporized iron sinking slowly into the heart of the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion dates: Via act of God - 25 years' time. Any earlier and we'd have already spotted the asteroid in question. Via human intervention - given the current level of expansion of space technology, AD 2250 at best.
Such joyful possibilities!
10: TOTAL EXISTENCE FAILURE
Feasibility rating: 0/10
You will need: nothing.
Method: None. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed.
Utter, utter rubbish.....>_>
09: STRANGELET ABSORPTION
Feasibility rating: 1/10
You will need: a stable strangelet.
Method: Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange matter (a 'liquid' composed of up, down and strange quarks). Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible.
A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero.
Earth's final resting place: a huge glob of strange matter.
08: MICROSCOPIC BLACK HOLE
Feasibility rating: 2/10
You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore your microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest. Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of Neutronium (neutron-degenerate matter), but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Method: simply place your micro black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are of such high density that they pass through ordinary matter like a stone through the air. The black hole will plummet through the ground, eating its way to the center of the Earth and all the way through to the other side: then, it'll oscillate back, over and over like a matter-absorbing pendulum. Eventually it will come to rest at the core, having absorbed enough matter to slow it down. Then you just need to wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Earth is gone.
Highly, highly unlikely. But not impossible.
Earth's final resting place: a singularity of almost zero size, which will then proceed to happily orbit the Sun as normal.
07: MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION - ANNIHILATION
Feasibility rating: 5/10
You will need: 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter.
Antimatter - the most explosive substance known - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible - and much easier - simply to "flip" 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.
Method: This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces.
How hard is that?
The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is - if you do the lengthy calculations - given by the formula E=(3/5)GM?/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT.
To liberate that much energy requires the annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc?) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces.
Earth's final resting place: A second asteroid belt around the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require - which is not necessarily the case - then smaller antimatter bombs should be around long before then.
06: VACUUM ENERGY DETONATION
Feasibility rating: 5/10
You will need: a light bulb.
Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too.
Slightly possible.
Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of energetic particles.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2060.
05: STELLAR BLACK HOLE
Feasibility rating: 6/10
You will need: a stellar mass black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and, optionally, a large rocky planetary body. The nearest black hole to planet Earth is 1600 light years away in the direction of Sagittarius, orbiting the visible star V 4641.
Method: after locating your black hole, you need get it and the Earth together. This is likely to be the most time-consuming part of this plan. There are two methods, moving Earth or moving the black hole, though for best results you'd most likely move both at once.
Very, very difficult, but definitely possible.
Earth's final resting place: part of the mass of the black hole.
Earliest feasible completion date: The necessary technology should be available by AD 3000, and add at least 800 years for travel time. (That's in an external observer's frame of reference and assuming you move both the Earth and the black hole at the same time.)
04: METICULOUS AND SYSTEMATIC DECONSTRUCTION
Feasibility rating: 6/10
You will need: a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them; ready access to roughly 2*10?? Joules of energy.
Method: Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit. Yes. All six sextillion tons of it. A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic railgun, which was once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the Moon to Earth - basically, you just load it into the driver and fire it upwards in roughly the right direction. We'd use a particularly powerful model - big enough to hit escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second even after atmospheric considerations - and launch it all into the Sun or randomly into space.
Alternate methods for boosting the material into space include loading the extracted material into space shuttles or taking it up via space elevator. All these methods, however, require a - let me emphasize this - titanic quantity of energy to carry out. Building a Dyson sphere ain't gonna cut it here. (Note: Actually, it would. But if you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, why are you reading this?) See No. 6 for a possible solution.
If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.
Earth's final resting place: Many tiny pieces, some dropped into the Sun, the remainder scattered across the rest of the Solar System.
Earliest feasible completion date: At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.
03: COSMIC IMPACT PULVERIZATION
Feasibility rating: 7/10
You will need: a very large, heavy rock, of asteroid size or greater.
Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. The concept is simple: find a really big asteroid or even a planet, accelerate it up to some dazzling speeds, and smash it into Earth, preferably head-on but whatever you can manage. The result: an absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in Earth being pulverized out of existence - smashed into any number of large pieces which if the collision is hard enough should have enough energy to overcome their mutual gravity and drift away forever, never to coagulate back into a planet again.
A brief analysis of the size of the object required can be found here: falling at the minimal impact velocity of 11 kilometers per second and assuming zero energy loss to heat and other energy forms, the object would have to have roughly 60% of the mass of the Earth. Mars, the next planet out, "weighs" in at about 11% of Earth's mass, while Venus, the next planet in and also the nearest to Earth, has about 81%. Assuming that we would fire our "missile" into Earth at much greater than 11km/s (maybe around 50km/s), either of these would make great possibilities.
Obviously a smaller rock would do the job, you just need to fire it faster. A 10,000,000,000,000-tonne asteroid at 90% of light speed would do just as well.
This scenario is quite plausible.
Earth's final resting place: a variety of roughly Moon-sized chunks of rock, scattered haphazardly across the greater Solar System.
Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500.
02: VON NEUMANN CONSUMPTION
Feasibility rating: 8/10
You will need: a single von Neumann machine.
Method: A von Neumann machine is any device that is capable of creating an exact copy of itself given nothing but the necessary raw materials. Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum and silicon, the major elements found in Earth's mantle and core. It doesn't matter how big it is as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time. Release it into the ground under the Earth's crust and allow it to fend for itself. Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more. As the population of machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turned into a swarm of potentially sextillions of machines. Technically your objective would now be complete - no more Earth - but if you want to be thorough then you can command your VNMs to hurl themselves, along with any remaining trace elements, into the Sun. This hurling would have to be achieved using rocket propulsion of some sort, so be sure to include this in your design.
So crazy it might just work.
Earth's final resting place: the bodies of the VNMs themselves, then a small lump of iron sinking into the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion dates: between AD 2045 and AD 2050 , or even earlier.
01: SOLAR VAPORIZATION
Feasibility rating: 9/10
You will need: Earthmoving equipment.
Method: Hurl the Earth into the Sun. Sending Earth on a collision course with the Sun is not as easy as one might think; even though you don't actually have to literally hit the Sun (send the Earth near enough to the Sun (within the Roche limit), and tidal forces will tear it apart), it's surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight. But careful planning can avoid this.
This is impossible at our current technological level, but will be possible one day. In the meantime, it may happen by freak accident if something comes out of nowhere and randomly knocks Earth in precisely the right direction.
Earth's final resting place: a small globule of vaporized iron sinking slowly into the heart of the Sun.
Earliest feasible completion dates: Via act of God - 25 years' time. Any earlier and we'd have already spotted the asteroid in question. Via human intervention - given the current level of expansion of space technology, AD 2250 at best.
Such joyful possibilities!
| QUOTE (Iggy Koopa @ Aug 17 2007, 09:27 PM) |
| The von Neumann machine one, which is rated 8 on the feasibility scales, actually seems the least likely to happen to me out of them all. |
Not really. People build von Neumann machines all the time. The massive consumption is the tricky part. The first one is definitely the least likely.
| QUOTE (Silver Millennium @ Aug 18 2007, 12:16 AM) |
| 06: VACUUM ENERGY DETONATION Feasibility rating: 5/10 You will need: a light bulb. Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too. Slightly possible. Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of energetic particles. Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2060. |
Well you see, I have around three lightbulbs right here... are you sure you wanted to say that?
| QUOTE (Katsu @ Aug 18 2007, 06:02 PM) |
| There's nothing that has a 10/10 feasibility rating? |
00: IMPLOSIONarthmoving equipmen
Feasibility rating: 10/10
You will need: Patience.
Method: Wait several thousand years for the earth to randomly implode.
Earth's final resting place: vaporized particles.
Earliest feasible completion dates: Tomorrow afternoon.
| QUOTE |
| 07: MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION - ANNIHILATION Feasibility rating: 5/10 You will need: 2,500,000,000,000 tons of antimatter. Antimatter - the most explosive substance known - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take some considerable time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible - and much easier - simply to "flip" 2.5 trillion tons of matter through a fourth dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once. Method: This method involves detonating a bomb so big that it blasts the Earth to pieces. How hard is that? The gravitational binding energy of a planet of mass M and radius R is - if you do the lengthy calculations - given by the formula E=(3/5)GM?/R. For Earth, that works out to roughly 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. The Sun takes nearly a WEEK to output that much energy. Think about THAT. To liberate that much energy requires the annihilation of around 2,500,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter. That's assuming zero energy loss to heat and radiation, which is unlikely to be the case in reality: You'll probably need to up the dose by at least a factor of ten. Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it en masse towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc?) should be sufficient to split the Earth into a thousand pieces. Earth's final resting place: A second asteroid belt around the Sun. Earliest feasible completion date: AD 2500. Of course, if it does prove possible to manufacture antimatter in the sufficiently large quantities you require - which is not necessarily the case - then smaller antimatter bombs should be around long before then. |
Matter + Antimatter = Energy so wouldn't the final resting place of earth be photons scattered throughout the universe (assuming the antimatter was equivalent to the mass of the earth)?
| QUOTE (Katsu @ Aug 18 2007, 03:02 PM) |
| There's nothing that has a 10/10 feasibility rating? |
Solar vaporization could have a 10/10 rating if you let nature take its course I suppose. The Earth is guaranteed to be vaporized by the Sun in about 5 billion years when the Sun expands to become a Red Giant star and engulfs the inner solar system.
| QUOTE (Boltbeam @ Aug 18 2007, 04:26 PM) |
| Matter + Antimatter = Energy so wouldn't the final resting place of earth be photons scattered throughout the universe (assuming the antimatter was equivalent to the mass of the earth)? |
Have no idea. I took this from a science website so I assume they (the scientists), know what they're talking about. Having said that, I had to edit a couple of the paragraphs a bit myself to make them more accurate.
PS - I love your avatar. When I saw it I was blown away and I was like "where did he get that from?!" - only to discover that I had the same picture saved on my computer...>_> You got that from PearlEden's work on deviant art did you not? I love almost all her drawings so I decided to use her Arceus work as my new avatar.
I found a couple more ways to get rid of the planet....>_>
11: MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION - ANNIHILATION (Version 2)
(This is a more extreme variant of the first antimatter method and its the one Boltbeam was referring to)
You will need: A planet Earth sized sphere made from antimatter.
Antimatter - the most explosive substance known - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take preposterous amounts of time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible to find or scrape together an approximately Earth-sized chunk of rock and simply to "flip" it all through a fourth spacial dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.
Method: Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc?), is equivalent to the amount the Sun outputs in some 89 million years! Alternatively, if your matter-flipping machinery is a little more flexible, turn half the Earth into antimatter (say, the Western Hemisphere) and watch the fireworks....>_>
Earth's final resting place: When matter and antimatter collide, they completely annihilate each other, leaving nothing but energy. All that would be left of Earth is a scintillating flash of light expanding across space forever. This method is one of the most permanent and total on this list, as the very matter which makes up the Earth ceases to exist, making it impossible to even reassemble the planet afterwards.
12: NUCLEAR FISSION
You will need: a universal fission machine (e.g. a particle accelerator), an unimaginable amount of energy.
Method: Take every single atom on planet Earth and individually split each one down to become hydrogen and helium. Fissioning heavier elements to become hydrogen and helium is the opposite of the self-sustaining reaction that powers the Sun: it requires you to put energy in which is why the energy requirements here are so vast.
Earth's final resting place: While Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are gas giants composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, they are massive enough to actually hold on to their tenuous atmospheres. The Earth is not; the gases would dissipate away. You'd get a wispy mess of gas where there should have been a planet.
13: SOLAR MAGNIFIER ARRAY
You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth.
What I'm talking about here is: mirrors, and lots of them. Intercept several decent sized asteroids for raw materials and start cranking out kilometre-square sheets of lightweight reflective material (aluminised mylar, aluminium foil, nickel foil, iron foil or whatever you can scrape together). They need to be capable of changing focus direction at will because it is generally impossible to place things stationary in space and the relative positions of the Earth and Sun will be shifting as time passes, so attach a few manoeuvering thrusters and a communications and navigation system to each sheet.
Preliminary calculations suggest you would need roughly two trillion square kilometres of mirror.
Method: Command your focusing array to concentrate as much solar energy as you can directly on the Earth - perhaps on its core, perhaps at a point on its surface. So the theory goes, this will cause the Earth to generally increase in temperature until it completely boils away, becoming a gas cloud.
A variation on this method involves turning the Sun into a gigantic hydrogen gas laser.
Earth's final resting place: A gas cloud.
14: COSMIC SPIN
You will need: some means of accelerating the Earth's rotation.
Accelerating the Earth's rotation is a rather different matter from moving it. External interactions with asteroids might move the Earth but won't have a significant effect on how fast it spins. And certainly it won't spin the Earth fast enough. You need to build rockets or railguns at the Equator, all facing West. Or perhaps something more exotic...
Method: The theory is, if you spin the Earth fast enough, it'll fly apart as the bits at the Equator start moving fast enough to overcome gravity. In theory, one revolution every 84 minutes should do it - even slower would be fine, in fact, as the Earth would become flatter and thus more prone to breaking apart as you spun it faster.
Earth's final resting place: I'm assuming an asteroid belt still orbiting the Sun.
11: MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTION - ANNIHILATION (Version 2)
(This is a more extreme variant of the first antimatter method and its the one Boltbeam was referring to)
You will need: A planet Earth sized sphere made from antimatter.
Antimatter - the most explosive substance known - can be manufactured in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but this will take preposterous amounts of time to produce the required amounts. If you can create the appropriate machinery, it may be possible to find or scrape together an approximately Earth-sized chunk of rock and simply to "flip" it all through a fourth spacial dimension, turning it all to antimatter at once.
Method: Once you've generated your antimatter, probably in space, just launch it towards Earth. The resulting release of energy (obeying Einstein's famous mass-energy equation, E=mc?), is equivalent to the amount the Sun outputs in some 89 million years! Alternatively, if your matter-flipping machinery is a little more flexible, turn half the Earth into antimatter (say, the Western Hemisphere) and watch the fireworks....>_>
Earth's final resting place: When matter and antimatter collide, they completely annihilate each other, leaving nothing but energy. All that would be left of Earth is a scintillating flash of light expanding across space forever. This method is one of the most permanent and total on this list, as the very matter which makes up the Earth ceases to exist, making it impossible to even reassemble the planet afterwards.
12: NUCLEAR FISSION
You will need: a universal fission machine (e.g. a particle accelerator), an unimaginable amount of energy.
Method: Take every single atom on planet Earth and individually split each one down to become hydrogen and helium. Fissioning heavier elements to become hydrogen and helium is the opposite of the self-sustaining reaction that powers the Sun: it requires you to put energy in which is why the energy requirements here are so vast.
Earth's final resting place: While Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are gas giants composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, they are massive enough to actually hold on to their tenuous atmospheres. The Earth is not; the gases would dissipate away. You'd get a wispy mess of gas where there should have been a planet.
13: SOLAR MAGNIFIER ARRAY
You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth.
What I'm talking about here is: mirrors, and lots of them. Intercept several decent sized asteroids for raw materials and start cranking out kilometre-square sheets of lightweight reflective material (aluminised mylar, aluminium foil, nickel foil, iron foil or whatever you can scrape together). They need to be capable of changing focus direction at will because it is generally impossible to place things stationary in space and the relative positions of the Earth and Sun will be shifting as time passes, so attach a few manoeuvering thrusters and a communications and navigation system to each sheet.
Preliminary calculations suggest you would need roughly two trillion square kilometres of mirror.
Method: Command your focusing array to concentrate as much solar energy as you can directly on the Earth - perhaps on its core, perhaps at a point on its surface. So the theory goes, this will cause the Earth to generally increase in temperature until it completely boils away, becoming a gas cloud.
A variation on this method involves turning the Sun into a gigantic hydrogen gas laser.
Earth's final resting place: A gas cloud.
14: COSMIC SPIN
You will need: some means of accelerating the Earth's rotation.
Accelerating the Earth's rotation is a rather different matter from moving it. External interactions with asteroids might move the Earth but won't have a significant effect on how fast it spins. And certainly it won't spin the Earth fast enough. You need to build rockets or railguns at the Equator, all facing West. Or perhaps something more exotic...
Method: The theory is, if you spin the Earth fast enough, it'll fly apart as the bits at the Equator start moving fast enough to overcome gravity. In theory, one revolution every 84 minutes should do it - even slower would be fine, in fact, as the Earth would become flatter and thus more prone to breaking apart as you spun it faster.
Earth's final resting place: I'm assuming an asteroid belt still orbiting the Sun.
Let me be more realistic with the 7 ways how humans will go bye bye.
#7 Gamma Ray Burst Chances of happening 6.5
No not what made bruce banner into Hulk, thats a fictional gamma ray, a gamma ray burst is created when a during a supernova explosion in which
gamma-ray photons, the most energetic form of light known to man explode cauing a huge high energy, incredibly hot and bright blast of energy and light. You
could see a gamma ray burst from earth if the blast happened in the adronama galaxy with BINOCULARS. Lets say if a gamma ray burst were to happen in our galaxy, well the atmoshpere would be ripped apart and even if you managed to survive lets a cave and closed your eyes and turned away from the entrance, you would still go blind.
#6 Black holes Chances of happening 6.85
Yes Black Holes, they are created when a star dies it tends to collapse in on it self and go super nova but sometimes a black holes is created instead. Black Holes are a swerling vortex that have such a strong gravitatonal pull not even light can escape its pull. Also NASA has recently discovered that there are some black
holes thar acctually move and not just sit in one spot. If a black hole were to go by Earth you would hear the same noise a vacumm makes, except the black hole is acctually sucking up teh atmosphere, and then you would start going up into except the force will cause your body to spereare apart and eventually your molecules.
#5 Impact Chances of Happening 7.25
Obviously be hit by something really big from outter space with the force of 100 nuclear weapons is never a good day. So we are hit every day from outer space just never the gigantic astriod or comet from the movies (deep impact sucked anyways) and the fact that an astiriod is supposed to get really close and miss the Earth in 2028 and it wil come around again 2035.
Though if one were to hit the Earth and if it was truely large enough it would cause a nuclear winter do to all the debree that would get trapped in the atmosphere blocking out the suns rays and light making it nuclear winter, and since there is no light means plants will die, and if you take a piece out of the food chain, the food chain will fail killing almost all life on earth. But asteriods are good I mean one which was 6-12 miles wide managed to kill the reign of the Dinasaurs all over the world making a 200 mi crater, thankfully in Mexico allwoing mamals to evolve which is why we are here.
#4 Super Volcano Chances of Happening[i] 8.37
Yea Super Volcan's are extremly powerful and dangerous, and the worse part of it all there is one Yellow Stone National Park and its overdue to erupt, about 1,000 years late. Its got about the power of blasting 10 nukes, now you may be thinking whats so bad about that, I mean compared to Nuclear Winter, Gamma ray bursts, and Black Holes? Well consider this When a Super Volcano erupts it realeses sute, but the sute from a super volcano is far more deadly then the stuff in Cheimneys, it has poisons in it that cause the liquid in our lungs its a gooey ceminent like substance which would cause any humans to sufficate.
This Sute blocks off electric currents so electricity would go out anywhere near the suit. Also this suit can travel anywhere in the world through our atmosphere and since Planes use electricity and cant get anything in their turbins or it will crash all airplanes would be out of commision. Also the debree just like a comet, or astroid impact would cause a nuclear impact with the same effects. Also pretty much half of wisconsin (thats where Yellowstone is) would be desimated by lava or the focre or the impact.
#3 Global Warming Chances of Happening 92.87
What Global warming it doesnt exist, and even if it did its not my problem. Well it does exist. So Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane are the three green houses gases, and once these gases are emitted faster than the Earth can absorb them. So they acctually thicken the atmosphere layer trapping the suns rays from reflecting out of the earth like it supposed to. So that ends up melting the ice duee to increasing heat, which kills animals and plants so we get that break the food chain again. Not to mention 40% of all water we drink comes from snow and if thats gone then how will we drink how will animals drink, they wont and die breaking the food chain again.
#2 Nuclear Weapons Chances of Happening 96.73
What how is Nuclear weapons not #1, well IMO opinion there is something more deadly, but ill get to that later. Well causing a bomb to implode and seperating atoms by having a huge amount of force and ramming other atoms into another which would cause the split. Well I dont really need to explain how deadly these things ae making a creator 50*50 square miles in Hiroshima killing around 100,000 people, then another 2,000 off radiation poisoning, and nothing can grow there for another 50,000 years kinda speaks for itself. The USA and Russia have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world secen times over.
#1 Biological Warfare Chances of Happening98.73,
How is this more deadly than a nuke an idiot might ask? Well consider the fact that someone already realesed anthrax on 9/11/01, luckly the person was an idiot who mailed it, instead of realesing it in a train staion or a heavly urban area so it didnt kill anyone (I think). But humans can not see Microbs so if some Terrorist or crazy persn were to take a strand of anthrax, or god forrbid the Spanish Flu and made it as catchable as the common cold, it will kill Billions of creatures. Unlike an Atomic Bom which once detonaited and the chances for radiation goes away after around a month it wont keep killing. But a virus, or a germ will not stop it will spread and keep going. Thats why Biological Warfare gets the #1 spot on my list.
#7 Gamma Ray Burst Chances of happening 6.5
No not what made bruce banner into Hulk, thats a fictional gamma ray, a gamma ray burst is created when a during a supernova explosion in which
gamma-ray photons, the most energetic form of light known to man explode cauing a huge high energy, incredibly hot and bright blast of energy and light. You
could see a gamma ray burst from earth if the blast happened in the adronama galaxy with BINOCULARS. Lets say if a gamma ray burst were to happen in our galaxy, well the atmoshpere would be ripped apart and even if you managed to survive lets a cave and closed your eyes and turned away from the entrance, you would still go blind.
#6 Black holes Chances of happening 6.85
Yes Black Holes, they are created when a star dies it tends to collapse in on it self and go super nova but sometimes a black holes is created instead. Black Holes are a swerling vortex that have such a strong gravitatonal pull not even light can escape its pull. Also NASA has recently discovered that there are some black
holes thar acctually move and not just sit in one spot. If a black hole were to go by Earth you would hear the same noise a vacumm makes, except the black hole is acctually sucking up teh atmosphere, and then you would start going up into except the force will cause your body to spereare apart and eventually your molecules.
#5 Impact Chances of Happening 7.25
Obviously be hit by something really big from outter space with the force of 100 nuclear weapons is never a good day. So we are hit every day from outer space just never the gigantic astriod or comet from the movies (deep impact sucked anyways) and the fact that an astiriod is supposed to get really close and miss the Earth in 2028 and it wil come around again 2035.
Though if one were to hit the Earth and if it was truely large enough it would cause a nuclear winter do to all the debree that would get trapped in the atmosphere blocking out the suns rays and light making it nuclear winter, and since there is no light means plants will die, and if you take a piece out of the food chain, the food chain will fail killing almost all life on earth. But asteriods are good I mean one which was 6-12 miles wide managed to kill the reign of the Dinasaurs all over the world making a 200 mi crater, thankfully in Mexico allwoing mamals to evolve which is why we are here.
#4 Super Volcano Chances of Happening[i] 8.37
Yea Super Volcan's are extremly powerful and dangerous, and the worse part of it all there is one Yellow Stone National Park and its overdue to erupt, about 1,000 years late. Its got about the power of blasting 10 nukes, now you may be thinking whats so bad about that, I mean compared to Nuclear Winter, Gamma ray bursts, and Black Holes? Well consider this When a Super Volcano erupts it realeses sute, but the sute from a super volcano is far more deadly then the stuff in Cheimneys, it has poisons in it that cause the liquid in our lungs its a gooey ceminent like substance which would cause any humans to sufficate.
This Sute blocks off electric currents so electricity would go out anywhere near the suit. Also this suit can travel anywhere in the world through our atmosphere and since Planes use electricity and cant get anything in their turbins or it will crash all airplanes would be out of commision. Also the debree just like a comet, or astroid impact would cause a nuclear impact with the same effects. Also pretty much half of wisconsin (thats where Yellowstone is) would be desimated by lava or the focre or the impact.
#3 Global Warming Chances of Happening 92.87
What Global warming it doesnt exist, and even if it did its not my problem. Well it does exist. So Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane are the three green houses gases, and once these gases are emitted faster than the Earth can absorb them. So they acctually thicken the atmosphere layer trapping the suns rays from reflecting out of the earth like it supposed to. So that ends up melting the ice duee to increasing heat, which kills animals and plants so we get that break the food chain again. Not to mention 40% of all water we drink comes from snow and if thats gone then how will we drink how will animals drink, they wont and die breaking the food chain again.
#2 Nuclear Weapons Chances of Happening 96.73
What how is Nuclear weapons not #1, well IMO opinion there is something more deadly, but ill get to that later. Well causing a bomb to implode and seperating atoms by having a huge amount of force and ramming other atoms into another which would cause the split. Well I dont really need to explain how deadly these things ae making a creator 50*50 square miles in Hiroshima killing around 100,000 people, then another 2,000 off radiation poisoning, and nothing can grow there for another 50,000 years kinda speaks for itself. The USA and Russia have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world secen times over.
#1 Biological Warfare Chances of Happening98.73,
How is this more deadly than a nuke an idiot might ask? Well consider the fact that someone already realesed anthrax on 9/11/01, luckly the person was an idiot who mailed it, instead of realesing it in a train staion or a heavly urban area so it didnt kill anyone (I think). But humans can not see Microbs so if some Terrorist or crazy persn were to take a strand of anthrax, or god forrbid the Spanish Flu and made it as catchable as the common cold, it will kill Billions of creatures. Unlike an Atomic Bom which once detonaited and the chances for radiation goes away after around a month it wont keep killing. But a virus, or a germ will not stop it will spread and keep going. Thats why Biological Warfare gets the #1 spot on my list.
Thanks to this topic I had a dream last night where something between the Earth and the moon exploded and there was this blue sphere of explosive energy that grew until it engulfed both Earth and its moon. And then there was nothing.
Btw about the Vacuum Energy Detonation... Do the light bulbs need to be those ones that are actually shaped like bulbs or can they be those funky-shaped energy-saving ones?
Btw about the Vacuum Energy Detonation... Do the light bulbs need to be those ones that are actually shaped like bulbs or can they be those funky-shaped energy-saving ones?
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