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<div class="IPBDescription">We destroy the world.</div>Hypothetically of course!
Anyway, if you had unlimited resources, how would you bring the planet to an end? I was thinking if you were able to build a large enough flywheel generator + compulsator assembly, you could produce enough electricity to power a de-gaussing coil large enough to de-magnetize the planet. Or possibly just use it to power some kind of accelerator powerful enough to shear the planet in half.
Note: be creative, poison gas and nukes are boring.
Anyway, if you had unlimited resources, how would you bring the planet to an end? I was thinking if you were able to build a large enough flywheel generator + compulsator assembly, you could produce enough electricity to power a de-gaussing coil large enough to de-magnetize the planet. Or possibly just use it to power some kind of accelerator powerful enough to shear the planet in half.
Note: be creative, poison gas and nukes are boring.
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Either all the matter from these continueing collosions would have such an unstable course that they either fly into outerspace or towards the sun.
Need lots of rockets to hijack the moons though, just speedup their revolving speed arround jupiter and they should leave orbit.
So, take that, and then send the earth into the sun.
or maybe a rip in space time is actually nothingness, in the unknowable sense of the word. If it's nothingless does it even have a border? Maybe a puncture at any one point means the cessasation of all other points and a blurring between real and nonreal.
If I was going to end the world it would be with something like that, where I wasn't sure of the outcome but there was a high probabily that something like a giant black hole would tear the planet appart with gravitational shear.
Also, <a href="http://qntm.org/destroy" target="_blank">Geocide</a> is an authority on this topic on the intarwebs. Read and be entertained.
Take three white dwarf stars slightly under the Chandrasekhar limit and fly them into the sun in such a way that they are all stable and rapidly rotating. Wait.
Sol and all associated bodies will cease to exist as we know them.
Failing that: grab a giant* PVC pipe, a high-volume** air compressor and a large*** tinderbox. Stick the pipe into Jupiter's atmosphere, start the compressor and light it up. Fly Jupiter into our favourite planet.
*big enough to fit earth through, several times over
**big enough to pump all of earth's atmosphere from point A to point B in a matter of seconds
***thermonuclear
edit: on that note i would just steal george bush's nuclear bombs and set us up teh bombs
and of course nuclear winter and many more things, starvation, diease, death by nuclear radiation.
cause i would have r stoled all the gask masks and anything to help prevent such radiation. Screw a quick death..
set us up the nukes and lets end it slow.
Large Hadron Collider undoes the world.
Large Hadron Collider undoes the world.
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ok im retarded, plx explain
what is that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
edit: I r wiki'd it, but besides smashing particles together, whats the purpose of doing that? ..
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I always thought it would be cool, in some sort of scifi universe, to have a planet that moves around by having gigantic engines on one of the continents.
So, take that, and then send the earth into the sun.
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Why would I want to hurt the planet? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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they had one, its called the deathstar
and it phailed
luke r blew it up!!!1111eleventyone
This force of robot space birds would fly around the earth in orbit. Swoop down every so often to fill up with water from a lake/stream/ocean. Go back into orbit. Release the water in geosynchronous orbit so it stays up there. Repeat ad infinitum.
They'd destroy anything that tries to bring the water back.
The intended effect is to rob the earth of it's water while slowly blocking out the sun. It's also designed to take a long time. On the order of centuries.
Water, water, everywhere; And not a drop to drink.
Muahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Winnar. Contest closed.
I'd secretly install stations throughout the arctic, slowly warming the ice caps, dumping millions of tons of ice into the Atlantic, stopping the Gulf Stream and ending the warm air that keep Europe from freezing. Then as a new ice age settles in there, I'd buy out/overthrow/bring democracy to Central and South American countries, as well as Northern Africa, and install factories to commit high amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. The mixture of extreme heat and abhorrent cold would cause a global meltdown of infrastructure when fueled by the Propaganda Machine I had enlisted to ensure chaos. When at its peak, I would send mass rumours regarding a biological weapon that is capable of killing every human, and is an airborne pathogen. I would state the intentions are for use on the US. In response, the US would develop a *real* pathogen much more potent, which I would steal and strategically unleash at major cities around the world (ala 12 Monkeys). The end would be a planet devoid of humans, but a living sanctuary to all animals.
Then ten years after the mass extinction of humanity, all factories and pole stations would kick into overdrive, destroying the atmosphere until all that was left is a Mars like atmosphere. The End.
you all that have contributed to this thread have very sadistic minds lol
edit: on that note i would just steal george bush's nuclear bombs and set us up teh bombs
and of course nuclear winter and many more things, starvation, diease, death by nuclear radiation.
cause i would have r stoled all the gask masks and anything to help prevent such radiation. Screw a quick death..
set us up the nukes and lets end it slow.
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Do nothing at all and wait for our current behaviour to finish the job.
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Both insufficient. Both likely to get us all killed. The former will not harm the planet itself much. The latter is unlikely to do so. We're trying to end the planet here, not merely humanity.
Edit: Same for rad's method. Come on guys, show some ambition!
Seriously.
Drop rocks on the earth from the moon.
(cookie to the first geek who gets the refferance)
Worldwide mecha giant battle royal is the only way the Earth should go.
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I read those a few months ago, they were so funny. My favorites were the "Things That Will Not Destroy The World," my favorite under there being "###### Marriage."
EDIT: Eh, filter. Well, I'm sure you know what I'm saying.
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Neverwinter Nights 2?
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This won't end the world. In this case, "End the world" has to involve actually the destruction of over 50% of the earth. To qualify for this status, the Earth has to be turned into 2 or more pieces, each of them no more than 50% of the Earth's original mass.
Still, I prefer going with "destroy the planet" because it's a much more interesting thought experiment.
Or: "lol pwning humns is for nubs if u haev real skill u try to destroy the planet l2p!"
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Rocks Fall Every One Dies.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Neverwinter Nights 2?
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nope.
Btw, my one (dropign rocks from the moon) would actualy be enough to destroy the world. It is the same concept of plastering the earth with meteors, exept you can do it all much easily by simply launching things from the moon untill they catch into the Earth's gravity.
Shift its orbit close to Jupiter. Not enough to knock it into Jupiter (that'd be boring, it'd just disappear beneath cloud layers), but enough to make it get ripped apart by tidal forces. Should be quite the show, and Jupiter would probably get a fashionable ring out of it like Saturn.
Also, <a href="http://qntm.org/destroy" target="_blank">Geocide</a> is an authority on this topic on the intarwebs. Read and be entertained.
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That website is awesome, hahaha.
You could probably siphon hydrogen gas from Jupiters atmosphere (Im pretty sure it's mostly hydrogen...). Slowly replace the earths atmosphere with hydrogen and oxygen, then ignite it. Maybe I suck at chemistry more then I remember, but Im pretty sure hydrogen can burn in the presence of oxygen.
Both insufficient. Both likely to get us all killed. The former will not harm the planet itself much. The latter is unlikely to do so. We're trying to end the planet here, not merely humanity.
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I was being ironic.
How to destroy the earth in one easy step:
Wait until the sun becomes a red giant.
Okay, I'll play.
Move the earth inside the roche limit so the tidal forces rip the planet apart to form a dwarf planet with jupiter-like rings.
How to move the earth inside the roche limit? You build a giant rocket that fires once every 23.5 hours for hour. Position it on the equator somewhere. We won't be around to see the results, unless we colonise mars.
Neverwinter Nights 2?
nope.
Btw, my one (dropign rocks from the moon) would actualy be enough to destroy the world. It is the same concept of plastering the earth with meteors, exept you can do it all much easily by simply launching things from the moon untill they catch into the Earth's gravity.
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But, each time one impacted the earth it would become part of earths mass, meaning you would need even more rocks to break it apart. A positive feed-back cycle if you will.
- Shockwave
I was being ironic.
How to destroy the earth in one easy step:
Wait until the sun becomes a red giant.
Okay, I'll play.
Move the earth inside the roche limit so the tidal forces rip the planet apart to form a dwarf planet with jupiter-like rings.
How to move the earth inside the roche limit? You build a giant rocket that fires once every 23.5 hours for hour. Position it on the equator somewhere. We won't be around to see the results, unless we colonise mars.
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Rochet limit would definitely work and it would rock to see this spectacle from Mars (on Mars TV).
However when the sun becomes a red giant, it just becomes bigger and burns the earth and it becomes a crispy rock And while the sun would get lighter. Wouldn't the earth just move away from the sun when it does this. either ending up drifting into a higher orbit when the sun burns up its helium and becomes a white dwarf or the Earth could move off into outer space (who needs a spaceship to go off on an interstellar trip anyway <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> )