"Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom"
Would be Bond villans / Marvin the Martian need look no further.
Not content to come up with methods to merely wipe out human existance, or even all life on Earth, this guy wants the full Monty:
Mission statement:
For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to change the Earth into something other than a planet. Any of the following forms could represent success: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a dust cloud; a more exotic object such as a quantum singularity. But the list does not end here...
I humbly submit to you:
A Well Researched and Reasonably Scientific list of Ways to Completely Destroy the Earth.
posted by The Sum of All Monkeys at 7:06 PM
1 Comments:
But what of the Q37 Explosive Space Modulator?
Every issue of Sci. American seems to have some new way of destroying the earth, certainly the attempt to create zillions of micro-mini black holes seems to at least a non-zero potential. If I remember correctly, during the Manhattan project, they calculated a 25% chance the bomb would ignite the entirety of earth's atmosphere.
He mention superstrings, but there are also "branes", a collision of which would potentially wipe out the plane of our universe.
If you buy the bubbling universes hypothesis we are definitely on borrowed time-our laws of physics are not necessarily true for other, possible adjascent universes, which to me just sounds like trouble.
There was a serious proposal recently to melt multi-millions of tons of iron and drop it into the earth's crust with a probe to test the mantle, and I suppose even the core. It occurs to me you could try this in the ocean; the resulting leak into the earth's molten core might create a superheated steam explosion that would crack the planet! Just a thought. Someone get me a grad student.
Whatever happens, I'm sure Halliburton will get the contract.
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