Posted on 04/24/2006 10:16:52 AM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.
Fools.
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
#1 way to destroy the planet: Turn all nations over to socialist governments.
Right on. That's what I've always said. This planet used to have molten streams of metal running over its surface. Before the atmosphere formed radiation from space bombarded the planet. Meteorites plowed into the planet digging huge craters. Comets hit the planet too. The entire planet has frozen over twice.
It's pretty arrogant of those liberals to think that something as insignificant as the human race can seriously damage a planet that has taken worse for millions of years.
Too long to post the whole thing, but it is quite funny. Worth the click through.
"It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old"
Just wait till the Creationists get on to the thread.
I hope you've got a flame-retardant suit on. :)
/s
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron.
Just wondering...
How did they get the earth on a scale?
Could the Earth go on a diet and lose weight?
That will be hard since the smug CO2 emissions from the envirowackos who will be in charge in that world will more than offset the O2 emmisions and probably cause even more global warming. Now that I think of it, the best thing we can do to stop global warming is to make these loudmouth idiots shut the hell up and stop producing noxious CO2
I love #1 and #2....eaten by Von Neumann machines and Hurled into the sun.
That is really funny actually.
Go physics!
You asked for it!!
A 4.5 billion year old Earth to me is science fiction.
:o)
The end result.....the formation of the moon, a mix of impact material and ejecta from the Earth.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/moon_making_010815-1.html
24 Hours of Chaos: The Day The Moon Was Made
This, by virtue of persistent repetition and a fully referenced hyperlink to an animated GIF I made.
Doubly note my use of bold face letters, which adds truth to this argument.
I'm a creationist, but you don't see me flaming the thread. Personally, where Genesis 1:1-2 states, 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was formless and void...", there could have been a 4 billion year interval between verse 1 and verse 2, with the description of Gen. chapters 1 and 2 being not a creation story, but a re-creation story.
The original website:
http://qntm.org/destroy
Methods for destroying the Earth
Fissioned
Sucked into a microscopic black hole
Cooked in a solar oven
Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction
Sucked into a giant black hole
Meticulously and systematically deconstructed
Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument
Hurled into the Sun
Ripped apart by Jupiter
Fall-back methods
Total existence failure
Written off in the backlash from a stellar collision
Crunched
Torn a new one
Decayed
Other, less scientifically probable ways that Earth could be destroyed
Whipped by a cosmic string
Gobbled up by strangelets
Engulfed in supernova
Shaken to pieces
Reduced to true vacuum
Wormholed
Existence negated via time travel
Destroyed by God
Things which will NOT destroy the Earth
Overspun
Gamma Ray Burst'd
Burned away by muon-catalyzed fusion of the oceans
Blown up by vacuum energy detonation
Armageddon, as described in the Bible.
Allowing George W. Bush to continue to exercise his will on the world.
Paradoxes as described in Back To The Future Part II.
Ceasing all thought
Semantics.
Adding enough material to the planet Earth to cause it to undergo gravitational collapse and become a star instead of a planet.
Detonating all the nuclear weapons ever created simultaneously
Proving that 1=0.
Runaway fission at the Earth's core
Gay marriage.
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