How to destroy the Earth (completely)

Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by dennisgorelik on Sunday June 20, 2010 @06:10PM (#1447285)

That article is a good demonstration of scientific entertainment. I liked that method: --- "What you need to do is to point our most powerful radio-telescope transmitters at likely solar systems and taunt them. 'The girly-beings in your miserable solar system could never destroy a planet as cool as this one...'" ---

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Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by stcredzero on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:52AM (#1447994)

Many think that all we have to do is show:

1) we are here

2) that we're savages who have nuclear weapons and who are perfectly willing to use them on each other.

3) we're going to develop interstellar spacecraft

I think many civilizations worthy of the name would want to bomb us before we get out of Earth's gravity well en masse.

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Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by sliverstorm on Monday June 21, 2010 @04:00AM (#1448256)

In the grand scheme of things, I have come to realize nuclear warheads are not that fearsome. Thus far they have caused less damage to the surface of the earth than a pimple causes to your face. And the earth is insignificantly small.

They are definitely scalable, but they are certainly no Dr. Device

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Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by stcredzero on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:37AM (#1448600)

Interstellar drives are the dangerous bit. The point is that we have a history of being willing to use weapons of mass destruction on our own species. This should make other species a bit nervous.

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