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September 11, 2008 5:26 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: posted a few years back -- jessamyn
Oh, I already know how this is going to happen.
Homosexuals and atheists, people.
posted by turgid dahlia at 5:44 PM on September 11, 2008
Homosexuals and atheists, people.
posted by turgid dahlia at 5:44 PM on September 11, 2008
Aw nuts, nothing came up in search. Mods please delete.
posted by jtron at 5:50 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by jtron at 5:50 PM on September 11, 2008
You will need: An entire planet Earth made from antimatter
Err, no. You'd only need a small fraction of that amount to blow the Earth into tiny little pieces.
posted by yath at 6:01 PM on September 11, 2008
Err, no. You'd only need a small fraction of that amount to blow the Earth into tiny little pieces.
posted by yath at 6:01 PM on September 11, 2008
Yes, the amount of energy released by a smallish mountain of antimatter suddenly appearing on earth would be absolutely ASTROLOGICAL! It would blow the crap out of the earth and almost all of our stuff.
posted by Mister_A at 6:07 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Mister_A at 6:07 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Aw, you guys didn't read far enough. He covers that *later*.
posted by hue at 6:15 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by hue at 6:15 PM on September 11, 2008
row row fight the powah
posted by stifford at 6:16 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by stifford at 6:16 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Is the answer the Large Hadron Collider? Because I've been hearing from some very respectable news organizations that the answer is the Large Hadron Collider.
posted by Navelgazer at 6:30 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Navelgazer at 6:30 PM on September 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
I've been enamored by relativistic kill vehicles since reading Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski's The Killing Star. (recommended)
One shot: goodbye.
posted by Auden at 6:32 PM on September 11, 2008
One shot: goodbye.
posted by Auden at 6:32 PM on September 11, 2008
Aw, you guys didn't read far enough. He covers that *later*.
Yep, you're right. I don't see the point of the first one though. If you attempted it, you'd accomplish the blowing-up method long before complete annihilation took place.
posted by yath at 6:52 PM on September 11, 2008
Yep, you're right. I don't see the point of the first one though. If you attempted it, you'd accomplish the blowing-up method long before complete annihilation took place.
posted by yath at 6:52 PM on September 11, 2008
just vote republican, especially the wacko Christian right wing version. they will fund Reverend Clyde Lott and his red cow conspiracy to bring about Armageddon.
posted by caddis at 7:34 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by caddis at 7:34 PM on September 11, 2008
Aren't we doing an adequate enough job of it already?
Jeeze, some people just don't have any patience.
posted by porpoise at 7:44 PM on September 11, 2008
Jeeze, some people just don't have any patience.
posted by porpoise at 7:44 PM on September 11, 2008
Yep, you're right. I don't see the point of the first one though. If you attempted it, you'd accomplish the blowing-up method long before complete annihilation took place.
An Earth almost completely converted to gamma rays is way more destroyed than an Earth exploded into smaller chunks.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:45 PM on September 11, 2008
An Earth almost completely converted to gamma rays is way more destroyed than an Earth exploded into smaller chunks.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:45 PM on September 11, 2008
This begs the question, how many 5-year-old Earths do you think you could take on at once?
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 7:57 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 7:57 PM on September 11, 2008
Depends on how much mass you have, MitlonRandKalman.
posted by porpoise at 8:22 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by porpoise at 8:22 PM on September 11, 2008
Yeah, if we are not going to destroy, then what are we going to do with the world?
posted by humannaire at 8:38 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by humannaire at 8:38 PM on September 11, 2008
I saw this in a comment at the Bad Astronomy blog last night. Entertaining if nothing else.
posted by IvoShandor at 9:48 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by IvoShandor at 9:48 PM on September 11, 2008
No one has mentioned the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...?
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:50 PM on September 11, 2008
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:50 PM on September 11, 2008
The problem with this site is the level of overkill he goes in for. I mean somehow we've managed to fight wars for 6000 years or so despite nobody having a man portable weapon that would allow their troops to vaporize their enemies.
As if a greasy spot that is identifiable as "was once some kind of animal" isn't quite dead enough.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:57 PM on September 11, 2008
As if a greasy spot that is identifiable as "was once some kind of animal" isn't quite dead enough.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:57 PM on September 11, 2008
Well I liked it.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 2:40 AM on September 12, 2008
posted by Samuel Farrow at 2:40 AM on September 12, 2008
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It's also home to some nifty short fiction, including the serialized work-in-progress Fine Structure, which IMO is worthy of a post in its own right.
posted by teraflop at 5:32 PM on September 11, 2008