Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Jun 29, 2005 3:15:43 GMT -6
Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
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.
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-ton 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.
Top ten here: www.livescience.com/technology/10ways_destroyearth.html
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Dr. Evil should read this.