do we have the power to destroy earth?

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Drop every bomb in our nuclear arsenal, and we can easily destroy the planet ten times over.

Lets just put it this way, if we had the ability to generate so much power as to the destroy the Earth, there would not be such a thing as an energy crisis.

Nah the earth has the power to kill us, irene is but an example..doesnt matter what we do well just kill ourselves off and a few centruies/millenia later some other form oflife will go on...

Drop every bomb in our nuclear arsenal, and we can easily destroy the planet ten times over.

brickdoctor

I believe we have the ability to destroy all life on this planet except for plants, insects and microbes, but I don't think we have the technology to destroy the earth itself.

Lets make this a experiment. :P

We could probably make it uninhabitable for most lively organisms, but I highly doubt we could destroy it physically.

we have enough nukes to destroy the world over 10,000 times.

No, we cannot destroy the earth, or produce enough energy to significantly deform it. We could, however, KILL EVERYTHING on it.

No, we cannot destroy the earth, or produce enough energy to significantly deform it. We could, however, KILL EVERYTHING on it.

coolbeans90

This, we can destroy the surface and all life, but not the planet itself.

we have enough nukes to destroy the world over 10,000 times.

Serraph105

I'm having second thoughts; destroying the planet could be easy. What if we pushed it into the sun?

I'm having second thoughts; destroying the planet could be easy. What if we pushed it into the sun?

coolbeans90

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I'm having second thoughts; destroying the planet could be easy. What if we pushed it into the sun?

Ace6301

We don't need robots. We need THRUST!

Maybe if all the govts made a bunch of huge bombs

I was thinking this was going to be a new-age spiritualist thread. Oh well. And the answer is probably no - she's a tough old turnip is Earth.

The Large Hadron Collider has the possibility to create a black hole, so yeah, I think we could destroy earth...and our entire solar systemchaoscougar1

Well, as it is in this day, we humans are taking extreme advantage of Mother Earth. We're raping her for everything it has with no worries about tomorrow because the idea is there that Earth has infinite resources. And it infact might have infinite resources, were it not for a species that thrives on self indulgence and that has propelled itself to be in reality nothing but cancerous race of inhabitants.

Yes, we do have the power to destroy Earth, as can be seen by the number we're doing to it already.

We definetly do. We can nuke the hell out of the planet then dig a hole to the center of the earth and nuke that to!

The Large Hadron Collider has the possibility to create a black hole, so yeah, I think we could destroy earth...and our entire solar systemchaoscougar1

This is in fact incorrect.. IT has the possibility of creating a micro black hole.. A black hole so small that it would almost instantly evaporate at its creation..

We definetly do. We can nuke the hell out of the planet then dig a hole to the center of the earth and nuke that to!

Dawq902

Mankind has no where close the technology to even get remotely close to the core of the earth.. We can't even get through the crust.

Nuclear bombs. Enough said.

I don't think we can destroy Earth per se but we sure as hell got enough nuclear warheads to render it uninhabitable. the_ChEeSe_mAn2

We would have to specifically target certain areas.. Such as the ocean floor.. Because there are things down there that do not need sunlight to thrive.. The ecosystem around the volcanic vents on the ocean floor for instance would be unaffected by the bombs.

I don't think we have the ability to make the world uninhabitable. I do believe life will exist and continue to. and to steal a quote from Jurassic Park "life finds a way"

I do however believe right now we have the ability to clean all human life and most large-size inverterbrates off the face of the Earth.

hell species are going extinct and generally speaking humanity is trying to STOP that.

I do however believe we have within our power the ability to royally **** over the Earth, in a way unprecedented in human history.

I don't think we have the ability to make the world uninhabitable. I do believe life will exist and continue to. and to steal a quote from Jurassic Park "life finds a way"

I do however believe right now we have the ability to clean all human life and most large-size inverterbrates off the face of the Earth.

hell species are going extinct and generally speaking humanity is trying to STOP that.

I do however believe we have within our power the ability to royally **** over the Earth, in a way unprecedented in human hitory.

SaudiFury

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What i meant is that the only way we could posibly destroy eart is if we were actively trying to break the planet apart. rendering it inhabitalbe by means of pulution or nukes would only be temporary.

MrGeezer

I seriously doubt that every nuclear weapon ever created, combined, would be even close to being able to do that. We'd literally have to exceed the gravitational binding energy of all the mass on the entire freaking planet. And I'd like to see one person propose a plausible way for us to ever be able to do that.

Actually there was a decent sci fi book written called the Forge of God, whereby aliens placed nuclear bombs along all the worlds fault lines and detonated them in a specific sequence. Then placed orbiting blackholes in low earth atmosphere to disperse the broken matter. Sounded plausible, although I wouldn't know why anyone would go to that kid of extreme to literally destroy the earth. As for making the Earth uninhabitable for most life, I believe that this could be done if there was a will to do it. Personally I think life is more resliliant than we give it credit for.

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What i meant is that the only way we could posibly destroy eart is if we were actively trying to break the planet apart. rendering it inhabitalbe by means of pulution or nukes would only be temporary.

spacedog1973

I seriously doubt that every nuclear weapon ever created, combined, would be even close to being able to do that. We'd literally have to exceed the gravitational binding energy of all the mass on the entire freaking planet. And I'd like to see one person propose a plausible way for us to ever be able to do that.

Actually there was a decent sci fi book written called the Forge of God, whereby aliens placed nuclear bombs along all the worlds fault lines and detonated them in a specific sequence. Then placed orbiting blackholes in low earth atmosphere to disperse the broken matter. Sounded plausible, although I wouldn't know why anyone would go to that kid of extreme to literally destroy the earth. As for making the Earth uninhabitable for most life, I believe that this could be done if there was a will to do it. Personally I think life is more resliliant than we give it credit for.

.. That still wouldn't work.. The Earth survived ahit with object larger than the moon, which led to the creation of our moon.. The force of impact behind that dwarfs anything coming close to the nuclear power.. Furthermore.. We would have to dig extremely deep.. We can't even penetrate completely through the Earth's crust.

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I seriously doubt that every nuclear weapon ever created, combined, would be even close to being able to do that. We'd literally have to exceed the gravitational binding energy of all the mass on the entire freaking planet. And I'd like to see one person propose a plausible way for us to ever be able to do that.

sSubZerOo

Actually there was a decent sci fi book written called the Forge of God, whereby aliens placed nuclear bombs along all the worlds fault lines and detonated them in a specific sequence. Then placed orbiting blackholes in low earth atmosphere to disperse the broken matter. Sounded plausible, although I wouldn't know why anyone would go to that kid of extreme to literally destroy the earth. As for making the Earth uninhabitable for most life, I believe that this could be done if there was a will to do it. Personally I think life is more resliliant than we give it credit for.

.. That still wouldn't work.. The Earth survived ahit with object larger than the moon, which led to the creation of our moon.. The force of impact behind that dwarfs anything coming close to the nuclear power.. Furthermore.. We would have to dig extremely deep.. We can't even penetrate completely through the Earth's crust.

Im not sure about that. The energy for a nuclear device exploded within the earths crusts deep in its fault lines would be expended differently for an object that came into contact ont eh surface. Again, a number of nuclear devices exploded (in the book i believe they were numbered in the hundreds of thoasands) within a specific sequence together with orbiting black holes sounds very plausible. I think the difference between a natural event and an event purposely intended to destroy earth to particles is a massive difference. When i read the book, Forge of God by Greg Bear, I was impressed and convinced. I am very sure there is science behind the theory as well. Maybe you might want to read it over when you ave the chance. Its an interesting read.

the question just boils down to: Do you want to destroy the Earth physically or just wife out life? Because we could easily wipe out life, but the ball of rock would still be here

the question just boils down to: Do you want to destroy the Earth physically or just wife out life? Because we could easily wipe out life, but the ball of rock would still be here

wis3boi

Of coruse we do, enough to kill Earth many times over.

I suggest reading this:

http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/1997/00/00_babst_consequences.php

wis3boi

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Actually there was a decent sci fi book written called the Forge of God, whereby aliens placed nuclear bombs along all the worlds fault lines and detonated them in a specific sequence. Then placed orbiting blackholes in low earth atmosphere to disperse the broken matter. Sounded plausible, although I wouldn't know why anyone would go to that kid of extreme to literally destroy the earth. As for making the Earth uninhabitable for most life, I believe that this could be done if there was a will to do it. Personally I think life is more resliliant than we give it credit for.

spacedog1973

.. That still wouldn't work.. The Earth survived ahit with object larger than the moon, which led to the creation of our moon.. The force of impact behind that dwarfs anything coming close to the nuclear power.. Furthermore.. We would have to dig extremely deep.. We can't even penetrate completely through the Earth's crust.

Im not sure about that. The energy for a nuclear device exploded within the earths crusts deep in its fault lines would be expended differently for an object that came into contact ont eh surface. Again, a number of nuclear devices exploded (in the book i believe they were numbered in the hundreds of thoasands) within a specific sequence together with orbiting black holes sounds very plausible. I think the difference between a natural event and an event purposely intended to destroy earth to particles is a massive difference. When i read the book, Forge of God by Greg Bear, I was impressed and convinced. I am very sure there is science behind the theory as well. Maybe you might want to read it over when you ave the chance. Its an interesting read.

.. Your using a piece of fiction to prove your point? Are you aware we can't get through the crust right?

Our nuclear weapons are weak compared to something like a volcanic eruption or the magma that goes throught eh earth to begin with.. We have trouble digging a few miles down into the earth.. And yet again the Earth has survived far more cataclysmic things (when I mean far more.. I mean nearly infinitely more.. The impact of something like the moon hitting the planet, dwarfs our nuclear arsonal thousands to millions of times over in force)..

Maybe if we took all the warheads on earth (nuclear and normal) and sent them real close to the center of the planet...we might blast it in half or blast it into many smaller peices.

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.. That still wouldn't work.. The Earth survived ahit with object larger than the moon, which led to the creation of our moon.. The force of impact behind that dwarfs anything coming close to the nuclear power.. Furthermore.. We would have to dig extremely deep.. We can't even penetrate completely through the Earth's crust.

sSubZerOo

Im not sure about that. The energy for a nuclear device exploded within the earths crusts deep in its fault lines would be expended differently for an object that came into contact ont eh surface. Again, a number of nuclear devices exploded (in the book i believe they were numbered in the hundreds of thoasands) within a specific sequence together with orbiting black holes sounds very plausible. I think the difference between a natural event and an event purposely intended to destroy earth to particles is a massive difference. When i read the book, Forge of God by Greg Bear, I was impressed and convinced. I am very sure there is science behind the theory as well. Maybe you might want to read it over when you ave the chance. Its an interesting read.

.. Your using a piece of fiction to prove your point? Are you aware we can't get through the crust right?

Our nuclear weapons are weak compared to something like a volcanic eruption or the magma that goes throught eh earth to begin with.. We have trouble digging a few miles down into the earth.. And yet again the Earth has survived far more cataclysmic things (when I mean far more.. I mean nearly infinitely more.. The impact of something like the moon hitting the planet, dwarfs our nuclear arsonal thousands to millions of times over in force)..

Not using fiction to prove anything, but to discuss a point. Does everything have to be some form of battle on here?

I don't know how far down the earth fault lines go, deep sea trenches etc. Do you? The fiction is science fiction, im sure its based off science to some capacity. Are you using generalities rather than specifics? When you say nuclear weapons have less power than a volcano... when do nuclear weaponm approach the effectiveness of a volcano's power when applied for s specific purpose? for example? Do you know? If for example, the power of a huge meterorite was compared to the power of a million nuclear weapons, it doesn't necessarily mean anything unless we specify to which purpose that energy will be used, no?

Sort of like saying that a car engine is more powerful than a lawn mower engine. Thats a given. But if the engines are used for different purposes, then it doesnt matter.

Im not necssarily disputing the fact that it may or not be possible, but telling me that a vlcano is more powerful doesnt say anything. Nor does saying that we havent dug to the earth's crust mean anything either. Remember this is a fictional argument, its about could we do something such as destroy the earth. Nothing that you have said has changed that.

We have the power to kill off life on earth but we are nowhere near the capacity to actually destroy Earth itself.

well currently me and my friends are working on a after school space project, so far the unfinish result look like this

once we are done we'll try it and come back to reply in this thread