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  1. Re:hollywood disaster movies by EvanED · · Score: 1 · on Antarctic Blast Made Australia, Room For Dinosaurs
    You might enjoy this link about "geocide". It's a HOWTO on how you can destroy the Earth.

    This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. ... If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.

    This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.
  2. No imagination. by AnotherBlackHat · · Score: 4, Funny · on Space Elevator An Impossible Dream?

    Pugno, however, argues that inevitable defects in the nanotubes mean that such a cable simply wouldn't be strong enough.


    Sheesh, what's wrong with these people?
    If the current cable isn't strong enough, there are lots of possible solutions.

    For example, the strength of the cable necessary is directly related to the mass of the earth.
    One good sized metor at high enough velocity striking the earth, and we could build the elevator out of nylon rope.

    Some other methods of reducing the mass of the earth are available here http://qntm.org/destroy

    -- Should you believe authority without question?

  3. Re:Kirk and Spock, the steamy years.... by SamSim · · Score: 2, Insightful · on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film

    Letting the franchise rest for a decade or two is exactly what is needed. It worked for Doctor Who, it worked for Battlestar Galactica... I have some of my own ideas about the future of Star Trek (two words: Mirror Borg) but I'm sure everybody else does too...

  4. Not Geocide? by eviloverlordx · · Score: 1 · on When Virtual Worlds Collide

    I thought this was about practicing to destroy planets

  5. This has possibilities by abb3w · · Score: 1 · on Black Review
    a fully destructible world

    Ooooh! A chance for a Trial Run?

  6. Re:I remember my Nuclear Engineering classes by abb3w · · Score: 1 · on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years
    Rolling all of your points together so I can give a glib response I just thought of, the cautious position boils down to: Using uranium to generate electricity has various potential drawbacks; we'd better make bombs with it so we don't have to worry. That way we'll be all set to fight over the remaining oil.

    =)

    Well, "therefore we'll make bombs with it" would be more accurate; I consider that the expected result, but it isn't one I advocate. I'd advocate using uranium to very carefully start implementing a Th-U(Pu) breeder cycle, finding some nice deep geologically stable repositories for the waste products, transition over to a hydrogen/electric hybrid fueled transport system (using nuclear power to make both), and put more research into biogenerated feedstocks suitible for plastics production. However, I don't have the ears of anyone in the current White house; they seem more inclined towards the expected plan.

    Global warming is just icing on the cake.

    I'd disagree. The others you mention, while doing property damage and killing people, are not a threat of the survival of the human species as a whole. The climate changes from global warming, and associated change in habitat ranges for other species (eg: malaria) is the best chance for the carbon mongers to wipe out the human race. Nuclear power has a better potential — if people are stupid enough with it — to wipe out our species outright. I don't think it's very probable, but it's a finite risk... and I may be badly underestimating the stupidity (or perversity) of the species.

  7. Re:The best source of info is... YOU! by SamSim · · Score: 1 · on An Accurate ID3 Tag Database?
    Just suck it up and label everything how you think it should be labelled as you are ripping your CDs.

    But I'm lazy!

    Although I do agree that classifying music by genre is a pointless exercise.