Will mankind ever develop the technology to destroy the Earth ?

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  • Reply 21 of 46
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    Originally Posted by Slewis View Post


    When that happens.... well it's the end of the world as we know it.



    Probably won't have time to order a Pizza either.



    Sebastian



    How so?
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  • Reply 22 of 46
    bageljoeybageljoey Posts: 2,009member
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    Originally Posted by Aries 1B View Post


    I can't stop laughing!



    I may have to go to the hospital!



    I can't breathe!



    gotta hit Submit Reply before I die!



    "The whole scheme from Copernicanism to Big Bangism is a factless lie."



    Aries1B



    Well, that was sort of different. I was actually hoping for an interesting argument, but all I could find was recursive and almost unreadable...



    But shouldn't this have been posted in the conspiracy theory thread next door?
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  • Reply 23 of 46
    slewisslewis Posts: 2,081member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aries 1B View Post


    I can't stop laughing!



    I may have to go to the hospital!



    I can't breathe!



    gotta hit Submit Reply before I die!



    "The whole scheme from Copernicanism to Big Bangism is a factless lie."



    Aries1B







    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hardeeharhar View Post


    How so?



    If you mean the Black Hole... it'll swallow us...

    If you mean the Pizza... well the Blackhole will probably swallow us before the Pizza Arrives.







    Sebastian
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  • Reply 24 of 46
    hardeeharharhardeeharhar Posts: 4,841member
    Black holes don't swallow things outside their event horizon.
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  • Reply 25 of 46
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    If a micro-singularity was ever made, how much mass would it consist of? I imagine it would be have enough mass to fall due to Earth gravity and any mass if came in contact with, the floor, the crust, the mantle, the molten core, would be sucked up into it. It would fall right to the core, even if the hole was not noticable, less than a hair's width in diameter. As it ingested more mass , the event horizon would slowly expand and devour anything it came in contact with, slowly eating our planet in from the inside. Maybe it would stop at our core and just sit there in the middle of the earth, held in place by gravitational equilibrium. But with out a molten core, all techtonic activity would slowly come to a halt. Worse still, we would have lost our magnetic field that protect us from solar wind and it would immidiately affect live on our planet, possibly wiping it out for good, except maybe for life underground.
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  • Reply 26 of 46
    hardeeharharhardeeharhar Posts: 4,841member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Outsider View Post


    If a micro-singularity was ever made, how much mass would it consist of? I imagine it would be have enough mass to fall due to Earth gravity and any mass if came in contact with, the floor, the crust, the mantle, the molten core, would be sucked up into it. It would fall right to the core, even if the hole was not noticable, less than a hair's width in diameter. As it ingested more mass , the event horizon would slowly expand and devour anything it came in contact with, slowly eating our planet in from the inside. Maybe it would stop at our core and just sit there in the middle of the earth, held in place by gravitational equilibrium. But with out a molten core, all techtonic activity would slowly come to a halt. Worse still, we would have lost our magnetic field that protect us from solar wind and it would immidiately affect live on our planet, possibly wiping it out for good, except maybe for life underground.





    Even this wouldn't actually happen IF the sigularity was stable as the event horizon radius would much much smaller than the distance between it and nearby matter. By the time it encounters any other matter it will have evaporated due to Hawking Radiation.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius
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  • Reply 27 of 46
    iposteriposter Posts: 1,560member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aries 1B View Post


    I can't stop laughing!



    I may have to go to the hospital!



    I can't breathe!



    gotta hit Submit Reply before I die!



    "The whole scheme from Copernicanism to Big Bangism is a factless lie."



    Aries1B



    Wow, I really, REALLY hope that is a spoof site...but you just never know with some people!





    /still a flat-earther
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  • Reply 28 of 46
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Oh it's real. Read some of the "Study material".
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  • Reply 29 of 46
    aries 1baries 1b Posts: 1,009member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bageljoey View Post


    Well, that was sort of different. I was actually hoping for an interesting argument, but all I could find was recursive and almost unreadable...



    But shouldn't this have been posted in the conspiracy theory thread next door?



    If you're intent on shooting something destructive at the Earth, Mister Powers, (wait for it) wouldn't it be easier if it *stood still*?!



    HA!



    V/R,



    Aries 1B
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  • Reply 30 of 46
    sdw2001sdw2001 Posts: 18,070member
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    Originally Posted by Outsider View Post


    Oh it's real. Read some of the "Study material".



    I can't believe that site. As an aesthetic aside, perhaps they could update it so its actually legible. I mean, maybe maybe we could use pink, blue and underlined font a little more against a pastel background. It's like I'm looking at internet circa 1993.
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  • Reply 31 of 46
    bageljoeybageljoey Posts: 2,009member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aries 1B View Post


    If you're intent on shooting something destructive at the Earth, Mister Powers, (wait for it) wouldn't it be easier if it *stood still*?!



    Aries 1B





    If that is what you were thinking when you posted the link...wow. Youre working at a much higher level than me!!!



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SDW2001 View Post


    I can't believe that site. As an aesthetic aside, perhaps they could update it so its actually legible. I mean, maybe maybe we could use pink, blue and underlined font a little more against a pastel background. It's like I'm looking at internet circa 1993.



    Yeah. Some people will never understand that highlighting is designed to make something important stand out. Instead, they made something unimportant illegible...
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  • Reply 32 of 46
    aries 1baries 1b Posts: 1,009member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bageljoey View Post




    If that is what you were thinking when you posted the link...wow. Youre working at a much higher level than me!!!




    Nah, just a lower threshold of humor and an even lower ability to communicate clearly in written form...



    PARTICULARLY since I was laughing so hard at that site that I was beginning to gray out!



    Not just, "The Earth is Flat".



    The author(s) of that site believe(s) that the Earth is standing still and the rest of the universe is whirling around it!!!



    I did think that I was going to die, I was laughing so hard.



    It's the early part of the 21st century and there's at least one person out there , who's so certain that Copernicus was wrong, that he set up a web site to promote his view. Now that's funny!



    V/R,

    Aries 1B
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  • Reply 33 of 46
    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aries 1B View Post


    The author(s) of that site believe(s) that the Earth is standing still and the rest of the universe is whirling around it!!!



    Well - all movement is relative. In order to say that something is moving you have to say "moving with respect to X" where X is something else.



    Saying that the earth is stationary is a perfectly valid thing to do - you just define all other movement of objects in the universe as being wrt the earth. It does not lead to the least complex mathematical model, though.
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  • Reply 34 of 46
    hardeeharharhardeeharhar Posts: 4,841member
    You can quantitatively prove that the earth IS NOT stationary.



    The Coreolis force is the most readily proven example.
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  • Reply 35 of 46
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member




    Already exists: nuclear weapons.
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  • Reply 36 of 46
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
    And along a different vein...



    www.climatecrisis.net
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  • Reply 37 of 46
    aries 1baries 1b Posts: 1,009member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by e1618978 View Post


    Well - all movement is relative. In order to say that something is moving you have to say "moving with respect to X" where X is something else.



    Saying that the earth is stationary is a perfectly valid thing to do - you just define all other movement of objects in the universe as being wrt the earth. It does not lead to the least complex mathematical model, though.



    What I understood them to say was that the universe (our sun, Alpha Centari, Caprica , the ether everything) was orbiting around the Earth.



    It's just hysterical.



    V/R,



    Aries 1B
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  • Reply 38 of 46
    100mph100mph Posts: 256member
    If I am not mistaking, at the peak of the nuclear buildup wacky humanoids had enough energy to vaporize everything on the surface + about 10 yards deep ... yeah I know ... it doesn't answer your question.
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  • Reply 39 of 46
    jupiteronejupiterone Posts: 1,564member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hardeeharhar View Post


    You can quantitatively prove that the earth IS NOT stationary.



    The Coreolis force is the most readily proven example.



    As if that would prove anything to them.....
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  • Reply 40 of 46
    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by hardeeharhar View Post


    You can quantitatively prove that the earth IS NOT stationary.



    The Coreolis force is the most readily proven example.



    The atmosphere is just one part of the universe that is rotating around the stationary earth. In order to have

    absolute movement like you suggest, space needs to be a substance that provides an absolute frame of

    reference.
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