Is this possible?

Stained Class · 13-04-2014 11:52PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm worried it will happen. I've been worrying about the faith of the planet since I was a kid.
At about the age of 7 I was up all night unable to sleep because I read that the sun is going to explode eventually and eat up the planet.

That and nuclear power disasters.

Ted. Get involved with some young wan, have a baby.

Then you'll know about a catastrophic event!!!!!!!!!!

TeddyTedson · 13-04-2014 11:56PM

Pixie69 wrote: »

You ok Hun?xox

I'm good thanks. How about you?

Stained Class wrote: »

Ted. Get involved with some young wan, have a baby.

Then you'll know about a catastrophic event!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think I'll have kids. More of a dog guy.

greedygoblin · 14-04-2014 12:03AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

More of a dog guy.

Based on your previous thread, I wouldn't recommend it Teddy!

Darkglasses · 14-04-2014 12:10AM

rwg wrote: »

absolutely - good size atom bomb would do the job

Actually, the answer might interest you.

The Tzar Bomba, the biggest nuclear weapon ever detonated, has a blast yield of 50-58 megatons (I'm going by Wikipedia for all of this). That's about 1,400 times bigger than Little boy and Fat man put together. A good number of those bombs could destroy humanity, but physically destroying the planet is another story. It's almost a 6 sextillion tonne lump of minerals (5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000).

The surface area destroyed by the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs was about 58 km². I'm no expert, but let's multiply that by 1,400 and presumably we get the surface area destroyed by the Tzar Bomba. That's 81,200 km². The surface area of the Earth is 510,072,000 km². That means it would take over 6,000 Tzar Bombas just to blast the surface.

The Earth's radius is 6,378km. The Tzar Bomba blast was huge - the flash of light is reported to have been 1,000km away. The explosion's atmospheric shockwave traveled around the Earth three times before it dissipated. In planetary terms, the crater wasn't even a pimple. I'm not a scientist, I haven't even considered gravity or the Earth's atmosphere, but it would take at least several hundred thousand Tzar Bombas to do significant damage to the Earth's planetary structure.

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 12:28AM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Actually, the answer might interest you.

The Tzar Bomba, the biggest nuclear weapon ever detonated, has a blast yield of 50-58 megatons (I'm going by Wikipedia for all of this). That's about 1,400 times bigger than Little boy and Fat man put together. A good number of those bombs could destroy humanity, but physically destroying the planet is another story. It's almost a 6 sextillion tonne lump of minerals (5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000).

The surface area destroyed by the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs was about 58 km². I'm no expert, but let's multiply that by 1,400 and presumably we get the surface area destroyed by the Tzar Bomba. That's 81,200 km². The surface area of the Earth is 510,072,000 km². That means it would take over 6,000 Tzar Bombas just to blast the surface.

The Earth's radius is 6,378km. The Tzar Bomba blast was huge - the flash of light is reported to have been 1,000km away. The explosion's atmospheric shockwave traveled around the Earth three times before it dissipated. In planetary terms, the crater wasn't even a pimple. I'm not a scientist, I haven't even considered gravity or the Earth's atmosphere, but it would take at least several hundred thousand Tzar Bombas to do significant damage to the Earth's planetary structure.

You blow my mind dude!

Cee-Jay-Cee · 14-04-2014 12:30AM

A meteor 17549miles in circumference would do exactly as you said. No one would survive, not even very religious people.

fussyonion · 14-04-2014 12:38AM

I'm sure it's possible a meteor or some other big rock thingy could smash the planet into bits.
I wouldn't care because you'd all be coming with me.

Have you taken the headphones off any lassies recently Teddy?

catallus · 14-04-2014 12:45AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm worried it will happen. I've been worrying about the faith of the planet since I was a kid.
At about the age of 7 I was up all night unable to sleep because I read that the sun is going to explode eventually and eat up the planet.

That and nuclear power disasters.

The faith of the planet? Teddy, you can rest assured that the faith of the planet is strong. It can't be damaged by nuclear bombs!

You silly sausage.

Antar Bolaeisk · 14-04-2014 06:46AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm worried it will happen. I've been worrying about the faith of the planet since I was a kid.
At about the age of 7 I was up all night unable to sleep because I read that the sun is going to explode eventually and eat up the planet.

That and nuclear power disasters.

I wouldn't worry about that, instead worry about these things:

Climate Change (results include crop failures, famine, starvation, death on a grand scale)
Over Population
World War III (Should Russia continue to be naughty, during this we could expect some fun forms of weaponry including, but not limited to, biological and nuclear.)
The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria
Virus pandemic (see H1N1)
Scientific Accident (See Grey Goo, micro black hole, rise of the AI overlords)

Sleep tight

Arthur Beesley · 14-04-2014 06:48AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Is it possible someday that a something could smash the planet into bits of dust and obliterate absolutely everything?
Also, is it possible we could achieve this with weapons currently on the planet right now. Is there a way I could potentially blow up the planet from the inside?
I'm just wondering if I can do this in theory, or when will it be possible.

I doubt we'd be stupid enough to let you near that button.

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 06:58AM

I would sacrifice myself right here right now to save the planet from humans. Please stop polluting the place and make it habitable for the next generation.

Arthur Beesley · 14-04-2014 07:00AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I would sacrifice myself right here right now to save the planet from humans. Please stop polluting the place and make it habitable for the next generation.

Thanks for confirming that you are not human.

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 07:38AM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Thanks for confirming that you are not human.

I am human! Why do you think I am not?

Arthur Beesley · 14-04-2014 08:13AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I am human! Why do you think I am not?

Your reference to 'humans' for one, then your use of "I am not" rather than "I'm not".

Are you obviously not artificial intelligence. Perhaps an advanced spambot? Or foreign?

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 08:20AM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Your reference to 'humans' for one, then your use of "I am not" rather than "I'm not".

Are you obviously not artificial intelligence. Perhaps an advanced spambot? Or foreign?

I'm just Teddy. A regular boardsies

bumper234 · 14-04-2014 08:22AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'm just Teddy. A regular boardsies

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Uses the plural of Boardsie and want's to know how to blow up Earth. Suspicious activity imho.

Kidchameleon · 14-04-2014 08:38AM

It is possible to kill all life on earth (chem weapon, f*ckload of atom bombs) but to blow the actual planet to smithereens I'm not so sure. If Earth drifted into a black hole then it would probably be ripped apart.

Capt'n Midnight · 14-04-2014 09:07AM

Could it happen ?

It already did http://www.space.com/18106-moon-formation-earth-giant-impact.html

kiffer · 14-04-2014 09:29AM

It is over 6,000 km to the center of the planet, the deepest we have ever drilled is about 12 km.
At depth the pressure and temperates are very high it would be very hard to get anything to go deeper and function as a machine.
I read about a hypothetical plan to send probes deeper by wrapping them in heat resistant ceramic and then dumping them along with a million tonnes of molten iron down as deep a shaft as we could find/make.
Rock melts at around 1000°c and iron is molten at about 3000...
molten iron is also denser than molten rock so the iron would melt its way to the core... at least until it cooled enough to solidify...
the pressures would br insane.
Let's say you got the tzar bomb down to 100km deep... it would be like a childs banger in the bottom of a lake...

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 09:35AM

We will never be able to stop the sun though

kiffer · 14-04-2014 09:37AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

We will never be able to stop the sun though

A man can dream Teddy, a man can dream.

maguic24 · 14-04-2014 09:37AM

Teddy where do you come up with these threads? They seem to be getting weirder and weirder.....

kiffer · 14-04-2014 09:41AM

maguic24 wrote: »

Teddy where do you come up with these threads? They seem to be getting weirder and weirder.....

I don't think this one is that weird...
oh no!
You know what that means?!

maguic24 · 14-04-2014 09:48AM

kiffer wrote: »

I don't think this one is that weird...
oh no!
You know what that means?!

Well it's not something I'd start a thread about unless I was Brain from Pinky & the Brain....but even Brain didn't want to destroy the world he just wanted to take it over......

Teddy, what are you doing? Teddy, STOP!

Maximus Alexander · 14-04-2014 09:57AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Is it possible someday that a something could smash the planet into bits of dust and obliterate absolutely everything?
Also, is it possible we could achieve this with weapons currently on the planet right now. Is there a way I could potentially blow up the planet from the inside?
I'm just wondering if I can do this in theory, or when will it be possible.

I'm here to put your mind at ease Teddy.

The moon was formed about 4.5 billion years ago when an object about the size of Mars struck the proto-Earth. At that time, the solar system was still young and hadn't quite settled down, so there were a fair few tremendously large rocks flying around out there. Even still, an object the size of Mars - and let's be clear, that's utterly huge - didn't even completely obliterate the Earth. It just sort of... melted it and created the moon.

These days, things have quieted down in our neighbourhood. The majority of those giant rocks have either hit things and become part of the existing planets, or been flung far out into the galaxy never to return. The biggest rocks remaining are the planets themselves, which are comfortably and stably whirling around in their orbits just as they have done for billions of years. They won't cause us any trouble.

Now, let's not get too comfortable, there are still decent chunks of rock hurtling around in the dark out there that are big enough to kill us all, and we might not even see them coming, but if it's the utter obliteration of the Earth itself you're concerned about... Well it should be safe enough for at least another 4 billion years. And possibly a lot more.

As for man-made weaponry, you definitely have nothing to fear there. Again, while we're more than capable of wiping ourselves out, this giant hulk of mostly rock and iron that we are sitting on is too large for our modest weaponry to destroy. The estimated energy required to break the Earth's gravitational binding is about 2.25 * 10^32 J. This is equivalent to 1,070,000,000,000,000 of the largest nuclear bombs ever created, or nearly 10 times the energy output of the sun each day.

It's all good bro.

Renegade Mechanic · 14-04-2014 10:38AM

Dunno why but I read that with the voice of URL from Futurama..

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 04:37PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I'm here to put your mind at ease Teddy.

The moon was formed about 4.5 billion years ago when an object about the size of Mars struck the proto-Earth. At that time, the solar system was still young and hadn't quite settled down, so there were a fair few tremendously large rocks flying around out there. Even still, an object the size of Mars - and let's be clear, that's utterly huge - didn't even completely obliterate the Earth. It just sort of... melted it and created the moon.

These days, things have quieted down in our neighbourhood. The majority of those giant rocks have either hit things and become part of the existing planets, or been flung far out into the galaxy never to return. The biggest rocks remaining are the planets themselves, which are comfortably and stably whirling around in their orbits just as they have done for billions of years. They won't cause us any trouble.

Now, let's not get too comfortable, there are still decent chunks of rock hurtling around in the dark out there that are big enough to kill us all, and we might not even see them coming, but if it's the utter obliteration of the Earth itself you're concerned about... Well it should be safe enough for at least another 4 billion years. And possibly a lot more.

As for man-made weaponry, you definitely have nothing to fear there. Again, while we're more than capable of wiping ourselves out, this giant hulk of mostly rock and iron that we are sitting on is too large for our modest weaponry to destroy. The estimated energy required to break the Earth's gravitational binding is about 2.25 * 10^32 J. This is equivalent to 1,070,000,000,000,000 of the largest nuclear bombs ever created, or nearly 10 times the energy output of the sun each day.

It's all good bro.

What can be done to stop the Sun devouring the Earth though when it's almost burned out?

Maximus Alexander · 14-04-2014 04:39PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

What can be done to stop the Sun devouring the Earth though when it's almost burned out?

Probably nothing, but it might not happen anyway. Nobody seems to be 100% sure on this one, but it's possible that the sun's expansion will push the Earth out to a wider orbit and it will avoid being eaten.

Your concern for the rock itself is touching though, because the Earth will likely be uninhabitable about 4 billion years before this becomes an issue.

paulbok · 14-04-2014 04:45PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

What can be done to stop the Sun devouring the Earth though when it's almost burned out?

A big bottle of factor 50000000?

TeddyTedson · 14-04-2014 04:46PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Probably nothing, but it might not happen anyway. Nobody seems to be 100% sure on this one, but it's possible that the sun's expansion will push the Earth out to a wider orbit and it will avoid being eaten.

Your concern for the rock itself is touching though, because the Earth will likely be uninhabitable about 4 billion years before this becomes an issue.

Why:(
Climate change?

Is this possible?

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