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MONEY INCORPORATED DIGEST #49
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RELEASED 17 JULY 1995
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COMPILED (PLAGARIZED) BY: SLEEPY
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TODAY'S TOPIC: THE MEANING OF LIFE...(FOR MYC THAT IS...)
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MONEY INCORPORATED ARE: SLEEPY
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SONIC FURY
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CCRIDER
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THE BIG CHEESE
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JULIO
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OFFICER FRIENDLY
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SEXECUTIONER
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Well, sorry about my drought of files lately, but I haven't had much time
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to write, so I thought I'd share the FAQ for my favorite newsgroup with
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everyone...enjoy!
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PART I
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THE CHARTER & HISTORY OF ALT.DESTROY.THE.EARTH
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The Beginning of the End
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Alt.destroy.the.earth was created by a group calling itself
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Society for Human Immigration from Terra (SHIT). The name
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should, of course, have read 'emigration' (leaving one's
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home/country/planet/etc for a new one) instead of immigration,
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which means quite the opposite, and the newsgroup became very
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silent for a while after the error was publicly noted. However,
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showing their profound liking of their acronym, the society
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promptly changed its name to Society of Humans for an Impure
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Terra and continued operation.
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[The name 'Society for Emigration from Terra', SET, was
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suggested, both because of an Egyptian deity and because
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of the acronym's potential for slogans, eg. "Get SET to go!",
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but it did not catch on at that time.]
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The agenda of SHIT was simple: for their various reasons the
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members wanted to see humanity take to its wings and reach
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the stars, or at least manage self-supporting space habitats
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in the near future. The SHITheads, as they called themselves,
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wanted to hasten Man's progress into space by creating a need
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for emigration through making the Earth inhospitable. This was
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to be done with all due haste because the population was rapidly
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using up planetary resources and it was speculated that the
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critical point after which humanity couldn't manage a massive
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space effort was no more than a few decades away. However, the
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method of enviromental destruction was not to be overtly radical,
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or needlessly destructive: humanity was meant to survive and be
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able to colonize the solar system.
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After a few months the group fell silent again for a long period
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and was then revived by the destructionalists.
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The Destructionalists, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb
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The destructionalist approach to alt.destroy.the.earth is literal;
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Earth is to be destroyed one way or the other. The reasons behind
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this conviction vary from individual to individual and include for
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example such matters as thorough disappointment in the human race
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and aesthetic pleasure.
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Schools of destructionalism disagree on the extent and the methods
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of the havoc to be wrought - both because of ideological
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preferences, as some merely want to do away with the human race and
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leave the animals, others to demolish the whole planet, and due
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to practical concerns, for humanity is not able to annihilate the
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planet as of yet, and a sufficient technological breakthrough in
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the near future is extremely unlikely.
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The major destructionalist approaches to destroying the Earth
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can be classified as follows:
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1. Destruction of all civilization.
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2. Destruction of all humans.
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3. Destruction of all surface-dwelling animals.
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4. Destruction of all animals.
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5. Destruction of all life.
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6. Destruction of the entire planet.
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When discussing methods of achieving 3., 4. or 5., ways of preventing
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re-evolution are usually mentioned.
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"The meek shall die out"
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The Elitists plot to destroy mankind, except for a few selected, high-
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quality specimes, ie. themselves and those they consider fit to
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survive, or just plain necessary for their comfort. On the remains
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of the old, decadent, weak civilization they plan to build their own
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proud culture to suit the 'overmen'.
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The Elitists have been very silent lately.
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The Satirical Viewpoint, or the 'Evil Twin'
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A fourth way of looking at alt.destroy.the.earth is as the refuge
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of persons tired with today's rampant ecohysteria, a den of a somewhat
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macabre variety of humor, a safe haven where you can cheerfully cry out
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that you like to spray CFCs about just for the hell of it, declare your
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love for the fur of some particularly rare animal, gloat over the
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extinction of some miserable, unfit to survive species that everyone
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else seems to be mourning for, publish designs of new, innovative
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methods of messing up recycling operations, delight us all with
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ridiculous results of "enviromental thinking" (the 33 step procedure
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for changing a light bulb in a nuclear power plant is an excellent
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example) etc etc.
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A.d.t.e is the evil twin to alt.save.the.earth, and it should look
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the part. This is the place for those enviromentally unsound ideas,
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twisted tales of destruction, parodies of "green" thought, cheerful
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discussions on the more spectacular uses of nuclear physics, and the
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like. We welcome you to participate, to look at the quest for
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preserving the status quo of the ecosphere from a different angle,
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and to share your wicked designs.
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PART II
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THE ETIQUETTE OF A.D.T.E.
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x^n
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Hard figures are always appreciated, especially in destructionalist
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essays. Many postings have suffered from a lacking sense of proportion
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and sometimes even from VERY bad science. ("If we could just change
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this natural constant...") The Earth is VAST. Look at the numbers.
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Radius: 6370 km
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Equatoric circumference: 40 075 km
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Mass: 6 * 10^24 kg
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Please bear in mind that the Earth is not exactly a sphere - the radius
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given is a median value. For a more extensive list of relevant data,
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constants and equations, have a look at an encyclopedia and/or some
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basic texts on physics and chemistry.
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A.d.t.e. is in dire need of people with solid knowledge on geology and
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meteorology. Bacteriology, physics and astronomy would also come in
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handy.
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"We will all go together when we go"
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Asking a destructionalist whether or not he or she intends to be
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included in the destruction is pointless and rude. A true
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destructionalist's answer is "Of course".
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As a matter of fact, asking ANY poster on a.d.t.e. publicly whether
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or not he or she is serious is pointless and rude.
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"Oh! You monsters!"
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Postings declaring the a.d.t.e:ers in general to be evil, sick,
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infantile, demented, sexually frustrated, godless heathens
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et cetera ad nauseam are not appreciated. The same goes for the
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"Get a Life"-school of posters and the unholy practises celebrated
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in alt.cascade.
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If you feel any need to respond to such drivel, please do it via
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private e-mail to keep the group clean and the offender's mailbox
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messy.
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People posting queries about a.d.t.e:ers' enviromental attitudes
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deserve everything they get.
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APPENDIX A
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Suggested Reading
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Science fiction in general:
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Piers Anthony: Chton
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Pthor
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Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Earth
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Pebble in the Sky
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Robots and Empire
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Greg Bear: Eon
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Eternity (Sequel to Eon)
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The Forge of God
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Anvil of Stars
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Blood Music
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The Wind from a Burning Woman
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(A short story in a collection by the same name)
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John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
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The Sheep Look Up
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Samuel Butler: Erehwon
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Karel Capek: War with the Newts
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Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End
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Philip K. Dick: Dr. Bloodmoney
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C.S. Friedman: In Conquest Born
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Mary Gentle: Ancient Light
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David Gerrold: War Against the Chtorr
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R.A. Heinlein: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Stephen King: The Stand
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Megan Lindholm: Alien Earth
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Larry Niven: A World Out of Time
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Protector
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At the Core (in 'Neutron Star')
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Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: Footfall
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Lucifer's Hammer
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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Michael Flynn: Fallen Angels
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Michael Reaves & Steve Perry: Dome
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Fred Saberhagen: The Berserker novels
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E.E. "Doc" Smith: The Lensmen series
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Michael Swanwick: Vacuum Flowers
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Stations of the Tide
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Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
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Walter Jon Williams: Aristoi
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John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids
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Out of the Deeps (a.ka. Kraken)
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Black holes:
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David Brin: Earth
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James P. Hogan: Thrice Upon a Time
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The Genesis Machine
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Larry Niven: The Hole Man (in a collection named 'A Hole in Space')
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John Varley: Lollipop and the Tar Baby (in a collection named
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'The Barbie Murders')
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[?]: The Krone Experiment
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Nonfiction:
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K. Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation
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& Chris Peterson, with Gayle Pergamit: Unbounding the Future
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J.B. Haldane: Daedalus, or Science and the Future *
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Kevin Kelley: Out of Control
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James Lovelock: The Ages of Gaia
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Lynn Margolis: Microcosmos
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John McPhee: The Curve of Nuclear Binding Energy
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Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Robert Serber: The Los Alamos Primer: the First Lectures on How to
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Build an Atomic Bomb
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* = An essay available via FTP from ocf.berkeley.edu, directory
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/pub/Library/Literature under the name Daedalus or on the
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Web as http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lizi/Daedalus.html
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APPENDIX B
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Movies of global destruction and related matters
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<The following list is in its infancy and as of yet contains names
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only. The final format of this list is undecided, and suggestions
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and additional data about the films in question are welcomed.
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Years of production and director names are appreciated very much -
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I haven't yet taken the time to visit a library and don't have
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film encyclopaedias at hand.>
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Nuclear Warfare and Joyous Accidents:
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The Bedford Incident
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By Dawn's Early Light
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Day After
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Dr. Strangelove
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Fail Safe
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Miracle Mile
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Testament
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All Things Bacterial:
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The Omega Man
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Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Twilight of the Dead
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Andromeda Strain
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Science Fiction in General:
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Calossus: the Forbin Project
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Dark Star
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Silent Running
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Terminator
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day
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The Thing
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This Island Earth (1954)
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Unclassified: <Help!>
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The Quiet Earth
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---RRRRrr "Oh, sorry, Mr. Endangered Species of Squirrel" rrRRR---
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As usual, comments, suggestions and spelling & grammar flames are
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welcome. Most questions regarding the Charter and the a.d.t.e.
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way of thinking should be directed into the newsgroup itself, as
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the answers here will be more representive.
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--
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Esa Perki| "I should honor you? Why?"
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eperkio@cc.helsinki.fi - Prometheus to Zeus according to Goethe
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IRCer Shade
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Here is the list of possibilities (0.0.5):
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1. Nuclear explosions. This is a relatively easy way but not very thorough.
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At least ten pro cent of the population survives. But the bang is something
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some people don't want to go without. The problem is getting the world
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leaders to blow up the world.
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2. Equip all nuclear power plants and military installations with pentiums(with
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bug). Hoping one processor can destroy the installation.
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2. Throwing asteroids on earth. One proposal is attaching rockets to the
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asteroids and making a game of it. This should be fun. The problem is
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getting there. Maybe somebody out there has a few rockets to spare.
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3. Letting the aliens do it. The only problem is finding dangerous aliens and
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getting them to destroy the earth. The advantage is we don't have to do
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it ourselves. But doing it ourselves is more fun. By the way we are working
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on this. The NASA is looking for aliens and television has reached such a
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level that every sane alien that sees it should want to destroy us. The
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problem is they still aren't here.
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4. Pulling the moon into the earth. I think this would destroy a lot. The
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added bonus is longer days, so we can do more every day. The
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problem is where to get the rope(Dupont is proposed but it is too expensive
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to buy their total production for 6 years). The rope should be very strong
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maybe even kevlar isn't strong enough. I don't know about this. I'm not
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familiar with material sciences.
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6. Making a self reproducing machine that eats the earth. It can be possible
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but the problem is how to create a machine from just any kind of junk found
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in the earth. What to do if the machine is in a region where some material
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it needs is scarce.
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7. Using advanced genetics, create a being which will dig
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itself a couple of miles underground. It will then create a small
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explosion. Each little piece of its body left by the explosion would
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then turn into a new "burrower," which would then explode, creating many
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many more. Eventually, the entire world would collapse due to all the
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underground explosions. This has the same problem as the proposal above.
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(The ranking is lower because genitics and blowing up is a strange
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combination (I think))
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8. Pushing the earth into the sun by using mirrors. If you put mirrors to
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deflect the sun's rays and solar wind in the right direction then you
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should slow down the earth and it will fall into the sun. The problem is
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it happens very slow. By the way this is happening already by the Poynting-
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Robertson-draft. But this effect isn't very big.
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9. Burning the earth with mirrors. This can be done in principle. Now we only
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have to find a way to put up the mirrors in orbit around the earth. Maybe
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we should first paint the earth black. There are people who are busy with
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just that. These pavers will drive around over the surface so they will burn
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first. The painting of the earth alone is enough to get the temperature up
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to a few hundred degrees centigrade so this will kill all people to.
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10.Wait about 50-100 billion years. The sun will definitely die,
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but that doesn't destroy the earth (unless it gets big enough
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during its red giant stage). However, later on the universe
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either dies the heat death (boo) or cycles back into the
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Big Crunch (yay). Well, 2 out of 3 ain't too bad.
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11.Creating a virus. This will probably not kill all people. It will just create
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a lot of suffering. A proposition is using an existing one : smallpox.
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But still it needs a second go to kill the rest of the people.
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12.Build this Really Big Rocket and thrust the Earth towards the
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galactic center (there's supposed to be the Mother Of All
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Black Holes there).
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13.Hope that a big alien boy will think "Wow, what a neat rock;
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it looks just like a marble on a rocket!" while the Really
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Big Rocket is thrusting the Earth towards the Galactic
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Center.
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14.Jumping up at noon. If the sun is above you and you jump up you push yourself
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closer. If you are closer you are attracted more (the gravitational field is
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bigger there) so the earth is pulled in the direction of the sun. Don't
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expect to see the effect. It is so little maybe it gets lost in quantum
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fluctuations. The effect can be enlarged by working in the daytime in
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sky scrapers and sleeping at night on the first floor.
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15.Make your own black hole. You take a lot of mass and compress it very hard.
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At some point it will suck up material out of the earth and suck up the whole
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of the earth. After this the Hawking radiation will destroy the black hole.
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There are only two problems with this. You have to compress the material to
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super-nuclear densities if you want to do it with a mass less than a few
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solar
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masses. ( if you have a mass bigger than 1.5 solar masses you have solved
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this problem but this mass can't be found in the solar system). You can try
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and look for little black holes but they evaporate very fast. Maybe someone
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knows a solution to this. That would make this proposal a very good one.
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16.Use cow flatulence. Let all cows in the world fart at the same time. I don't
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know how to get enough gases to blow up the earth.
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17.Make a time machine and copy the earth. The problem is the time machine. And
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one big enough to copy the earth.
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18.Building many mass accelerators on a place with very good energy
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access, e.g. Mercury, to produce large amounts of anti-matter. When enough
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is produced, transport it to Earth and turn off the containment devices for
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the anti-matter and watch the fireworks. The obvious problem is getting there
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and doing it (Needs lot's of support). And handling anti-matter isn't easy
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so we have to find a place where it doesn't get annihilated before use.
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19.Stop thinking. Descartes said "I think therefore I am" so if we stop thinking
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we will stop being. If we stop the thinking of the earth it will stop
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existing. This is a very long shot and it will not be effective.
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20.Take a electron accelerate it and shoot it at the sun. If we accelerate it
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to a speed little under the light speed (c) it will be accelerated to light
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speed in the free fall. This makes it's mass explode and if we make sure the
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path crosses earth it will collide on earth. The electron is by this time so
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heavy it destroys it. Relativistic physics says this doesn't work. Classical
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physics says the electron doesn't get hevier. So this is one of the "I don't
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understand physics ideas"
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21.Destroying the enviroment. This is something apte wants to do so this has to
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be discouraged. (It won't destroy the earth) And people will survive this
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together with the cock-raoch.
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22.Shrink the earth. The problem is we don't have a shrinkage beam or something
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like that.
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23.Getting God to do it. Sin away and maybe he will destroy the earth. The
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problem is according to the bible this has been done and God saved some
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people to repopulate the earth.
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24.Split the earth up in lots of tiny bits. This is difficult because the
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gravity works against it.
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25.Put 6 billon people on earth and give them the possibility they will destroy
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the earth. We are workin on this. But probably the cockroaches will survive.
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That would be a shame so the more destructive plans are advised.
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26.Blow up the moon with nukes. The litter from the moon will destroy all life.
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Needs support. The nukes have to be fired.
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27.Making the information super-highway. If we send out information one way
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around the world we send energy around and therefore we send mass around.
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This way we create a reaction effect that rotates the earth harder. This
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makes it eventualy blow up. The way to make everybody sending information
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the same way is telling them it goes faster if you send it that way.
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This idea needs lots of support because information isn't very heavy.
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28.Make a vodoo doll of the earth and rolling it down an elevator. I think
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this won't work but maybe somebody can make a witch doctor so mad he would
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try it. The advantage is it doesn't need much support.
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29.Make solopsist doctines the universal law by letting a few politicians sign
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it. Then kill the solopsists. They state everything (including earth) exists
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only in their minds. So everything will get destroyed. This is cheap, needs
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little support and what do we have to loose.
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30.Use total conversion of matter into energy as a powerfull weapon.
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The total conversion of between 1 and 10 kg of matter would be enough to
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burn the earth. This is according to E=MC^2.
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The problem is to produce between 0.5 and 5 kg of antimatter to create
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te total conversion. If we want to destroy the earth this way we need a lot
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of mass to convert.
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31.If you get drunk everything gets hevier. If everybody gets drunk maybe the
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earth will collapse. This plan might not work but it certainly will create
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funny effects and will destroy society (not because the gravity effect btw)
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32.Speed up the earth using rockets. If the day is reduced to 3 minutes the
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earth will blow apart. The rockets by the way will create a belt aroud the
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earth that takes care of the momentum problem. (the band sould be in space
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to prevent friction that puts back the momentum.
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33.Shoot the moon into the earth with rockets. The problem is the number of
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rockets, or the size of the explosion.
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34.Making the earth resonate by producing enough noise. I don't know if this
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can be done because you need a high quality factor. And i don't think
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the quality factor of the earth is high enough to make it resonate with all
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the radios in the world.
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Ok the last piece of information:
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A few facts about the earth:
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The earth is 6*10^24 kg
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radius :6400 km
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energy needed to
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create an extra asteroid belt aroud the sun : 2.3*10^31 J
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blow the earth away from the sun : 5.4*10^36 J
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blow something from the earth into space : 6*10^7 J/kg
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Energy sources
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Earth's kinetic energy : 1.2*10^31 J
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---end the beautiful .faq file :)---
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"When I collect two solar masses of AOL Disks, I will use them to detonate
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the Sun" Web Page URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/po/poulosio/poulosio.html
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Mad Max, Ensign, TRES Corps, Jihad. Finger for more.
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