In what shape would you make a device capable of destroying the Earth, and where would you keep it?

Answer 1

I'd make it in the shape of a giant SUV.
Then I'd park it in every driveway in the United States.

Oops, someone already beat me to it...

Answer 2

Humanity as a whole is doing a pretty good job at that already, don't you think?

Or do you mean something that can blow up the planet in a split second?

Destroying a planet would require massive amount of power. Short of building an enormous multi-booster stage fusion bomb, the best bet would be to deflect a very large meteorite on a collision course with earth; so the earth destroyer would have to be kept in space.

Answer 3

I would make it in the shape of a giant prairie chicken and keep it in orbit around the earth. Of course it would be big enough to see so people would gather all over to look at the massive prairie chicken in orbit and when it went boom it would kill everybody by dropping massive amounts of poop all over the earth. This would cause an ammonia cloud that would choke every living thing on earth, black out the sun, and cause nuclear winter. Then, because of the size of the super-massive prairie chicken, the earth would slingshot out away from the sun and crash into mars, making a new hybrid planet with an earth-like atmosphere, populated by living purple three-legged stepstools with tree limbs out their butts who worship the super-massive prairie chicken.

Answer 4

The problem with detonating our entire nuclear arsenal is that there is a possibility of life rebounding from the catastrophe. The best way would be have a large object from outer space hit the planet and change its trajectory to a collision course with the sun.

Lets not take this question too seriously.

Answer 5

That depends on whether you mean the earth or just the people on it. If it's the people on it, that would probably be a satellite net composed of psychotronic weapons. fire it up and short out every ones nervous systems. Which may very well be possible in the future. I would have no idea how you would pulverize the planet though.

Answer 6

I had a few prototypes in the shed last summer, but I wasn't happy with the shape of a few of them. The last one was kind of turd shaped and I felt it didn't do it self justice, still back to the drawing board, toying with the idea of a little round number

Answer 7

In the shape of a human and I would keep it in the White House.

Answer 8

I'd make it a sphere so it could transfer energy in all directions right to the earth without wasting any. I would keep it on another planet in a galaxy far, far away

Answer 9

It would be an oblate spheroid; the size of a tennis ball, green and glowing. I would keep it in a shoe box at the back of my wardrobe.

See - I have given this some thought before.

Answer 10

Actually I already made one last week.
It is kind of lumpy shaped like a small purple elephant, and it is in a sandwhich box at the back of the fridge.