What are some different ways that the earth could be destroyed?

Question

Im talking about cool things and not religious ways

Answer 1

Well, one cool way to destroy the Earth is to elect Hillary Clinton President of the USA in 2008.

The second cool way to do that would be to elect Barack
Obama President of the United States in 2008.

Either way, there probably won't be a 2009.

Another way to do it would be to take a drill and a long, thin drill bit and drill a hole in the atmosphere to let all of the air out. Without air we would all die.

If that doesn't work, try turning on all of the faucets in your house and let them run. If you run out enough water, you will cause flooding and you saw what flooding can do to a large area over there in storm Katrina and all that.

Try turning down to 0 degrees all the thermostats, everywhere you go. Things freeze at 32 degrees, so
you will freeze everything if you reset enough thermostats.

Answer 2

A vacuum metastability event could destroy the Earth (and the rest of the universe, as well). All of the particles that make up the Earth could be in a "metastable" state; and if something causes a single particle to become "more" stable than particles around it, this nucleation point could trigger a runaway expansion of true stability, destroying everything in its path.

This is a threat that physicists have actually considered when building the more modern particle accelerators, even though it's purely theoretical.

Answer 3

We could drop a black hole onto the Earth. It would sink to the core and start devouring all matter around it. In a few years all of the earth would be sucked in.
Or we could hit the earth with another planet a little larger than Mars at high speed. That would break the earth up into another asteroid belt.

Answer 4

I think an asteroid impact would be VERY cool, especially if it hit the ocean (mega tsunami). A nearby supernova would bombard the Earth with cosmic rays -- bad for our DNA.
A small black hole passing through our solar system (very unlikely) could severely disrupt our orbit, flinging us off into the cold depths of space and we'd all freeze. Or if you feel like waiting a few billion years, our sun will eventually turn into a red giant and cook us to a cinder.

Answer 5

The earth cannot be destroyed, at least not by anything humanity can do.

We can destroy ourselves.

But the planet will go on to grow and regrow plants etc without us here.

OR... Some other planet could be thrown from its orbit by exceeding the speed limit... come screaming across the vast emptiness of space, avoiding all those planet sucking black holes and bump the earth like a que ball into the sun scoring one cheap planet destruction point for the player.

Answer 6

Nothing wrong with religion on a science forum. We get an awful lot of Scientist on the Religious forum on Yahoo answers. The earth will be destroyed by God's tempestous fire to answer your question not an out of control Asteroid as many postulate. Yes, Its all in the Bible(the inspired word of God). The earth was destroyed by the great flood in noah's time and many large creatures that once roam the earth died in the great flood. The second time destruction will be by fire.

Read: Revelation 20: 5,6. (Not figurative or symbolic). This will be a literal fire as God ordained to destroy the wicked and unbelievers. (Truth) and check the box: Good answer!

Answer 7

obvious answer - THE SUN EXPLODING
other reasons may be asteroids falling, ozone layer depleting, more green house gases entering the earth

Answer 8

Ice meltdown... did you see the movie "day after tomorrow".
But I agree with the previous answer... nothing cool about it.

Answer 9

i dont think theirs anything cool about the earth being destroyed... kinda scary thought