By: nTeleKy
I'm going to hazard a guess that the casual dismissal of nuclear war, cutting down rainforests and "hideous amounts of pollution" were meant as...sarcasm? I guess it needs one of these:i Sexyrobot, if...
View ArticleBy: cameleon
intermod: that's the live-action series, not the original cartoon. I've only found one place where a guy sold or traded dvd-r's with all episodes he taped. Didn't seem very legit or legal. If you know...
View ArticleBy: Geo
NIMBY. Fortunately this little explosion was just far enough away to only light up the sky. Not bad for an object 20km in diameter on the other side of the galaxy.
View ArticleBy: monkey closet
Douglas Adams had a similar idea - the precursor to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide was a project called The Ends of the Earth, which had the Earth destroted a different way every episode. It never got done -...
View ArticleBy: Timeless
"Point 9. Hurled into the Sun" is actually worth trying out if you ask me. But instead of using the sun, what if we consider hurling ourselves to a bigger planet, say Jupiter. It could save us from...
View ArticleBy: Lush
I love how this is a totally whimsical and frivolous thought experiment taking empirical assumptions and scientific principles completely seriously.
View ArticleBy: moonbird
Hey W-G P: I'm about as rabidly enviromentalist as it gets, and I didn't see any negatives in posting this. I see it as a self-parody of sorts, the self being humanity. We've so busy destroying the...
View ArticleBy: dirigibleman
You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world....
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
Bonus points to anyone managing to take out the entire solar system. You can read all about it in Charlie Stross's Iron Sunrise. Well, okay, a stellar system, not the solar system, but the point...
View ArticleBy: sexyrobot
sorry, mediareport, you're absolutely right...sorry, everyone... on a totally unrelated subject, i'm having some soup. oh look, there's a giant rat turd in it. guess i'll just eat around it. boy, that...
View ArticleBy: Target Practice
Heh. I've been lurking here for a long time, but I finally registered... mostly just to comment on this. I almost called plagiarism on it, but then I realized that there's a link to the writeup on E2,...
View ArticleBy: IshmaelGraves
Beautiful. Of course, the bastard's left out the most feasible option, presumably because the diabolical forces wet-ops teams of alt.save.the.earth are holding his nearest and dearest in a covert...
View ArticleBy: intermod
Oh man, love The Tick. But they really need to release a DVD.They did, a couple years ago. I have it.
View ArticleBy: mediareport
i think i wasted five dollars. Whatever. 13+ folks say they love the thing, one person doesn't like it, and you dis the whole site for "sucking the fun out" of a post. God, you've got a strange way of...
View ArticleBy: Scoo
My favorite method from alt.destroy.the.earth was constucting a voodoo doll out of a globe and dropping it down an elevator shaft.
View ArticleBy: The Great Big Mulp
Bonus points to anyone managing to take out the entire solar system.
View ArticleBy: sexyrobot
*sigh* i see that my instincts were correct in posting this on mofi and not here.... you guys could suck the fun out six flags... i think i wasted five dollars.
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
If a social worker were to tell you that constant sarcasm towards your child will destroy him, and an engineer measured his height, weight, and vital signs, then pronounced him as alive as ever, would...
View ArticleBy: recurve
Why is this funny? What sustains us on this earth is an ecosystem that is proportionally much thinner than the condensation of your breath on an apple. I think that when people speak of destroying the...
View ArticleBy: panoptican
That's where I keep all my stuff!!! Oh man, love The Tick. But they really need to release a DVD. I thought the MPAA was supposed to be milking this whole...
View ArticleBy: weapons-grade pandemonium
You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world....
View ArticleBy: dirigibleman
Yeah, weapons-grade pandemonium, this is clearly an anti-environmentalist rant, not a parody of comic book super-villian plots. Remember, nothing is funny. Ever.
View ArticleBy: weapons-grade pandemonium
Why is this funny? What sustains us on this earth is an ecosystem that is proportionally much thinner than the condensation of your breath on an apple. This is what environmentalists refer to when they...
View ArticleBy: Johnny Assay
10. Eaten by von Neumann machines You will need: a single von Neumann machine Does it make me a tremendous geek if I laughed quite hard at this?
View ArticleBy: localroger
Where's the one where you build a supercomputer that hacks reality and simply erases the Earth? Earth's final resting place = the big bit-bucket in the sky. Timeframe = next 20-100 years. Feasibility =...
View ArticleBy: Guy Smiley
I've got half a mind to flag this very dangerous post for being problematic, distasteful or illegal. I mean, come on, people - you can't destroy the earth! That's where I keep all my stuff!!!
View ArticleBy: psmealey
Great find! "Save the planet? Don't worry about the planet. The PLANET is doing fine. WE'RE the ones who are in trouble." -- George Carlin
View ArticleBy: Wolfdog
Well, I won't bother with any of the unfeasible ones, of course. [this is good]
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