We've all seen films about the end of the world - events in which the Earth was in danger of complete destruction, whether it was the work of some "bad" guy or a huge meteorite. The same topic is constantly exaggerated by the media, frightening us with nuclear wars, uncontrolled deforestation and total pollution of the atmosphere. In fact, the destruction of our planet is a much more laborious process than you may be used to thinking.
After all, the Earth is already more than 4.5 billion years old, and its weight is 5.9736 * 1024 kg, and it has already withstood so many upheavals that it is impossible to count. And at the same time, it continues to revolve around the Sun, as if nothing had happened.
And yet, are there ways to "eliminate" the Earth? Yes, there are a dozen such methods, and now I will tell you all about them.
Simultaneous disappearance of atoms
You don't even need to do anything for this. Just one fine moment, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms that make up what we call the Earth will spontaneously cease to exist at the same moment. The chances of such an outcome are actually a little more than a googolplex to one. And the technology that would allow a person to do this is simply unimaginable from the point of view of modern science. 
Absorption by strangelets
For such an extravagant way to destroy our green ball, you will need to capture the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider from the Brookhaven Laboratory in New York and use it to create an "army" of stable strangelets. The second point of this diabolical plan is to maintain the stability of the strangelets until they turn the planet into a hodgepodge of strange matter. We will have to approach this problem creatively, since no one has even discovered these particles yet.
A few years ago, a number of media outlets did write that this is exactly what the insidious scientists are doing at the Brookhaven Lab, but the bottom line is that the chances that a stable strangelet will ever be obtained are close to zero. 
Absorption by a microscopic black hole
By the way, black holes are not immortal, they evaporate under the influence of Hawking radiation. And while medium-sized black holes take forever to do this, small ones can do it almost instantly, since the time taken to evaporate depends on the mass. Therefore, our black hole should weigh about the same as Everest. It will be difficult to create it, because it will require an appropriate amount of neutronium.
If everything worked out, and a microscopic black hole is created, it remains to place it on the surface of the Earth and sit down to enjoy the show. The density of a black hole is so great that it passes through matter like a stone through a piece of paper. The black hole will work its way through the core of the planet to the other side of the planet, simultaneously making pendulum motions until it absorbs enough matter. Instead of the Earth around the Sun, as if nothing had happened, a tiny piece of stone, all in through holes, will rotate. 
Big bang resulting from the reaction of matter and antimatter
You will need 2,500 billion tons of antimatter, the most explosive substance in the entire universe. It can be obtained in small quantities using a particle accelerator, but it will take a very long time to gain such a mass. It is much easier, of course, to rotate a similar amount of matter through the fourth dimension, thus turning it into antimatter. At the exit, you will receive a bomb so powerful that the Earth will simply be torn to pieces, and a new asteroid belt will begin to rotate around the Sun.
This will be possible by the year 2500 if we start producing antimatter right now. 
Vacuum energy denotation
From the point of view of modern science, what we call vacuum cannot be called that, since particles and antiparticles constantly arise and mutually annihilate in it, releasing energy. Based on this provision, we can conclude that any electric light bulb contains such an amount of vacuum energy to bring the world's oceans to a boil. It remains only to figure out how to extract from the light bulb and use the vacuum energy and start the reaction. The released energy will be enough to destroy the Earth, and possibly the entire solar system. In this case, a rapidly expanding gas cloud will be in place of the Earth. 
Being sucked into a huge black hole
Everything is quite simple here: you need to place the Earth and the black hole closer to each other. You can either push our planet to a black hole with the help of super-powerful rocket engines, or a hole towards the Earth. Of course, it's best to do both. By the way, the closest black hole to our planet is only 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. According to preliminary estimates, the technologies that will allow this to happen will not appear until the year 3000, plus the whole journey will take about 800 years, so it will have to wait. But, despite the difficulties with implementation, it is quite possible. 
Careful Systematic Deconstruction
You will need a powerful electromagnetic catapult (and preferably several). Next, we take a large piece of the planet and with the help of a catapult we launch it beyond the limits of the earth's orbit. And then the rest 6 sextillion tons. In principle, given that humanity has already launched a bunch of useful and not very things into space, you can start throwing out the substance right now and up to a certain point no one will even suspect anything. Ultimately, the Earth will turn into a bunch of small fragments, some of which will burn up in the Sun, and the rest will scatter throughout the solar system. 
Collision with a large space object
In theory, everything is simple: find a huge asteroid or planet, disperse it to dizzying speed and send it to Earth. If the impact is strong enough and precise enough, the Earth and the object that hit it will break into pieces, overcoming mutual attraction, and therefore they can never reassemble into a planet. The ideal subject for a deadly experiment would be Venus, the closest planet to Earth, which weighs 81% of the Earth's mass. 
Absorption by a von Neumann machine
It is necessary to create a von Neumann machine - a mechanism capable of recreating its copies from minerals, while preferably exclusively from iron, magnesium, silicon and aluminum. Next, we lower the car under the earth's crust and wait until the machines, the growth of which will grow exponentially, swallow the planet. This idea, though absolutely insane, is quite feasible, because potentially such a machine will be created by 2050, and maybe even earlier. 
Throw in the sun
You will need the same rocket engines as in the case of a giant black hole. You don't even have to aim accurately - just enough for the Earth to move close enough to the Sun, and then the tidal forces will tear it apart. Moreover, it may turn out that special technologies are not needed for this: a random object emerging from space can push the Earth in the right direction. Then the planet will turn into a kind of ice cream ball, melting in the hot sun. But if we discard random factors, humanity will not come to the necessary technologies until the year 2250.
A lot of information is written and shows that our planet will soon come to an end. But I assure you, destroying the Earth is not so easy.
The planet has already been subjected to asteroid impacts, and will survive a nuclear war. So let's see a few ways to destroy the Earth.
The Earth weighs 5.9736 1024 kg and is already 4.5 billion years old.
1. The earth may simply cease to exist.
You don't even have to do anything. Some scientists have suggested that one day all the countless atoms that make up the Earth will suddenly spontaneously and most importantly, simultaneously, cease to exist. In fact, the probability of this turn of events is about a googolplex to one. And the technology that allows sending so much active matter into oblivion is unlikely to ever be invented.
2. Will be consumed by strangelets
All you need is a stable strangelet. Take control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and use it to create and maintain stable strangelets. Keep them stable until they get out of control and turn the entire planet into a mass of "strange" quarks. True, keeping strangelets stable is incredibly difficult (if only because no one has yet discovered these particles), but with a creative approach, everything is possible. York, but in reality the chances that a stable strangelet will ever be formed are practically zero. But if this happens, then only a huge ball of "strange" matter will remain in place of the Earth.
3. Will be devoured by a microscopic black hole
You need a microscopic black hole. Please note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate under the influence of Hawking radiation. For medium-sized black holes, this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for very small ones, this happens almost instantly: the evaporation time depends on the mass. Therefore, a black hole suitable for destroying a planet should weigh about the same as Everest. It's difficult to create one because it requires a certain amount of neutrons, but you can try to get by with a huge number of atomic nuclei squeezed together. Then you have to put a black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. The density of black holes is so high that they pass through ordinary matter like stone through air, so our hole will fall through the Earth, making its way through its center to the other side of the planet: the hole will swing back and forth like a pendulum. In the end, having absorbed enough matter, it will stop at the center of the Earth and “eat up” the rest. The probability of such a turn of events is very small. But it is no longer impossible. And in place of the Earth, a tiny object will remain, which will begin to revolve around the Sun, as if nothing had happened.
4. Will explode as a result of the reaction of matter and antimatter
We will need 2,500,000,000,000 antimatter - perhaps the most "explosive" substance in the universe. It can be obtained in small quantities using any large particle accelerator, but it will take a long time to reach the required amount. You can come up with an appropriate mechanism, but it is much easier, of course, to simply “flip” 2.5 tril. tons of matter through the fourth dimension, turning it into antimatter in one fell swoop. The result will be a huge bomb that will immediately tear the Earth to pieces. How difficult is this to implement? The gravitational energy of the planetary mass (M) and the radius (P) are given by the formula E=(3/5)GM2/R. As a result, the Earth will require approximately 224 * 1010 joules. The sun generates that much for almost a week. To release that much energy, you need to destroy all 2.5 trills at the same time. tons of antimatter - provided that the loss of heat and energy will be zero, and this is unlikely to succeed, so the amount will have to be increased tenfold. And if so much antimatter still managed to get, it remains just to launch it to the Earth. As a result of the release of energy (the familiar law E = mc2), the Earth will shatter into thousands of pieces. In this place, an asteroid belt will remain, which will continue to revolve around the Sun. By the way, if you start producing antimatter right now, then, given modern technologies, by the year can be completed.
5. Will be destroyed by vacuum energy detonation
Don't be surprised: we'll need light bulbs. Modern scientific theories say that what we call vacuum, in fact, cannot rightfully be called that, because particles and antiparticles are constantly created and destroyed in it in enormous quantities. This approach also implies that the space contained in any light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil any ocean on the planet. Consequently, vacuum energy may turn out to be one of the most accessible types of energy. All you have to do is figure out how to extract it from the light bulbs and use it in, say, a power plant (it's pretty easy to sneak in without arousing suspicion), start the reaction and let it get out of hand. As a result, the released energy is enough to destroy everything on the planet Earth, possibly together with the Sun. A rapidly expanding cloud of particles of various sizes will appear in the place of the Earth. Of course, there is a probability of such a turn of events, but it is very small.
6. Get sucked into a giant black hole
What is needed is a black hole, extremely powerful rocket engines, and possibly a large rocky planetary body. The black hole closest to our planet is located at a distance of 1,600 light years in the constellation Sagittarius, orbiting V4641. Everything is simple here - you just need to place the Earth and the black hole closer to each other. There are two ways to do this: either move the Earth in the direction of the hole, or the hole in the direction of the Earth, but it is more efficient, of course, to move both at once. It is very difficult to implement, but definitely possible. In place of the Earth, there will be a part of the mass of the black hole. The disadvantage is that it is too long to wait until the technologies arise that allow this to be done. Definitely not earlier than the year 3000, plus travel time - 800 years.
7. Carefully and systematically deconstructed
You will need a powerful electromagnetic catapult (ideally several) and access to about 2 * 1032 joules. Next, you need to take a large piece of the Earth at a time and launch it beyond the Earth's orbit. And so time after time to launch all 6 sextillion tons. The electromagnetic catapult is a kind of huge electromagnetic rail gun proposed several years ago for mining and transporting cargo from the Moon to Earth. The principle is simple - load material into the catapult and fire it in the right direction. To destroy the Earth, a particularly powerful model would have to be used to give the object an escape velocity of 11 km/s. Alternative methods for ejecting material into space involve space shuttles or a space elevator. The problem is that they require a titanic amount of energy. It would also be possible to build a Dyson sphere, but technology will probably make it possible to do this in about 5000 years. In principle, the process of throwing matter out of the planet can be started right now, humanity has already sent a lot of useful and not very objects into space, so before at a certain point, no one will even notice anything. Instead of the Earth, as a result, there will be many small pieces, some of which will fall on the Sun, and the rest will end up in all corners of the solar system. Oh, yes. The implementation of the project, taking into account the ejection from the Earth of a billion tons per second, will take 189 million years.
8. Will break into pieces under the impact of a blunt object
It will take a colossal heavy stone and something to push it. Basically, Mars is fine. The thing is, there's nothing that can't be destroyed if you hit it hard enough. Nothing at all. The concept is simple: you need to find a very, very large asteroid or planet, give it breathtaking speed and slam it into the Earth. The result will be that the Earth, like the object that hit it, will cease to exist - it will simply fall apart into several large pieces. If the impact was strong enough and accurate enough, then the energy from it would be enough for new objects to overcome mutual attraction and never gather into a planet again. The minimum allowable speed for an “impact” object is 11 km / s, so provided that energy losses will not, our object should have a mass of approximately 60% of the earth. Mars weighs approximately 11% of the earth's mass, but Venus, the closest planet to Earth, by the way, already weighs 81% of the earth's mass. If you disperse Mars harder, then it will also do, but Venus is already an almost ideal candidate for this role. The greater the speed of an object, the less mass it can have. For example, a 10*104 asteroid launched at 90% of the speed of light would be just as effective. Quite plausible. Instead of the Earth, there will be pieces of rock roughly the size of the Moon, scattered throughout the solar system.
9. Absorbed by a von Neumann machine
Only one von Neumann machine is needed - a device capable of creating a copy of itself from minerals. Build one that will run solely on iron, magnesium, aluminum or silicon - basically the basic elements found in the Earth's mantle or core. The size of the device does not matter - it can reproduce itself at any time. Next, you need to lower the machines under the earth's crust and wait until the two machines create two more, these - eight more, and so on. As a result, the Earth will be absorbed by a bunch of von Neumann machines, and they can be sent to the Sun using pre-prepared rocket boosters. This is such a crazy idea that it might even work. The Earth will turn into a large piece, gradually absorbed by the Sun. By the way, potentially such a machine can will be created in 2050 or even earlier.
10. Abandoned in the Sun
You will need special technologies for the movement of the Earth. The point is to throw the Earth into the Sun. However, it is not so easy to ensure such a collision, even if you do not set yourself the goal of hitting the planet exactly on the “target”. It is enough that the Earth is close to it, and then the tidal forces will tear it apart. The main thing is to prevent the Earth from entering an elliptical orbit. At our level of technology, this is impossible, but someday people will come up with a way. Or an accident could happen: an object will appear out of nowhere and push the Earth in the right direction. And from our planet there will be a small ball of evaporating iron, gradually sinking into the Sun. There is some probability that something similar will happen in 25 years: earlier, astronomers have already noticed suitable asteroids in space moving towards the Earth. But if we discard the random factor, then at the current level of technology development, humanity will not be able to do this until the year 2250.
We've all seen films about the end of the world - events in which the Earth was in danger of complete destruction, whether it was the work of some "bad" guy or a huge meteorite. The same topic is constantly exaggerated by the media, frightening us with nuclear wars, uncontrolled deforestation and total pollution of the atmosphere. In fact, the destruction of our planet is a much more laborious process than you may be used to thinking.
After all, the Earth is already more than 4.5 billion years old, and its weight is 5.9736 * 1024 kg, and it has already withstood so many upheavals that it is impossible to count. And at the same time, it continues to revolve around the Sun, as if nothing had happened. And yet, are there ways to "eliminate" the Earth? Yes, there are a dozen such methods, and now we will tell you all about them.
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Simultaneous disappearance of atoms
You don't even need to do anything for this. Just one fine moment, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms that make up what we call the Earth will spontaneously cease to exist at the same moment. The chances of such an outcome are actually a little more than a googolplex to one. And the technology that would allow a person to do this is simply unimaginable from the point of view of modern science.
Absorption by strangelets
For such an extravagant way to destroy our green ball, you will need to capture the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider from the Brookhaven Laboratory in New York and use it to create an "army" of stable strangelets. The second point of this diabolical plan is to maintain the stability of the strangelets until they turn the planet into a hodgepodge of strange matter. We will have to approach this problem creatively, since no one has even discovered these particles yet.
A few years ago, a number of media outlets did write that this is exactly what the insidious scientists are doing at the Brookhaven Lab, but the bottom line is that the chances that a stable strangelet will ever be obtained are close to zero.
Absorption by a microscopic black hole
By the way, black holes are not immortal, they evaporate under the influence of Hawking radiation. And while medium-sized black holes take forever to do this, small ones can do it almost instantly, since the time taken to evaporate depends on the mass. Therefore, our black hole should weigh about the same as Everest. It will be difficult to create it, because it will require an appropriate amount of neutronium.
If everything worked out, and a microscopic black hole is created, it remains to place it on the surface of the Earth and sit down to enjoy the show. The density of a black hole is so great that it passes through matter like a stone through a piece of paper. The black hole will work its way through the core of the planet to the other side of the planet, simultaneously making pendulum motions until it absorbs enough matter. Instead of the Earth around the Sun, as if nothing had happened, a tiny piece of stone, all in through holes, will rotate.
Big bang resulting from the reaction of matter and antimatter
You will need 2,500 billion tons of antimatter, the most explosive substance in the entire universe. It can be obtained in small quantities using a particle accelerator, but it will take a very long time to gain such a mass. It is much easier, of course, to rotate a similar amount of matter through the fourth dimension, thus turning it into antimatter. At the exit, you will receive a bomb so powerful that the Earth will simply be torn to pieces, and a new asteroid belt will begin to rotate around the Sun.
This will be possible by the year 2500 if we start producing antimatter right now.
Vacuum energy denotation
From the point of view of modern science, what we call vacuum cannot be called that, since particles and antiparticles constantly arise and mutually annihilate in it, releasing energy. Based on this provision, we can conclude that any electric light bulb contains such an amount of vacuum energy to bring the world's oceans to a boil. It remains only to figure out how to extract from the light bulb and use the vacuum energy and start the reaction. The released energy will be enough to destroy the Earth, and possibly the entire solar system. In this case, a rapidly expanding gas cloud will be in place of the Earth.
Being sucked into a huge black hole
Everything is quite simple here: you need to place the Earth and the black hole closer to each other. You can either push our planet to a black hole with the help of super-powerful rocket engines, or a hole towards the Earth. Of course, it's best to do both. By the way, the closest black hole to our planet is only 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. According to preliminary estimates, the technologies that will allow this to happen will not appear until the year 3000, plus the whole journey will take about 800 years, so it will have to wait. But, despite the difficulties with implementation, it is quite possible.
Careful Systematic Deconstruction
You will need a powerful electromagnetic catapult (and preferably several). Next, we take a large piece of the planet and with the help of a catapult we launch it beyond the limits of the earth's orbit. And then the rest 6 sextillion tons. In principle, given that humanity has already launched a bunch of useful and not very things into space, you can start throwing out the substance right now and up to a certain point no one will even suspect anything. Ultimately, the Earth will turn into a bunch of small fragments, some of which will burn up in the Sun, and the rest will scatter throughout the solar system.
Collision with a large space object
In theory, everything is simple: find a huge asteroid or planet, disperse it to dizzying speed and send it to Earth. If the impact is strong enough and precise enough, the Earth and the object that hit it will break into pieces, overcoming mutual attraction, and therefore they can never reassemble into a planet. The ideal subject for a deadly experiment would be Venus, the closest planet to Earth, which weighs 81% of the Earth's mass.
Absorption by a von Neumann machine
It is necessary to create a von Neumann machine - a mechanism capable of recreating its copies from minerals, while preferably exclusively from iron, magnesium, silicon and aluminum. Next, we lower the car under the earth's crust and wait until the machines, the growth of which will grow exponentially, swallow the planet. This idea, though absolutely insane, is quite feasible, because potentially such a machine will be created by 2050, and maybe even earlier.
Throw in the sun
You will need the same rocket engines as in the case of a giant black hole. You don't even have to aim accurately - just enough for the Earth to move close enough to the Sun, and then the tidal forces will tear it apart. Moreover, it may turn out that special technologies are not needed for this: a random object emerging from space can push the Earth in the right direction. Then the planet will turn into a kind of ice cream ball, melting in the hot sun. But if we discard random factors, humanity will not come to the necessary technologies until the year 2250.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion !
How to destroy planets?
Demolishing planetary systems is like peeling an onion. Layer after layer, layer after layer ... Simple, but you have to cry.
"Dreams of the Siege Frigate"
Sooner or later, your fleet will fall into the orbit of an enemy world. There can be anything there laboratories, frigate factories, defense buildings or just asteroids with extractors. An important question in this case: “What to destroy first of all?” Consider the key targets for attack.
After the defense is neutralized, you can safely deal with the extractors, trade ports, civilian laboratories and more. However, even if all structures are blown up, the planet will continue to generate income for the enemy. It must be destroyed and colonized. How can I do that?
Destruction of the planet by the flagship.
For a long time, especially if the flagship does not have the ability to bombard planets. In addition, while you are doing this, the rest of the fleet will either have to move on without a flagship, or it will be idle. The first option is so-so, the second is even worse.
Destruction of the planet by siege frigates.
This method is much better, but it requires additional costs. You need to research special ships, you need to build them. If you have begun to retake planets, but see that the war will not end quickly, we advise you to get a group of anti-planet bombers (Cross Siege Frigate, Inquisitor or Karrastra Destroyer). These ships can be driven in separate fleets, jumping to the planet after the defenses are cleared, or immediately if they are not threatened there.
By the way, siege frigates can be used by themselves. If the planet is undefended or very weakly protected, we just fly up, ignore the buildings and bomb! After that, the enemy loses access to all orbital structures, they seem to belong to him, but it is no longer possible to build frigates at a local factory, because the planet has been destroyed. This is a very insidious tactic, effective against players who are keen on attacking but forget to cover their home world.........
Destroying the Earth is not so easy. The earth was created to exist. This is 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons of iron ball, 4,550,000,000 years old. During its lifetime, the Earth has received more devastating asteroid impacts than you have for lunch, and continues to merrily run in orbit. Therefore, dear destroyers of the Earth, this is not an easy task at all. The methods described here are not aimed at the destruction of humanity or life in general, but rather at the complete destruction of the planet itself. All of these methods are consistent with modern scientific understanding and therefore should work.
1. Annihilated by an appropriate amount of antimatter.
Required: Earth-sized planet made of antimatter. At present, antimatter can be produced in very small quantities in huge particle accelerators. It will take forever to create enough antimatter using accelerators, so maybe you can improve this process or come up with a completely new one.
Method: Once you've managed to get enough antimatter, just launch that mass in the direction of the Earth. The subsequent release of energy (according to Einstein's well-known formula E=mc2) will be equivalent to the amount that the Sun emits in 89 million years.
What will remain: In a collision, matter and antimatter completely annihilate each other. All that remains of the Earth is a flash of light expanding in space. This is the most radical method of all proposed, since the very matter from which the Earth was made ceases to exist. The earth cannot be reassembled.
Feasibility assessment: 2/10. It is technically POSSIBLE to create antimatter, so it is technically POSSIBLE to destroy the Earth. But if new methods for creating antimatter are not invented, then an unrealistically huge amount of time will be required for its implementation.
Comment: With a much smaller amount of antimatter, you can simply blow up the Earth.
2. Split into elementary particles.
Required: A universal splitting machine (ie particle accelerator), an unimaginable amount of energy.
Method: Take every single atom on planet Earth and split it into hydrogen and helium. The fission of heavy elements into hydrogen and helium is the opposite of a self-sustaining reaction in the Sun: you need to put in energy, which is why the energy requirements are so huge.
What will remain: While the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, composed primarily of helium and hydrogen, are massive enough to hold their atmospheres, the Earth is not massive enough. In place of the Earth will be a thin cloud of gas.
Feasibility assessment: 2/10. Technically possible, but again staggeringly inefficient and time consuming. Guys, it will take you at least a few billion years.
3. Sucked in by a microscopic black hole.
Required: Microscopic black hole. Note. Black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For an ordinary hole, this process will take an unimaginable amount of time, but very small ones can evaporate almost instantly, since the evaporation time depends on the mass. So you need a black hole with a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest.
Method: Just place your black hole on the surface of the Earth and wait. Black holes are so dense that they pass through ordinary matter like a rock through air. The black hole will gradually stop in the core of the Earth, and you will only have to wait until it absorbs all the matter of the planet.
What will remain: A singularity with an approximate radius of 9 millimeters that will continue to merrily orbit around the Sun.
Feasibility assessment: 3/10. Unlikely, but not impossible.
4. Welded in a solar furnace.
Required: means for focusing a noticeable part of the solar energy emission directly to the Earth. What is it about? About mirrors, many mirrors. Intercept a few large asteroids for raw materials, and start producing kilometer-long sheets of light reflective materials (aluminized mylar, aluminum foil, nickel foil, whatever else you can make). Lits will need to be able to change the focal length on their own, as the position of the Sun and Earth will constantly change, so attach several thrusters to each sheet, as well as communication and navigation systems. According to preliminary calculations, you will need approximately 2 trillion square kilometers of mirrors.
Method: Control the mirrors in such a way as to focus as much solar energy as possible on the Earth - either at the core or at some point on the surface. Theoretically, the temperature of the Earth will rise until the planet completely boils away and turns into a gas cloud.
What will remain: Gas cloud.
Feasibility assessment: 3/10. The main problem is what to do to prevent the cooling of matter, and the Earth does not turn into a planet again? In fact, if the planet's surface layers become gaseous, what would cause them to escape into space rather than stay near the surface, absorbing even more energy and preventing the lower layers from heating up? If the amount of energy is not really huge, then you will get a gas planet at best, and then only temporarily.
5. Overhyped.
Required: Means for accelerating the rotation of the Earth. The acceleration of the Earth's rotation is different from its movement. An external influence can move the Earth, but it will not have any noticeable effect on its rotation. You will need to build rockets or electromagnetic guns at the equator, which will all face west. Or something even more exotic.
Method: The theory is that if you spin the Earth fast enough, it will fall apart as the equator moves fast enough to overcome the effects of gravity. One revolution in 84 minutes will be enough. Even a slower rotation on its axis will suffice, as the Earth will become flatter and more prone to break apart as the speed of rotation accelerates.
Feasibility assessment: 4/10. This can be done because Earth-sized bodies have a limit on how fast they can spin before they start to fall apart. However, spinning a planet is much more difficult than moving it. You can't get by with missiles alone.
6. Blown up.
Required: 25,000,000,000,000 tons of antimatter.
Method: This method involves detonating a bomb powerful enough to shatter the Earth into pieces. In general, the bomb should be large enough. All human-made explosives, nuclear and non-nuclear, brought together and detonated at the same time, will create a significant crater and destroy the ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of the planet. The data indicate that in the past the Earth was bombarded by asteroids, the explosions of which were equivalent to the explosion of 5 billion atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima, but traces of such explosions are difficult to find. There is also a problem with gravity. If the explosion is not powerful enough, those pieces will reassemble under the influence of mutual gravitational attraction, and the Earth, like a liquid terminator, will be recreated from fragments.
What will remain: The second asteroid ring around the Sun.
Feasibility assessment: 4/10. Well, a little more is possible.
7. Sucked in by a giant black hole.
Required: Black hole, powerful rocket engines. The nearest black hole from Earth is 1600 light years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
Method: Once you have determined the location of your black hole, you need to get the black hole closer to the Earth. This is perhaps the most time-consuming part of the plan. For best results, you should move both the Earth and the black hole.
What will remain: The earth will become part of the mass of the black hole.
Feasibility assessment: 6/10. Very difficult, but definitely possible.
8. Carefully and systematically analyzed.
Required: Mass Accelerator. The mass accelerator is a huge electromagnetic gun that was once proposed to deliver minerals from the Moon to Earth - you just load them into the accelerator and launch them in about the right direction. Your design must be powerful enough to achieve an escape velocity of 11 kilometers per second. At the rate of a million tons of mass being expelled from the Earth's gravity well per second, this process will take 189,000,000 years. One mass accelerator will be enough, but ideally, it is better to use a lot of accelerators. Alternatively, space elevators or conventional rockets can be used.
Method: Essentially, we will be digging up huge chunks of the Earth and launching them into space. All 1021 tons of the mass of the Earth. Ignore atmospheric conditions. Compared to the additional energy expended in overcoming air friction, it would be a rather trivial step to completely burn the atmosphere before starting the process. Even with the atmosphere destroyed, this method would require a titanic amount of energy.
What will remain: Many small pieces, some of which will fall on the Sun, some will scatter throughout the solar system.
Feasibility assessment: 6/10. If we wanted to start this process, we can start RIGHT NOW. In fact, with all the debris we've left behind in orbit, on the Moon, that's heading into deep space right now, that process has already begun.
9. Turned to dust when colliding with a blunt tool
Required: A large, heavy rock, about the size of Mars.
Method: Essentially, anything can be destroyed if hit hard enough. ALL. Find a sufficiently massive asteroid or planet, accelerate this object to an impressive speed and smash it into the Earth, preferably head-on. The result: a spectacular collision that will turn the Earth (and most likely our cue ball) into dust - shatter into many small pieces, which, if the impact was strong enough, have enough energy to overcome mutual attraction, and scatter throughout the system. You can use smaller objects than Mars. Let's say a 5,000,000,000,000 ton asteroid accelerated to 90% of the speed of light will do.
What will remain: A pile of debris, some the size of the moon, scattered throughout the solar system.
Feasibility assessment: 7/10. Pretty plausible.
