Could any man made contraption blow up the Earth?

We all saw Star Wars, when the death star blows up a planet. Can man actually devise anything that would blow up a planet?

 

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I certainly believe that we could.

 

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There is no need of devices,
we can blow with our activities

 

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Well, couldn't we use a rocket to move a very large near Earth object's orbit so that it crashes with the Earth? Of course, it probably wouldn't be big enough to blow up the Earth.

 

You mean if we knocked the moon out of its orbit and crashed it into earth?? It might end life, but I don't know if it would make the earth blow up.

 

I don't think we can currently, but if we made it the primary focus of our species we chould manage it within the century.

 

It would be really challenging.

If we did not succeed at first, it might be too hard to try again.

 

I like the idea of a huge piece of metal. Like a big, solid corkscrew. This thing would be about a quarter of a mile across, with fins so that it would spin like mad as it dropped out of the sky.

The idea is - take it up to the edge of the atmosphere and drop it. Or sixteen around the world. It will gain speed, spin like crazy and hopefully make a big hole in the earth. Unlikely, but hey, I think it would be cool.

 

As a geologist an unqualified

NO.the dedicated application of our technology would amount to no more than leaning a grain of sand against Mt. Everest and expecting Everest to collapse. The mass of the Earth and the energy holding it together will be here until the Sun turns into a big BBQ in 5 or so billion years.

 

Paul Dixon believes that we could turn the Earth into a supernova via Fermilab experiments.

It's been hypothesized that CERN's LHC might create strangelets, which would release a huge amount of fusion energy if they persisted/escaped, and explode the planet.

 

I think they already have such explosives.

but whats even worse is weapons which could wipe out life without destroying buildings and of course... the earth

 

Sucks to even discuss it.

 

Or faster: via Nova Bombs!

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Seriously, of blowing up the earth, the best idea sofar seems to be redirecting an asteroid. The energy required wouldn't necessarily be that great: If it were a long distance away, we may only need to change its momentum slightly to produce a huge change in its course. The major problems would be the precise measurements needed to directe it toward earth. It may require 'course corrections' too due to the finite precision of our instruments, thus perhaps a few shuttle teams full of nukes could do it given quite a few years...

Blowing it into 2 halves seems to be the least likely solution (and sounds like Armaggeddon meets The Core) The tremendous amount of energy needed even to make 2 halves move apart at any appreciable rate is big eanough. Add in the fact that it's 'bound' together makes it even harder. Furthurmore you would have to make sure it fragmented rather than just made 2 large volcanos releiving the pressure (although that would do plenty of damage, but not accomplish our goal.)

Another methode may be to slow the earth down and let it fall into the sun, via perhaps detonating bombs on one side against its orbit path, however that too would require much too massive amounts of energy I think.
Perhaps however if we used our re-directed asteroid's momentum to accomplish this, via some hybrid approach we could get somewhere... Mercury might be a good planet to test on due to its small mass, though it orbits faster because it's closer to the sun, it's overall momentum, I think, should be less.

-Andrew

 

Id say we just place nuclear and atom bombs strategically within the eraths crust. If we used like 10000000 bombs of the mentioned types woulndt that be enough?

And like I said it would be difficult to try again if we failed. So it would be important to make the first time a success. We would have to underestimate our technology alot to succeed.

 

That's a lot of bombs. Why not make one bomb the size of the Earth. That should do it.

 

No. That would be a pinprick. Add a couple zeros and it would still be a pinprick.

People confuse blowing up the Earth with destroying life. Life is irrelevent to the existense of the Earth.

 

To blow up the Earth, as per the Star Wars movie, would require a precise amount of energy- 2.4 x 10e32 joules. A megatonne of TNT liberates 4.184×10e9 Joules; so to blow up the earth would need 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 hundred megatonne bombs.

 

No. The Earth is too massive. The energy needed to destroy the Earth in this way is roughly equal to the amount the Sun releases in a week. We can't harnest that much energy, and probably never will.

 

We cannot even drill down to anywhere near the core of the earth. So if we can't do that then blowing up the earth is many steps more advanced.