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  1. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Bottomquark.com rules! Antimatter could fuel rockets, heal patients Personally, I'd title that article: "Antimatter could promote genocide, kill people". :D
  2. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Aside from the spelling mistake, cool title: Producing Hydrogen with Orbiting Laser Canons(sic) See! I told you freeing the hyrodogen from the oceans was a good idea! :D
  3. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Pssst, John, read Forge of God. :)
  4. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Hmmm, we could do what Steve suggests right now...the population of North and South America is much much smaller than in the rest of the continents. I'm sure it would be easy to convince the people across the ponds to jump...tasteless and/or mildly offensive suggestion follows: With the latest...
  5. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Who needs to store antimatter? We're gonna blow up the planet dammit! Heh, well, ok, guess you have to store enough to make a difference in one detonation. It's just a trifle detail, I'm sure! Forge of God would make a decent movie. But the audiences will whine: "Waaah! What a waste of 8...
  6. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    You're right Brian...I forgot about that neutronium anti-matter thingy. I read that book many many years ago. Heh. Anyhow, I think there were two sets of benevolent aliens...the decoys and the genuine ones. In the next book, Anvil of Stars, the genuine aliens help the survivors build a ship to...
  7. Max Leung

    How would you destroy a planet?

    Hey any of you guys read Greg Bear's "The Forge of God"? Interesting premise: Self-replicating "von Neumann" machines enter the Solar System and land on Europa. They begin to consume Europa as material resources to build more powerful machines, and then head to Earth. I like the idea of...
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