{"id":3275,"date":"2009-11-13T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2009-11-09T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:11:37","slug":"top-ten-ways-to-destroy-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Ways to Destroy the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you need a project this weekend, Live Science has done a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/destroy_earth_mp-1.html\">roundup<\/a> of ten ways to obliterate the planet.  Each method includes a handy inventory of the supplies you need, so you can make up your shopping list.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Gobbled up by strangelets<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>You will need:<\/b> a stable strangelet <\/p>\n<p><b>Method:<\/b> Hijack control of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangelet. Keep it stable for as long as it takes to absorb the entire Earth into a mass of strange quarks. Keeping the strangelet stable is incredibly difficult once it has absorbed the stabilizing machinery, but creative solutions may be possible. <\/p>\n<p>A while back, there was some media hoo-hah about the possibility of this actually happening at the RHIC, but in actuality the chances of a stable strangelet forming are pretty much zero. <\/p>\n<p><b>Earth&#8217;s final resting place:<\/b> a huge glob of strange matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Easy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you need a project this weekend, Live Science has done a roundup of ten ways to obliterate the planet. Each method includes a handy inventory of the supplies you need, so you can make up your shopping list. Gobbled up by strangelets You will need: a stable strangelet Method: Hijack control of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}