The sun can indeed blaze with a flash that will destroy life on our planet.

Aliens have the end of the world

The nightmare finale of the sci-fi disaster film Knowing leaves no chance for the inhabitants of the Earth: a monstrous solar flare literally burns out all life.

A scary movie that was released five years ago was recently shown again on television. It so happened - most likely by accident - that the demonstration coincided with the discovery made by NASA experts. And it turned out to be associated with outbreaks, which, as it turned out, are really capable of destroying life on planets located near the star. If it's there, of course.

The spacecraft Swift (Swift Mission) recorded a coronal ejection that occurred on a star located 60 light years from Earth in the DG Canum Venaticorum (DG CVn) system. The expelled substance was heated to 200 million degrees Celsius. And the flash itself was 10 thousand times (!) More powerful than the strongest flash ever observed on the Sun. And not some giant blazed like that, but a red dwarf - a star, the size of which is much inferior to the solar one. If aliens lived near this star, then they had the end of the world. Like in The Sign.

One of the largest X-ray flares observed on the Sun occurred in November 2003, was, according to its power, the designation X45, says Stephen Drake, NASA astrophysicist (astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland). - The one that happened in the DG CVn system should have been assigned the index X100000.

According to the scientist, the discovery was another disturbing confirmation that the so-called mega-outbreaks happen. And our Sun is no exception here, not a guarantor of serene stability.

We have total darkness. Least

By the way, experts from NASA and the American Academy of Sciences, starting in 2012, have been waiting for a solar flare of enormous power, which will induce a direct current in the Earth's electromagnetic field of such strength that it will literally burn electrical networks. First of all - transformer substations. And the planet will be plunged into darkness.

Scientists predict and regularly report that the so-called Carrington event, which happened in the autumn of 1859, will repeat itself. Then the young English astronomer Richard Carrington (Richard Carrington) noticed unusually large spots on the star, which blazed with a blinding flash. After 17 hours, the night over many regions of the planet turned into day - it became so light from the green and crimson flashes of the northern lights. The telegraph went off. Sparks rained down from the machines, stinging the telegraphers and setting fire to the paper.

155 years ago, humanity was just lucky that it did not reach a high technological level, - says James Green (James L. Green), one of the directors of NASA and a specialist in the magnetosphere. - Now, after such an outbreak, it will take at least 10 years to restore the destroyed global infrastructure. And trillions of dollars.

As it turned out recently, there were much more powerful flares on the Sun. A group led by Professor Fusa Miyake studied sections of ancient cedars that grew in Europe. And I discovered that in the Middle Ages they - cedars - were subjected to a powerful energy impact. As a result, the content of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in wood increased 20 times. According to the annual rings, the Japanese determined that the burst of radiation was in 775.

Research Japanese intrigued scientists from the Finnish University of Oulu (University of Oulu). A group led by Professor Ilya Usoskin confirmed the existence of the phenomenon, found traces of it not only in ancient European cedars, but also in oaks. And in addition, I found in the English annals references to "luminous snakes in the sky." According to Ilya Germanovich, people saw flashes of anomalous northern lights. And they could be generated by a powerful X-ray super-flare on the Sun. Calculations showed that it was 20 times more powerful than the Carrington event. And 100 times more powerful than the most powerful flash recorded in the XX-XXI centuries.

But it turns out that this is far from the limit. That is, the script of the film "The Sign" is quite real.

By the way, a mega-flare in the DG CVn system is also not entirely out of the ordinary. Hiroyuki Maehara from Kyoto University (Kyoto University, Japan) analyzed the data collected in just 120 days of operation of the Kepler space telescope. And he found out that out of 83 thousand sun-like stars that fell into the field of view, 148 produced 365 super-flares. And two of them were "lethal" mega-class.

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What happens on the Sun when one storm is superimposed on another

Chinese scientists, led by astronomer Liu Ying of the National Space Science Center in Beijing, believe they have figured out how superflares occur. And they were helped by the data received from the STEREO and SOHO spacecraft, which monitor the processes on the Sun.

These data seem to indicate that catastrophic CMEs result from the collision of waves from two or more much weaker events. For example, it happened on July 23, 2012. Then a kind of resonance - the superposition of waves from emissions that happened at intervals of 15 minutes in different places of the star - led to an outbreak comparable in power to the Carrington event. The speed of the plasma escaping from the Sun was several times higher than the "ordinary" one. We were just lucky that the bunch was directed past the Earth.

Vladimir LAGOVSKY

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 at all simple task. 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 contemporary 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: Universal machine splitting (i.e. accelerator elementary particles), 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, 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 to 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 be scattered over 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.

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, will survive and 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 is difficult to create this, because a certain amount of neutronium is required, but you can try to get by with a huge number of atomic nuclei squeezed together. Then you need to place black hole to 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? Gravitational Energy planetary mass (M) and radius (P) is 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 law E \u003d mc2 familiar to everyone), the Earth will shatter into thousands of pieces. In this place, an asteroid belt will remain, which will continue to rotate around the Sun. By the way, if you start producing antimatter right now, then given modern technologies, by the year 2500 you can just finish it.

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.

A lot of information is written and shows that our planet will soon come to an end. But 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.

A number of media outlets have been talking about this danger for a while now and that this is exactly what New York is doing now, but in reality the chances of a stable strangelet ever being formed are almost 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 neutronium, but you can try to get by with a huge number of atomic nuclei squeezed together.

Then you need to place 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 likelihood of such a turn of events is very small. But it's no longer possible.

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 it 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.

At this point, the 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 2500 you can just finish it.

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.

In place of the Earth, a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of various sizes will appear.

The probability of such a turn of events, of course, is, 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 closest black hole to our planet is located at a distance of 1,600 light years in the constellation of 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.

This is very difficult to implement, but definitely possible. In place of the Earth will be part of the mass of the black hole.

The downside is that you have to wait too long for the technology to do this. 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 approximately 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, you need to use a particularly powerful model 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. You could also build a Dyson sphere, but technology will probably allow you 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 until a certain moment 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. In principle, Mars is quite suitable.

The thing is, there is nothing that can't be destroyed if hit 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 assuming there is no energy loss, our object should have a mass of approximately 60% of the earth's. 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 swallowed up by a bunch of von Neumann machines, and they can be sent to the Sun with the help of 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 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 remain a small ball of evaporating iron, gradually sinking into the Sun.

There is some likelihood that something similar will happen in 25 years: previously, 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.

Science does not stand still. However, the experiments of scientists are not always safe. And some also pose a real threat to life on Earth...

Trinity Trial

The Trinity test is the first test of an atomic weapon. In 1945, the United States tested a plutonium bomb with the playful name "Thing". The explosion occurred in the desert near the city of Albuquerque on the border with Mexico.

Initially, nuclear weapons testing was constantly delayed due to the concerns of some scientists. They assumed that the detonation of a plutonium charge could hypothetically lead to an uncontrolled combustion of the planet's atmospheric oxygen. But then the calculations nevertheless showed the negligible possibility of such a course of events. The power generated by the explosion atomic bomb, reached 21 kilotons of TNT.

Kola Superdeep Well

"The Kola super-deep well is rightfully considered the deepest underground passage dug deep into the planet. It is located in the Murmansk region in the Arctic Circle zone. The depth of the well is 12,262 meters. It was originally dug to study the lithosphere. The place was not chosen by chance. It was believed that the crust should be thinner, so it will be easier to reach the planet's mantle.

Researchers started drilling a well back in 1970, planning to get to the upper layer of the mantle. Their discoveries were a real shock. The well showed that many of our previous knowledge about the structure of the earth's crust is incorrect. So, the Kola drillers strongly shook the theory of the layered structure of the earth's crust. Another discovery of scientists: the Earth, it turns out, arose 1.5 billion years earlier than expected.

Work at the Kola drilling rig stopped in 1995. The official version is the termination of funding. However, this coincided with a mysterious incident at the rig. At first, a strange sound was heard in the depths of the mine, and then a powerful explosion of an unknown nature was heard. There was even a mystical version, as if a demon had escaped from the underworld.

At the same time, fears about the formation of large-scale earthquakes turned out to be groundless.

The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the most complex facility ever built by man. It is located on the border of France and Switzerland. The collider is a proton particle accelerator. It was designed to accelerate proton beams. The goal is to obtain reliable information about the origin of the universe. The circumference of the tunnel is about 27 kilometers.

Experiments at the collider began in 2008. And they immediately started talking about the fact that the experiments could lead to the development of a chain reaction, which would theoretically be able to destroy our entire planet. Since proton beams, during acceleration and collision, form microscopic black holes. Some experts have stated that these black holes will increase over time until they swallow the entire Earth. However, fears turned out to be groundless, since each such hole has a limit, reaching which it evaporates. This phenomenon is known as the Hawking Radiation.

"Starfish Prime"

Starfish Prime is an ambitious US project to study the effects of a nuclear explosion in the magnetosphere. That is, in a place filled with charged particles that protect the Earth's atmosphere from harmful effects. solar wind. Another goal of the project is to search for the possibility of intercepting Soviet nuclear missiles while still in space orbit.

At first it was assumed that the test will pass June 20, 1962 However, immediately after the launch of the rocket, a malfunction occurred in the engine. As a result, both the nuclear device and the rocket itself were lost. Its debris and radioactive waste fell on Johnston Atoll and poisoned the surrounding area with radiation.
Three weeks later, the Americans made a second attempt. This time, the plan was completed. A nuclear warhead with a capacity of 1.4 megatons was detonated at an altitude of 400 kilometers above Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

These tests did not lead to the formation of a nuclear fungus typical of such cases. However, the consequences of the experiment were felt differently. A strange glow appeared in the sky, which could be observed over Pacific Ocean within 7 minutes. The explosion immediately knocked out three satellites. And then seven more satellites stopped functioning. In Hawaii, 300 street lights failed, as did televisions, radios and other electronics.
The radiation belt after the explosion kept above the Earth for five years.

SETI Project

The purpose of this project is to search for contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. To establish communication with aliens using radio communications was first proposed in 1896 by Nikolai Tesla. The scientist claimed that he himself managed to receive call signs from Mars in this way.

In August 1924, scientists spent several days scanning the radio air in search of a signal from the red planet.

Similar research continues today. They occur with the help of orbital, radio and ground-based telescopes. But the persistent search extraterrestrial intelligence are not supported by all scholars. Some of them believe that drawing too much attention to the Earth may also be fraught with danger. After all, according to cosmologists, mankind has already experienced cases of collision of less developed civilizations with more technically advanced ones.