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The thing to remember about freedom is that it is not given, it is taken

-Scott Adams

Top Ten Ways to Destroy Earth

Want to destroy the Earth? Look no further! Just follow the link below.

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy...

Having shamelessly quoted most of this article, I'll take a second here to say, I personally believe that some of the things man is doing and has done, have indeed affected the Earth adversely, contrary to the gist of the quote above. But I think the linked article is interesting nonetheless.

Click here, if you dare.

Image: LiveScience

Posted by Rick on June 7, 2006 at 09:36 AM

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Are our actions negatively impacting the Earth itself? Not at all, it's more than capable of handling us. At most, we'll wipe out a few thousand species (likely including our own), but in a million years or so, the Earth will hum along like we were never even here.

Posted by: Brad Warbiany at June 13, 2006 10:28 AM

The thing to remember about freedom is that it is not given, it is taken

-Scott Adams

Top Ten Ways to Destroy Earth

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