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This is a factual writeup.
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.