Best doomsday weapon?

[CarburetorThompson]

What would you use to destroy the world?

 

[Lloyd]

Fat shit

 

[Syringe]

Super intelligent AI that goes rouge, but has been trained on so much safety data that it cannot even comprehend the existence of nudity. Thus, I will create a doomsday scenario that will make stuff like bikini armour, and low-clothed anime-styled military uniform a necessity to combat the machines.

 

[owotrucked]

Fat shit

fart apocalypse is a timeless classic

 

[NotaNuffian]

Why don't we list the disadvantage/s of the weapons?

1. Nuclear bombs: the blast can be hidden and the fallout, unless constant bombardment, would clear out in a month or so, meaning that while it might be a good short term annihilation weapon, it is not great for long term life killing. Also, life finds a way, to mutate and thrive.
2. Same problem with nuclear bombs; the effects are short termed even if you carpet laser Earth inches by inches from space. The best way to ensure total life elimination is to bore a hole into Earth's core, but the orbital laser probably can't do it unless from Solar Smash.
3. Chemical weapons are nice. Great for causing breathing problems, skin flaking off and perhaps painful death. But sadly like all poisons, prevention is better than cure and unless one can make a clear and odorless Agent Orange and fooling the population into walking out into the open enmasses, then it is moot.
4. Anthrax. Same problem with chemical weapons and nuclear bombs again.
5. The grey goo scenario seems to be our best bet in global extinction. Which is nice. Just make sure that said goo is EMP proof, because the Sun is the creator of Hamon.

Overall, I pick 5 because it can be a cast-and-forget weapon that runs perpetually.

Unless the AI fucks up as usual and starts to author smutty novels.

 

[Iceheart]

Whatever diabolical Inator Dr. Doofenshmitrz can come up with.

 

[esThr]

Super intelligent AI that goes rouge, but has been trained on so much safety data that it cannot even comprehend the existence of nudity. Thus, I will create a doomsday scenario that will make stuff like bikini armour, and low-clothed anime-styled military uniform a necessity to combat the machines.

Now you have created the plot of some H game out there

 

[expentio]

Also, it depends on your goal.

For example, the laser might destroy the world, but what is the point in destroying a perfectly good habitable planet?
Same goes for meteors or super bombs.
Nano bots might be a good idea, but you're risking exotic reactions. In consequence you quickly have a Nier Automata situation where you doomsday machinemachine questions its purpose of existence and if it really does need to obey your commands.
Chemical and biological weapons have quite the same problems.
Especially biologically it's going to be too unpredictable.
Also, as already mentioned they can be dodged. Which means either you go for long term and have to wait till the last generation truthfully dies in their bunkers. Though, then you still have to get the air clean again. Good luck with that.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Now you have created the plot of some H game out there

Nah, that is like pulling logic into hentai and we all know those two don't mix.

 

[GlassRose]

Why don't we list the disadvantage/s of the weapons?

1. Nuclear bombs: the blast can be hidden and the fallout, unless constant bombardment, would clear out in a month or so, meaning that while it might be a good short term annihilation weapon, it is not great for long term life killing. Also, life finds a way, to mutate and thrive.

Nuclear is actually good for long-term death, not because of the fall-out, but because the massive explosions kick up dirt and dust and ash into the atmosphere, similar to a volcano. Throw a lot of them, or a few big enough, and you'll choke out the sun globally, killing all the plant life, and thus the food source for most terrestrial life. Also, while there won't be sunlight for photosynthesis, what there will be is greenhouse effect on steroids, massively raising the global temperature, and that'd kill too.

So, you bomb every major population center, and then maybe a few more just spread out so everywhere is nearby a site, and that should be enough to eliminate most humans. There might be a few that survive in shelters with stockpiled food, so you just have to hope/make sure that the ash clouds stick around long enough that by the time they run out of resources, the surface hasn't recovered. Either by calculating how much firepower you need all at once to make that happen, or by setting up an automated system that occasionally launches a few extra nukes every few years or something.

I'm not sure how the nukes would effect the oceans though. You want them to suddenly rise in pH a lot, cause that'll kill a lot of the living things in there, and that will make it hard to recover. You might have to set something different up for that. That's assuming you want to wipe out as much life as you can, rather than just humanity. Devastating the oceans' life will make it much harder to source food from them after all the surface plants die, and it will make it harder for life to recover in the long run; if you managed to wipe out all terrestrial life, then life has to evolve to put food back on the land, and then creatures have to evolve to survive on it again.

It's practically impossible to end all life in Earth; there are microscopic organisms built to survive in the most obscenely extreme conditions, and no matter which of the above doomsdays you choose, something will survive. Life is hard to get going, but hard to get rid of. However, it would be fairly easy to wipe out humanity, and most of the other life on Earth, with the method as I've described.

The reason why countries fear nuclear war isn't just because they're afraid of being nuked. The fear is that, in one instant, enough nukes between two countries could be released to create an extinction event by the same process as how meteors and mega-volcanos cause extinction events. Not by a big explosion, but by choking out the sun and turning the Earth into an oven. Your country doesn't even have to be involved in the war, it could be on the other side of the world, and it'd get devastated, if not wiped out, all the same. There's enough firepower on the Earth right now, in terms of nuclear weapons, to cause an extinction event, numerous times over.

Depending on the countries involved, there is enough time for a targeted country to detect that they are under fire, determine that it will wipe them out, and launch all of their nukes back at the attacker in retaliation, thus ending the world.

Your little dose of terror for the day~

 

[TheEldritchGod]

What would you use to destroy the world?

First, you need to define "Destroy the world"

Because None of those could destroy the world. The world would still be intact using any of those. The world would hardly notice.

How to destroy the world:

1. Hit it really hard - This method means you need something with a bit of heft to it. Mars will do. However, another option is to hit it with something smaller going much faster. Something the size of Sheboygan going roughly 99% the speed of light would do nicely.

2. Singularity. - Compress the sun down to the size of a lima bean and throw it at the earth. Earth will be reduced to a blotch of matter inside a black hole and that's just about "destroyed"

3. Super Science VonNumman machines - You need a self replicating robot that can launch itself into space and can be made out of common materials found on earth. Slow at first, eventually near the end, the earth will suddenly vanish into a new asteroid belt of strange rocket robots

4. A single light bulb - There is enough vacuum energy found in the space of a single light bulb to vaporize the earth and send it scattering through out the solar system. Just learn how to divide by zero and burn the fundamental fabric of the void itself. Boom. No more earth.

5. Strangelet - Make a stable strangelet. Strange matter converts normal matter into strange matter on contact. At the speed of light, the earth will suddenly start to melt as it turns into strange matter and become a giant ball of gelatinous goo.

6. Drop it into the sun - A much easier solution would be to have a heavy mass pass by the earth at near right angles altering it's orbit and sending it hurling into the sun. The earth will become a glob of melting iron sinking into the core of our solar system's primary. No. Jupiter wouldn't work. Earth would still be "mostly" intact.

7. Spin it really fast. - Somewhere around one rotation every 90 minutes, the material on the surface of the earth at the equator will start to fly away. However, this will slow the earth down, so you'll need to get it up to about one rotation every 30 minutes to get the job done right.

8. Alter the universal constant - Pick one, any universal constant and BAM, earth either explodes, collapses, or disintegrates..

9. Dimensional Strike - Reduce the number of dimensions from 3 to 2. Earth collapses down to a 2 dimensional object, but the mass remains the same, so earth either explodes in a burst of energy or collapses into a singluarity

10. FINALLY, LAST BUT NOT LEAST....

Spoiler: Drum roll

Total Existence Failure.

Yes, under the rules of the universe, it is only a matter of time before every particle of matter, sooner or later, suffers from existance failure.. So, if you just wait, every second there is a 1 in 158! (thats' 158*157*156*155... etc etc etc) chance that the entire earth could just, all at once, for no apparent reason, fail to keep existing and vanish.

And there you have it, the top ten ways to destroy the earth.

 

[GlassRose]

Plague wouldn't work, it's too easy for people to isolate themselves, plus there's the possibility of a vaccine, and you have to balance deadliness with infectivity, and the plague will mutate and probably become less deadly over time, so that it's carriers survive longer bearing and passing around the plague, until it's effectiveness is about the same as the flu. Cause, a plague doesn't want to kill, it wants to spread. To do that, it needs the bodies that spread it to be able to do that (rather than crippled), and it needs bodies to spread to.

Self replicating nano machines has similar problems, also, we don't have technology of that level yet, really, so it'd be rather ineffective. And, they might have a similar issue of 'mutating', as tolerances get stretched and they get less precise, and thus worse at self-replicating.

Space weaponry will at best be like nukes but without fall-out, dropping rods of dense material from space. I don't know, but to me I think it would be more expensive than nuclear missiles, doubly so because the nuclear missiles all already exist, along with the targeting systems and launching systems, so there's no development cost.

Dunno about chemical weapons, but they're unlikely to get everything so no.

 

[CheertheSecond]

Fat shit

Another feces bender enthusiast. Truly my effort was not futile.

 

[Insomniologist]

Orbital Space Lasers. Embrace your inner Ronald Reagan!

 

[PyrusMG]

I'd teach raccoons to use their opposable thumbs to harness fire.

 

[TransCatGirl]

Nano seemed most destructive, eventually it would float to other planets and goo them. Next other solar systems.

 

[2wordsperminute]

I think we're forgetting psychological warfare. Make society destroy itself. Probably would only take a slight change to social media algorithms to be 100% possible.

 

[J_Chemist]

The Penetrator from Saints Row 3 was pretty dangerous.

 

[D_R]

Death Star beam / Stellar Converter - and there's plenty of reasons to destroy a planet if you're at war. The enemy can't reclaim/recolonize what no longer exists.

 

[ArtBusterBeeze]

step 1: become mad scientist
normal world destruction:
Create Humanoid robots created with giant chemical cannons and then place them on 4 sides of the world. If anyone somehow survives, they are programmed to kill, and any survivors will be at a huge disadvantage. (I am sure we have the technology to do that these days)

What would I personally want to use to destroy the world?
-Create Colossal robot which will have the sole focus on physical abilities. Using it's gigantic hand, it will Karate chop the world thus creating impending doom with it's massive hands before the obliteration of all life.