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Englishman Concocts Plan To Destroy the Entire Planet

This guy is running around England concocting plans to suck the Earth into a black hole or pull the ground out from underneath us as the planet is wrecked apart by tidal forces. And yet, all the British government can do is worry about whether someone is taking a tube of toothpaste onto an airplane?

Sam Hughes: That name will ring in your ears, in the last seconds before you die!

He seems like just an ordinary guy, at first. He likes pub crawls, and anime. How very ordinary, you think. But then, you come across his Plan to destroy planet Earth!

This is the mission statement of Sam Hughes, and his little troop of Earth destroyers:

“For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to change the Earth into something other than a planet. Any of the following forms could represent success: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a dust cloud; a more exotic object such as a quntum singularity.”

You think I must be joking. You think I’m nuts. Well, if I am crazy, isn’t that the point? I’m not the one writing this stuff! Sam Hughes hasn’t cooked up just one plan to destroy the Earth. He’s got several! Here’s one which involved sucking the Earth into a microscopic black hole. He starts his plan by saying:

“You will need: a microscopic black hole. Note that black holes are not eternal, they evaporate due to Hawking radiation. For your average black hole this takes an unimaginable amount of time, but for really small ones it could happen almost instantaneously, as evaporation time is dependent on mass. Therefore your microscopic black hole must have greater than a certain threshold mass, roughly equal to the mass of Mount Everest.”

This guy is running around England concocting plans to suck the Earth into a black hole or pull the ground out from underneath us as the planet is wrecked apart by tidal forces. And yet, all the British government can do is worry about whether someone is taking a tube of toothpaste onto an airplane? My goodness, what’s wrong with us all!

Can’t you see that we’re on the verge of planetary catastrophe, courtesy of Sam Hughes, and no one is doing anything to stop him? Wake up! We’re all going to die!

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Date: August 15, 2006

Author: Disaster Dan

Categories: general, science

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  teranis

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 00:55

  Your a dumbass

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  Tyler Keys

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 00:59

  Ok, when you watch a sci-fi movie, or read a book, even glance through a science encyclopedia, do not ry to put it all together in your head, then write a retarded paper on it. I teach Astro-physics and have tought molecular energy course for 17 years at a well-known college. You also need to realize the point that watching anime is not average. You need to hit puberty and grow up. Only “nerds” watch that. Also my son, but he is only 8 years old. Please, for the sake of humanity, get a life, and stop acting so immature/stupid.

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  jclifford

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 06:04

  This person who calls himself or herself Teranis is the very same person who also calls himself Tyler Keys. This person also claims to be a sergeant in the US military who has beaten up and later murdered another American soldier under the cover of battle – as punishment for being gay.

  IP address: 69.223.60.34 – anyone know who this character is?

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  Jim

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 06:21

  He did not say he murdered another American soldier. He says he knows a guy who says he did. And I don’t think that’s even true. His story is so over the top Oliver Stone gonzo, I bet he’s just some 14 year old kid who’s read too much Soldier of Fortune, or some fatass 55 year old guy from Cincinnati who is drunk most of the time, loves to watch war stories, and is playing out some anti-gay fantasy by writing his little drama piece here.

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  Jim

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 06:23

  “Your a dumbass.” I love it; he probably doesn’t even get why that’s so funny.

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  Damen

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 07:01

  I don’t know about Tyler Keys, but this article is just silly.

  Tell me, Dan, has this fellow actually figured out how to create an artificial black hole the size of Mount Everest?

  And tell me, did you know that you might as well create another star here on earth? It would have the same affect as a black hole. The biggest difference between a black hole and your average star is the time dilation that occurs when approaching the event horizon and once past the event horizon (depending on the size of the event horizon and the singularity at it’s center) you’ll have spaghettification. To date it is impossible to create a black hole or a star the size of Mount Everest with the current level of technology we have.

  Dan, if you’re posting this as a joke congratulations because I’m laughing like a hyena. If you really believe this, grow up.

  Do you just look around on the net for disaster stories to share with us? I only ask because this one stems from about…every mad scientist film/book/comic I’ve ever read and has about as much validity to it. This is really good for little more than humor.

  ~ Damen

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  Alan

  in August 16th, 2006 @ 08:35

  “Little more than humor”, Damen? What could be more important than laughing? Disaster Dan’s dry comic book humor is taken to an adult level and his deadpan delivery is perfect. The link to the Sam Hughs website is worth a few giggles too, especially where he has painstakingly researched the reasons for geocide and cited his sources. And the spelling–DD can spell and so can Hughs–isn’t that refreshing these days? But could this be a very subtle dig at global warming theories?

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  Popeye

  in August 17th, 2006 @ 22:03

  When Noah,s Ark was built on top of the mountain people called him Crazy.
  Hey you guys dont jump into conclusion. we have to save our planet, Dan and I was concerned.

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  Damen

  in August 18th, 2006 @ 05:25

  Noah’s ark has never been proven to have existed and has as much historical validity as a fairy tale. Just like the story of Little Red Riding Hood and The Frog Prince, and Cinderella.

  Now excuse me, I’m going to go downtown and scream “RAPUNZEL! LET DOWN YOUR GOLDEN HAIR!” at the skyscrapers.

  ~Damen

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  Terry

  in August 18th, 2006 @ 16:15

  Oh come on Damen. H.C. Andersen’s classic tale of the King’s new clothes can be direcrly applied to bush and his followers.
  I was convinced long ago that I was the one small voice in the crowd yelling; THE KING IS NAKED!

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  Terry

  in August 18th, 2006 @ 16:18

  P.S. to my last post.

  You must remember that England is the birthplace of The Goons, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Benny Hill, the Royal Family and other nonsensicle clowns.

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  Jennifer

  in August 6th, 2008 @ 17:59

  1. You obviously haven’t spent time reading this guy’s webpages.
  2. He’s a geek (and a math one at that).
  3. He’s a writer, with a really big and science oriented imagination.
  4. He writes sci-fi & theoretical stuff.
  5. He’s very smart, but also a normal dude.
  6. Based on reading his blogs and stories, any pyschologist would call him harmless to the max.
  7. He has a super sense of humor.
  8. He has a real awe of the world as it is.
  9. The so called destroying the world “plans” (which you only paraphrased, which is misleading) are obviously a joke, not to mention filled with humor…describes only things which are …well, pretty impossible for ANYONE…
  10. Most of the “plots” came from major sci-fi authors, which it seems he was merely attempting to figure out theoretically. Geeks do that for fun!

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