I once worked out a series of events by which humans could destroy the Moon and reduce the Earth's crust & upper mantle to magma.
It would require a couple of hundred years and a truly outrageous number of nuclear bombs to run asteroids into one another until much of the asteroid belt was destabilized.
But we could do it.
Let's not.
@michael_w_busch @swope @nyrath Yeah, that'd do it. It'd also give everybody else enough advance warning (asteroids being nuked, and colliding!) to work out who was doing it and punch them in the head repeatedly until they stopped. Beyond that, we're getting into "Forge of God" territory.
@cstross @michael_w_busch @swope @nyrath yet nobody seems to want to punch fossil fuel CEOs in the head until they stop
@cinebox @michael_w_busch @swope @nyrath What do you mean? OF COURSE I'd like to see them punched in the head until they stop! (I'm just not physically capable of it.)