The Super Weapon That Could Destroy Planet Earth
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Quote from one of the greatest comedians, "The planet is fine. The People are fucked." - George Carlin
"Pack your shit folks. We're going away."
more like the current ecosystems. wich includes us. the planet will recover. but so many people still believe the earth was meant to serve us or something. rather stupid😅😂
@@madradge6353 can we all pray to joe pesci that nothing like this happens
Quote from one of the greatest masturbator, "The planet initially is fine. The people are fucked. So, the planet is fucked." - Georgie
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Advice for humans
1. Drink water
2. Worship the sun
3. Pray to Joe Pesci
“The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of The Force.”
- Darth Vader
yes
The entire Starfleet couldn't destroy a whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships, with more firepower than I've -
Imperial Officer: "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion does not help you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or give you clairvoyance enough to find their hidden fort...."
Vader: "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Some may question my right to destroy a world of ten billion souls, but those who understand realize I have no right to let them live.
- Inquisitor Horst durning the gothic war/12th black crusade
I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small, unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a billion souls to Oblivion.
-Thraviam Flast
@@DavidKutzler Someone should put that in a movie!
Imagine a historian living in future seeing this and thinking how menacing 21st century humans are.
Nothing has changed for millions of years. Don't see that ever changing unless we evolve away from being human.
@ForMeToKnow 1 no?Lol,just cuz our form hasn't changed that doesn't mean that...we evoled,look what we built, from stick and stones and mud huts to high buildings and going to space
Why wouldn't future humans be anything but utterly menacing? I mean.... they would be humans, right?
Imagine aliens watching this. I’d be sending a force to stop these crazy creature who find these subjects entertaining enough to make multiple movies and programs about. Considering the way usa acts every time countries develop nuclear weapons i dont think it going to turn out to well for us.
@@dragonslayer1107 And we still wage wars just like our ancestors. We still have that primitive part of our brains that take over whenever there is conflict. We try to deny its existence but it always asserts itself.
Destroying a full planet sounds a bit difficult, destroying the surface of that planet seems way more easy. An asteroid size "rock" launched from a far distance to another "Galactic empire" planet will decimate everything in a matter of seconds with out wasting any valuable resource.
Excellent video!
Or a car at near light speed...jeah the definitions in his video are pretty wonky
Why wait for a rock? We do so well ourselves. We don't need help.
Tesla could have cracked the earth into two if he wanted. So it wouldn't be that difficult.
i dont think its would be so difficult i think of we build a big laser that can Pierce the earth kern and we influed the magma at the core i think in that way we can create a great catastrofe which would build.up til the Total distruction of earth
however, such asteroids would be easy to defend, be using all kinds of weapons or by other means
As a massive StarWars fan, the retelling of the Empire destroying Alderann really made me happy. Thought2 as the Narrator? The POV of the Citizens of Alderann? Beautiful...
the pov from Alderann was a bit of genius .
You are profoundly sick, Eric Godwin. lol
Please don't give Disney any more ideas...
Planets…always an interesting topic.
"Can we build a tool to destroy a planet?"
"This simple tool can destroy a planet"
"Why destroying a planet is almost impossible"
Never seen a video go through that many titles in a few days
Assuming there is a way to avoid the molten core and you complete the task of turning a planet into robots; your left with a rather large blob of robots that are comprised of the elements of the planet they just destroyed. Wouldn't the large blob of robots have its own gravitational mass that would result in those at the centre being crushed back into a planet of the same elemental composition of the one that was just destroyed?
No. Not unless they were programmed to "shutdown" after the destruction of the planet.
That comment is so true it’s hilarious! You have such a valid point! Lol! What will they do when finished? Come home? Oh. Shit.
you are thinking quite in a good direction, it would cause problems indeed when they would reach a critical mass. But before that would happen they could "destroy" around 10% of the entire planet's mass and that's already devastating enough for a planet to not recover ever again but not in a way of destroying it :-)
You will ask yourself how is this possible? The answer is simple:
Robots could only produce themselves mainly from Earth's crust materials and the whole mass of the crust is only around 1% of the whole planet. Than there is the mantle layer where in the upper part it could sustain some materials for reproduction but also the deeper you go the hotter and more liquid like "caramel" it becomes. At around 8% - 10% of upper mantle would probably meet requriements for robots to still function (probably around 400°C - 600°C) because mantle at the middle is alreday around 4000°C hot so robots practicaly could not go deep into the mantle anyway. Also the pressure is already high at the point between the crust and mantle itself.
Some layer details:
Crust = thicknes between 30km and 70km | 1% of total planet mass | temperature here varies but it's mainly between 100°C and 400˘C can also go up as high as 1000°C in some areas
Mantle = thickness around 3000km | 67% of total planet mass | temperature in upper part from 200°C to the middle part where it can reach as high as 4000°C, at lower part it's >4000°C
Core = two parts
- outer layer around 2200km | 21% of total planet mass | temperature between 4500°C and 5500°C
- inner core around 1200km | 11% of total planet mass | temperature around 6000°C
this is genius
@@jackdurden466 um...they would search for resources beyond that planet?
The funniest thing about that is that they actually took the time (and a lil taxpayer $ no doubt) to crunch the numbers looking into the idea.
I feel like we’re on our way to destroying our planet through the prevalence of tik tok.
Social media in general 😅
Plot twist TikTok is actually a social virus created by artificial intelligence to infect and control humans.
Be warned, today I opened up youtube and it automatically redirected me to shorts shit you not. I've tried avoiding shorts, and I have avoided tik tok since day one. In fact, I've done nothing but clown Tik tok users. However, with anxiety shorts became as addictive as nicotine (of which I'm a current user, tried multiple times to quit.) I rarely stay on it for long, but I only exit it when my brain wakes up and says fuck this noise. It's seriously habit forming, I cannot believe it's handed out to children this shit is deffo a drug or disease.
There's A Red Rising Sun in they Sky 🌞, All hail Mao and Xi Jinping Glory to the Chinese Communist Party/Peoples Republic Of China We own TikTok and shall spread our free Propaganda to the West and rate them based off social credit scores
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I actually enjoyed the fact this video was just a big advert for that game 😂 well done and we’ll played 👍🏽
It's called sponsorship.
self replicating robots that destroy things to create more of themselves?
Are you sure about this? Have you not seen Stargate?
THANK YOU. Replicators!
I like how he mispronounced "arthropoid" as "anthropoid," and it still works.
Anthropoid would be human like as Anthro means man or human while Arthropods have exoskeletons such as insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and crustations (crabs, crayfish, lobsters, krill, etc.,) They have different meanings.
Should be pronounced anthropoids are humans and animals similar to humans such as apes and monkeys and other similar creatures. Study of people and similar animals is called Anthropology which also includes study of ancient people and similar creatures also.
@@hydrolito Yes. And yet, both work for the video.
Thoughty2 is the greatest story teller to ever walk this multiverse,
That's a stretch, He's damn good but No Mark Twain....
No, there is no multiverse, and Mr. Ballen is the story telling emperor of the universe.
Don't trust everything he say. He isn't here to help you. UA-cam giving him voice not make the billionaires a millionaires.
Agreed! His gorgeous mustache is his superpower 😍
@@imagewell5319mr.ballen is a terrible public speaker. 😂 not even close to this or why files
I haven't watched this man in years, I used to watch him when I was in middle school. But man he is way better than I remember
Short and sweet. I really liked this! You’ve quite the résumé now! Researcher, storyteller, narrator, author, podcaster, and in some ways, actor. I’m sure it’s longer than I know.
Great video! I look forward to the next and the next and the next ♾!
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I always chuckle when I hear people talk about "saving the planet."
The planet is going to be just fine. We're terminal ... hell-bent on our own destruction ... but the planet is going to be just fine.
Yeah. But I still want a planet to live on 🤷🏻♀️
yeah, the planet will be fine, the things that live on it, not so much.
Planet is fine. People are fucked!
@@StRanGerManY but it’s the PEOPLE that’s making the planet all fucked up. It’s all the trash that ppl make 🤦🏻♀️
Thanks, George.
Really enjoy the way you put the story in perspective from those on Alderaan. As always I enjoy all of your videos thanks thoughty 2
Moving a planet in long enough time is actually pretty simple idea. Just have a enough of a mass mass and let its gravitational pull carry a planet towards the black hole/star in question.
A lot of the time gravitational pull makes lighter things turn around the big masses.Black holes have stars orbiting them for millions of years, moving closer to the center until they are lost forever. In fact it seems that all spiral galaxies are rotating around a super-massive black hole in the center, with no effects at all for solar systems on the outside during billions of years. I never understood it very well, but Earth is not targeting the Sun or the Moon is not falling on us.
Pushing the earth toward the sun would be quite difficult. It would require cancelling out its tangential inertia.
I love the fact the Whitehouse looked into the prospects of the deathstar and not just binned it
DARPA on the other hand....
Amazing video! Thank you for helping me cope with everything and to learn interesting things along the way!
Let’s go!!Another Thoughty2 video! Love all of your content!!
Self replicating robots would end up having so much mass gravity would turn most of them back into the planet. Yes there would be some on the surface making the planet uninhabitable. But the planet would still exist.
The self-replicating robot idea sounds a lot like the Replicators from Stargate. And think about it... If you have them able to connect to each other, and have the next gen spread no further than within comm range of the closest one, they could share information and computing power. The more robots you have, the more powerful your computing power. Throw in a few learning algorithms and the ability to modify their own structure each generation, and they could overcome pretty much any obstacle such as changes in material composition or temperature...
definitely, were doing a bloody good job on this one
Good job of what?
"Could we really destroy a planet?" Yea we're already doing it to earth
No we are just doing it to our selves
The planet will be just fine
Did you miss the initial statement made in the video? Lol
Sounds more like a slow transformation from a planet, to a planet of planet-eating drones 😁
Aw, I was hoping to see some discussion about how ever if you could make a death star, such a laser wouldn't cause a planet to explode. It would just kind of turn into a giant glob of magma.
Your space videos are my absolute favorite ❤️😫
I agree, a video on antimatter is needed! Also I'm not positive but in the old Star Wars Expanded Universe I think Alderaan had something like 14 billion inhabitants and Bail Organa himself was on the planet in Legends and Disney Canon so the Galaxy, and especially the human inhabitants of the Empire who were led to believe that humanity were the dominant species in the Galaxy, were furious
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Brilliant 🤩 Thanks for this insightful video. I enjoyed it tremendously. Your sense of humour makes it so entertaining to watch 🥰🥰🥰
THANK YOU! Every time I hear people say save the planet. All I can think is "the planet will be fine in the end, we're the ones who won't survive."
First thing I thought of when you got to the self replicating machines was the Mantrid drones from Lexx, then I remembered the technology of the Shadows and their allies in Babylon 5, then I started thinking of the Berzerker book series from Fred Saberhagan, and well I realized sci fi has been inventing new and more massive ways to destroy everything in the Universe for some time now
Check out the day the earth stool still. It’s a great watch and the nanites are legit just carbon eaters, you know, the thing everything is made of
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Well most stuff you read in scifi ist usually explained already by scientists. They scifi authors just make it more accessible
Hmmmm, Shadow Planet Killer doesn't exactly destroy a planet. It just kills a targetted life form.
Wondering: How feasable would that be for us?
Lexx was the first thing I thought of as well, but the drones went a bit further. They took out that whole universe.
You are amazing at every single video you make
Well that mistake in the title has lasted awhile hasn’t it
Coudl
Still one of my very favorite UA-cam channels. Love it!
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
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Just build a Dyson laser smh.
A Dyson laser is a theoretical superstructure similar to a Dyson Sphere/Swarm, but instead of converting the star's energy into usable energy, it instead converts it into a massive laser capable of annihilating planets like the death star does. Basically; why move the planet to the star, when you can move the star to the planet?
That would be some tech .
It's fireing , would be noticed , and the inhabitants could do a runner to another system .
Its big daddy is the blackhole version. Similar concept but vastly superior in terms of force. Although, tbf finding a portable black hole to destroy your planet is probably your main issue. Worthwhile though if you are a later version of humanity during the heat death of the universe. Something to keep in mind for your great great great^(a lot) psychopath grand child
We can't Dyson would sue us because the brand is already taken.
It wouldn't destroy the planet...or any planet for that matter. It might cut a hole through one given enough time but it wouldn't destroy it.
Funny about that, there is a mod for Stellaris that puts just that in and more; called Gigastructural Engineering
Everytime I take a break from thoughts 2 and I come came his look evolves
Most likely the closest we will ever get to making a Death Star level weapon is if we ever create a Nicoll-Dyson beam weapon around a sun. Basically a Dyson Swarm of reflective statite type satellites surrounding a sun and focusing all the energy it is radiating into a single concentrated directional beam. This is similar in concept to a Shkadov thruster which would be used to move a star around where you want it.
@Adarian dude it is from youtuber issac arthur , have you heard about this channel ?? If not you are in for treat
@@aryantaneja2244 have been watching SFIA since the start of his channel. Isaac is a great guy.
@@adarian yeah man he is , also his mega structure series is one of the best series on entire UA-cam.............(probably)
Well, does ruining the one we are living on count? 😬
"Creating a gram of Antimatter costs 63 Trillion Dollars"
That's still SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than it was about 12 years ago. About 10 times, in fact.
oh no.......
We waste so much money on things like this when just from that amount we could've built a simple small home to basically every human being on Earth who doesn't have one...
We're curious species for sure, and we certainly like to play with fire... maybe too much.
@@MetalTrabant wtf you talking about the haudron collider cost like 5 billion. That's fckin nothing.
@@danklek4889 I was talking about the 63 trillion dollars to produce antimatter... although yeah, we might not have done that (yet), my bad.
But we've spent that amount on other science projects already that were only really good to satisfy our endless curiosity.
Which is good, but maybe we should focus our resources more on making our planet more liveable...
@@MetalTrabant ...There have been zero attempts to commercially produce antimatter.
Back in the 70s, I worked at the UT research center on Burnett Rd. in Austin. They had the second laser I had ever seen. It was one third the size of the one at Texas A&M just 6 years before. Now, they are the size of a AA battery and can cut through a one inch diameter copper pipe
I have never seen a video sponsored by stellaris but I’m not against, it’s a great game
Few tips if you want to play stellaris:
Get the dlcs
Dont mess with the fallen empire in early game
Install some mods if you want to, some mods are good
Patience is required, your empire will go trough a lot
Don’t kill the bubbles, especially in multiplayer.
If there’s a weaker empire, try to ask them to become your vassals, if they refuse you will get the subjugation cassus belli (reason to declare war), declare war, defeat them and they are now your vassals. You can also integrate them after a few years.
Also build starbases in chokepoints, chokepoints are very important. Make sure to fortify them.
I literally thought about playing stellaris before watching this. The game is awesome and totally worth it!
You can also accelerate an asteroid to a fraction of the speed of light and put it on the collision course with whatever you want to destroy.
Thats exactly what I was thinking during the video
Nice one. Particle accelerators show that controlling kinetic energy is easier than figuring out what to do with all that heat produced by D.E.W.'s (directed energy weapons).
And it would do nothing... Maybe scratch the surface of an earth sized planet
@@A_Stereotypical_Guy The op said "fraction of the speed of light", so relativistic speed. Asteroids don't normally travel anywhere near this fast. The amount of energy one would carry at those speeds could be enough to destroy the planet. It would have to be a very large asteroid though, like city-sized, and probably upwards of 10% the speed of light. Check yt for "lightspeed grain of sand" for a video with some cool simulations.
No you can't.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
the consistent uploads are amazing
You might say we're destroying a planet right now.. but in reality the planet will be fine. Once humans are gone life will come back healthier than ever.
Lol yeah no. We're the most adaptable species of life on the planet...if we can't survive it nothing can.
I'm sure we will destroy some more planets once we are done with this one. ☠️
want to make a bet on the over / under ?
We haven't destroyed this one...maybe you missed the entire point at the first of the video.
getting sponsored by stellaris, you are the luckiest man alive. My favourite game of all time with thousands of hours. This is a sponsorship I would take In a heartbeat.
I've never seen an actual sponsorship from them though, I wonder if they reached out to you or if you approached them haha xD
Never has world destruction sounded more charming and whimsical. Thanks?
Destroying this one on a social level!
Couldn’t we just do more research into creating a singularity that is capable of swallowing up the entire planet and possibly even more? I feel like that is the most feasible way to end earth.
Create a little black hole. Heavy enough to sink below the surface. Constantly growing so it can sink through the denser materials inside Earth to the center. And then eating the planet from the inside.
We might need that soon
wow was that an interesting video!
he puts so much time into these!
Theoretically, yes; stars are powerful things, and if we harnessed enough of one via dyson swarm, perhaps we could generate enough of a megalaser to take out a planet, death star style.
@@BadBed1982 Swarm*, actually, is what I was referring to; swarm of solar-panel drones that beam the power to collection facilities
Look in to a video from Issac Arthur, his nicoll-dyson beam episode.
A laser would be relatively weak, it'd be better to make it a grazer.
Note about the ability of self replicators to ... well, replicate: We actually have real examples in the real world. They are called bacteria. And they multiply *quick.*
But does anyone notice that while there are plenty of bacteria all around, it's not exactly as though it's to such a degree that we'd notice? Well, that's because replication can only happen with proper materials and hospitable environment, and often the act of multiplying creates a less hospitable environment, and uses those materials.
Even if we say the machines are super hardy, and don't wear with age and use, and are specialized so that there's a gather class and a queen class of bots, to optimize time spent not having to swap functions, there is only so much work you can put on an area before the sheer heat causes the materials to breakdown. Like literally every action, conscious or unconscious, takes energy. This energy is then eventually output as heat.
So it would still take a ridiculous amount of time for any reasonably feasible machine to disassemble the planet (especially once it starts digging, where not only is there already substantial heat but there's less surface area to radiate heat from. Although, the assembler class would probably be able to build a heat pump, and then try and trap the heat in large chunks of material to be flung off elsewhere. But even assuming that can work, that's time taken that's not assembling more of itself.
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This guy is thinking inside the box. You're not even trying to take a peek outside.
This guy is thinking inside the box. You're not even trying to take a peek outside.
This guy is thinking inside the box. You're not even trying to take a peek outside.
1:59 This is why i like watching this guy not always serious lol 😂
The start of thoughty2 videos is always the most random stuff that somehow connects with the topic of the video
Woow, this was a good Stellaris ad haha.
The self replicating robots idea was featured in one Futurama episode.
The force is strong with this one
Beautiful stock footage of the deathstar
I love stellaris such a good game to play with friends in a Lan party style or just online it's fun as hell, although it's alot to learn once you first get in
1:58 I always knew 42 was being coy saying his "friend" lost his hair in all those Keeps ads. It was him all along!
Thoughty2 as a supervillain? I mean, go for it.
In StarWars, based on the newer movie "Rogue One" the death star wasn't just a giant lazer gun, it was equipped with Kaiber crystals AKA magical mcguffin crystals that were infused with the power of the force, the same crystals that Jedi used to build their lightsabers, which somehow could drastically increase the power of lazer/plasma based weapons. Unless Kaiber crystals actually exist, something like a death star never will
Lasers aren't really that efficient anyway when you scale up. We should built grazers.
Citinals. Whatever those robots are called. 42 is aging so gracefully. You can't help but notice the time lapse in these videos. That's crazy, I always wanted to be a superhero that can fly
I'd listen to a story told by thoughty2 anytime
I loveeeee seeing stellaris as an AD!!!
Some good ideas for a school project.
4:08 got me good haha
Hey thoughty2 !
Your from the same city as me and I’d honestly love to run into you one day!
I can tell because you have the single best accent in the world….
You’ve entertained me for years so is love to thank you :)
Thank you for the ad. I think that could be a really fun game.
The thing people often forget when talking the grey goo scenario, is that the bots themselves can't just be made out of 'anything'.
There will still be a whole load of leftovers that the bots wouldn't be able to do anything with, and exponential growth will be offset in the exponential difficulty in obtaining usable resources.
The simplest answer to destroying the earth is a mix of your first and last solutions. You'd use the lasers to make a kugelblitz, and the resulting black hole sinks and devours earth from within.
Kugelblitz? Is that something like a stranglette?
@@JAY-gl5xd It's when a black hole forms by the concentration of light in a tiny area (mass-energy equivalence).
we really need to get you a imperial officer's uniform.
'Grand moff Arran.... you may fire at will'
While it's not exactly my field of expertise, a friend and I back in highschool estimated that, assuming an (improbably) efficient detonation, about 2kg of antimatter could be sufficient to crack the globe if dropped deep enough into the right fault line
You are completely nuts in this episode. We thank thee.
This episode tickled my geekness. Thank you
The self replicating planet devouring nano robots were a menace on Star-Gate.
I am not worried about the ones who had this video on their search history, but about the ones who got this as the first search result.
Another method of planet destruction I have thought of in the past is this.
Launch nukes all at once in sync into planetary fault lines and super volcanos. The nukes heat up and agitate those things to activate them. Massive earthquakes, tidal waves, and eruptions all start happening at once, the planet breaks itself apart.
Star Wars along with a doctor evil reference following. Love it🤌
Great video. Lots of fun this one (in a weird way) Thoughty2, spelling mistake (typo) in title. Just pointing out for UA-cam algorithm magic stuff!
I kept waiting for a favorite sci-fi scenario to be mentioned: scientists create a miniature black hole. It quickly gains mass, drops to the center of the earth, and pulls it all in after a brief span of time.
Cool thumbnail too!
The phrase Rich enough and crazy enough comes to mind 😁
Thoughty, I was just thinking how you look like a grown version of that boy in robocop 2 and then you said you always wanted to be a villain 🤣
Funny thing. I was just going to start a Stellaris round, when I noticed your video :)
Hey, so throughout the video you make frequent comparisons between released energy and the force of "a nuclear weapon". I'd like to ask which nuclear weapon you're basing the comparison on, since they range from 20 tons (Davy Crockett) to 50,000,000 tons (Tsar Bomba) of TNT equivalent yield. Thanks!
fun fact - the death star laser is essentially a really concentrated lightsaber
"The freakin' laser beam" - Dr. Evil. Only the real Austin Powers fans will get this
‘Coudl’ haha
I knew this was a Stellaris AD LOL as soon as I saw the thumbnail I thought of the colossus
The self replicating robots reminds me of “Dark heart” in the Justice League series.
I'm just surprised someone finally mentioned Stellaris.
The Stone. At the speed of 80% of light would destroy an planet without any fancy play
that ‘coudl’ in the title is intended.. damn
There's that tricky bit about gravity bringing all those bits of planet in space back together again.
Man Ur getting better looking with age those eyes are amazing keep up the excellent work