From: 912016f@ace.acadiau.ca (JACQUELINE FRENCH)
Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
Subject: Sun's death, life and luck, radiation etc.
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:56:13 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

This is just some stuff I saw misunderstood-misrepresented in other threads.

The Sun will go into it's Red Giant stage in another 4-5 billion years. 
First the oceans will cook and evaporate; then the atmosphere will join 
the solar wind; then the crust will melt and finally the Earth will be 
absorbed and DESTROYED (yes, destroyed) by the expanding surface of the 
Sun. 

If this group manages to destroy MOST life right now, then even if the 
deep-sea-club survives us and evolves again (ca. 3.5 billion years), they'
ll likely become intelligent just in time to understand that they are 
being fried. It does make a difference whether we kill some life NOW or 
let it all wait for the big red balloon.Deep-sea life will have to spend 
time evolving, while humans will likely spend time figuring out how to 
get off this planet and carry the life-plague to other systems,
and might even save the earth somehow. So if we want to make sure that life 
and the Earth are destroyed by the Sun at the latest, we should erode at 
least SOME life today.    

As for life "being made for survival" and therefore indestructible:
the Solar System, the Earth and life are all a coincidence; they exist the 
way they do because of incredible luck. To say that they we're made for 
survival is like saying that rain is made to be liquid - by definition,
if it don't survive it ain't a-live.To say that we're imprevious to 
annihilation is like saying that a man who's lived through 10 car-crashes
is immortal - you won't now till he dies.

Just for starters: right now we are in relatively empty space between the 
spiral arms of the Milky Way, with nothing much happening.

 The first time the gas cloud that now is the 
Solar system passed through a spiral arm, a nearby Supernova seeded it, 
beginning the process which led to the formation of the Sun. Had the 
explosion been closer, the gas cloud'd be blown apart; had it been 
further away, the proto-Sun wouldn't form.
 The second time the then-adolescent solar system passed through a spiral 
arm, a nearby Supernova contributed vital elements to the young planets 
and sparked the process which led to the formation of carbon-based life.
Had it been any closer, the planets would be swept away or sterilized;
Had it been further away, life, if any, would have to be radically 
different.
 Pretty soon we'll be moving into a spiral arm once more...What are the 
chances that we'll live through the next meeting with one of many Violent 
Stars waiting for us there?
   
 The earth is balancing between the hell of Venus and the desert of Mars,
dinosaurs died because we were hit by a big rock, the mammals evolved 
because dinos died, Humans evolved because mammals evolved, humans'll 
survive till the next big rock - Sapiens's our name, Bingo's our game:
don't take our luck for granted....   

 As for fusion bombs radiation: yes it exists, but differs depending on the
exact fusion process employed.

 I think that our main concern should be with the destruction of surface life
- water-life will take time to catch up, and the planet itself will be 
destroyed in due time anyway.
 I would suggest that the easiest way of destroying it would be to forget 
about the mantle and the fish and blast the atmosphere instead. With luck 
googoolton hydrogen bomb would burn most of atmospheric oxygen and rip the
O-zone. Sure life can mutate and adapt- but only GRADUALLY . how many dinos
adapted to the Rock, huh?

Anyway...Happy World Destruction!
                                    PCP