## [EDU] [BST] To Destroy The Earth

* Author: u/Sysice *
* URL: http://qntm.org/destro
* Score: 40

* Created: 2015-10-04T14:51:17

### Post:

[Link to content](http://qntm.org/destro)

### Comments:

> **u/Jace_MacLeod** [+6]  (13 hours later)
> 
> This is a surprisingly hopeful treatise for accomplishing what is usually a supervillain plot. Who knew wanting to annihilate your home planet actually makes you the good guy?

>> **u/MugaSofer** [+3]  (18 hours later)
>> 
>> Well ... not really. I mean, they enslaved humanity.

>>> **u/Jace_MacLeod** [+12]  (18 hours later)
>>> 
>>> See, worrying about little details like that is why you'll never blow a planet. Not with that attitude, at least.

> **u/niloc132** [+4]  (6 hours later)
> 
> > Zoid of Avoidance
> 
> Likely intended to be Zone of Avoidance. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Avoidance, for those who, like me, didn't know what that referred to.

> **u/jalapeno_dude** [+2]  (9 hours later)
> 
> Was just going to post this. Hits on a lot of the same points as Fine Structure, unsurprisingly.

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