[Baron Munchausen]

You are misunderstanding. Enough nukes to destroy 'our world' means enough to destroy human civilization. The earth's mass is measured in scientific notation. Quote:

5.972 sextillion metric tons, or 5,972 followed by 18 zeros.

Remembering that each decimal place represents a power of 10, you can see that the mass of the earth is really beyond our genuine comprehension. Current theory about the origin of the moon is that an object the size of Mars collided with the early earth and tore a big hole in it. Most of the material eventually fell back but some stayed in orbit and coalesced into the moon. The amount of energy represented by that collision is quite a few decimal places, too. Our entire nuclear/fusion arsenal is not even a signifigant fraction of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs let alone that moon-generating collision. We can stir up a lot of dirt but we cannot possibly 'destroy' the earth. Period.

[ June 27, 2002, 04:13: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]