How Would You Exterminate the Human Race?

[Jow]

Just for fun, imagine that you are God of all creation and you accidentally create a little planet called Earth. Rather then destroy it you let it live, because you are a merciful God. When you come back, approximately 4 billion years later, you find that a species that call themselves humans have populated it. These are annoying, pestilent creatures and you decide to do away with them for the good of the universe. How would you kill the human race?

 

[chiro]

Hey Jow.

Interesting question and my answer would be that I wouldn't kill them but simply make conditions change in a way so that the entire system and all subsets maintain some kind of harmonic balance even if that changes the spectrum of things that these "pesky" creatures are capable of.

The humans that demonstrate responsibility and conscientious attributes would have more potential than those who do not: this encourages particular kinds behaviour and discourages other less favorable kinds.

I have no idea why you would automatically come to the conclusion to wipe out an entire species rather than to carefully consider all possible choices that are in the interests of every aspect of the entire system simultaneously.

The one great thing (and great downfall ironically) about human beings is their potential: it can go both ways but if you found a way to harness the positive parts and minimize the not so positive parts then the net outcome would be far greater than a silly suggestion of "wiping them out" which really shows a lot of ignorance.

 

[Jow]

I get your point and I agree with you completely. The reason I suggested wiping them out is because I thought it would be rather fun to think of all the ways to end the world. I wasn't even thinking about bettering humans, I was thinking about pure destruction (no I am not a psychopath, I was just thinking about the end of the world because of the whole Mayan thing). So anyway, I would make a huge wave that slowly crawled across the world (a few centimetres a day). That way it would be fun watching people slowly catch on, then having to move. Plus, the scientists would get all of their instruments out, examining the wave, but getting no where. It would be fun :) (One again, no I am not a psycho...my mother had me tested).

 

[russ_watters]

Dog flu pandemic.

 

[bp_psy]

I am an omnimalevolent god therefore I will give them warp drives and bigger bombs so that they spread their pestilence all over the damned place.

 

[drizzle]

Creat more Jows.

 

[encorp]

Creat more Jows.

I'm sorry, I read that as something else.

 

[rootX]

But I love these annoying, pestilent creatures .

 

[Jow]

Creat more Jows.

I must respectfully disagree with you on that point. You have very little evidence to support your hypothesis. The only thing you can infer from this post about me is that I am slightly (maybe not so slightly) bizarre and that I think about odd things. The only thing you would be doing by making more people like me is creating more actors, writers, authors, musicians and scientists, most of whom make this world a better place. :)

 

[Jow]

But I love these annoying, pestilent creatures .

So do I, but have you honestly never thought about how you would destroy everything? These are the types of things that I think while walking to school. You should give it a try.

 

[drizzle]

I must respectfully disagree with you on that point. You have very little evidence to support your hypothesis. The only thing you can infer from this post about me is that I am slightly (maybe not so slightly) bizarre and that I think about odd things. The only thing you would be doing by making more people like me is creating more actors, writers, authors, musicians and scientists, most of whom make this world a better place. :)

It is obviously tough to 'build' the human being. But destroy? Even a bug can do that.

 

[jhae2.718]

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

 

[Drakkith]

Everyone gets buried in cake!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

 

[Charmar]

My first choice would be trying to goad people to be better to one another, themselves and their surroundings.

But if all else fails, one of these:
Change all the h2o to h2o2
Start writing things in the clouds like "surrender Dorothy" and behave.
Dragons, lots of dragons.
Just blow it up to make way for a hyperspace bypass (because you have to build bypasses)
I guess all of these could be done given the correct order.

 

[rootX]

So do I, but have you honestly never thought about how you would destroy everything? These are the types of things that I think while walking to school. You should give it a try.

It will be fun to reintroduce dinosaurs, Jurassic Park 4 with a different ending than what we saw in last movies

 

[Jow]

Just blow it up to make way for a hyperspace bypass (because you have to build bypasses)

And if they object they should have done a long time ago, after all the plans were on display.

 

[Charmar]

And if they object they should have done a long time ago, after all the plans were on display.

I'm sorry, but if we can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's our own fault.

 

[Evo]

Just for fun, imagine that you are God of all creation and you accidentally create a little planet called Earth. Rather then destroy it you let it live, because you are a merciful God. When you come back, approximately 4 billion years later, you find that a species that call themselves humans have populated it. These are annoying, pestilent creatures and you decide to do away with them for the good of the universe. How would you kill the human race?

You created them, just wave your hand and *poof* they're gone. Now the world can start healing from the man made destruction. If you're really a God, reverse everything they've done from the beginning and really fix things.

 

[Lacy33]

Play Rod Stewart until the Earth blew itself up like a suicide bomber.

 

[Curious3141]

Jow, the fact that you began this thread means you might want to take a look into that "Narcissistic Quiz" thread on the same page.

We meek mortals live in thrall of the excitement to see what a living god will score.

 

[Curious3141]

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

But I'll make sure I do a lot of banging before ending things.

No, I'm not talking about Mjölnir (Thor's Hammer) when I say "banging".

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

dddd[/color]

 

[ImaLooser]

Just for fun, imagine that you are God of all creation and you accidentally create a little planet called Earth. Rather then destroy it you let it live, because you are a merciful God. When you come back, approximately 4 billion years later, you find that a species that call themselves humans have populated it. These are annoying, pestilent creatures and you decide to do away with them for the good of the universe. How would you kill the human race?

Create a free energy device that converts water to a more stable substance. Eventually there is no water.

The fun part is when the human race realizes that the device will eventually kill them all but they keep using it anyway because that's what they're used to.

 

[Kholdstare]

I'd just grab the earth, bring it to the Sun and merge with it. Good riddance of all present and future problems.

 

[SecretSnow]

Lol I would play squeeze Earth like a ball and use it to play basketball...

 

[256bits]

Have the humans invent a mind numbing visual machine so mindless yet captivating that all humans will gaze into it for hours on end and forget to do normal activities necessary for the continuation of the species.
Oh sorry. HE has already tried that and failed.

 

[csnoob]

I'd turn off electricity and combustion and throw out like four Cthulhus and a pack of Fenri. After things started getting hairy for humanity, I'd conjure up a Justice League of America just to keep things going, but I'd probably get bored after a while and go have sex with my army of supermodels and eventually Superman would get the W.

 

[Containment]

Honestly I'd just wait for some cosmological event in the heavens to wipe them out like a giant solar flare or supernova and then just take credit for it. That or I would slowly raise the Earth's temp over the course of a few hundred years that way like the frog in a pot they never suspect a thing.

 

[bp_psy]

I'd just grab the earth, bring it to the Sun and merge with it. Good riddance of all present and future problems.

Wouldn't you get your hand burned or something?

 

[julcab12]

Just for fun, imagine that you are God of all creation and you accidentally create a little planet called Earth. Rather then destroy it you let it live, because you are a merciful God. When you come back, approximately 4 billion years later, you find that a species that call themselves humans have populated it. These are annoying, pestilent creatures and you decide to do away with them for the good of the universe. How would you kill the human race?

Hehe. If i were a god i should also consider all possible 'predictions' including all emergent factors(brains and consciousness--every knots and bolts--'everything') not just the physics. Why would i kill something that i knew all along. I rather make fun of them; Like make the universe homogeneous and slightly tweak it, put 'darky' in the mix, that will keep my creation @ bay. (ancient alien guys would be very proud)..

 

[Kholdstare]

Wouldn't you get your hand burned or something?

Did not you read the first post? I am the God.

 

[Kholdstare]

Hehe. If i were a god i should also consider all possible 'predictions' including all emergent factors(brains and consciousness--every knots and bolts--'everything') not just the physics. Why would i kill something that i knew all along. I rather make fun of them; Like make the universe homogeneous and slightly tweak it, put 'darky' in the mix, that will keep my creation @ bay. (ancient alien guys would be very proud)..

You'll need to use some 'unpredictable' matter from other world to change things in this world according to your wish.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Just how the world ends doesn't matter. What matters is what we can do to save ourselves. Some have thought deeply about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAqSWCgIxs

 

[Runei]

kill -9

Works every time! ;)

 

[julcab12]

You'll need to use some 'unpredictable' matter from other world to change things in this world according to your wish.

'Godly complicated' matter/physics perhaps. What's the point of 'god' if you can't even predict. So, i don't need useless stuff like strings and dimensions. . I'll create a self sustaining existence, a system that will last forever just like me. cough*.


Re: How would you end the world? I will and let physics do the work. But then again, i knew all along what will happen.

 

[chhitiz]

skynet

 

[mrspeedybob]

Why destroy them. Just cause the whole rest of the universe to recede from Earth until the poor little humans are utterly isolated. It might be amusing to see what sort of explanations their scientists would come up with when they noticed that everything in the universe was moving away. Would they get the hint that maybe they are bad neighbors or would they invent some sort of crazy universal expansion theory.

 

[Mentalist]

If I had to destroy them, there'd be no glitz or showiness about it. I'd simply think them out of existence.

But I'm God, so I would not have to do anything I don't want. I'd let them be and see where it goes. There is no need to force your will onto them as if you have to do that, why not just kill them? What's the use in creating something that is wholly different just to impose something unto them? It makes things less interesting by doing that. Just see how those little creatures operate over the course of their lifetime/existence.

 

[Enigman]

Some ideas...
*L.H.C. accidentally creates a huge black hole that gobbles everything up.
*Antimatter meteorite collision.
*Do nothing, they (humans) will it themselves anyway.
*Broadcast the worst of my poems and drive everyone to suicide...

 

[leroyjenkens]

I'd just kill all the crappy humans. All humans shouldn't suffer because some of them suck. So I'd kill off all the bad ones and leave the remaining 10,000 or so to live in paradise.

 

[Drakkith]

I'd just kill all the crappy humans. All humans shouldn't suffer because some of them suck. So I'd kill off all the bad ones and leave the remaining 10,000 or so to live in paradise.

I doubt there are only 10,000 or so "good" humans on the planet. Most people are pretty good, it's just a small fraction that aren't.

 

[consciousness]

I would do it exactly the way it happened in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". I would even let them plead and give the same replies that were given in the book. Just for the lol.

 

[Enigman]

I'd just kill all the crappy humans. All humans shouldn't suffer because some of them suck. So I'd kill off all the bad ones and leave the remaining 10,000 or so to live in paradise.

See the anime "Death Note", you might find it interesting...

 

[PNGeng]

I'm sorry, I read that as something else.

I read it the same way you did.

 

[DennisN]

Just for fun, imagine that you are God of all creation and you accidentally create a little planet called Earth. Rather then destroy it you let it live, because you are a merciful God. When you come back, approximately 4 billion years later, you find that a species that call themselves humans have populated it. These are annoying, pestilent creatures and you decide to do away with them for the good of the universe. How would you kill the human race?

Well, obviously, I wouldn't. But if I had to I'd probably go dramatic and say

"So, you petty humans, you want to know how black holes work? Here's a really big one for you that you will be studying real close. Have fun at the singularity, cheers."

 

[Enigman]

I read it the same way you did.

Einstein hates you all...http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/ler.php?id=1397#.Ui33rtKGqSo
BTW how about shooting a huge dice shaped meteorite at earth...just to piss a few 'Einsteinian' (the so called realists) QM physicists off, before the boom.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Have you guys seen this site?
http://www.exitmundi.nl/

A collection of humorously disillusioned end of the world scenarios.
I like the one with the Borg best.

 

[jim hardy]

Ever read Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger" ?

 

[Enigman]

Ever read Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger" ?

Nope, saw it in a store but thought it would be a waste of time to read something unfinished and bought another book.(The Poison Belt)
Would you recommend it, Jim?