Earth explosion

[AnyKeyz]

I have read during the early days of Civ 4 that it was possible to blow the earth of by launching x nuclear bombs

I just tried with over 150 nucks (on my own civ gg) and nothing happening

Is it just a myth that a special event is hidden in Civ on this subject ?

 

[DaveMcW]

You trigger the global warming event, which turns the world into a desert.

 

[r_rolo1]

You can only blow out the Earth in the Next war scenario that comes with BtS.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Barbs win a conquest victory!

Usually only possible on duel maps with very, very poor players who die simultaneously.

 

[AnyKeyz]

Ok thanks

I thought it was a general event

 

[r_rolo1]

Barbs win a conquest victory!

Usually only possible on duel maps with very, very poor players who die simultaneously.

Actually they win by Dom....

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Actually they win by Dom....

Oh, I see.

Well, that makes sense because...

Er...

I guess the victory condition doesn't matter much in terms of making sense when compared with the event itself happening though, given it's physically impossible.

 

[r_rolo1]

Unless they count all tiles in game as barb territory...

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Unless they count all tiles in game as barb territory...

What tiles, in theory the world cracked like an egg! I'm not sure the pieces would hold together well after that or not, given the physics of it happening are already impossible. Not much logic in counting tiles as barb tiles without the presence of barbs, as if it matters .

 

[r_rolo1]

barb bacteria FTW!

In fact it is possible to blown a planet with nukes, but not with random and unsincronized blows at surface......

Well, this is probably one more show of the Nukes are Eviiiil Firaxis bias

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I don't think we've ever seen a warhead with anything that even remotely approximates the ability to blow the earth apart in terms of power, even if detonated at the center of the planet (which, by the way, how exactly would one go about getting the nuke much deeper than the earth's crust? It would need to somehow survive the mantle and tunnel through the core?)

There is more physical energy in a hurricane than there is in a nuke, even if it's chemically simple. It just isn't feasible to blow the planet apart with any kind of explosive we've made so far - maybe if one could approximate the force of a REALLY big comet.

The event would make a lot more sense if the nukes just blanketed the planet in fallout, causing everyone to die. Eventually most viable sources of food/water would be irradiated, causing mass starvation/radiation poisoning etc.

 

[r_rolo1]

You have a big point that covering the planet with fallout being more apropriate, but in this game we have GW being caused ( also ) by nukes so it is not that surprising this outcome

At about nukes smashing planet: it is not a matter of power, but of sincronization and concentraded punch in key spots... Think on it as a controlled planetary demolition

But, like I said before, no way that random and unsincronized surface explosions being able to do that

 

[DaveMcW]

You need a lot more than synchronized explosions to destroy a planet. You need to accelerate the planet's entire mass to escape velocity.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Beam/DeathStar.html

 

[r_rolo1]

No you don't.... Destroy planet != explosive breakdown of planet without possible rejoining of parts, as your link assumes. That is like saying that a television is not smashed by a hammer if you can assembly it again.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

No you don't.... Destroy planet != explosive breakdown of planet without possible rejoining of parts, as your link assumes. That is like saying that a television is not smashed by a hammer if you can assembly it again.

The assumption that EVERYONE would die if the planet cracked then quickly reformed is off too though.

It isn't like demolishing a building - the Earth is more...well...structurally uniform towards the middle than a building.

All arguments aside, it is reasonably certain that it could NOT happen by ACCIDENT by using "too many" nukes, or any other explosives. You'd need a concerted force of incredible magnitude, such as crashing another planet into it, to do it from the surface.

 

[r_rolo1]

All arguments aside, it is reasonably certain that it could NOT happen by ACCIDENT by using "too many" nukes, or any other explosives. You'd need a concerted force of incredible magnitude, such as crashing another planet into it, to do it from the surface.

Signed under... nothing less than taking with a Mars sized planet.

 

[slobberinbear]

Let's focus on the real threat at hand, guys ... namely, the expansion of the Sun in about 4 billion years that will completely engulf Earth.

Better get crackin' on that spaceship.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Let's focus on the real threat at hand, guys ... namely, the expansion of the Sun in about 4 billion years that will completely engulf Earth.

Better get crackin' on that spaceship.

Montezuma smiles.

"Once I've destroyed everyone on this planet, it's true that I will eventually need to be able to leave it"

Alien meets him for the first time - Montezuma:

"we have enough on our hands right now"

For about 10000 years. When he can finally launch the ship, off goes the trumpet!



The aliens will not know what to do with 5.2 billion knights.

 

[futurehermit]

Rofl!!!!!!

 

[The Last Conformist]

No you don't.... Destroy planet != explosive breakdown of planet without possible rejoining of parts, as your link assumes. That is like saying that a television is not smashed by a hammer if you can assembly it again.

A TV set is destroyed when it no longer functions - planets don't function in the first place, so your comparison is absurd.