To blow up this planet or not?

[Prince_Imrahil]

No no, not earth.

Here's the scenario: There is this pristine, beautiful natural world with abundant animals and ecosystems, yet no life that is as sentient as humans are on earth, but there are lots of those 'higher order' mammals and dolphins and what not... anyways we humans cannot ever settle on this world or ewven get throught the atmosphere (a satelite revealed its beauty and also its inability to allow humans in) and so therefore it has no use to us in any way at all.... and actually if we blow the planet up we'll open up some major interstellar route that makes a shortcut possible allowing more efficiency in space trade or whatever..... if we leave the planet be then we lose this express route ...because solar systems with planetary bodies are just incapable of allowing our spaceships to jump through because they disrupt their systems and all that and this solar system is situated so that travelling through it would provide the fatest jump route if it was jump-through-able...or whatever....

Blowing it up will have absolutely no negative effects on us or the solar system except for there will be one less beautiful world with all its species (none of them sentient like us) in the galaxy.

So the question is, would it be right for us to blow the planet up?
Why or why not?

 

[VX250]

Blow it up, it only benefit us.

 

[Elrohir]

How big is the benefit in tangible terms? How much time and money would be saved by blowing up the planet? I'd say no, unless the benefit is simply enormous.

 

[VX250]

Couldn't we just change the route a bit?

Or move the planet?

 

[thenooblet22]

Bah, I see potential in a planetary zoo, call me the corporate type.

 

[Fëanor]

What gives us the right to destroy so many of god's creations? especially if its just for material gain.

 

[Dann]

For the OP's reason, no. We can always build the hyper-wormhole path elsewhere.

But if it turns out the planet's core is made up of some rare resource that is very useful to us will allow us to achieve galactic domination, then goodbye planet.

 

[warpus]

You do know that planets orbit, right? they move.. and stuff.

Why would we want to blow it up? Why couldn't we land on it?

This is the most ridiculous scenario ever imagined on this forum.

 

[Perfection]

I'd commit suicide as the laws of physics has betrayed me (this assumes bullets still act like bullets).

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

It's impossible for the destruction of this planet to have no negative effects. At the very least gravitational fields in the system would be altered, perhaps for the negative. If the planet is further out than us, we lose a potential shield against incoming asteroids.

 

[Perfection]

It's impossible for the destruction of this planet to have no negative effects. At the very least gravitational fields in the system would be altered, perhaps for the negative.

Perhaps not!

If the planet is further out than us, we lose a potential shield against incoming asteroids.

What if it's not?

Besides if we can blow up planets, who cares about asteroids?

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Ok first off how would we blow this planet up if we lack the technology to send anything through the atmosphere?

 

[GenMarshall]

If it has no military value nor rebels on the planet, why blow it up with a death star?

 

[VX250]

I think it would be a good idea to blow up the moon one day, as it would prevent problems caused by flooding etc as it would elimate tides, and result in no more solar eclipses, and also prevent any possible future wars over ownership of the moon, etc.

 

[The Lombard]

Destroy it as a demonstration of our power to our many enemies - Klingons, Tandu, Martians, Greys, Reptoid-Shapeshifters, etc.

 

[Perfection]

If it has no military value nor rebels on the planet, why blow it up with a death star?

Because Death Stars are impossible?

 

[The Lombard]

Improbable, but not impossible. They aren't as hard to make as, say, a Dyson Sphere or Dyson Ring, etc.

 

[Perfection]

Pretty much impossible. Certainly you could build a sphere of that size. The problem is getting the energy needed to blow up a planet to be emitted in beam form. Swarm type dyson spheres are doable, rigid bodies not.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

So, why are we worrying about this again?

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

The point was whether it would be wrong to destory the nature of that planet just to benefit ourselves.... I know the specifics were pretty much nonsense though...

So, why are we worrying about this again?

To see if there's any real reason to actually care about nonconsequential things like mistreating this planet when it won't affect us in any negative way... or harming species that can't harm us back or even making them extinct if they have no value as pets or research or even to the ecology as pest or other animal eaters or what not or mistreating the environment to build roads et all...

I currently do not see the point of why a lot of people imply that the natural world, environment, animals and all that, have inherent value and all that.