Questions tagged [destruction]
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If I can manipulate the fundamental interactions, how do I disintegrate humans without causing nuclear explosions?
I have beings that can strengthen and weaken the fundamental interactions. They rule a modern country. They disintegrate dissenters. Initially, they were supposed to do this by decreasing the strong ...
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How big can I make an explosion? [closed]
By explosion, I mean that it must meet the following criteria: It releases enough energy and/or tangible byproducts in any form to affect visible and tangible material through noticeable destruction ...
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How can I destroy the Milky Way Galaxy?
The title is pretty self-explanatory. How can I unmake an entire galaxy? In this case, the aforementioned galaxy is ours. I have no constraints on budget, materials, time, or technology. However, I ...
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Speed and mass of a rock needed to obliterate a tank
Suppose we have a weapon with the capability to pick up a rock with a variable amount of mass and then accelerate it at a chosen speed. The users of the weapon encounter a weapon in the form of a tank....
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Can lightning destroy 1 meter of concrete and steel with ease?
There is a character in my story who is a cyborg and as such they have decided to incorporate an electro laser into their body which has the same voltage and amperage as normal lightning due. An ...
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Three kilometers (~2 miles high) tsunamis go around the Earth - what kinds of ruins are left?
I am (still) writing some fiction about the solar system being rearranged, with the Earth losing the Moon. But before she goes, I am having her do a close flyby. My story is actually happening ...
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How big would the AoE/destruction of a nuke 72 times smaller than normal be assuming it still works at that scale?
I had the idea of a nuke that is scaled down for roughly 1 inch tall cockroaches. Why would they make one at all? Because it sounds cool. Would it effect them since they are roaches? Probably not. ...
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How can an object pass through a building without taking significant damage?
A kaiju swinging its arm through a building, a superhero that, locked in battle with a villain, flies through several buildings, a huge mecha that uses its ax on a skyscraper, like a lumberjack would ...
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How do we destroy data permanently in a world where time travel is easily done?
When you delete data, you make it impossible to retrieve for all times in the future, assuming you have done it right. However, the data still existed in the past. In a world set in the 22nd century, ...
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How can I blow up the Enterprise Death Star ™️©️®️? [closed]
In my world, a group of researchers have developed artificial general intelligence (AGI), and they have open sourced it on GitHub to help it evolve. The AGI is relatively small for an AI and can run ...
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How does trauma change a culture [closed]
In my story there is a collection of people who, thousands of years ago, were exiled from their home world. They fought in a galactic scale war and were on the losing side, they were then used as a ...
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How to ensure the complete destruction of a body in a warfield?
A commando expedition is sent to country A. The fact that they come from country B must not be known in case they are caught in country A. In order to do so, they need to have a portable way to turn ...
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How to remove Saturn’s rings?
So oblate spheroid man is mad. One of his oblate spheroids has these nasty rings on it and he cannot watch it rotate in peace. So he dispatches Mr. Skeeble to get rid of them. Mr. Skeeble gets to ...
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