Top 10 ways to destroy the earth

This is a little psychopathic perhaps, but then, fantasies of how we’re destroying the planet (and how we can “save” it) appear to be fairly common, so perhaps indulging our inner psychopath isn’t so abnormal after all.

LiveScience.com has a thing about lists. So they put together a useful collection of techniques they think might be destructive on a planetary scale. Things you and I might be able to pull off. From messing about with strangelets or black holes to hacking away with planetary-scale earthmoving equipment, from building a self-replicating earth-eating machine, to being a little careless with the energy trapped in a lightbulb. Don’t let your kids read them: I have no doubt that a suitably geeky six-year-old with a chemistry set and an electronics kit will figure out a way to make this stuff happen.