Earth go bye bye

Sufing at work whilst I breakfast.
Shifts have been heavy and I am shit-faced tired.
Apparently, it's showing on my face because the girls quipped about my stone-face as I stomped in blearily.

But enough about me. More on this article I found.

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily.

Then there's the author's status run-down :

Number of times the Earth has been destroyed: 0
Number of plans currently in progress with the final aim of bringing about the Earth's destruction: 0
Number of scientific experiments currently underway with the potential to bring about the Earth's destruction: 0
Minimum amount of time until the Earth is destroyed by natural means (discounting total existence failure): 25 years
Minimum amount of time until the Earth is destroyed by artificial means: 50 years

Plus he mentions Terry Pratchett as a source of inspiration.

I'm sold!


UPDATE
Sam Huges, the author, has a personal site that's chock-ablock with little nuggets like the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board. Well worth a visit!