Hypothetically speaking, does the human race have the power/technology to eradicate all that is living? Obviously, it would never happen... but from a scientific standpoint, do we have the power to potentially wipe out all known forms of life on Earth? If so, do you think we are the first species on Earth to possess that power?
No. Life is already established here and there isn't anything we can do really to clean slate the planet.. If nothing else, microbes and other primitive life will more than likely survive. They would then go through the process of evolution.. Might not be what it is today, but it'll eventually get back to filling niches. Now if we could, then yes, we'd be the first species on Earth that could.
No, if we used every nuclear explosive we have and set them off at the core some microbes would survive, and possibly land on a new planet. Hell were starting to think life started on mars, which i wouldnt doubt for a second. Sent from my SGH-T989 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
With current technology probably not. But in the future when Nanotechnolgy is perfected we could reprogram to basically turn the planet into a grey goo. Much has been written about that in the past..the dangers of it. They could dissolve the land masses, convert even the air into something else. Nothing would survive it as long as the Nanites could find them. Once encountered they could rearrange them on a molecular level to make whatever that is into something else. When the Soviets were around there plan to end the US in the event of World War 3 was to shower the country with large scale nuclear devices followed by chemical weapons, followed by large scale radiation proof biological weapons. There estimate was they could as near as one could get sterilize the continent. Theres a interesting book about Russias Bio Weapons program in the 90's written by the man who was the head of it that defected. His story was so Alarming that the main CDC scientist passed out after reading his report. President Clinton was so alarmed they sent in dozens of teams after there fall to find out where all there stuff went. They never found a answer, what they did find though was a biological program that was on a scale never imagined.
Indeed it is. This is not fiction...the Soviets plan they had anyhow. The link to the book is below. This guy was the head of it. He worked for our government after he defected. Bioreactors turn out whatever you want to create. Put the seed virus in it and provide it a protein meal and out the other end comes the virus. Well prior to CDC's visit to Russia the largest bio reactor say fit on the back of a truck..most are tiny a couple guys could carry it. They found as far as the eye could see and multiple stories underground tall bio reactors. They estimated that just one of them and there were dozens upon dozens but just one could spit out a olympic sized swimming pool of a virus. So there question was were did all the stuff go you made...no answer. No one knows except those in Russia. There primary goal though was "Radiation Proof" virus's. That cat said they created things that no one dreamed off...radiation proof bubonic plaque, weaponized ebola etc. http://www.amazon.com/Biohazard-Chilling-Largest-Biological-World--Told/dp/0385334966/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1378449712&sr=8-2&keywords=soviet+biological+weapons+program
That's shit's crazy! I'm gonna get that book man, sounds interesting. I've been trying to write a post-apocalyptic novel but I couldn't figure out a believable armageddon. Disease might be the way to go
Well back then Soviets were crazy. The State ran everything. Waaaaay back Nixon killed our biological program. In the book the author says the Russians at the time thought it was 100% American propaganda. Rather then cancel theirs they poured 50x more money into it. It mushroomed into the biggest all time Biological programs the world has ever seen..literally. That author rose up through the ranks was a genius in the field and worked his way up to the top. They were not perfect and had some accidents he describes. They forgot to put in the filters in there air handling system and killed off a village from accidental weaponized Anthrax. Stuff was many times more lethal then anything out there. Russian authorities he says in the book were pleased since it was a actual test even though it was accidental. 100% kill rate which no known form of Anthrax does. The whole plan though was when WW3 came then the "Capitalist Pigs" could once and for all be wiped form the planet. If you survived the nukes, then the chemical attack would hit, survive that then the bioweapons attack would most certainly kill you. This is where there main research facility was. Read the list on the link of the fully weaponized diseases that they conjured up in there labs. The scary thing is no one knows where the stuff they made went to, and most of the scientists that worked there are not to be found. Who knows where they could be. Usually people sell there services to the highest bidder and at the time Russia had no money. Ponder that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreparat
Life is so much more resilient than man's destructive abilities, only human arrogance would suggest otherwise.
We have technology to kill every ANIMAL on earth, but there's no way we could wipe out every plant, insect, and microscopic organism.
If you take any of the ancient (what we now call) mythologies and religions as more than fairytales then it seems likely the answer would have to be NO we are not the first to have the ability. Its hard to say if we could eradicate them all. Even if we blew up the entire planet we do not know if all life would die in space or not.
If every country with nuclear weapons used all they had, wouldn't that devastate the Earth? Kill animals, kills trees, kill the atmosphere, kill the balance of the Earth? Wouldn't that in the end, end all life?
But mostly everything else in the ecosystem cannot. Thinking about it, I guess some small/random life form would survive, take over, and become the new ruler of the Earth huh? Kinda like how when the Dinosaurs went extinct, mammals survived and thrived.
Pretty much, yes. There's been a few mass extinctions on earth. I think the one that offed the dinosaurs killed 70% of all life. But don't quote me on that number
Well, even if we did, new life would land pretty quickly: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-is-out-there-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html So long as the earth is capable of sustaining it, life will always be here. We would have to fuck up really bad.
Yeah, but if we pumped that much radioactive energy into the atmosphere, could the Earth really recover? It'd be different then a massive volcanic eruption or if a meteor hit, since they don't give off as much radioactive toxins