The Big Bang in 100 words

[TheEndIsNigh]

Spin off from -

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/47994-why-dont-the-attackers-just-crack-the-planet.html

The Idea is that you describe the destruction of the world in less than a hundred words - giving due regard to the feeling and emotions of the characters you introduce - or not

Pyan has started us all off so I have taken the liberty of pasting one of his attempts to the the first post. Ok there is some lattitude on the hundred words but you get the idea

If this is the wrong place, or if Pyan objects please kill the thread

Pyan:

Sheesh!

Quote:
The Destroyers


Chapter One

Tom was working in the barn, fixing the wheel on the left-hand side of the hay-rake - the one that always squeaked and pulled to that side - which was only to be expected, as he'd caught it on a gate-post ( the one on the entry to the top forty-acre field, that had come into the farm when his uncle had died - him that married a widow from over Hillhouse way, and never had a day's peace since - well, it was only to be expected, as she'd talked her first husband to death, they said - them being the local coterie of gossips and naggers that you get in any farming area) the very first time he'd tried to get it into the field - eventually, he'd had to move the post, as it'd always been a narrow entry - you had to sort of start to turn, then back up a ways and twist the wheels of anything larger than the dog-cart to get in there at all...anyway, he'd bent the stub-axle on the hayrake, and it'd never been right since, so as he had a few spare hours - and that was something that was rare indeed in a farmers life here in the far reaches of the Realm, as anyone can tell you that's tried to scratch a living from the soil - if that's what you'd dignify with that name, as most of it was as dry as dust and blew away with the slightest hint of a breeze (and a breeze in itself was a rare thing around there - it was usually either stifling hot and totally calm, so everyone baked in the sun, as was right and proper for the sort of poor peasants that all the locals really were, or it blew a hurricane, and all the topsoil, along with what was struggling to grow in it just disappeared over the horizon...so, he'd managed to get the axle-cap off, and was examining the end of the stub-axle with a worried expression on his honest, if somewhat careworn face - the usual sort of face you find in the countryside, when he heard a noise and looked up...

BANG!

The planet exploded....


The End
Happy now?

 

[Scifi fan]

How about

BANG!

Can't get shorter than that. Unless you deal with the sequel, which is

 

[chrispenycate]

I'm sorry, I thought it was going to be shorter than this; but, having written it, it seems a pity not to post.

“They have repeatedly insulted us,” wafted Kern Admiral Pshoop “We have flown phallic motherships and discs over their cities, flattened their crops geometrically, investigated their recta, dimembered cows – how much clearer can we say ‘make graeunch, not war? And still they go on with their conflicts. I want that planet eliminated.”

“Eliminated, your illustriousness? Not merely all life forms exterminated, atmosphere remover and surface melted to lava, as is traditional? We could do that easily enough.. Or rotated through the fifth dimension to a space where there is no sun? That’s been popular lately.”

“Eliminated. I want to make an example of this place. There is to be nothing recognisable as a planet in this orbit when we leave, and that doesn’t mean you can transform it into a flower arrangement, either. Two weeks and gone, umderstand?”

The lickless Groof was seen muttering under his breath (or, as they communicated through odour, in his breath) for several orbits. Even if they stripped the fleet of antimatter, so they couldn’t get home, eighty percent of the world’s mass would still be there, recognisably a planet.. A squirming mass of nanites that had eaten the entire mass would still look like a planet, albeit one you wouldn’t want to land on, and would take too long to multiply up, anyway. A black hole, even if he could get one in time would have the same problems. There weren’t any convenient neutronium asteroids, and even if there had been he was sure the Admiral would reject the ‘it’s not in the same orbit’ argument.

“Cosmic string ; it has ti involve cosmic string” he was heard to emit.

As the deadline approached, his final solution took shape. A minor course correction sent the flagship, all onboard loudspeakers blaring Pink Floyd, plunging into the heart of the sun.

The resulting solar flare sterilised the dayside of the planet, boiled oceans and melted mountains. It sent hurricanes and tidal waves smashing into the dark sside, eliminating all civilisation and most life. But that was incidental to the true aim.

From the point of view of the admiral, the planet no longer existed.

 

[Zubi-Ondo]

When I first saw TEIN's post I thought he was talking about the beginning, not the end. You know that silly theory that silly guy Stevie Hawking began to prove? (or was it Stevie Nicks? ) ~ (I don't know who originally suggested it)

Begin -

If the core of the Earth is really as hot as they say, why not use that as a source of energy? The initial amount of energy required would just be enough to "poke" a hole deep enough to plant a million megaton bomb inside the middle somewhere. Say even just at the border of the mantle and the outer core (roughly 2900 KM down). Seems like that would be enough to create a "Mega-volcano" that would eventually cause the Earth's demise. Estimates put the core's heat at around 5700 K . "The range of pressure in Earth's inner core is about 330 to 360 GPa (over 3,000,000 atm), and iron can only be solid at such high temperatures because its melting temperature increases dramatically at these high pressures." - Wiki.

So, basically my notion is to start the chain reaction, and let it finish itself. At those temperatures, and pressures there's a good chance the system would seek to balance itself any way possible, and high temp/pressure seeks low temp/pressure, so fissures would inevitably radiate out from the original hole.

The End ...

(143 words w/o the Wiki quote, 180 with. Close enough?)


- Z.

Now what about the "other" big bang. (The one that caused us to appear and begin thinking of ways to make ourselves disappear.)

Here's my favorite quote:

"In the beginning, there was nothing. And then there was light. And there was still nothing, but now you could see it."

- Guy Caballero - SCTV

 

[Brett Howell]

Tyloncalapypehn found himself in a deserted spaceship orbiting a strange looking planet with lots of blue on it. On his search of the ship he found a round, red button amongst the bleak metallic interior. Ever curious to see what the shiny red object would do, he pressed it.

He was quite surprised when the planet in the viewscreen was blew up.


Morale: Never touch the red button.

 

[ktabic]

Haha, very good Chrisp

 

[Moonbat]

Great Idea, I initially through you meant the Big bang, as opposed to the end of the world, but is mine, edited to exactly 100 words.


Trevor felt safe in his familiar comfy chair, Layla blasting in the background. He swirled the whiskey round in his glass. How many hours had he lost to drink? He smiled, remembering those 'lost' hours before it faded into a guilty grimace. The sky was dark and slowly getting darker, as it had been foretold. Layla faded out and the continuous noise of destruction and panic filtered back through, he sighed and finished his whiskey, hoping the end would get here before his Cuban ran out. The fat lady was belting out her final note through the ever encroaching night.


Moonbat

 

[Zubi-Ondo]

The Idea is that you describe the destruction of the world in less than a hundred words - giving due regard to the feeling and emotions of the characters you introduce - or not

I guess mine was the "or not" version.


Damn Writers. No sense of humor, I tell you. Hrmph!

- Z.

 

[chrispenycate]

If the core of the Earth is really as hot as they say, why not use that as a source of energy? The initial amount of energy required would just be enough to "poke" a hole deep enough to plant a million megaton bomb inside the middle somewhere. Say even just at the border of the mantle and the outer core (roughly 2900 KM down). Seems like that would be enough to create a "Mega-volcano" that would eventually cause the Earth's demise. Estimates put the core's heat at around 5700 K . "The range of pressure in Earth's inner core is about 330 to 360 GPa (over 3,000,000 atm), and iron can only be solid at such high temperatures because its melting temperature increases dramatically at these high pressures." - Wiki.

So, basically my notion is to start the chain reaction, and let it finish itself. At those temperatures, and pressures there's a good chance the system would seek to balance itself any way possible, and high temp/pressure seeks low temp/pressure, so fissures would inevitably radiate out from the original hole.

The bulk of that energy at the Earth's core is infall energy, from the original accretion of the planet. It stands to reason that, after a few billion years of cooling, there is less energy there than when we started, so there wouldn't be enough to send everything that had fallen in back out.

Equally, that pressure is purely due to the gigatons of mass, and the gravitational force it generates, so it would not be enough to disseminate that mass.

As a matter of fact there is less than one percent of the necessary energy down there, which gives a first idea of just how much we need to do the job right. It's never going to be done with H-bombs, that's evident, and even with anti-matter your going to need many kilotonnes, right in the heart.

For an analysis of potential methods try:
http://qntm.org/?destroy

and you'll see I'm not theonly one crazy enough to do the calculations

(if you want the Earth to separate and not recoalesce, you've got to apply the equivalent energy to accellerate 6.6 sextillion tons to 11.2*km/s - which gives you some pretty hairy exponentials in MKS for mV squared. And that's with 100% efficiency, and ignoring minor losses like binding forces in the rocks. In fact, it's for a comletely fluid planet.)

 

[QSR Joshua]

This just sounded so interesting I had to try it. This is exactly 100 words done in a stream of consciousness, with no editing of any type. Just stopped when I hit 100 words. After all, it is the end, even if I did think it was the beginning like a few others.

I really don’t understand why they won’t listen. I showed them all the calculations, don’t they understand that we only have seconds left to appease the Smrr!! before they fire the quantum disruptor. Yet all they do is give me these wonderful pills and eye my homemade hyperwave thransciever helmet. Is if my fault I had to use aluminum foil to form the matrix of the nanocircuitry?

I don’t even know why I try. If J!!hgud is correct I won’t even feel it when the disrupter ray hits. And a shield would me so easy to build.

I should care.

 

[Scifi fan]

Josh,

You didn't include the "Bang!", as in, the end of the planet.

 

[QSR Joshua]

Was it a requirement? Besides, quantum disruptors are essentially noiseless as they disrupt all matter in the area of affect at a quantum level.

 

[chrispenycate]

Besides, the sound wouldn't be audible in space. And a ground based observer wouldn't have time to wite it befo

 

[Zubi-Ondo]

BANG!

See, it didn't make any sound at all. (except for the sound of my keyboard when I typed the letters).

(I used the "Impact" font, just for the fun of it. Hey wait... I'm still here. I thought the world was supposed to end or something. )

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Oh god we're not back to the sounds in space business again are we - as in if a planet explodes in the forest does it make a sound.

 

[Saeltari]

Spindle Smythe-derkins smiled big. He knew he had finally located a genuine relic!

Laughing into the face of destiny he pulled a box free of the soil. Let them call him incompetent now! Just enough knowledge to be dangerous they said. Ha!

Spitting into his hand he rubbed the top of the box where words appeared inscribed;

PANDORA 2.0

He turned it this way and that, wondering who Pandora was and what 2.0 meant.

He smiled; didn’t matter, he had her box now and he would prove them all wrong!

Whistling happily, he opened the box.

*BANG*

The world ended.
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100 words and no need to worry about the heat or energy of the core

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

BANG!

See, it didn't make any sound at all. (except for the sound of my keyboard when I typed the letters).

(I used the "Impact" font, just for the fun of it. Hey wait... I'm still here. I thought the world was supposed to end or something. )

you need to hit the keyboard harder

Saeltari:

Now we're talking although 2.0 seemed a bit odd. Why not just

Pandora's

If found please return unopened.​

 

[Peter Graham]

Mrs Graham goggled at the television in disbelief, as hordes of Terminators, miraculously revived dinosaurs, giant killer apes, demons from the Hellmouth, out of control Heroes with names like Silo and Fartsack and huge alien motherships all converged on New York City, bent on destruction for no readily apparent reason. Closer to home, armies of cybermen, daleks and cat-fondling international megalomaniacs descended on Cardiff and London.

Where were Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Buffy, Stephen Livingston Seagal, James Bond and the Doctor?

No more heroes any more.

No more planet any more.

 

[Moonbat]

ok, 2nd attempt.


When they said it was imminent I made jokes about it, it’s my job. Some people took offense, some always do. I, like most, suspected that the end of the world would be one huge explosion and everything would be gone in a millisecond. How wrong I was. It did blow up but just not to smithereens, now I'm stuck on a chunk of rock that’s about the size of Berkshire floating through the cosmos with an ever diminishing atmosphere. I tried to improve the atmosphere with some morale boosting jokes but the cows just didn’t get it. Typical audience.

 

[Zubi-Ondo]

Mrs Graham goggled at the television in disbelief, as hordes of Terminators, miraculously revived dinosaurs, giant killer apes, demons from the Hellmouth, out of control Heroes with names like Silo and Fartsack and huge alien motherships all converged on New York City, bent on destruction for no readily apparent reason. Closer to home, armies of cybermen, daleks and cat-fondling international megalomaniacs descended on Cardiff and London.

Where were (1) Will Smith, (2) Bruce Willis, (3) Buffy, (4) Stephen Livingston Seagal, (5) James Bond and the (6) Doctor?

1. He was be busy trying to hitch a plump nerdy accountant with a beautiful, rich heiress.

2. He was busy "Dying Hard" for the umpteenth time.

3. She was be busy kicking the crap out of the un-dead, who were quickly re-awakening as zombies after the aliens had killed them.

4. He was be busy pretending to be righteous, noble, angry, and egotistical. Oh, wait... he wasn't pretending on that last thing.

5. He's assuming the planet had only been shaken, but not stirred.

6. The Doctor? He's aboard the mother ship, cheering on whilst death, destruction, mayhem, chaos, anarchy, pandemonium, havoc, and some slight commotion are taking place down on earth.

Please don't leave me hanging on the edge of my folding chair, Peter... What happened to Mrs. Graham????


*Holds fist up to mouth and bites fingernails.*