<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2015-09-08 00:32, Adrian Tymes wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:24 PM,
Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> You cannot just set
fire to the whole world.<br>
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<div>Actually, there's been quite a bit of thought on ways
to do just that. Look up "atmospheric ignition". If you
put enough methane or grain dust out there, for instance,
it might be possible.<br>
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For what values of practical?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Now, now. The question was whether it could be done.<br><br>Besides, for the goal of ending all life on Earth, quite extreme measures could be considered practical (especially once we have enough life off of Earth).<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">("Anders, what are you doing?"<br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
"Calculating how to set the atmosphere on fire. There has to be a
better way... maybe hydrogen?"<br>
"Remember, we are supposed to *save* the world at this institute."<br>
"Yes, boss.")<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> So do the calculations at another institute? ;)<br></div></div></div></div>