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Generally at ListLearn we’re pretty positive, after all, the mission of the site is to help you become smarter through lists. All those smarts won’t get you far if the Earth is destroyed, so we’re happy to give you a list of ways the Earth could be destroyed, and relieved to say that none of them involve the use of common household items. All of them were thought up or compiled by the incredibly list-oriented Sam Hughes.

1. Fissioned - Essentially splitting every atom on earth to hydrogen and helium.
2. Sucked into a microscopic black hole - Pretty self explanatory, right?
3. Cooked in a solar oven - Using a lot of mirrors to reflect an array of solar energy onto the Earth.
4. Blown up by matter/antimatter reaction - Detonating an extremely large bomb.
5. Sucked into a giant black hole - Similar to number 2.
6. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed - To be done by a “mass driver” which is basically large electromagnetic railgun.
7. Pulverized by impact with a blunt instrument - in this case a large rock will do.
8. Hurled into the sun - aain, self explanitory
9. Ripped apart by Jupiter - similar to number 8, but you’d only need 38% of the energy.

Also found on Sam’s site is a list of 6 fall back methods, 9 less-scientific methods, a video of him describing one method of destroying the Earth and a good list of things that wouldn’t destroy the Earth.  I wish they’d taught me science like this when I was in school.