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[MetalSlimeHunt]

FiLl ThE sUn WiTh SlAmMiN fAyGoS bRo, MoThErFuCkInG mIrAcLeS.

[atomicwinter]

FiLl ThE sUn WiTh SlAmMiN fAyGoS bRo, MoThErFuCkInG mIrAcLeS.

[Pandarsenic]

Pave the oceans with silver.

This is a surprisingly awesome idea, too.

[Rilder]

Replace the oceans with Faygo, it would be a mIrAcLe. (and make Psychopathic Records famous)

[Virex]

Electromagnetic accelerators are complicated. Detonate a huge nuke in the tube to launch the thing.

Something like this? Doesn't use a tunnel trough the Earth though, but I don't know why you want to use a tube for that. Such a tube would work better as a super-sonic version of a Ram Accelerator due to the high speed the payload would attain while falling to the core.


Edit:

You know, it would actually be easier to just dig straight through the moon's core. Also, wouldn't gravity pull the payload towards the larger section?

Anyway, could you manipulate solar wind somehow? Let's take the idea of the mass driver through the planet, and make it use solar wind as well. Looking at the Wikipedia page for Magnetopause and Magnetosphere, it looks like it you manipulated the magnetosphere of the Earth (or more likely Moon) enough, you could force the solar wind to go straight through the core if you dug it all out. I have no idea what use harnessing solar wind would be, but it'd be really cool. Maybe you could convert it into electricity? In fact, you could probably redirect that stuff towards the Earth, and mess with electronics.

You may want to read up on Magnetic Sails, Electric Sails and Electrodynamic Tethers

[Il Palazzo]

Jeez, people.
Masterminds need to learn physics.

[RedKing]

We need to delve the mysteries of how f**king magnets work.

[Beeskee]

I've heard about the spinning black hole thing, but I've never really heard much about the properties of the resulting naked singularity... I imagine it'd still be black itself, probably with an extremely mind-fucky gravitational-lens effect surrounding it....

Very cool idea, not sure why you'd harvest photons from it though... they're not too hard to come by

If the singularity was outside the event horizon it would probably emit something. And yeah that's something for a T3 civilization (colonized an entire galaxy) to do when they got bored.


No guarantees that it would work, just that it would be fun, and possibly Fun, to do.

[Il Palazzo]

Singularity naked... outside event horizon...
...what?
[/Il Palazzo grumpy]

[Beeskee]

Regular black holes are theorized to have a point-source singularity (where all the mass is). Spinning black holes would have a ring-shaped singularity, according to those same theories. The faster it spins, the bigger the ring. Spin it fast enough and the singularity would stick out of the event horizon (the 'black' of a black hole) and it wouldn't be a black hole anymore, it would be a naked (no longer hidden by an event horizon) toroidal singularity.

[Il Palazzo]

This sounds like a bunch of bollocks to me, but hey, I'm just a layman. Ring shaped singularity? Whatever you say, I can't pretend I'd be able to understand the sort of maths that goes into proving this possible, but at least give us a link to the article or something.

[Beeskee]

It's all theoretical. Wikipedia's articles on Black Holes and Gravitational Singularities are good starting places.


I'm more interested in what we can do in the short term, within the next million years.

There's a lot of good ideas in this thread.

[RedKing]

Wait...I thought the event horizon was a gravitational field effect generated by the singularity. I'm trying to conceive how you would have an object that projects outside of its own gravitational field.

[DJ]

Huh, I thought that a singularity is an object that has mass but no spatial dimension. If it's not a point, it must have dimensions.

Guess I should brush up on my physics.

[Armok]

MiRaClEs *honk*

((not really))