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[Loud Whispers]

That's small fry, artillery could do that
I want planetary annihilation

[Eric Blank]

Then we're going to have to deorbit the moon.

[Egan_BW]

Why not skip the moon and just deorbit the earth?

[hops]

Why not deorbit the solar system?

[Rolan7]

Why not dislocate the spiral arm?

[Eric Blank]

Because all of those things take exponentially more effort. We only need to bring Armageddon to this one little planet. All we need to do is hit ourselves with a big enough rock. Admittedly, the moon is larger than i think would be necessary. It is convenient, and dramatic, though.

[hops]

Why not install Windows 10?

[Eric Blank]

Is windows 10 a terminal illness? O_o

[Rolan7]

Nah, Windows stopped being terminal with NT.

[KingofstarrySkies]

b-but windows 10 isn't bad

[Orange Wizard]

It's a pun. Windows versions before NT were command-line operating systems, i.e. terminal.

[KingofstarrySkies]

No, that was in response to...

Why not install Windows 10?

[IcyTea31]

And where do you plan to get enough horses for an army?

Well, first you take a boy horse and a girl horse...

[ArKFallen]

And where do you plan to get enough horses for an army?

Well, first you take a boy horse and a girl horse...

And you take them to a donkey show to learn the birds and the bees... or the equine and the bar-maid respectively.

[Xantalos]

Apparently there are health concerns related to eating human blood/brains, though, I believe?
From what I vaguely remember reading in the past you just have to make sure it's cooked well.

Not good enough to stop the prions which cause those diseases I listed. According to the Wiki, the process for sterilizing instruments that might have been contaminated with prions involves copious amounts of bleach and lye.

It's because prion diseases are even less alive than viruses are. Where a virus still has a basic wall to hold it together, a prion is basically just a uniquely folded protein that your brain essentially "trips" on, in the process breaking the protein apart into two pieces (each of which then pull parts from their surrounding to become two complete copies of the original). Since it's essentially just a free floating protein in your system without even anything to hold it together, it's even less destroyable than most viruses are, which are basically just a bit of dna surrounded by a protein wall. Less important parts to target and all that jazz.

Err, whaddyamean, less destroyable? Viruses aren't that hard to destroy, per se - the problem is, you can only get so many of the free-floating ones, whereas the real problem demands the engagement of Immune System KGB and if they fail, you suddenly get a LOT of them to deal with.

Prions, meanwhile, aren't tough because they are proteins - most proteins can be and are easy pickings - heat 'em up, digest 'em with proteases, stick 'em in a stew... The problem is prions are not 'most proteins', they are abnormally resistant to the usual tools of the trade, similarly to the issue with amyloids causing Alzheimers and whatnot but with added fun factor of converting your own proteins. Damn things are essentially protein equivalent of zombies, come to think of it.

So you're saying eat vegans because they'll have lower chances of having prions in them, good. Just in time for the chili cookoff.