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sweetpinkpixie · 09-17-2014, 04:30 AM

SPOILER!!: all you future evil master minds and not *takes notes on who to recruit* >:D

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Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe

Thornton took excruciatingly detailed notes, though he wondered what in the world this had to do with astronomy. He supposed he'd find out. If he'd learned anything in the corridor, it was that this man had some... unique teaching methods.

He really didn't mean for it to happen, but once the question was asked, Thornton's mouth fell open. What in the what? He was supposed to pretend to be one of the villains on the board and decide how to destroy the earth?? BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.

But he'd already flopped with the last question and if he didn't make good grades in Astronomy, his father would be upset, no matter how much he tried to explain how different it was from looking at star charts or tracking the movement of Mars or anything that they'd done together.

So Thornton thought. And he made a decision as he raised his hand into the air.

"I don't know what any of them would do, Professor," he said by way of explanation. "But I would either look at getting something to the earth's core to cause an implosion, or create a black hole or something," he paused. "Or figure out a way to turn the earth into a magnet for all the space junk that the muggles have left up there."

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

What an awesome question that was. Adi could totally see himself as one of those villains blowing up a planet. Hehe. Explosions were cool. He cast a look at Benny. The Lion made stuff go BOOM too. Adi secretly hoped his friend would blow up something soon. LOL.

So exactly how would this boy opt for blowing up a planet? Raising his hand, the Hufflepuff said, "I'd use lots and lots and lots of C-4 or PE-4.'' Mhmmm.

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Originally Posted by Hera

................................................. so much information on things he didn't understand!!!!!! He was on the verge of shutting down mentally to save himself the pain that would be the colossal headache to come... but he managed to somehow pull through, filtering out what he figured he could forget and taking notes on the rest.

SPOILER!!: NOTTTTESSS

Yeah, he figured they'd do.

In all honesty, he had no idea how any of this had to do with their space ecosystem, but he figured it would all become clear, and so it did... he added GEOCIDE to the list with (destruction/demotion of EARTH) beside it. As for if HE was a mastermind evil dude? ....... how would HE blow up the Earth??? Or well, destroy it.

Zeke raised his hand, maybe a little TOO eagerly. "I would block out the sun. Either by using a giant hovercraft or I'd attract meteorites and asteroids and other human space debris closer to Earth and bind them together to form a giant WALL... and then yeah, block the sun, and while everyone is dealing with the chaos of that, you know when the Earth least expects it, bring the meteor-asteroid-space debris wall crashing down so hard that hopefully it will crush it to pieces and ruin our atmosphere so we no longer have gravity and let the particles float away!!!" ................ could he breathe now? "Or use a laser or something and blow up its core?"

This was a fascinating topic, kudos Professor Airey.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Magical GIRL powers. What was THAT supposed to mean? Like how her brothers went all weak kneed when a girl tossed her hair in front of them? Was THAT a magical GIRL power. Curious, she was. She'd be investigating this further, Flamsteed.

As for imagining herself an evil villain, it wasn't hard. She'd be a ruler some day and she could just as easily be an evil one if she WANTED. She was still sort of figuring THAT part out. But how would she demote the earth, hm?

"Litter. Hire a whole bunch of minions to make the place a dump and destroy the natural environment. If it's no longer livable, it'll lose its cred and Vin's ex girlfriend was ALWAYS going on about how trash was destroying our planet. Maybe she was on to something."

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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy

How would she destroy the earth if she were an evil villain? Hady had absolutely no clue what-so-ever. Why would she even think about something like that? Normally she wouldn't but this was a question from the Professor so she would at least think about it.

Hady chewed on her bottom lip in thought. She honestly wasn't sure what she would do but she didn't think she'd be able to do it alone.

Still contemplating on her answer she listened to what everyone else was coming up with as she took down some notes about what she learned so far.

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Originally Posted by Tegz

Ruby barely noticed Gabe taking her hand, she was used to him being weird so whatever. She just held it and eyed the professor, sort of interested in spite of herself.

So Nero was the name of the only semi-attractive one. Ruby wondered if he was rich. Obviously he wasn't real but if he was rich at least it would make up for the unfortunately placed tattoos. This way too, if class got super boring, her daydreaming would have at least a BIT of substance.

But oooooh how would she destroy the earth? Thinking about a few bits and pieces that she'd heard Gabe mention over the years, words that actually seemed relevant to this particular topic, Ruby stuck her free hand up.

"Slingshot it into the sun! Like with the gravity of a bigger planet. Put a tractor bean thing on the moon and drive it there or something." PAAAUSE. "After getting all the cute boys off the planet, and all the valuables first of course." Paaaaause. "Oh and my friends. And family." She supposed them too. Ruby squeezed Gabe's hand.

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

Now this is slightly more interesting than wondering why Maddie was drawing handcuffs. Now if Dante was a super villain. Because only super villains would destroy the earth. It was true. He would need a fedora, walking stick with a sword hidden in it. Plus a nice car. With all that sorted then he could work on his master plan.

"I would have my minions infiltrate all the governments and start a Worldwide Nuclear War. So Earth will basically destroy itself."

Every villain needed some valuable minions.

No need to get you hands dirty with giant lasers from outer space or any other things that could be destroyed by a wanna be hero. Though i guess the bombs could be destroyed by heroes. Well, not like they would get the chance too. But having awesome super powers would make this much more easier. Though Dante does not read enough of those to know which hero/villains had enough power to destroy earth.

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Originally Posted by carpediem

Yay, she was right! Ophelia totally knew she was, but it was still nice for the recognition. Because she was totally feeling good about herself right now. Yay! Also, look at all of the pop culture she was missing! Maybe she needed to get in touch with Caelen right away to watch old movies and television shows. Because one thing she shared with her family was the determination for right answers and on a lesser extent, recognition. It was a Clarke thing. She didn't expect YOU to understand --fake snobbiness and a little flip of her blonde hair--.

Also, destroying things? As the youngest child, Ophelia thought about destroying things often, though it was most often when she was eighteen and walked into her siblings rooms and destroyed things with spells for the years of annoyance and torture they caused her.

Hehehe, completely stable.

But the thought of destroying a planet? That was interesting. Did she have like a bunch of technology in this scenario? Or was she just being herself and destroying a planet? These questions were important. Raising her hand, the firstie formulated her answer quickly.

"Well, do I have any cool weapons? Or is it just me as I am now? Because if I DO have awesome magic or weapons, I would either use a destructive spell, find a way to catch all of the planetary debris and then put it in a giant plastic bag. Or even just use a giant ray gun thing. But if it's just me now..." Deep breath here, her brown eyes scanned the classroom quickly and then she continued. " But if it's just me, I would go into space with an icepick and start HACKING at it." And then the shorter girl used her sort of muscly arms to imitate pickaxing something. Because that was normal behavior. Sorry in advance for the term Professor.

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

What a great question the professor asked! Kace smirked and wondered how he would go about destroying the earth. He saw a lot of movies dealing with that aspect but all of them sort of failed. He heard people would have minions. But Kace had another idea....

He raised his hand and said, "Professor I would get an evil scientist and sent him out to make like potions that could be radioactive and then infuse the potion with like a nuclear gun or even a laser and he can aim for the earth and it could blow up!" He didn't want to get his fingerprints on the gun incase he got caught. But how likely would that happen? Kace did think about this stuff. No shame there.

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Originally Posted by griffin

How would they destroy Earth? Was that what this lesson was about? Penelope didn't want to think about it. If they were talking about ways to destroy planets, the activity was probably not going to be anything that she would like. Maybe they would be making things explode, but Professor Flamsteed's activities were impossible to predict. Whatever it was, it did not look like today would be her day. The best she could hope for right now was not ending up in the hospital wing.

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Originally Posted by Sararara

Ooooh, destroying things! Morbid or not, that sounded cool. Norah's hand shot into the air. "You would have something physical to make it really small or destroy it. I'm not sure how I'd do that, though, because Earth is so big. Maybe I could get superduper good at magic and then shrink it from outer space." Then she could be an astronaut, YEAH! She hesitated slightly before continuing, "But just wiping out all the people won't stop it from being a planet, right? 'Cause all the other planets don't have people or plants or ANYTHING and they're still planets." Right? Then what made a planet a planet? Norah raised her hand once more to ask the question that had just struck her. "Professor, what makes a planet a planet anyway?" That was a good question, right?

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Simple really, I'd put them under some sort of mind control and make them destroy themselves." Angel didn't want to do any of the heavy work, that would just be too easy, but watching them destroy their own planet and each other would be fun and entertaining. "You might as well be entertain whilst watching the planet go down in flames."

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Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104

Marigold was liking this class. It was a bit more muggly, which meant she understood it better. As for destroying the world? "I would probably get into a high branch of government, until I became prime minister, then led England to take over all the other countries. I would let them live happily for a while, to be lulled into a false sense of security." She paused. "Then I would destroy the world."

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Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE

Ceo was B-O-R-E-D

He had nodded off a few times here and there even with his House Jimmy Bursting his voice box every now and then. He just didn't get Astrology....Astronomy whatever. His attention was taken by Gabe who had snagged the very Bonny Slytherin's hand. That Liar! He can't get on his Case for snogging his House Mate ~~who had Pumpkin Chapstick so that was a thing~~ then go and take a girls hand into his!

Not Fair at all.

This having had caught his attention made him hear the House Jimmy's question. While annoyed that he heard it. The Question intrigued him.
So Ceo cared enough to answer it. "Weel foremaist a'd tak' control o' a' scientist's brains." Yeah Good start if he could do that then.... "Then hae thaim create a deedly airborne virus that is immune tae a' environents oan earth. Next a'd hae thaim spread th' virus o'er th' globe"... No wait there was a cooler way. Like Undead and stuff. YEAH the undead were always the best World Enders! "...Did ah mention this wis a zombie virus? aye sae th' scientists wid be infected by it, 'n' spread wi' thair teeth. All fowk in th' world wid be turned wi`in a year 'n' na alien woud wantae land 'ere." Ceorlic smiled then put his hands on his desk like he cared for this class.

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Originally Posted by lazykitty

Professor Flamsteed got a nod for finally saying her name right. Thanks, professor.

And she was hurriedly jotting down the mass of information meeting her ears, because one never knew when it would come up again. Yes, even the stuff about the fictional evildoers. But then......wait had he just said what she thought he'd said? What did that have to do with Astronomy?! A joke?! Oh for fruit's sake, there was nothing funny about........oh, geocide. Still not funny, but less serious than what she had been thinking. Because this only happened in movies and TV shows, right?

Her classmates had some good ideas, but they weren't very practical, were they? "I would drop a lit match into each of the world's stores of gasoline, including the ones under the gas stations and then while everyone is busy dealing with the aftermath of that, send a giant asteroid, twenty times larger than the one that ended the dinosaurs, hurtling towards Earth. Hopefully, by the time anyone notices it, it would already be in the Earth's atmosphere and there wouldn't be a thing anyone could do about it." And Earth would be nothing but a giant flaming ping pong ball, bouncing off the other planets. Maw-hahaha. Pinky held at corner of mouth.

Then, a sudden sobering thought occurred to her. "Or you could just let the Muggles continue to do what they're doing, causing a huge and permanent change to the climate and making the hole in the ozone layer larger and larger." Shivers for that one.

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Originally Posted by Lottiepot

Although she admitted that the start of this lesson was rather odd and very muggle orientated, Layla kind of liked the way that the Professor accepted her answer. She received a salute, the same salute he had given her when she arrived in the classroom and gave him a smile in greeting. She replicated that smile now, slightly larger than before. Currently known as Miss Grumpy rather than Miss Ackerly to her dormmates, Layla was actually capable of smiling sometimes.

She listened to other people’s answers, agreeing with some. She did not know all of the answers nor did she feel it was necessary to write them down when she was told who they were but she still listened.

But his next question did not seem to be astronomy related at all and the Ravenclaw was momentarily confused as to where exactly this lesson was headed. Were they all going to pretend that they were supervillains or something? Because quite frankly she didn’t think she wanted to get involved with that at all.

She thought for a brief period of time over how she was going to answer him. She had no idea nor did she feel any need to ‘take over the world’ and so she barely passed a thought over it. She raised her hand cautiously after listening to everyone else’s bizarre and downright morbid ideas.

“I guess I’d start from the inside out. Won’t it be easier to target the Earth’s core first?” Why were they even thinking about this? “If you can ignite that then it’s likely the rest of the planet would explode very quick afterwards.” How exactly she would go about that was another matter. Giant pieces of TNT? A huge missile? Who knew? “Either that or you could target the Earth’s atmosphere too. Changin' the Earth’s atmospheric composition would eliminate what it is that makes this planet diff'rent from all the others. No life on the planet means that, to us anyway, Earth would be ‘destroyed’ of it's lifeforms and everythin'” And then target the core to finish it once and for all.

Seriously? She thought this was supposed to be a scientific lesson..

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Jasmine listened as her classmates gave their ideas for destroying the Earth. Some were pretty clever and some were a little frightening. She found it kind of difficult to go into evil villain mode, but finally came up with an answer.

Jasmine raised her hand and began to speak. "If I was one of the villains, first I would try to get the Earthlings to do the dirty work for me. I'd encourage them to use lots and lots of plastic, aerosol sprays and paper. Cut down the trees. Then I would destroy the recycling centers so they'd have to use more resources. The evironment would eventually be ruined and the Earth would not be fit for life. Although, I would have to be a very patient villain for this to work and I believe that villains are generally not patient by nature.". So that was clearly not the best of ideas.

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny

...Blink. Blink blink.

Sophie was totally cool with this lesson. She was following just fine, learning which characters were from Star Trek vs Star Wars and enjoying Flamsteed's gentle letdown to those whose guesses were incorrect. She even took some notes - mostly just making sure she knew for the future that Star Trek was the one Flamsteed was so hung up on - and squiiiiiiinted as the conversation took a turn for... the annihilation of the earth.

Well. She hadn't expected that.

Nor had she anticipated Flamsteed asking them to put themselves in the shoes of an evil villain and SHARE their method for how they would go about destroying the planet.

Now, Sophie Brown was no loon, but... even innocent, hypothetical talk of such things electrified her nerves. It wasn't that she was worried that it would give anyone ideas - she was worried the first things that came to her mind were so elaborate and sensible in the annihilation of the earth that some people might question if she had given this a lot of thought. Which she hadn't. But so many DIFFERENT ways that she thought would have high success rates came to mind all at once, and she... snorted a little. And was, absolutely in no way, going to share a single thing.

If you had a brilliant mind that, over a certain turn of events could turn evil, would you really want to let up on that?

She would continue her apparent vow of silence for the day, thank you.

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Originally Posted by Fira

SPOILER!!: Previous Phoenix and Professor Posts

Gary tried not to laugh loudly and get the professors attention on himself when the paper landed on its aim. He closed a hand over his widely grinning mouth and was about to prepare another when the dude with shiny robes turned to him...it was Phoenix Toros.

Of course. Who else would wear sparkly robes to classes anyway?

The Slytherin caught the paper Phoenix threw back at him in the air and opened it just to see the Gryffindor's art work of a snake. He blinked at the paper. What did that mean now? What was Phoenix trying to imply by sending him the paper back with a snake on it? Now that was a wonder. Gary wanted to know. But the professor apparently had seen his paper ball shooting. No, no. No one could see or spot Gary Striker when he didn't want to be seen. The professor probably had come aware of it when Phoenix simply yelled his name just like any obnoxious Gryffindor would do. Obnoxious as he was, it did't mean Gareth thought in a negative way about him. The sparkly boy had this odd geniality attached to himself somehow.

Gary grinned as the professor commented about the Gryffindor's shiny robe threads yet the grin vanished when he heard the man pronounce his name. The Slytherin just stared at the professor not saying anything in return. Not waste paper? Meh, it was not wasting at all. Actually he had been doing good use of the paper yet he didn't expect the lion head of house to understand that. Now that he had been warned, though, Gary didn't dare making another paperball. Instead he just glared at the pictures that were shown with a not-so-interested expression. He didn't really care who they were and, except the man in black in the picture no 9, they all looked ridiculous.

Still staring at the pictures with a bored expression, Gareth sighed a bit out of boredom yet there was also the fact that he was doing it on purpose hoping the professor would find it annoying that this Slytherin found his topic, get offended by it and throw him out of classroom. Then Gary could be out, free to do whatever he could do. However, it didn't look like the professor cared about it at all, let alone finding it annoying or offending.

His mind was busy with such things until the shock of what Phoenix said snapped him out of it. He immediately sent a glare towards the Gryffindor not knowing what to say. He was embarrassed yet ready to hurt anyone who would dare trying to make fun of that.

But...

...Hadn't the class just started to become interesting? Oh, yeah. Kabooms and destroying a planet, especially Earth, sounded very, so VERY, interesting to this Slytherin boy. He quickly sat straighter and considered what he could do to cause an amazing, preferably perfect, KABOOM to destroy everything.

"Oooooo...!!!" This was exciting.

Of course, there had to be chaos among the living before he would destroy the whole planet for it could be just plain boring to destroy everything in an instant.

"Professor, maybe we can send a Phoenix Toros to the space. Very offended by how sparkly that boy is, the sun would destroy itself and the sun being destroyed, it would soon cause the end of the planets."

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Originally Posted by Felixir

...... Demote....... from planet. Oh. Oh boy, Toby KNEW this one. And AIREY knew that TOBY knew it, because he knew that Toby was fond of that one movement: VIVA LA PLUTO.

He raised his hand and EYYYYYYYED his pogo buddy. Like, not in a mean way, in a squinty sort of be-nice-about-my-baby-pluto.

"I dunno about destroying anything," he said, pacifist that he was. "But if I wanted to demote Earth, I'd find a way to go back in time to before the Earth got it's proper shape, and then shrink it wayyyyyyyy down, so it wasn't big enough to have it's own gravitational pull or anything and stays being a weird shaped rock. Maybe I'd move it out of the Sun's orbit too, just to be sure. That way you're not really destroying anything, you're making it so that it never happened."

Ahem. "Not that I'd ever do any of that to a planet." Just so everyone knew. He'd picked the most out of this world (heh) hypothetical method for this too, all on purpose.

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Originally Posted by Lislchen

Hehe. Unicron sounded like unicorn. It was funny.

Maggie giggled and wrote the name down. Only that name. She circled it and drew a few stars around it. Heheh. Unicron.

She was starting to pay attention in class even. And she jumped a little in her seat when the professor went all KABOOM! Kaboom. What would they do to destroy the Earth. She had an answer to this. "From the inside." Oh. Right. Hand. Maggie lifted her hand. "Like-" And then she just pointed to Dante. "What he said." That had sounded very clever yes.

And like a good idea. Mhm.

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Originally Posted by Squishy

How would she destroy the Earth?

Did Professor Flamsteed even KNOW her? Clearly not, because she would never do anything like that. Even hypothetically. Lux loved this planet and everything that was on it besides mean people and some of the animals. But even they shouldn't be destroyed, so she made a point of not answering.

Except.... Toby had a pretty good idea of how to deal with things without actual destruction. Yep. Nodding her head in agreement at what he said, she was all for making the planet have never existed because at least nothing would die that way.

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Originally Posted by Yaya

All super villians who had the purpose, and could have accomplished destroying a planet. And now it was up to them to bring out a super villian pretended plan to destroy the EARTH?

Hmmmm...

hmmm...

hmmm???

She widened her eyes as her classmates answered, in the most insightful, clever way of how they 'would' do it. Paloma resisted the urge to shake her head. She wasn't so fond of seeing her super home destroyed, but she had to think...at least one way, to have a little malicious heart like those movie and comic villians. Maybe not the smartest, but she had to try! Raising her hand and clearing her voice, she spoke: "Well...if I were a villian, and taking credit from old and weird stories, well...I'd sort of make a complot between many super bad guys who want to destroy each other with nuclear weapons and one day....KABOOOMMMM, they would actually do it. And because of all that nuclear reactions going everywhere, the Earth's atmosphere would actually break like a crystal ball, and the Sun's rays would hit us really hard, making the most atomic reaction here, and then the Earth would explode." Yeah....she wasn't evil, at all. Good thing that she wasn't persuasive, at all.

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen

SPOILER!!: Eden and Airey

Eyes. She can feel.... eyes. Huxley’s gaze slid sideways and caught a fellow blue robed one STARING at her. Had this one been male she would’ve given a mock flying kiss. But this one was female. She wasn’t interested in females... least not enough to do mocking kissy faces. So attack eyebrows goes to you Missy.

And incredibly enough, her attention returns to Professor Pacman, not because he nearly forgot her name—she only had one ~~that’s easily seen~~, but because his next question was EXACTLY what this upperclassman was interested in. World domination is child’s play. True power lay in something else...

“Well given that I don’t have a glorified scythe that doubles as a glorious scepter--- yet.....” she is definitely not discounting the possibility that she could obtain it, or better yet, create one “I will have to find other means to complete this task.” Leaning back into her seat and pressing the tips of her fingers together she continues “First I will put out a couple of jobs ads and have them transmitted into space. The ads would call for contractors— a miner, a broker and an engineer. I will meet with the engineers first and finalize a plan. Next I will have the miners start excavating resources deep within the Earth’s core, then have a broker arrange the storage and sale of these. Give it a bit of time the mining would prove to destabilize planetary structure, causing it to implode dramatically. It is then that the engineers will finish the work, clearing debris and making way for an intergalactic highway.”

“So I meet the objectives—the demotion of Earth into a non-planet, and I would be set for life.” Hmm maybe she should start putting an ad out now yeah?

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

No joke, villains were some of the BEST characters. There was something about the way they were ready to get what they want. Nothing can make a story better than a good ol villain. Their only drawback was that they were so freaking STUPID sometimes. Getting themselves caught like that. Digging holes in their own plans. Sigh. Stupid.

Unicron sounded like unicorn and that was NOT a suitable name for a villain that can physically devour planets. Just saying.

The topic turned to one of blowing up the Earth, which sounded like too much work but he was still dead pleased with where this was going. Especially when that kid over there (Dante) said something about infiltrating the governments and starting a war. Brilliant. You'd just be the one to provide the equipment but they'd be the ones to blow themselves up. Simply brilliant.

What would he do if he was a villain? WELL. After a while, Grayson raised a hand in the air and said, "See, I like the idea of blowing up the earth from the inside out. Planting a couple of things down there that'll really get the Earth shaking." Only problem was whether it could survive the overly hot conditions down there. "OR, if you're sneaky enough, you could nudge some of the damages inflicted on the Earth and make it worse. Pollute the atmosphere even more so that the planet overheats or freezes completely on its own. Pull the planet closer and closer to the Sun OR push it further and further away. Whatever works."

AND, in this case, they would have a safe ticket out of the situation, right? He wasn't going to blow up something unless he knew he was safe.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

An explosion sounded the most reasonable to her, but that was so easy and quick. Where was the fun in that? AJ was a fan of pranks and having a good time so she wouldn't just making the planet go boom. Oh no, she would being having way more fun than that.

With an angelic smile on her face, she raised her hand. "I would get to know people on the planet... get them to be my friends. I would learn everything there is to learn about them, and slowly but surely use their powers against them. The key to being successful is to not go in there announcing your arrival and just start explosions." While that would be fun, it was all be pointed to you, and what if you didn't cause a big enough explosion? It would be too late. Your mission would have failed, and now YOU have a target on your back. "You mastermine little details... like all of the power failing. Who could have done that? Surely not me because I am your FRIEND. Then the food sources mysteriously go away? Again, the finger isn't pointed at me because I am still your concerned "friend" With them all in my back pocket I would have the planet destroyed while their people cried on my shoulder." Ahem. Not that she WOULD do that, it was just that if you WERE going to do something. Why not do it right?

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Err...demote Earth as a planet? That meant she'd be saved, right? Because, otherwise, she was SO not in with this demoting Earth plan. BUT...if she would be saved, then she guessed she could come up with an idea or two.

"Well," she said, raising her hand, "Earth wouldn't be much without water or oxygen, would it? So I guess I'd find some way to suck up all the water from the Earth or deprive it of its oxygen." Slingshotting it to the Sun sounded cool, too. Sophie had heard some girl mention that one.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

They were getting to destroying the earth? Making it not a planet? Imagining they were villains? All easily doable. If you wanted to get rid of something there were a couple ways you could effortlessly go about it, especially if you were a villain because those tended to be strong enough to pull off whatever schemes they set their minds to.

"I'd go with a collision, just for the show." Lex considered, reflectively. Might as well have fun doing it, yeah? "Have a planet of equal or greater mass slam into the earth then watch the planets crumple and shatter with the impact sending what would now only be space rock hurtling through the galaxy. Reckon they might hit other planets but that wouldn't be my concern if I was a villain that didn't even live in the milky way to begin with."

She would assume she wouldn't be living there because this was all about explosions and Merlin knew you didn't blow things up in your OWN backyard when there were other options out there.

It was just...bad form, you know?

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

BEAM. Eden actually beamed at the very nice ~~and handsome~~ professor and leaned back in her chair...all smug. YEAH. SHe had gotten it RIGHT and stuff. For once, the new 'claw felt SMERT. She grinned as she scribbled down some important things and then....wow.

Destroying the eaaaarf?! Eden thought about it. It was an easy question for her. "Sir--wouldn't you just--wouldn't you just have to make some aliens REALLY mad?" she asked, wide, blue eyes. "Just--I KNOW aliens exist--" they did. HER MAM HAD SEEN A UFO BEFORE OKAY. "They DO exist AAAAND--and--you just have to make them mad and let them do all the dirty work. Insult their intelligence--or even just ask them politely--COME BLOW UP THE EARTH PLEASE--" and then Eden realized she was RAMBLING and being CRAZY so she blushed and quieted herself a little. "Basically--just get some aliens involved. Technically--no blood on your hands, either." Yep. All the aliens fault.

Once again, Eden sat back, having answered ANOTHER question, and feeeeelt the eyes---OH. It was the girl that knew about Sailor Saturn--and Eden kind of waved, regardless of the horrible look she was receiving from her. RUDE. Eden just raised an eyebrow as if to ask WHAT DID I DO? But them looked back at Professor Airhead----FLAMSTEED. Flamsteed. Eden did NOT think he was an airhead AT ALL but his NAAAME was just--UGH. She got it all jumbled in her brain.

Great.

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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles

DRAGON ball comics huh?

Kyroh scribbled down the the name so he could look them up later. And then he started drawing a Dragon, because they were talking about Dragons. Or Astronomy? One of the two.

Destroy the world? Be a VILLAIN? Kyroh wrinkled his nose, almost ready to protest but he figured that to BEAT the bad guys you sometimes had to act like a bad guy right? Yeah. Plus it could be fun to think like a bad guy. And even Maddie had a good point with the litter! And the Head Girl too. Hm. "Well first of all Professor I wouldn't tell the good guys my plan after I captured them." Yeah. That was always stupid move number one. It was KIND OF like telling Flamsteed his plan now but that was okay.

"But THEN I'd befriend all the world leaders and it would work cause I'm still little and kinda cute I guess. And then after I'd convince them to make me a kid leader of the world and beg them to let me pass one law. And then when they said yes I'd take off on a spaceship all the way to the moon and make an official law that the Earth was no longer a planet." Bam. Easy peasy. Planet DEMOTED. "THEN just to make sure people didn't by pass my law i'd use a meteor moving machine and move a really giant meteor right in Earth's path and make it smash into Earth." Just in case. Precautions y'know.

They were just ALL lucky that he wasn't a bad guy.

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Gwen couldn't help but smile as Zeke nudged her. She was glad to have made such a good friend already. She could completely ignore the fact that he wasn't a girl because hello most girls weren't into tree climbing as she was. Or as awesome at it.

She followed his lead and started to jot down some quick notes. How this was all important to astronomy she had no idea. But hey. Notes were notes. She even did cheesy little doodles of the characters next to them. Like little cartoon like outlines. Now for everyone else to fill in all the answers for her.

Gwen gave a proud little smiled. Muggle cartoons were awesome. She wasn't much of a fan of a lot of muggle things, but that was definitely one thing they did right. She watched as he went and talked to an older boy...in awesome sparkly robes! Okay. Gwen had to meet that boy and ask him how he did that. She didn't care if it was against dress code. She wouldn't mind adding a little more sparkle to her own wardrobe.

Gwen jotted down the names next to their respective numbers and doodles as Professor Airey went on, telling people who were correct. And look at that. He even put the full list on the board when he was done. Best professor ever.

Gwen gave a very excited smile. Geocide, huh? Now this was going to be an interesting lesson. She got to use her creativity. She listened a bit to everyone else's answers, tuning in and out. Now just how would she destroy the earth...

Ah. She got it. Gwen raised her hand purposefully. "I would start to breed lots of really dangerous creatures and slowly release them back in the wild. That way they would be the ones taking care of all the damage and destruction." Did that even make sense? Oh well. It involved animals so it was good enough for her. That was also more slow destroying then demoting. "Basically use the animals to kill the human population. No humans means no planetary classification." See. She kinda had a point. Next.

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See that? That was EXACTLY right. Dot leaned over to offer her fist to her bestest. Way way waaaaaaaay over, 'cause he hadn't been able to sit by her, but still.

SCOFF. Full blown scoff. If it was just some species, then how was ANYONE sure that it wasn't actually an alien bowtruckle? Surely it was possible that it was exactly that, and Mr. Astronut was just uninformed about how you named stuff in space. Scoffscoffscoff.

As for destroying the planet, that seemed like a bad topic to discuss. Nothing like a little destruction and death of billions of people, animals, plants, and milkshakes to make you scared of your classmates. Dot mentally stored away which of her classmates were criminal geniuses, which were just criminal, which were scaryscaryscary, and which probably needed help tying their shoes. It didn't hurt to keep people categorized for your safety.

"I think we're doing a pretty good job of it already, Mr. Professor. Destroying it, I mean."

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WHOA. The astronomy class had just turned into a very morbid subject, hadn't it? If you were going to destroy humanity, how would you do it?

Shockingly, Caleb had not given the issue much thought.

Still, he raised his hand. "I think...I'd figure out how to generate a black hole and just suck the Earth into it. Super fast, you wouldn't even feel a thing," he said. Right? Your body would just like...implode in a second or something right?

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The Gryffindor thought deeply. Hm. What would he do? Not like he'd want to be the villian because if he got the choice he'd be the HERO!! Like Batman and Superman and Spiderman and all those cool guys from the comics!!! But if he had to destroy the earth.... Hm. "Well.... I think I'd send an exploding time bomb to the center of the world and watch it explode or something because that'd be pretty cool I guess... But I'd want to be the one saving it I think, Professor." Cause then he could be in the comics TOO!!! A COMIC ABOUT ZANDER ADAIR LIKE WOAH.

Imagine it now in gold letters....

Zander Adair, Saving Hogwarts from Cold Ones since 2083.

It'd totally sell millions. MHM.

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How would he go about destroying the Earth?

There had to be some kind of spell for that right? Well... if not he could come up with a variety of things.

"Assuming we can't use magic..." although magic would've been really, really cool, impressive and probably a lot easier than other things. "I suppose I'd figure out a way to form a black hole on the surface of the Earth and as it grows it would consume everything until it finally consumed the whole planet" because that would totally work. In fact, creating a black hole could end up being rather fun.

"Or we could create a teleporter because in order to teleport theoretically all of the atoms that make up something would have to be taken apart and reassembled, but if we set it so that the Earth and all of the inhabitants aren't reassembled the world just... disappears and becomes a variety of molecules and atoms floating around space!" he finished with an innocent smile. He probably had been watching too much Star Trek with his mum lately...

There was an episode in which someone had been lost and their molecules never rearranged after all. And although muggles were currently trying to create a teleportation device so far they didn't seem able to reassembled things again either.

Shame really.

It would make travelling so much more convenient.

The professor listened carefully to each student as they spoke, nodding and mhmmming at all the appropriate places, but offered no specific reply just yet. Were they all listening to themselves? At how easily pop culture had made it seem the Earth was to be destroyed. How any planet for that matter could just go KABOOM with the flip of a switch. But that was what made science fiction so fascinating, wasn't it? The fact that there was no end to what the imagination could come up with with applied to scientific inquiry and loose theory.

While students' active imaginations were stellar to see working, some of them were also quite...terrifying in how methodical their 'plans' were. He wasn't trying to create the next army of Death Eaters or anything (although the thought of scientific Death Eaters was a rather amusing one) but he found himself hoping that none of them, especially some of the Ravenclaws, found their way to Knockturn Alley and befriended some of the more unsavory sort of witches and wizards.

"Alright alright, that is enough ideas for now," he announced, raising both of his hands to attempt to draw some more attention to himself after checking his sundial watch for the time. "While all of your apocalyptic ideas and methods are creative, they are just that. Ideas. Popular culture has created a vision that the Earth can easily be destroyed. The truth of the matter is that the Earth is a planet that has been built to last. It is already some 4.54 billion years old and is essentially a 5.972 sextillion, that's 18 zero's, metric ton ball of iron floating in space."

He took a few steps away from his desk and stood in the center of the room with a somewhat grim expression on his face.

"Now, several methods mentioned - fictional and not - were those that went on to talk about destroying the Earth's atmosphere. To make the planet itself inhabitable. Now the sad reality is that some of those methods are very real and is why the field of atmospheric sciences is so important. So, to go back to one of the very first questions of the lesson, why do we study astronomy, for some it is because they are trying to save lives. Knowing and understanding how humans can effect the Earth is vital, especially for you who are the future of the planet."

And all that was a bit dramatic, which is why his face then exploded into an overly exaggerated grin as he clapped his hands together firmly in front of his chest and rocked back on his heels.

He turned his attention towards Miss Kittredge and gave her a small nod. "However, those evil master minds among you who spoke of making Earth uninhabitable have, as Miss Kittredge has pointed out, failed the task at hand. Destroying life on Earth will not stop it from being a planet. Just for a bit of review, remember that a planet is defined by the following," he continued as he gave the blackboard another tap to make the images disappear and words appear in their place.

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International Astronomical Union definition of a planet:

orbits the sun
has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round
is not a satellite (moon) of another object
has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit

He turned his attention back to the semicircle of desks. "Most of you came up with concepts seemingly right out of science fiction. In fact, Mr. Baines and others who mentioned creating black holes have literally done that as that was Nero's method of destroying worlds." Using something called Red Matter, but there was no need to go into the fantasy science of things that were impossible to recreate but made for interesting plots. "You can read up on black holes in your textbook, and older students may recall our study of them in this classroom, but black holes eventually will evaporate due to something called Hawking radiation. For the average black hole out there, this will take a really REEEEEEEEALLY long time. But for something that could be 'created'," he said, using air quotes around the term because it was HIGHLY unlikely that such a thing would ever be able to be accomplished. "This would happen almost instantaneously, rendering your method...well...impossible. Pushing the Earth into a black hole using tractor beams..." BEAMS, Miss Banner. BEAMS. "...or other technology is also impossible. Gravity alone would prevent this from happening not to mention that the nearest black hole is some 1600 light years away from us."

He paused again. "The same goes for blowing the planet up entirely, either from the outside or from within. To even hope to accomplish this one would need approximately 1,246,400,000,000 tonnes of antimatter to blast the planet apart so much that gravity could not pull the bits back together and reform it. Let's just say that humans are no where near that number." Debunked. Again.

There obviously was not enough time to go into everyone's theories and talk the science behind them, so he was going to put all that to rest for now.

"Now, asteroid impacts...the collision method for destroying the planet is a threat that is very real. Now, I use the term 'real' loosely here because the planet has already been struck by many over its lifetime and still continues its orbit around the Sun. Once when a Mars-sized object slammed into the Earth, billions of years ago...and of course the one that ended the dinosaur's time on Earth. An asteroid called 2014 RC was within one-tenth of the distance from Earth to the moon back in September of 2014, but NASA has an efficient asteroid detection technology in place as of 2065 that will give the Earth ample warning should anything threaten the Earth and, with the way technology is developing, we will have a means to take preventative measures."

And that was FAR too much talking. Yawning a little himself - and wishing he had some water - the astronomer looked down at his sundial watched and stretched his arms.

"But enough talk for now. Wands out everyone!" he commanded as he gave his desk a firm tap and made 4 boxes of what looked like house colored sand (blue, red, yellow, and green) wrapped up on small plastic parcels. "A few terms ago I had students create their own solar system as a laboratory exercise. Today, we will not exactly be doing that, but knowing how to create a planet-like object will be necessary. These bags," he said as he picked up one of the red 'sand' bags. "Contain ground up stone, iron, and a little something extra to help recreate a planet-like orb that will float in the air on its own if you perform the spell correctly. I would like each of you to come get a bag or two in your house color." Yes, Miss Wisteria, yellow. "And try to create a planet. Simply jab your wand towards the bag and say Fingere Elementi," he explained as he demonstrated. The clear plastic of the bag began to melt and float upwards in his hand before spinning like a top. After a few moments, and with a loud POP!, a perfectly spherical "planet" was floating in the palm of his hand.

"Once you have created a planet please just sit tight. The real activity will begin after a few minutes of practice."

And for the record, HE could certainly live without having his personal bubble ruptured by hugs.

OOC: ACTIVITY TIME!

You will need a minimum of 1 post for this portion, but of course can do more if you want.

The steps you need to be sure to include are the following:
collect a plastic bag of colored "sand" in your house color

perform Fingere Elementi (wand movement is a jab towards the bag)

successfully create one house colored planet! (or not if your character is really bad at spells. That's cool beans too)

Minor explosions are fine, but nothing that would land your character in the hospital wing or without a limb, please and thank you!

Got a question? Please feel free to shoot me a VM or PM or ask Professor Flamsteed IC. Just be sure to title your post with something like "PROFESSOR HELP!!!" to make sure I do not accidentally overlook you!

You will have approximately 24 hours to complete this activity.

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sweetpinkpixie SSRPG Admin Gladrags Mod Quibbler Mod Minister for Magic Alley Proprietor Sea Serpent Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Paths Posts: 41,261 Hogwarts RPG Name: Professor Cox Ravenclaw Graduated Hogwarts RPG Name: CJ Miller Gryffindor Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Nyle Harden Hufflepuff Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Iris Harden Ravenclaw Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Calliope Barrington Slytherin Fifth Year Ministry Department Head: Charles Hollingberry Minister's Office Ministry Department Head: Airey Flamsteed Mysteries Diagon Alley Proprietor: Victor García Massey Ollivanders x12 x12	forgive us for not replying individually <33 all your responses were STELLAR astronomizzle ♧ gryffinDORK \| & the rest is drag ♣ #badluckDerf SPOILER!!: all you future evil master minds and not takes notes on who to recruit* >:D* Quote: Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe Thornton took excruciatingly detailed notes, though he wondered what in the world this had to do with astronomy. He supposed he'd find out. If he'd learned anything in the corridor, it was that this man had some... unique teaching methods. He really didn't mean for it to happen, but once the question was asked, Thornton's mouth fell open. What in the what? He was supposed to pretend to be one of the villains on the board and decide how to destroy the earth?? BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM. But he'd already flopped with the last question and if he didn't make good grades in Astronomy, his father would be upset, no matter how much he tried to explain how different it was from looking at star charts or tracking the movement of Mars or anything that they'd done together. So Thornton thought. And he made a decision as he raised his hand into the air. "I don't know what any of them would do, Professor," he said by way of explanation. "But I would either look at getting something to the earth's core to cause an implosion, or create a black hole or something," he paused. "Or figure out a way to turn the earth into a magnet for all the space junk that the muggles have left up there." Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 What an awesome question that was. Adi could totally see himself as one of those villains blowing up a planet. Hehe. Explosions were cool. He cast a look at Benny. The Lion made stuff go BOOM too. Adi secretly hoped his friend would blow up something soon. LOL. So exactly how would this boy opt for blowing up a planet? Raising his hand, the Hufflepuff said, "I'd use lots and lots and lots of C-4 or PE-4.'' Mhmmm. Quote: Originally Posted by Hera ................................................. so much information on things he didn't understand!!!!!! He was on the verge of shutting down mentally to save himself the pain that would be the colossal headache to come... but he managed to somehow pull through, filtering out what he figured he could forget and taking notes on the rest. SPOILER!!: NOTTTTESSS Astronomy Lesson One with Professor Airey Astronomy is a science that looks at selestial objects, space, physical universe and wondering WHY? Navigation and space ecosystem too. Characters from shows and things on the board. 1. Marvin Marshin from Loony Toons 2. Unicron??? Not Unicorn? 3. Species... 84472? 4.Freeza 5. Neero from Star Trek 6. Sailor Saturn from ... ??? Sailor Moon??? 7.Tollian Sorren 8. THE Dreg 9. Darth Vayder from Star Wars Yeah, he figured they'd do. In all honesty, he had no idea how any of this had to do with their space ecosystem, but he figured it would all become clear, and so it did... he added GEOCIDE to the list with (destruction/demotion of EARTH) beside it. As for if HE was a mastermind evil dude? ....... how would HE blow up the Earth??? Or well, destroy it. Zeke raised his hand, maybe a little TOO eagerly. "I would block out the sun. Either by using a giant hovercraft or I'd attract meteorites and asteroids and other human space debris closer to Earth and bind them together to form a giant WALL... and then yeah, block the sun, and while everyone is dealing with the chaos of that, you know when the Earth least expects it, bring the meteor-asteroid-space debris wall crashing down so hard that hopefully it will crush it to pieces and ruin our atmosphere so we no longer have gravity and let the particles float away!!!" ................ could he breathe now? "Or use a laser or something and blow up its core?" This was a fascinating topic, kudos Professor Airey. Quote: Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Magical GIRL powers. What was THAT supposed to mean? Like how her brothers went all weak kneed when a girl tossed her hair in front of them? Was THAT a magical GIRL power. Curious, she was. She'd be investigating this further, Flamsteed. As for imagining herself an evil villain, it wasn't hard. She'd be a ruler some day and she could just as easily be an evil one if she WANTED. She was still sort of figuring THAT part out. But how would she demote the earth, hm? "Litter. Hire a whole bunch of minions to make the place a dump and destroy the natural environment. If it's no longer livable, it'll lose its cred and Vin's ex girlfriend was ALWAYS going on about how trash was destroying our planet. Maybe she was on to something." Quote: Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy How would she destroy the earth if she were an evil villain? Hady had absolutely no clue what-so-ever. Why would she even think about something like that? Normally she wouldn't but this was a question from the Professor so she would at least think about it. Hady chewed on her bottom lip in thought. She honestly wasn't sure what she would do but she didn't think she'd be able to do it alone. Still contemplating on her answer she listened to what everyone else was coming up with as she took down some notes about what she learned so far. Quote: Originally Posted by Tegz Ruby barely noticed Gabe taking her hand, she was used to him being weird so whatever. She just held it and eyed the professor, sort of interested in spite of herself. So Nero was the name of the only semi-attractive one. Ruby wondered if he was rich. Obviously he wasn't real but if he was rich at least it would make up for the unfortunately placed tattoos. This way too, if class got super boring, her daydreaming would have at least a BIT of substance. But oooooh how would she destroy the earth? Thinking about a few bits and pieces that she'd heard Gabe mention over the years, words that actually seemed relevant to this particular topic, Ruby stuck her free hand up. "Slingshot it into the sun! Like with the gravity of a bigger planet. Put a tractor bean thing on the moon and drive it there or something." PAAAUSE. "After getting all the cute boys off the planet, and all the valuables first of course." Paaaaause. "Oh and my friends. And family." She supposed them too. Ruby squeezed Gabe's hand. Quote: Originally Posted by Meizzner Now this is slightly more interesting than wondering why Maddie was drawing handcuffs. Now if Dante was a super villain. Because only super villains would destroy the earth. It was true. He would need a fedora, walking stick with a sword hidden in it. Plus a nice car. With all that sorted then he could work on his master plan. "I would have my minions infiltrate all the governments and start a Worldwide Nuclear War. So Earth will basically destroy itself." Every villain needed some valuable minions. No need to get you hands dirty with giant lasers from outer space or any other things that could be destroyed by a wanna be hero. Though i guess the bombs could be destroyed by heroes. Well, not like they would get the chance too. But having awesome super powers would make this much more easier. Though Dante does not read enough of those to know which hero/villains had enough power to destroy earth. Quote: Originally Posted by carpediem Yay, she was right! Ophelia totally knew she was, but it was still nice for the recognition. Because she was totally feeling good about herself right now. Yay! Also, look at all of the pop culture she was missing! Maybe she needed to get in touch with Caelen right away to watch old movies and television shows. Because one thing she shared with her family was the determination for right answers and on a lesser extent, recognition. It was a Clarke thing. She didn't expect YOU to understand --fake snobbiness and a little flip of her blonde hair--. Also, destroying things? As the youngest child, Ophelia thought about destroying things often, though it was most often when she was eighteen and walked into her siblings rooms and destroyed things with spells for the years of annoyance and torture they caused her. Hehehe, completely stable. But the thought of destroying a planet? That was interesting. Did she have like a bunch of technology in this scenario? Or was she just being herself and destroying a planet? These questions were important. Raising her hand, the firstie formulated her answer quickly. "Well, do I have any cool weapons? Or is it just me as I am now? Because if I DO have awesome magic or weapons, I would either use a destructive spell, find a way to catch all of the planetary debris and then put it in a giant plastic bag. Or even just use a giant ray gun thing. But if it's just me now..." Deep breath here, her brown eyes scanned the classroom quickly and then she continued. " But if it's just me, I would go into space with an icepick and start HACKING at it." And then the shorter girl used her sort of muscly arms to imitate pickaxing something. Because that was normal behavior. Sorry in advance for the term Professor. Quote: Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin What a great question the professor asked! Kace smirked and wondered how he would go about destroying the earth. He saw a lot of movies dealing with that aspect but all of them sort of failed. He heard people would have minions. But Kace had another idea.... He raised his hand and said, "Professor I would get an evil scientist and sent him out to make like potions that could be radioactive and then infuse the potion with like a nuclear gun or even a laser and he can aim for the earth and it could blow up!" He didn't want to get his fingerprints on the gun incase he got caught. But how likely would that happen? Kace did think about this stuff. No shame there. Quote: Originally Posted by griffin How would they destroy Earth? Was that what this lesson was about? Penelope didn't want to think about it. If they were talking about ways to destroy planets, the activity was probably not going to be anything that she would like. Maybe they would be making things explode, but Professor Flamsteed's activities were impossible to predict. Whatever it was, it did not look like today would be her day. The best she could hope for right now was not ending up in the hospital wing. Quote: Originally Posted by Sararara Ooooh, destroying things! Morbid or not, that sounded cool. Norah's hand shot into the air. "You would have something physical to make it really small or destroy it. I'm not sure how I'd do that, though, because Earth is so big. Maybe I could get superduper good at magic and then shrink it from outer space." Then she could be an astronaut, YEAH! She hesitated slightly before continuing, "But just wiping out all the people won't stop it from being a planet, right? 'Cause all the other planets don't have people or plants or ANYTHING and they're still planets." Right? Then what made a planet a planet? Norah raised her hand once more to ask the question that had just struck her. "Professor, what makes a planet a planet anyway?" That was a good question, right? Quote: Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Simple really, I'd put them under some sort of mind control and make them destroy themselves." Angel didn't want to do any of the heavy work, that would just be too easy, but watching them destroy their own planet and each other would be fun and entertaining. "You might as well be entertain whilst watching the planet go down in flames." Quote: Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104 Marigold was liking this class. It was a bit more muggly, which meant she understood it better. As for destroying the world? "I would probably get into a high branch of government, until I became prime minister, then led England to take over all the other countries. I would let them live happily for a while, to be lulled into a false sense of security." She paused. "Then I would destroy the world." Quote: Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE Ceo was B-O-R-E-D He had nodded off a few times here and there even with his House Jimmy Bursting his voice box every now and then. He just didn't get Astrology....Astronomy whatever. His attention was taken by Gabe who had snagged the very Bonny Slytherin's hand. That Liar! He can't get on his Case for snogging his House Mate ~~who had Pumpkin Chapstick so that was a thing~~ then go and take a girls hand into his! Not Fair at all. This having had caught his attention made him hear the House Jimmy's question. While annoyed that he heard it. The Question intrigued him. So Ceo cared enough to answer it. "Weel foremaist a'd tak' control o' a' scientist's brains." Yeah Good start if he could do that then.... "Then hae thaim create a deedly airborne virus that is immune tae a' environents oan earth. Next a'd hae thaim spread th' virus o'er th' globe"... No wait there was a cooler way. Like Undead and stuff. YEAH the undead were always the best World Enders! "...Did ah mention this wis a zombie virus? aye sae th' scientists wid be infected by it, 'n' spread wi' thair teeth. All fowk in th' world wid be turned wi`in a year 'n' na alien woud wantae land 'ere." Ceorlic smiled then put his hands on his desk like he cared for this class. Quote: Originally Posted by lazykitty Professor Flamsteed got a nod for finally saying her name right. Thanks, professor. And she was hurriedly jotting down the mass of information meeting her ears, because one never knew when it would come up again. Yes, even the stuff about the fictional evildoers. But then......wait had he just said what she thought he'd said? What did that have to do with Astronomy?! A joke?! Oh for fruit's sake, there was nothing funny about........oh, geocide. Still not funny, but less serious than what she had been thinking. Because this only happened in movies and TV shows, right? Her classmates had some good ideas, but they weren't very practical, were they? "I would drop a lit match into each of the world's stores of gasoline, including the ones under the gas stations and then while everyone is busy dealing with the aftermath of that, send a giant asteroid, twenty times larger than the one that ended the dinosaurs, hurtling towards Earth. Hopefully, by the time anyone notices it, it would already be in the Earth's atmosphere and there wouldn't be a thing anyone could do about it." And Earth would be nothing but a giant flaming ping pong ball, bouncing off the other planets. Maw-hahaha. Pinky held at corner of mouth. Then, a sudden sobering thought occurred to her. "Or you could just let the Muggles continue to do what they're doing, causing a huge and permanent change to the climate and making the hole in the ozone layer larger and larger." Shivers for that one. Quote: Originally Posted by Lottiepot Although she admitted that the start of this lesson was rather odd and very muggle orientated, Layla kind of liked the way that the Professor accepted her answer. She received a salute, the same salute he had given her when she arrived in the classroom and gave him a smile in greeting. She replicated that smile now, slightly larger than before. Currently known as Miss Grumpy rather than Miss Ackerly to her dormmates, Layla was actually capable of smiling sometimes. She listened to other people’s answers, agreeing with some. She did not know all of the answers nor did she feel it was necessary to write them down when she was told who they were but she still listened. But his next question did not seem to be astronomy related at all and the Ravenclaw was momentarily confused as to where exactly this lesson was headed. Were they all going to pretend that they were supervillains or something? Because quite frankly she didn’t think she wanted to get involved with that at all. She thought for a brief period of time over how she was going to answer him. She had no idea nor did she feel any need to ‘take over the world’ and so she barely passed a thought over it. She raised her hand cautiously after listening to everyone else’s bizarre and downright morbid ideas. “I guess I’d start from the inside out. Won’t it be easier to target the Earth’s core first?” Why were they even thinking about this? “If you can ignite that then it’s likely the rest of the planet would explode very quick afterwards.” How exactly she would go about that was another matter. Giant pieces of TNT? A huge missile? Who knew? “Either that or you could target the Earth’s atmosphere too. Changin' the Earth’s atmospheric composition would eliminate what it is that makes this planet diff'rent from all the others. No life on the planet means that, to us anyway, Earth would be ‘destroyed’ of it's lifeforms and everythin'” And then target the core to finish it once and for all. Seriously? She thought this was supposed to be a scientific lesson.. Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Jasmine listened as her classmates gave their ideas for destroying the Earth. Some were pretty clever and some were a little frightening. She found it kind of difficult to go into evil villain mode, but finally came up with an answer. Jasmine raised her hand and began to speak. "If I was one of the villains, first I would try to get the Earthlings to do the dirty work for me. I'd encourage them to use lots and lots of plastic, aerosol sprays and paper. Cut down the trees. Then I would destroy the recycling centers so they'd have to use more resources. The evironment would eventually be ruined and the Earth would not be fit for life. Although, I would have to be a very patient villain for this to work and I believe that villains are generally not patient by nature.". So that was clearly not the best of ideas. Quote: Originally Posted by feeheeheeny ...Blink. Blink blink. Sophie was totally cool with this lesson. She was following just fine, learning which characters were from Star Trek vs Star Wars and enjoying Flamsteed's gentle letdown to those whose guesses were incorrect. She even took some notes - mostly just making sure she knew for the future that Star Trek was the one Flamsteed was so hung up on - and squiiiiiiinted as the conversation took a turn for... the annihilation of the earth. Well. She hadn't expected that. Nor had she anticipated Flamsteed asking them to put themselves in the shoes of an evil villain and SHARE their method for how they would go about destroying the planet. Now, Sophie Brown was no loon, but... even innocent, hypothetical talk of such things electrified her nerves. It wasn't that she was worried that it would give anyone ideas - she was worried the first things that came to her mind were so elaborate and sensible in the annihilation of the earth that some people might question if she had given this a lot of thought. Which she hadn't. But so many DIFFERENT ways that she thought would have high success rates came to mind all at once, and she... snorted a little. And was, absolutely in no way, going to share a single thing. If you had a brilliant mind that, over a certain turn of events could turn evil, would you really want to let up on that? She would continue her apparent vow of silence for the day, thank you. Quote: Originally Posted by Fira SPOILER!!: Previous Phoenix and Professor Posts Gary tried not to laugh loudly and get the professors attention on himself when the paper landed on its aim. He closed a hand over his widely grinning mouth and was about to prepare another when the dude with shiny robes turned to him...it was Phoenix Toros. Of course. Who else would wear sparkly robes to classes anyway? The Slytherin caught the paper Phoenix threw back at him in the air and opened it just to see the Gryffindor's art work of a snake. He blinked at the paper. What did that mean now? What was Phoenix trying to imply by sending him the paper back with a snake on it? Now that was a wonder. Gary wanted to know. But the professor apparently had seen his paper ball shooting. No, no. No one could see or spot Gary Striker when he didn't want to be seen. The professor probably had come aware of it when Phoenix simply yelled his name just like any obnoxious Gryffindor would do. Obnoxious as he was, it did't mean Gareth thought in a negative way about him. The sparkly boy had this odd geniality attached to himself somehow. Gary grinned as the professor commented about the Gryffindor's shiny robe threads yet the grin vanished when he heard the man pronounce his name. The Slytherin just stared at the professor not saying anything in return. Not waste paper? Meh, it was not wasting at all. Actually he had been doing good use of the paper yet he didn't expect the lion head of house to understand that. Now that he had been warned, though, Gary didn't dare making another paperball. Instead he just glared at the pictures that were shown with a not-so-interested expression. He didn't really care who they were and, except the man in black in the picture no 9, they all looked ridiculous. Still staring at the pictures with a bored expression, Gareth sighed a bit out of boredom yet there was also the fact that he was doing it on purpose hoping the professor would find it annoying that this Slytherin found his topic, get offended by it and throw him out of classroom. Then Gary could be out, free to do whatever he could do. However, it didn't look like the professor cared about it at all, let alone finding it annoying or offending. His mind was busy with such things until the shock of what Phoenix said snapped him out of it. He immediately sent a glare towards the Gryffindor not knowing what to say. He was embarrassed yet ready to hurt anyone who would dare trying to make fun of that. But... ...Hadn't the class just started to become interesting? Oh, yeah. Kabooms and destroying a planet, especially Earth, sounded very, so VERY, interesting to this Slytherin boy. He quickly sat straighter and considered what he could do to cause an amazing, preferably perfect, KABOOM to destroy everything. "Oooooo...!!!" This was exciting. Of course, there had to be chaos among the living before he would destroy the whole planet for it could be just plain boring to destroy everything in an instant. "Professor, maybe we can send a Phoenix Toros to the space. Very offended by how sparkly that boy is, the sun would destroy itself and the sun being destroyed, it would soon cause the end of the planets." Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir ...... Demote....... from planet. Oh. Oh boy, Toby KNEW this one. And AIREY knew that TOBY knew it, because he knew that Toby was fond of that one movement: VIVA LA PLUTO. He raised his hand and EYYYYYYYED his pogo buddy. Like, not in a mean way, in a squinty sort of be-nice-about-my-baby-pluto. "I dunno about destroying anything," he said, pacifist that he was. "But if I wanted to demote Earth, I'd find a way to go back in time to before the Earth got it's proper shape, and then shrink it wayyyyyyyy down, so it wasn't big enough to have it's own gravitational pull or anything and stays being a weird shaped rock. Maybe I'd move it out of the Sun's orbit too, just to be sure. That way you're not really destroying anything, you're making it so that it never happened." Ahem. "Not that I'd ever do any of that to a planet." Just so everyone knew. He'd picked the most out of this world (heh) hypothetical method for this too, all on purpose. Quote: Originally Posted by Lislchen Hehe. Unicron sounded like unicorn. It was funny. Maggie giggled and wrote the name down. Only that name. She circled it and drew a few stars around it. Heheh. Unicron. She was starting to pay attention in class even. And she jumped a little in her seat when the professor went all KABOOM! Kaboom. What would they do to destroy the Earth. She had an answer to this. "From the inside." Oh. Right. Hand. Maggie lifted her hand. "Like-" And then she just pointed to Dante. "What he said." That had sounded very clever yes. And like a good idea. Mhm. Quote: Originally Posted by Squishy How would she destroy the Earth? Did Professor Flamsteed even KNOW her? Clearly not, because she would never do anything like that. Even hypothetically. Lux loved this planet and everything that was on it besides mean people and some of the animals. But even they shouldn't be destroyed, so she made a point of not answering. Except.... Toby had a pretty good idea of how to deal with things without actual destruction. Yep. Nodding her head in agreement at what he said, she was all for making the planet have never existed because at least nothing would die that way. Quote: Originally Posted by Yaya All super villians who had the purpose, and could have accomplished destroying a planet. And now it was up to them to bring out a super villian pretended plan to destroy the EARTH? Hmmmm... hmmm... hmmm??? She widened her eyes as her classmates answered, in the most insightful, clever way of how they 'would' do it. Paloma resisted the urge to shake her head. She wasn't so fond of seeing her super home destroyed, but she had to think...at least one way, to have a little malicious heart like those movie and comic villians. Maybe not the smartest, but she had to try! Raising her hand and clearing her voice, she spoke: "Well...if I were a villian, and taking credit from old and weird stories, well...I'd sort of make a complot between many super bad guys who want to destroy each other with nuclear weapons and one day....KABOOOMMMM, they would actually do it. And because of all that nuclear reactions going everywhere, the Earth's atmosphere would actually break like a crystal ball, and the Sun's rays would hit us really hard, making the most atomic reaction here, and then the Earth would explode." Yeah....she wasn't evil, at all. Good thing that she wasn't persuasive, at all. Quote: Originally Posted by Steelsheen SPOILER!!: Eden and Airey Eyes. She can feel.... eyes. Huxley’s gaze slid sideways and caught a fellow blue robed one STARING at her. Had this one been male she would’ve given a mock flying kiss. But this one was female. She wasn’t interested in females... least not enough to do mocking kissy faces. So attack eyebrows goes to you Missy. And incredibly enough, her attention returns to Professor Pacman, not because he nearly forgot her name—she only had one ~~that’s easily seen~~, but because his next question was EXACTLY what this upperclassman was interested in. World domination is child’s play. True power lay in something else... “Well given that I don’t have a glorified scythe that doubles as a glorious scepter--- yet.....” she is definitely not discounting the possibility that she could obtain it, or better yet, create one “I will have to find other means to complete this task.” Leaning back into her seat and pressing the tips of her fingers together she continues “First I will put out a couple of jobs ads and have them transmitted into space. The ads would call for contractors— a miner, a broker and an engineer. I will meet with the engineers first and finalize a plan. Next I will have the miners start excavating resources deep within the Earth’s core, then have a broker arrange the storage and sale of these. Give it a bit of time the mining would prove to destabilize planetary structure, causing it to implode dramatically. It is then that the engineers will finish the work, clearing debris and making way for an intergalactic highway.” “So I meet the objectives—the demotion of Earth into a non-planet, and I would be set for life.” Hmm maybe she should start putting an ad out now yeah? Quote: Originally Posted by hermionesclone No joke, villains were some of the BEST characters. There was something about the way they were ready to get what they want. Nothing can make a story better than a good ol villain. Their only drawback was that they were so freaking STUPID sometimes. Getting themselves caught like that. Digging holes in their own plans. Sigh. Stupid. Unicron sounded like unicorn and that was NOT a suitable name for a villain that can physically devour planets. Just saying. The topic turned to one of blowing up the Earth, which sounded like too much work but he was still dead pleased with where this was going. Especially when that kid over there (Dante) said something about infiltrating the governments and starting a war. Brilliant. You'd just be the one to provide the equipment but they'd be the ones to blow themselves up. Simply brilliant. What would he do if he was a villain? WELL. After a while, Grayson raised a hand in the air and said, "See, I like the idea of blowing up the earth from the inside out. Planting a couple of things down there that'll really get the Earth shaking." Only problem was whether it could survive the overly hot conditions down there. "OR, if you're sneaky enough, you could nudge some of the damages inflicted on the Earth and make it worse. Pollute the atmosphere even more so that the planet overheats or freezes completely on its own. Pull the planet closer and closer to the Sun OR push it further and further away. Whatever works." AND, in this case, they would have a safe ticket out of the situation, right? He wasn't going to blow up something unless he knew he was safe. Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixStar An explosion sounded the most reasonable to her, but that was so easy and quick. Where was the fun in that? AJ was a fan of pranks and having a good time so she wouldn't just making the planet go boom. Oh no, she would being having way more fun than that. With an angelic smile on her face, she raised her hand. "I would get to know people on the planet... get them to be my friends. I would learn everything there is to learn about them, and slowly but surely use their powers against them. The key to being successful is to not go in there announcing your arrival and just start explosions." While that would be fun, it was all be pointed to you, and what if you didn't cause a big enough explosion? It would be too late. Your mission would have failed, and now YOU have a target on your back. "You mastermine little details... like all of the power failing. Who could have done that? Surely not me because I am your FRIEND. Then the food sources mysteriously go away? Again, the finger isn't pointed at me because I am still your concerned "friend" With them all in my back pocket I would have the planet destroyed while their people cried on my shoulder." Ahem. Not that she WOULD do that, it was just that if you WERE going to do something. Why not do it right? Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana Err...demote Earth as a planet? That meant she'd be saved, right? Because, otherwise, she was SO not in with this demoting Earth plan. BUT...if she would be saved, then she guessed she could come up with an idea or two. "Well," she said, raising her hand, "Earth wouldn't be much without water or oxygen, would it? So I guess I'd find some way to suck up all the water from the Earth or deprive it of its oxygen." Slingshotting it to the Sun sounded cool, too. Sophie had heard some girl mention that one. Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo They were getting to destroying the earth? Making it not a planet? Imagining they were villains? All easily doable. If you wanted to get rid of something there were a couple ways you could effortlessly go about it, especially if you were a villain because those tended to be strong enough to pull off whatever schemes they set their minds to. "I'd go with a collision, just for the show." Lex considered, reflectively. Might as well have fun doing it, yeah? "Have a planet of equal or greater mass slam into the earth then watch the planets crumple and shatter with the impact sending what would now only be space rock hurtling through the galaxy. Reckon they might hit other planets but that wouldn't be my concern if I was a villain that didn't even live in the milky way to begin with." She would assume she wouldn't be living there because this was all about explosions and Merlin knew you didn't blow things up in your OWN backyard when there were other options out there. It was just...bad form, you know? Quote: Originally Posted by kayquilz BEAM. Eden actually beamed at the very nice ~~and handsome~~ professor and leaned back in her chair...all smug. YEAH. SHe had gotten it RIGHT and stuff. For once, the new 'claw felt SMERT. She grinned as she scribbled down some important things and then....wow. Destroying the eaaaarf?! Eden thought about it. It was an easy question for her. "Sir--wouldn't you just--wouldn't you just have to make some aliens REALLY mad?" she asked, wide, blue eyes. "Just--I KNOW aliens exist--" they did. HER MAM HAD SEEN A UFO BEFORE OKAY. "They DO exist AAAAND--and--you just have to make them mad and let them do all the dirty work. Insult their intelligence--or even just ask them politely--COME BLOW UP THE EARTH PLEASE--" and then Eden realized she was RAMBLING and being CRAZY so she blushed and quieted herself a little. "Basically--just get some aliens involved. Technically--no blood on your hands, either." Yep. All the aliens fault. Once again, Eden sat back, having answered ANOTHER question, and feeeeelt the eyes---OH. It was the girl that knew about Sailor Saturn--and Eden kind of waved, regardless of the horrible look she was receiving from her. RUDE. Eden just raised an eyebrow as if to ask WHAT DID I DO? But them looked back at Professor Airhead----FLAMSTEED. Flamsteed. Eden did NOT think he was an airhead AT ALL but his NAAAME was just--UGH. She got it all jumbled in her brain. Great. Quote: Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles DRAGON ball comics huh? Kyroh scribbled down the the name so he could look them up later. And then he started drawing a Dragon, because they were talking about Dragons. Or Astronomy? One of the two. Destroy the world? Be a VILLAIN? Kyroh wrinkled his nose, almost ready to protest but he figured that to BEAT the bad guys you sometimes had to act like a bad guy right? Yeah. Plus it could be fun to think like a bad guy. And even Maddie had a good point with the litter! And the Head Girl too. Hm. "Well first of all Professor I wouldn't tell the good guys my plan after I captured them." Yeah. That was always stupid move number one. It was KIND OF like telling Flamsteed his plan now but that was okay. "But THEN I'd befriend all the world leaders and it would work cause I'm still little and kinda cute I guess. And then after I'd convince them to make me a kid leader of the world and beg them to let me pass one law. And then when they said yes I'd take off on a spaceship all the way to the moon and make an official law that the Earth was no longer a planet." Bam. Easy peasy. Planet DEMOTED. "THEN just to make sure people didn't by pass my law i'd use a meteor moving machine and move a really giant meteor right in Earth's path and make it smash into Earth." Just in case. Precautions y'know. They were just ALL lucky that he wasn't a bad guy. Quote: Originally Posted by GrapehSarah Gwen couldn't help but smile as Zeke nudged her. She was glad to have made such a good friend already. She could completely ignore the fact that he wasn't a girl because hello most girls weren't into tree climbing as she was. Or as awesome at it. She followed his lead and started to jot down some quick notes. How this was all important to astronomy she had no idea. But hey. Notes were notes. She even did cheesy little doodles of the characters next to them. Like little cartoon like outlines. Now for everyone else to fill in all the answers for her. Gwen gave a proud little smiled. Muggle cartoons were awesome. She wasn't much of a fan of a lot of muggle things, but that was definitely one thing they did right. She watched as he went and talked to an older boy...in awesome sparkly robes! Okay. Gwen had to meet that boy and ask him how he did that. She didn't care if it was against dress code. She wouldn't mind adding a little more sparkle to her own wardrobe. Gwen jotted down the names next to their respective numbers and doodles as Professor Airey went on, telling people who were correct. And look at that. He even put the full list on the board when he was done. Best professor ever. Gwen gave a very excited smile. Geocide, huh? Now this was going to be an interesting lesson. She got to use her creativity. She listened a bit to everyone else's answers, tuning in and out. Now just how would she destroy the earth... Ah. She got it. Gwen raised her hand purposefully. "I would start to breed lots of really dangerous creatures and slowly release them back in the wild. That way they would be the ones taking care of all the damage and destruction." Did that even make sense? Oh well. It involved animals so it was good enough for her. That was also more slow destroying then demoting. "Basically use the animals to kill the human population. No humans means no planetary classification." See. She kinda had a point. Next. Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin See that? That was EXACTLY right. Dot leaned over to offer her fist to her bestest. Way way waaaaaaaay over, 'cause he hadn't been able to sit by her, but still. SCOFF. Full blown scoff. If it was just some species, then how was ANYONE sure that it wasn't actually an alien bowtruckle? Surely it was possible that it was exactly that, and Mr. Astronut was just uninformed about how you named stuff in space. Scoffscoffscoff. As for destroying the planet, that seemed like a bad topic to discuss. Nothing like a little destruction and death of billions of people, animals, plants, and milkshakes to make you scared of your classmates. Dot mentally stored away which of her classmates were criminal geniuses, which were just criminal, which were scaryscaryscary, and which probably needed help tying their shoes. It didn't hurt to keep people categorized for your safety. "I think we're doing a pretty good job of it already, Mr. Professor. Destroying it, I mean." Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom WHOA. The astronomy class had just turned into a very morbid subject, hadn't it? If you were going to destroy humanity, how would you do it? Shockingly, Caleb had not given the issue much thought. Still, he raised his hand. "I think...I'd figure out how to generate a black hole and just suck the Earth into it. Super fast, you wouldn't even feel a thing," he said. Right? Your body would just like...implode in a second or something right? Quote: Originally Posted by ArianaBlack The Gryffindor thought deeply. Hm. What would he do? Not like he'd want to be the villian because if he got the choice he'd be the HERO!! Like Batman and Superman and Spiderman and all those cool guys from the comics!!! But if he had to destroy the earth.... Hm. "Well.... I think I'd send an exploding time bomb to the center of the world and watch it explode or something because that'd be pretty cool I guess... But I'd want to be the one saving it I think, Professor." Cause then he could be in the comics TOO!!! A COMIC ABOUT ZANDER ADAIR LIKE WOAH. Imagine it now in gold letters.... Zander Adair, Saving Hogwarts from Cold Ones since 2083. It'd totally sell millions. MHM. Quote: Originally Posted by LittleRandom How would he go about destroying the Earth? There had to be some kind of spell for that right? Well... if not he could come up with a variety of things. "Assuming we can't use magic..." although magic would've been really, really cool, impressive and probably a lot easier than other things. "I suppose I'd figure out a way to form a black hole on the surface of the Earth and as it grows it would consume everything until it finally consumed the whole planet" because that would totally work. In fact, creating a black hole could end up being rather fun. "Or we could create a teleporter because in order to teleport theoretically all of the atoms that make up something would have to be taken apart and reassembled, but if we set it so that the Earth and all of the inhabitants aren't reassembled the world just... disappears and becomes a variety of molecules and atoms floating around space!" he finished with an innocent smile. He probably had been watching too much Star Trek with his mum lately... There was an episode in which someone had been lost and their molecules never rearranged after all. And although muggles were currently trying to create a teleportation device so far they didn't seem able to reassembled things again either. Shame really. It would make travelling so much more convenient. The professor listened carefully to each student as they spoke, nodding and mhmmming at all the appropriate places, but offered no specific reply just yet. Were they all listening to themselves? At how easily pop culture had made it seem the Earth was to be destroyed. How any planet for that matter could just go KABOOM with the flip of a switch. But that was what made science fiction so fascinating, wasn't it? The fact that there was no end to what the imagination could come up with with applied to scientific inquiry and loose theory. While students' active imaginations were stellar to see working, some of them were also quite...terrifying in how methodical their 'plans' were. He wasn't trying to create the next army of Death Eaters or anything (although the thought of scientific Death Eaters was a rather amusing one) but he found himself hoping that none of them, especially some of the Ravenclaws, found their way to Knockturn Alley and befriended some of the more unsavory sort of witches and wizards. "Alright alright, that is enough ideas for now," he announced, raising both of his hands to attempt to draw some more attention to himself after checking his sundial watch for the time. "While all of your apocalyptic ideas and methods are creative, they are just that. Ideas. Popular culture has created a vision that the Earth can easily be destroyed. The truth of the matter is that the Earth is a planet that has been built to last. It is already some 4.54 billion years old and is essentially a 5.972 sextillion, that's 18 zero's, metric ton ball of iron floating in space." He took a few steps away from his desk and stood in the center of the room with a somewhat grim expression on his face. "Now, several methods mentioned - fictional and not - were those that went on to talk about destroying the Earth's atmosphere. To make the planet itself inhabitable. Now the sad reality is that some of those methods are very real and is why the field of atmospheric sciences is so important. So, to go back to one of the very first questions of the lesson, why do we study astronomy, for some it is because they are trying to save lives. Knowing and understanding how humans can effect the Earth is vital, especially for you who are the future of the planet." And all that was a bit dramatic, which is why his face then exploded into an overly exaggerated grin as he clapped his hands together firmly in front of his chest and rocked back on his heels. He turned his attention towards Miss Kittredge and gave her a small nod. "However, those evil master minds among you who spoke of making Earth uninhabitable have, as Miss Kittredge has pointed out, failed the task at hand. Destroying life on Earth will not stop it from being a planet. Just for a bit of review, remember that a planet is defined by the following," he continued as he gave the blackboard another tap to make the images disappear and words appear in their place. Quote: International Astronomical Union definition of a planet: orbits the sun has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round is not a satellite (moon) of another object has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit He turned his attention back to the semicircle of desks. "Most of you came up with concepts seemingly right out of science fiction. In fact, Mr. Baines and others who mentioned creating black holes have literally done that as that was Nero's method of destroying worlds." Using something called Red Matter, but there was no need to go into the fantasy science of things that were impossible to recreate but made for interesting plots. "You can read up on black holes in your textbook, and older students may recall our study of them in this classroom, but black holes eventually will evaporate due to something called Hawking radiation. For the average black hole out there, this will take a really REEEEEEEEALLY long time. But for something that could be 'created'," he said, using air quotes around the term because it was HIGHLY unlikely that such a thing would ever be able to be accomplished. "This would happen almost instantaneously, rendering your method...well...impossible. Pushing the Earth into a black hole using tractor beams..." BEAMS, Miss Banner. BEAMS. "...or other technology is also impossible. Gravity alone would prevent this from happening not to mention that the nearest black hole is some 1600 light years away from us." He paused again. "The same goes for blowing the planet up entirely, either from the outside or from within. To even hope to accomplish this one would need approximately 1,246,400,000,000 tonnes of antimatter to blast the planet apart so much that gravity could not pull the bits back together and reform it. Let's just say that humans are no where near that number." Debunked. Again. There obviously was not enough time to go into everyone's theories and talk the science behind them, so he was going to put all that to rest for now. "Now, asteroid impacts...the collision method for destroying the planet is a threat that is very real. Now, I use the term 'real' loosely here because the planet has already been struck by many over its lifetime and still continues its orbit around the Sun. Once when a Mars-sized object slammed into the Earth, billions of years ago...and of course the one that ended the dinosaur's time on Earth. An asteroid called 2014 RC was within one-tenth of the distance from Earth to the moon back in September of 2014, but NASA has an efficient asteroid detection technology in place as of 2065 that will give the Earth ample warning should anything threaten the Earth and, with the way technology is developing, we will have a means to take preventative measures." And that was FAR too much talking. Yawning a little himself - and wishing he had some water - the astronomer looked down at his sundial watched and stretched his arms. "But enough talk for now. Wands out everyone!" he commanded as he gave his desk a firm tap and made 4 boxes of what looked like house colored sand (blue, red, yellow, and green) wrapped up on small plastic parcels. "A few terms ago I had students create their own solar system as a laboratory exercise. Today, we will not exactly be doing that, but knowing how to create a planet-like object will be necessary. These bags," he said as he picked up one of the red 'sand' bags. "Contain ground up stone, iron, and a little something extra to help recreate a planet-like orb that will float in the air on its own if you perform the spell correctly. I would like each of you to come get a bag or two in your house color." Yes, Miss Wisteria, yellow. "And try to create a planet. Simply jab your wand towards the bag and say Fingere Elementi," he explained as he demonstrated. The clear plastic of the bag began to melt and float upwards in his hand before spinning like a top. After a few moments, and with a loud POP!, a perfectly spherical "planet" was floating in the palm of his hand. "Once you have created a planet please just sit tight. The real activity will begin after a few minutes of practice." And for the record, HE could certainly live without having his personal bubble ruptured by hugs. OOC: ACTIVITY TIME! You will need a minimum of 1 post for this portion, but of course can do more if you want. The steps you need to be sure to include are the following: collect a plastic bag of colored "sand" in your house color perform Fingere Elementi (wand movement is a jab towards the bag) successfully create one house colored planet! (or not if your character is really bad at spells. That's cool beans too) Minor explosions are fine, but nothing that would land your character in the hospital wing or without a limb, please and thank you! Got a question? Please feel free to shoot me a VM or PM or ask Professor Flamsteed IC. Just be sure to title your post with something like "PROFESSOR HELP!!!" to make sure I do not accidentally overlook you! You will have approximately 24 hours to complete this activity. __________________ We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back......................................... But now we're seeing all the beauty in the broken glass..................................... The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony My voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like