Planet cracker

[MatthewVilter]

Originally Posted by Gorgoo

If you want the official take on it, there is a sidebar in GURPS Supers that goes over how much damage it would take to destroy the Earth that happens to be viewable on page 7 of the preview PDF.

I was trying to come us with these numbers on my own and hit a problem. If a put "8*((cube root (weight of the earth)) in lb)" into Wolfram Alpha I get "1.88927x10^9 lb^(1/3) (cube root pounds)". What is a "cube root pound"? I get, like, no hits on Google!