Originally posted by FrothByte
You'd have had a point if Heimdall, Thor and Loki didn't explicitly say that it would destroy the Frost Giant world. You only saw the surface getting destroyed because that was what was visible. What wete you expecting, an X-ray snapshot of how deep the bifrost was cutting through their world? Their world didn't get destroyed because Thor stopped the bifrost before it could cause too much damage.Let me try this from a different angle: Do you believe that had Thor not stopped the Bifrost, then it would have completely annihilated the Frost Giants?
Oh..... Yep, so we are still entering speculative territory because of character statement. Look, you cannot prove either way that it would have destroyed the planet.
Destroying the Frost giants doesn't mean that it destroys their planet ala Unicron or the Death Star. Skinning the planet accomplishes the same thing, without ramping the magnitude up to 11 needlessly without sufficient evidence.
Allow ME to put it another way. You cannot quantify how Bifrost would theoretically destroy a world, because we do not see it done. We've seen the small scale that Thor stopped. You can try and scale up from that, but in the end that is still speculative. Now, you can stop dickwaving "Planet Killing Bifrost" around, because unless you can quantify that, it is meaningless.