>Vivec wrote: >> But they could never say , "We definitely know what is going to >> happen" because if they did, they would not need to perform these >> experiments. > >I like this to the concerns some scientist had about the testing of the >first nuclear explosive. There was some fear that it would ignite the >atmosphere and destroy life on the earth. > >Of course previous to that test, there was scientific ideas that a >nuclear bomb could not be built, because a nuclear reactions did not >occur rapidly enough to cause an explosion. > >So yeah we don't know, maybe this will lead to the earth becoming >sentient. (pi points for obscure Science Fiction reference)
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