>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)

Earth by David Brin? He uses a similar mechanism in that book. 

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