: [...]much like the Manhattan Project
: (which, incidentally, had about a 1 in 50 chance of
: causing global destruction. Self sustaining nuclear
: reactions are not safe things to play with. The risk
: of obscene amounts of accidental devestation seems to
: go without saying with weapons of mass destruction
: like nukes and Tains.)
I remember reading that one of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project said he/she believed that there was a chance that the reulting detonation could ignite the atmosphere.
Imagine for a moment, being in the manhattan project, and overhearing a fellow colleague make a bet that the thing you're working on could destroy all life on earth.
Scary, to say the very least, yes?
-Welly
