>>Didn't the people at Los Alamos think that the atomic bomb's chain reaction might keep going and set the entire atmosphere on fire? And I seem to remember the

>>Didn't the people at Los Alamos think that the atomic bomb's chain reaction might keep going and set the entire atmosphere on fire? And I seem to remember the large hadron collider failing to collapse into a black hole. Devil's advocate: Give it time. I wouldn't take it lightly how easy it is for us to destroy ourselves. We just obtained the means to destroy our entire civilization less than one hundred years ago, that length of time is nothing compared to the entire human history.