Originally Posted by Gillianren

If you'll note, you're not the only one who's mentioned it. I had a professor in college who worked at Bell Labs with one of the scientists in question; this particular one sat up all night re-doing the calculations that showed it to be impossible. Because, you see, even though he knew it was impossible, he was still concerned. Because he would die too.

What you have left out is that it's hardly one person's better nature that we're relying on. It's hundreds. Surely they don't all want to destroy the Earth!