I believe that the danger in the difference between the natural occurrences of these phenomenon and recreating them in the lab comes down quite simply to this: maniacal laughter. If there's no maniacal laughter, then the experiment will be okay, or at the least not entirely destroy time and space.

If there *is* maniacal laughter... all bets are off. Oh! And don't mistake a haughty french laugh for maniacal laughter. That happens a lot.

Lastly, if I thought the world was about to imminently end, I would certainly spend my last days arguing about it on a message board with a only limited association to the people who could stop it from occurring. That makes a lot of sense to me.

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