Seems like a good thing to think about, but not to create.

Reminds me of the debate about whether the first atomic bomb test would trigger a fusion reaction in the atmosphere and destroy the Earth. Analysis indicated that the chance of that was small — like “one in a million”. So they went ahead and tried it.

An important thing to realize is that at the time, they had a poor understanding of fission and fusion, and so there could have been something that their analysis overlooked.

Perhaps experiments with such potentially dangerous things should only be done far away from Earth, on an asteroid; or perhaps not done at all.

Perhaps this is what happens to most species in the Universe: they create something they don’t fully understand, and it rapidly gets away from them.

I generally favor pushing the envelope. But sometimes you have to step back and say, Should we really do this?

When I was a teenager I had decided to create nitroglycerin to blow up something that was in my way. I researched how to make it and was confident that I had a safe procedure. But in the end, I realized that there could be something that I did not know about, and it could kill me, and so I decided not to go through with it.