Flutterby™! :

A bunch of people have forwarded me the story about the Brookhaven National Labs accelerator that may or may not destroy the solar system. Two things come to mind: First is that these same fears existed with the early experiments with nuclear energy and fission weapons, and probably again with fusion weapons. Second is that if one is passionate about one's work, there's really no check against doing such an experiment, it's not like anyone's gonna be around to censure if the results are bad...