[Blood of Tyrants]

And what are the deaths of a few innocent people in the grand scale of advancing science?

[NorthMountain]

Fine. Go live in a cave, eat raw meat, and die of infection.

That or become a scientist yourself, and help expand the frontiers of what we know ... and what we know that we don't know.

In any case, life's a bitch ... then you die.

[tanknetter]

Recall that, waiting in the bunker during the countdown for Trinity, Enrico Fermi (I think it was Fermi) started taking bets on whether the Gadget would light the atmosphere on fire and incinerate the planet.