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cite Castle Bravo or something, not the Titanic.

I like your idea. It's done.

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Zubon, your comments are good, and I can't come up with particularly good ideas for dangerous testing of grey goo and strange matter. Probably the best is to hand the developed technology over to terrorists.

Speaking of terrorists and testing, I've added an addendum to my post for dealing with terrorism and other similar issue where a direct "dangerous test" is not possible.

Global warming is more nebulous and political, so a specific dangerous test is hard to imagine. A bastardised version of dangerous testing may be to require either a massive increase or decrease of greenhouse gasses, no in between allowed. So those who argue against greenhouse gas reductions would have to be much more certain of their case. But that isn't really the same thing.

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