re: What if they DID do it?
Are you saying we should be careful about what we wish for, because we might have our wishes come true?
That would as revolutionary as saying that thinking beyond the box might entail thinking beyond the results of the next quarter. My god, man you are suggesting speculating on long term consequences. Next, you might bring up something like the consequences of global warming and open up that can of worms.
If you get a chance, go see "An Inconvgenient Truth." There are things that man was meant to know, but some men never will--there is the rub.
Publius