303 | AMA | February 2025

5117.165 - 5138.864 Sean Carroll

There was never a time when someone did a calculation and they said, oh, this will ignite the atmosphere, okay? Rather, people suggested, like, is it possible that this will ignite the atmosphere? Should we worry about that? And they did the best they could. They tried to calculate it, and they found out that the answer was no. It would not ignite the atmosphere, so they moved on.