out of control scientific experiment theme

Something goes wrong during a scientific experiment, and everyone dies. Perhaps a particle accelerator created a black hole. Stupid scientists.

13 total · 4 choice · 6 major · 3 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Alien Resurrection (1997) choice Some military scientists were breeding parasitic Aliens aboard their spaceship, but the creatures escaped their enclosures, and it was left to Ripley 8 and a band of mercenaries to destroy the ship before it reached Earth.
movie: The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) choice A 1943 experiment to make a Navy ship invisible to radar opened up a potentially world consuming vortex in 1984.
tz2002e1x35 choice A pressing question of the story is this: Would switching on the experimental Gemini device result in the world being destroyed?
voy4x21 choice the omega molecule as power source
movie: Plague (1979) major Human error resulted in a lethal and highly-contagious genetically engineered bacteria getting out from the lab where it was invented, and it spread like wildfire all around the world.
movie: Prometheus (2012) major The humanoid aliens engineered a pathogen of some kind and it got out of their control before they could turn it on the human race and killed them all.
movie: The Strange World of Planet X (1958) major The hyper-magnetic fields generated by Gil Graham and Dr. Laird's experiments cause unnatural weather patterns, a weakening of the magnetic shield that protects the surface of the Earth from cosmic rays, gigantic insects and other mutated monsters.
nightgallery2x22b major The story ended with an out of control fission process destroying Earth.
tng5x10 major soliton wave stuff
tz1985e3x26 major A report surfaced that an explosion at a bio-weapons facility may have been responsible for the blindness.