How to Make Advanced Technology.

Today, I will be teaching humans and aliens alike how to make advanced technology, as I fly away from wherever they happen to be (not because it's incendiary, I promise.) 

Step 1: Find out how to make antimatter.

Good luck with this one.

Step 2: Make 100 gigagrams of antimatter.

This may take a few million years.

Step 3: Forget containing it! Just dump it next to whatever facility you used to make it.

Nothing will go wrong with this.

Step 4: Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until there are noticeable effects.

Noticeable effects do not include: Planet heating, large amounts of terrain suddenly vanishing, and wildlife disappearing. I can promise you that these are not indeed side effects but odd occurrences that happen to be coincidences. 

Step 5: Rush to create a spaceship before the planet disintegrates.

Good luck.

The reason this works, is that when the planet is disintegrating scientists become less lazy and decide to actually work towards creating spaceships, and anything to get away as fast as possible instead of sitting around doing nothing.

Or it doesn't. But I guess there is only one way to find out..