Link Salad, Because Snow!

Feb 26, 2013 10:06

It's supposed to snow, and my evening event got cancelled, so have some links.

1) You may have heard of natural nuclear reactors, several of which formed on Earth. Well, in yet another example that "everything is bigger on Mars" it appears that Mars had a natural reactor (PDF). Except Mars' reactor was bigger and underwent "explosive disassembly ( Read more... )

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baron_waste March 5 2013, 14:15:14 UTC

A friend of mine mentioned those natural reactors a few months ago. I thought the idea fascinating for a colony world - 100,000 years of free power is nothing to sniff at! But 100 kW ain't a lot of power.

[That's okay, you just beef it up a little, hey? And, y' know, maybe a little mo -

Oops.

… Maybe that's what happened on Mars: The Ancient Astronauts had theyse'ves a li'l accident.]

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