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Topic: Two-billion year old nuclear reactors
Maradon!
posted 10-16-2002 06:15:20 PM
Drakkenmaw
Crunchy, tastes good with ketchup
posted 10-16-2002 06:16:28 PM
Whoa.
Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-16-2002 06:20:00 PM
You should read the Manifold books by Stephen Baxter. One part of the book deals with these kinds of things as viable energy sources for superlow tech cultures...
Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 10-16-2002 06:46:43 PM
I saw on history channel they found somethign they belive to be a battery that was thousands of years old, i forgot what civilazation,

Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work and allready the evil begins to be repaired
- Self Rreliance
Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 10-16-2002 06:57:57 PM
Yeah I read something about this a while back. Scientists now theorize the center of the Earth isn't a big geothermal furnace like they originally thought, but rather a stable nuclear reaction.

Pretty cool to see pictures though hehehehe

Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

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Maradon!
posted 10-16-2002 06:58:24 PM
Neither of you even read the article

quote:
No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction
Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 10-16-2002 07:19:07 PM
I read it. I was stating what I'd read. If the fact has changed, I accept it

*hail to the Maradon*

Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

Maradon!
posted 10-16-2002 07:19:59 PM
You and I posted at nearly the same time, I was referring to Delphi and Mog's posts.

What you posted is actually accurate, damned if I can remember where I read it though.

[ 10-16-2002: Message edited by: Maradon XP ]

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-16-2002 07:24:10 PM
How is my post not reading the article?

Look up Manifold: Origins by Stephen Baxter. He deals with this very same thing. I didn't say there were still any active.

Maradon!
posted 10-16-2002 07:58:14 PM
Oh, I see, I misunderstood the post.

So it looks like just Mog didn't read the article.

as a side note though, what the hell would an ultra-low-tech society do with a nuclear reactor, naturally occurring or not?

Vorago
A completely different kind of Buckethead
posted 10-16-2002 08:00:28 PM
quote:
Nobody really understood why Delphi Aegis wrote:
You should read the Manifold books by Stephen Baxter. One part of the book deals with these kinds of things as viable energy sources for superlow tech cultures...

That was awesome, I remember that

Great books

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-16-2002 08:01:47 PM
They were using it to power something via basic steam principles... Like, using the heat it made, or something..

I haven't read the book in a while, but it was good.

King Parcelan
Chicken of the Sea
posted 10-16-2002 08:06:13 PM
I'm fighting the urge to take the participants' of this thread's lunch money and shove them into lockers.
Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 10-16-2002 08:07:58 PM
Hey, all of us nerds aren't scrawny weaklings.

I'd make a good linebacker if I actually beefed up 80 lbs. and, like, wasn't afraid of pain and stuff..

Edit: Added sum wrds and speeling.

[ 10-16-2002: Message edited by: Delphi Aegis ]

Death of Rats
Pancake
posted 10-16-2002 08:39:52 PM
yea, its pretty trippy, i posteded it awhile aback, really awsome reading
A particularly crafty sea lion is befuddling the Army Corps of Engineers, who have come to believe the 1,000-pound mammal is either from hell -- or from Harvard.
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 10-16-2002 09:20:16 PM
Yup, it's pretty nifty stuff.
That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Pvednes
Lynched
posted 10-17-2002 04:39:04 AM
That's pretty damn cool.
StarShadow
Pancake
posted 10-17-2002 07:24:54 AM
That's just freaky. It's like the sun, in pog form.

"It's something even the Masters don't reveal about the hidden nature of the universe... the deepest and darkest of all that the Force lets you see... the universe has a sense of humour." Callista, Children of the Jedi

Timpofee
Mancake
posted 10-17-2002 11:04:51 AM
quote:
Rera had this to say about Robocop:
I saw on history channel they found somethign they belive to be a battery that was thousands of years old, i forgot what civilazation,

It was the ancient Masidonians.. and it was an awesome show

Gydyon
Yes, I am a lawyer. No you can't sue them for that. Shut up, or I'll have your legs broken.
posted 10-17-2002 11:42:06 AM
* A being shrouded in Gydyon's belly looks up mournfully *

Quaid....*cough*.....I mean Maradon...start the reactor...set Mars.....free......

Gydyon
Evercrest Lawyer

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Goma
Pancake
posted 10-17-2002 02:43:25 PM
quote:
Rera's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
I saw on history channel they found somethign they belive to be a battery that was thousands of years old, i forgot what civilazation,

Ejyptians I believe. I saw a show where they found several steel pots, and one clay one all fasioned together in an odd manner, and in the same palace/tomb there were hyroglyphs depicting those pots, with a glass flower shaped bulb sticking out with something that looked like a ray of light coming from the mouth of the bulb. REALLY long, like an extended grammyphone. Im not sure what they used as the element, but the scientists made a replica of this open bulb, and concocted a very crude mixture in all of the different pots, the way they reacted with each other light was produced from this bulb. Because as we all know, batteries create energy from chemical reactions.

The chemicals they used were supposedly available back in Ejyptian days.

Interesting shit.

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