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To: SunkenCiv

Two potential natural sources. First, every element heavier than iron came from inside a star, just like our sun is made up of stuff roaming about the universe from earlier stars that blew up. That is how baby stars happen — older, bigger ones blew up.
2nd, plutonium could have come from another one of those natural reactors in earth’s crust — like the one found near the eastern coast of Africa. Around Nigeria if I recall the map correctly.
I guess they don’t teach this stuff in high school physics anymore. Shame.


33 posted on 05/28/2021 10:39:47 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: bobbo666

Nigeria is on the west coast of Africa.


41 posted on 05/28/2021 11:18:16 AM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: bobbo666

Plutonium is an isotope with a short half-life. So, no, and your high school physics must have sucked.


44 posted on 05/28/2021 12:23:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: bobbo666

Meet Oklo, the Earth’s Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor


49 posted on 05/28/2021 5:50:52 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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