Scientists are baffled after discovering a mysterious radioactive 'blip' deep under the Pacific Ocean

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 14 February 2025 | WILIAM HUNTER

[GrumpyOldGuy]

Those darn aliens again.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”

― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

-— “...it could have been” but then again.....

[Phoenix8]

https://images.app.goo.gl/dgCC6VExzgLgpsCa6

[Tom Tetroxide]

Give me a blip, Vasili, one blip only please.

[Sacajaweau]

To be more exact...12,377,258 years ago. I hate when they round to the nearest 10 million.

[Sacajaweau]

Why would they expect anything?

[BBQToadRibs2]

[DannyTN]

blippers on stune

[shotgun]

My first thought as well.

Oh no! There goes Tokyo! Go, go Godzilla!

[glennaro]

Maybe it’s a smoke detector that couldn’t be shut off even after changing the battery. (I seem to recall a neighbor burying such a contraption in the back yard one year when that happened and he could not, understandably, stand the persistent beeping!)

[Z28.310]

“Have you lost another sub?”

[mewzilla]

Old volcano?

Seems to me I read somewhere that volcanos on their way out can have it their cooled magma...

[Licensed-To-Carry]

It's one of them nuclear bombs we lost back in ‘70s.

[coloradan]

Because there’s a background rate of cosmic rays that continuously produces it. What they have found is a layer with more than this expected background amount (correcting for natural decay) about 10 My ago.

[Bon of Babble]

Maybe those “nut job conspiracy theories” were right about aliens setting up bases deep in the earth’s oceans.

[coloradan]

The half life is 1.39 My, so 10My ago is about 7 half lives, so 2^-7 or about 1/128th of what was then present still remains today.

[Nebr FAL owner]

In other news Godzilla was spotted in Tokyo Bay leaving a ring around the bath tub😂.

[texas booster]

Schematic depiction of production and incorporation of cosmogenic 10Be into ferromanganese crusts. A pronounced anomaly in 10Be concentration about 10 million years ago was discovered. This anomaly has great potential as time marker for the Late Miocene.
Source: HZDR / blrck.de