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

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

[BenLurkin]

Scientists have been left baffled after discovering something vast and radioactive lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

An international team of scientists has found unexpectedly high levels of the rare radioactive isotope beryllium-10 in samples from the Pacific seabed.

And they believe it could have been caused by a blast of radiation from space more than 10 million years ago.

Beryllium-10 is an isotope - a variant of an element with a different number of neutrons in its atomic nuclei, formed when cosmic rays hit oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere.

After forming, this isotope falls to the ground in the rain and settles to the bottom of the seabed at a fairly constant rate.

However, when the researchers looked at samples of the seabed from 10 million years ago, they found that the levels of beryllium-10 were almost twice what they had expected.

Study author Dr Dominik Koll, from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, says: 'We had stumbled upon a previously undiscovered anomaly.'

[PIF]

Those darn aliens again.

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Their early power plants often became unstable when their craft hit severe atmospheric turbulance

[fso301]

So Carrington was a minor event.

[Afterguard]

Meh, what does it matter? We’ve only got like 6.x years left ‘til the end of the world anyway. So AOC said....

[power2]

I knew emptying rad waste tanks there was a bad idea (USS Flasher SSN-613 alumni)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Orosius]

It’s the Beryllium Sphere. It’s all true!

[one guy in new jersey]

what a glorious beast...😋

[one guy in new jersey]

bubbles in the brain will do that...😉

[dfwgator]

History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.

[Waverunner]

You know I caught one of those on 20lb test line with a silk leader using a hand tied fly made from horsehair with just a dab of bacon grease over the hook. That’s my fishing story and I’m sticking to it.

[MIA_eccl1212]

He’s got to go...

[OKSooner]

“Godzilla”, by BOC? :)

[MIA_eccl1212]

There goes... NOT just Tokyo

[Flaming Conservative]

Must be that underwater alien base again.

[abigkahuna]

Godzilla Sleeps!

[sjmjax]

I was wondering if someone would pull up that reference!

[dp0622]

LOL

I knew it would be here, I just thought it would be even earlier than the 9th post :)

[Vaduz]

Recall in the 60’s and 70’s when barrels of radioactive waste was incased in cement and dropped into the ocean.

Gee Wally it couldn’t be that huh.