Posted on 02/16/2025 6:56:50 AM PST by 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.'
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Those darn aliens again.
“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
-— “...it could have been” but then again.....
Give me a blip, Vasili, one blip only please.
To be more exact...12,377,258 years ago. I hate when they round to the nearest 10 million.
Why would they expect anything?
blippers on stune
My first thought as well.
Oh no! There goes Tokyo! Go, go Godzilla!
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!)
“Have you lost another sub?”
Old volcano?
Seems to me I read somewhere that volcanos on their way out can have it their cooled magma...
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.
Maybe those “nut job conspiracy theories” were right about aliens setting up bases deep in the earth’s oceans.
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.
In other news Godzilla was spotted in Tokyo Bay leaving a ring around the bath tub😂.
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