The 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactors In Africa Baffle Researchers! - N24HR
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Reactions similar to those inside the power plants in modern era arose spontaneously around 2 billion years ago in the Oklo region of Gabon, Africa In 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi and a team of workers built what they thought was the first nuclear reactor in a Chicago racket ball court. Unfortunately, nature had beaten them
  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This site mostly has articles that creatively rearrange parts of facts and sprinke sciency terminology to make incredible claims.

    A retired physicist having a thought experiment on prehistoric remains years ago in a different context, plus some rando claiming these are man-made structures, becomes: “another hypothesis is that it was constructed by prehistoric human civilization (like described in the Silurian Hypothesis by NASA scientists)”

  • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Some scientists and theorists believe that the reactor is extremely advanced, suggesting that highly intelligent beings existed 2 billion years ago. While another hypothesis is that it was constructed by prehistoric human civilization (like described in the Silurian Hypothesis by NASA scientists) using techniques that were lost to subsequent humans.

    However, most of the mainstream researchers believe that Oklo is the world’s only identified naturally occurring reactor which was created by accident. As scientists Norman Schwers and John A. Miller from Sandia National Laboratories explain in a 2017 paper, the concept of a naturally occurring reactor was originally documented in 1956 using reactor theory or the infinite multiplication constants.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        considering other articles linked on the website apparently include “the Case of the 2 Miners that met the Ctones” (which seems to be some kind of advanced civilization that lives under ground… that kept him from leaving for 5 years, but then paid him diamonds and let him go or something…) and “100,000 year old electrical connector found embedded in stone”… (Aliens!)

        I’m gonna go with a great example of “bullshit”.

  • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    A 3 day old account that only posts clickbait links to 2 domains, n24hr.com and sciinsider.com – I wonder if there’s any connection.

    From https://whois.whoisxmlapi.com/:
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