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>fox news
>daily mail

Can science journalism get any shittier?

>>3216954
Einstein thought we could be infinitely stupid so the answer is probably yes

>>3216912
>Fox news listening to crack-pot "scientist" again
and people wonder why America is going down the shitter intelligence wise

Tldr version plz?

\bf{OP IS A FAGGOT}

>Fox News
>accept mars is 180million years old
>can't accept earth is more than 6000yrs old

>>3216970

There is only so much matter in the universe, the brain is made of matter, therefore the amount of stupidity is limited by brain size, ergo bigger brains can be more stupid, ergo einstein was wrong.

Check mate atheists.

>>3216971
Not really... I think we've pretty much got it figured out why our intelligence is going down the shitter.

>planet-shattering yet naturally occurring nuclear reaction
no
no
no
no
no
NO
wrong
stop
halt
cease
desist

everything he described has already been explained by asteroid impacts.

>>3216997
lol'd

>>3217003
why not?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

>>3216996

>Fox News
>accept mars is 180million years old
>can't accept earth is more than 6000yrs old

can't argue with their demographic (inbred idiots), now can they? how else are they going to sell gold futures and emergency rations...

http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/unions-are-to-violence-as-palm-trees-are-to-wisconsin/

>>3217049
That is not how nuclear explosions work.

I love how NASA spends millions of dollars to send robotic detectors over to the fucking planet and then these reporters say shit like this:
"The radioactivity also explains why the planet looks red."
LOL FUCK IRON OXIDE ITS FUCKING NUCLEAR RADIATION GUYS

>>3217049
I read that whole article and couldn't find where it actually explains how a natural nuclear explosion occurs.

>>3217049
>very concentrated uranium deposits
>under immense pressure
>only one site known to have done this
>100 kW thermal

>>3217128
it says nothing about pressure in the article. the pressure necessary to do that is nowhere near the amount that the earth could naturally generate. it'd have to be slammed by a fucking meteor in which case it'd be plausible

>>3217128
>high pressure uranium deposit
>one location i want
>100kW starting

>>3217167
you'd basically need an asteroid strike on an impossibly rich uranium deposit, like dead on
then you'd need the reaction not to fissile

even then, you're probably not going to get anywhere near a megaton, and it'll be like a fart next to the, you know, MASSIVE ASTEROID IMPACT

>>3217175
How much do the tectonic plates weigh and how much force can they exert? Does a magntidue 8.0 earthquake in a concentrated area really exhibit less force than the average asteroid impact?

I think a tectonic plate could generate significantly more force than most asteroids, that said I don't know how much pressure is necessary, I just think it's silly to say the Earth "couldn't" generate enough force naturally, but asteroids could, unless by asteroid you mean planet sized objects hitting planet sized objects.

>>3217199
You'd be looking for a subduction zone

>>3217199
well there was an interesting theory about sustained fission reactions causing a decent clip of heat at the earth's core. Gravity provides about enough pressure, and the surrounding material whisks away the heat. you couldn't get much of a criticality incident, and even if the material blew itself apart, where's it going to go? right back into a spherical configuration at the core. it's got plenty of problems but it's an interesting theory.

this natural nuclear detonation at the surface though? supposedly bagillions of times lager than an asteroid impact? bullshit

>Ever wondered why Mars is red?
Yeah, when I was 4. Then I asked any retard on the street, and they told me it was iron oxide in the soil.

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>>3217227
>sheep

have fun being lied to in order to support the revolution, brah

>implying the technologically advanced aliens would ever use anything as primitive as a nuke

I can see this will be used as justification in the future to either NOT go to Mars, or by the conspiracy theorists to say we never went to Mars in the event we actually get there...