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Natural nuclear fission reactor
- IntronExon 9y agoPublished in 2010, a controversial hypothesis about the origin of the Moon proposes that the Moon may have been formed from the explosion of a georeactor located along the core-mantle boundary at the equatorial plane of the then-rapidly rotating Earth, 4.5 billion years ago. Whoa, I didn’t know that was even an option. I thought Verneshots were scary, but that’s just orders of magnitude more impressive.