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I had heard about the natural reactor before, but this Wikipedia article was my first exposure to the hypothesis that the Moon originated from an explosion in a
by JoeDaDude 7y ago
I had heard about the natural reactor before, but this Wikipedia article was my first exposure to the hypothesis that the Moon originated from an explosion in a natural fission reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor#Origin_of_the_Moon_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
- Ididntdothis 7y agoHow could such a reactor explode? I thought you need pretty high pressure to get a chain reaction for an explosion.
- jhh 7y agoWell, tell me comrade, how could it explode?
- intricatedetail 7y agoThat's impossible! You are wrong!
- wysifnwyg 7y agoWhat leads you to believe that high pressure could not be reached?
- sandworm101 7y agoExplosion isn't the real difficulty imho. Even if there was an explosion sufficient to loft a moon's worth of material into space, how did it obtain sufficient orbital velocity to stay in space? An explosion big enough to crack the planet into two chunks is one thing, the series of carefully timed explosions necessary to start those chunks spinning nicely around each other is totally different.
- londons_explore 7y agoIf earth was already spinning, then an explosion that splits earth's core into two chunks would end up with those chunks orbiting round eachother. The resulting spin of each chunk can depend on the location of the explosion in the pre-explosion earth.
- ttsda 7y agoIf you have the fission happening surrounded by rock, it can indeed get to very high temperatures and pressure, and after the rock gives and the hot material comes in contact with water, pressure will rise very rapidly.
- m463 7y agoIt's hogwash. The moon would not have sprung off into earth orbit. It would have exited the solar system and be flung out across the galaxy starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.