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Very much an aside, but I love the name "Oklo" for a nuclear power company. Oklo is a location in Gabon where they found proof of a "natural" nuclear reaction.
by formertwitter 7y ago
Very much an aside, but I love the name "Oklo" for a nuclear power company. Oklo is a location in Gabon where they found proof of a "natural" nuclear reaction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reac...
You smarty pants may have already known about Oklo, but as a kid, and even today, this information absolutely delights me.
- acidburnNSA 7y agoThey were originally called UPower and changed the name. I really like the name Oklo too. When they first changed it, I thought for sure it was a reference to "little tiny reactors in Africa." So far their target market seems to be rural Alaska. Also, one of the co-founders is from Oklahoma, so I think that factored in as well.
- rawoke083600 7y agoAgree about the delight of weird information :) Lookup "argyle" socks on wikipedia, it stems from the TarTar of the "Clan CampBells"
- jjoonathan 7y agoFun fact: Oklo isn't so far, globally speaking, from lat/lon 0,0 -- a point many of us are familiar with :)