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Reactor at Earth's Core?
An anonymous submitter sent in this story suggesting that uranium in the Earth's core may be acting as a giant breeder reactor, generating a large amount of heat and perhaps being responsible for the Earth's magnetic field.
So the earth is sort of like a giant shed in your mother's backyard?
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Anyone want to take bets on how long until some boy scout tries to make a planet in his mother's potting shed?
--Dan
I would no more use "alternative" energy than I would take herbal medicine.
That's a shame, because you're so full of hot air that you could probably satisfy the country's energy needs with a wind generator attached to your chin.
I've always favored Greg Bear's 100ktons of neutronium and anti-neutronium method of planetary doomsday devices. If that isn't very plausible for you though, when I become an official super-villain, I have a much more evil way to destroy Earth.
Yes, I will broadcast 1980's sitcoms 24/7 on every frequency from my death satellites. The plague of suicides should be enough to cause humanity's extinction in a matter of days.
yeah, the planet is still there, but the increased atmospheric pressure and higher temperatures forced all of the women to move here.
That would kind of put a new variable into the Drake equation.
Either that, or give plot ideas to Isaac Asimov. Damn Spacers.