There's a whole area of research about the controlled transmutation of harmful nuclear waste into less harmful isotopes via neutron bombardment. It sounds great in theory - and I am a fan - but some … (View Post)

Not a bomb, but geologists think that there were natural nuclear reactors. One is known to have existed in Gabon a couple of billion years ago: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-eart… (View Post)

Knowing Trump's rather peculiar swings of mood, can we rule out his bombing Israel? (Either through malice, stupidity, or pointing to the wrong place on a map...) (View Post)

Not this "white British" nonsense again... (View Post)

This threader shows that reality can be funnier than fiction... (View Post)