How Did I Not Know This?




2 thoughts on “How Did I Not Know This?”

  1. That’s cool as hell! You know, the current hypothesis is that lightning or unfiltered solar radiation provided the energy to turn a protein soup into the first basic forms of life. But what if it was heat/radiation from an underground natural reactor?

    Cool. As. Hell.

    Thanks for sharing!

  2. I’m glad you found it as cool as amazing as I did 🙂 Certainly, any theory that involves ancient sources of ionizing radiation would have to take Oklo into account. They theorize that water flowed into the area and acted to regulate the reaction, and we know that water and life go hand-in-hand, so perhaps there’s something to your idea.

    Whether or not natural reactors had a role in life’s origin, ionizing radiation does cause mutations, so any established life in the water that flowed to/from the area would be affected. (As a side note, I wonder how many new strains of bacteria are born in the fires of a bowel CT scan…)

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