Next snippet of PORTAL...

... is now up on my site. Hohenheim gets to visit... and Things start to Happen.

[Fringe Science]Holy Nuclear Weapons, J'onn J'onnz!

(ganked from autopope)

EDIT: It appears the author of the paper is also connected to a lot of really fringe stuff, so the likelihood of this proving out seems very low. Still, it's a fun idea to use in a story sometime...

Apparently there's evidence that a gargantuan NATURAL nuclear reactor operated on Mars about a billion years ago... and because it was huge and buried deep, naturally tamped itself until it BLEW UP.

How much blowing up, you ask? Somewhere between one and ten BILLION MEGATONS. That's dinosaur-killer level. On Mars, which is a lot smaller than Earth.

Of course, maybe we're actually looking at the reason we have no Martians invading...

The 2013 Hugo Nomination Period is open!

I only have one work eligible -- Phoenix Rising, the beginning of my epic fantasy trilogy The Balanced Sword -- but I don't expect it to be nominated. (actually, I don't ever expect to be nominated, for the most part I don't write the type of stuff most nominees seem to be made of). Still, I've seen a lot of other authors posting, so what the heck.

Originally posted by bovil at The 2013 Hugo Nomination Period is open!

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