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

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(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...

Comments

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I remember reading years ago in one of those coffee table science books about a natural nuclear reactor in Africa somewhere.

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Oklo. Mentioned in the article, too.

[gary-jordan.livejournal.com]

Okay, I didn't read about the African Natural Breeder Reactors, but I'll take them on faith. The whole thing sounds... reasonable. As if there aren't enough ways to kill the planet.

On another note, given your choice of expletive, what do you know about the Martian Manhunter? Did he get rebooted, or just phased out?

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I'm not an expert in DC comics, but the Martian Manhunter has been one of the main members of the JLA even in recent years, so as far as I know he's still around.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

He had a considerable presence in the DCAU Justice League series, so I'd guess he's still around in the printed comics. It's been a while since I've picked up any comic where I'd expect to see him, though.

J'onn is no longer the last Martian, though; there is now M'gann M'orzz, who uses the supranym Miss Martian and hangs out with the Teen Titans. (These things happen; we all knew Kal-El couldn't stay the last Kryptonian forever.) Whether anyone in-universe has pointed out that they now have a male and a female Martian together on Earth, and the implications, I couldn't tell you.