Or the joke could also be about sometimes one's butt called 'Cake', and one step of making uranium usefull for power production is called 'yellow cake'.
I think the joke could be about that sometimes one's butt is called 'Cake', and one step of making uranium usefull for power production is called 'yellow cake'.
And the fact that Ouranos is the source of the name as well, with the self-evident joke being seen when you look at the planet named after him (Uranus).
I remember hearing, as a kid in the 60's, that a melt down of a nuclear power plant would allow the core of the reactor to melt all the way through the planet. Hence the term, "the China syndrome", since the core would melt all the way to china🙂
2:00 - "The Core." LOL! I watched that with my folks, and laughed out loud when the guy took some radioactive material from the engine and placed it next to one of the bombs, to "increase its yield." I said, "Well, that's a great way to atomize some material and spread it around, but it's not going to make the bomb stronger." My late father countered that it would explode along with the bomb. ... I informed him that it's not gasoline or dynamite, and reminded him that I was the only one in the room who had visited both the _Enola Gay_ and _Bock's Car,_ the two B-29s that dropped A-bombs. I also pointed out that I was in a pen-and-paper RPG with friends in which my character was in possession of a nuclear bomb, so I'd researched them to learn how they work. He dropped it, but I don't know if he truly believed me...
The argument is always that 'biomass' is clean because what you burn gets captured in new growth... you know except for all the CO2 released to generate the energy to process the biomass and replant it. Funny how we always leave out important uncomfortable variables. You could get the same results burning coal if you then grew biomass to dump in a deep hole and bury, but against the processing, growth, and transport costs.
I just wanna say, there was one critical error in the reaction video, though I don't blame you really for not thinking of it. There is tons of light deep beneath the surface of the earth, it is just infrared light, and infrared light can be used for photosynthesis.
About radioactivity feeding living beings let's not forget that radiotrophic fungi on Chernobyl elephant foot. Not even Deinococus radiodurans could survive there and yet that fungi FEED on the radiation: the theory is that they absorb it using melanin. Archea can live deep underground (although I think not too deep) but the trick is that they have a metabolism incredibly slow: I MEAN INCREDIBLY, some of those bacteria can live for tens of thousands of years (maybe more again my memory betrays me). Endospores formation is common: not in Archeaor Mycobacteria, but common in bacillus, like antracis, butolinum and Clostridium tetani. That is why Antrax was used as terrorist weapon (like the one that shut down National Enquirer): endospores can last decades under the harshest conditions, that usually have a Calcium protection around them.
i mean, TECHNICALLY, nuclear energy can be either fusion or fission, and both are somewhat tehcnically "clean", but not really renewable fission is clean but not renewable fusion is clean AND renewable
I don't know why but imagining a layer of a planet with a lot of life deep inside the crust seems disgusting to me, it's like looking at a nice fruit and opening just to found it's contaminated on the inside
If you think about it like that, the forests are fuzzy mold, animals are bacteria breaching the surface, oceans are soggy and rotten spots, mountains are the peel of the gross fruit below, and our rockets and satellites are spores ready to break free and infect other planets
The energy source for deep underground life forms needn’t be from radiation either. For example on Jupiter’s moon Europa (a prime candidate for extraterrestrial life), there is liquid water underneath because the immense gravity of Jupiter warps the moon generating enough heat to maintain a large ocean under the ice. Couple that with the right minerals and potentially organic compounds like methane (there’s a big chunk of methane nearby), then it’d certainly possible for extremophiles to live there.
Great Reaction!❤ You should react to *what is life?* and *what are you?* By kurzgesagt. They are two parters like fermi paradox. You can react to them in a single video.
Uranium as in "your anus" being a butt and thorium having the shape of Thor's hammer? Those jokes were kinda obvious. Also, uranium salts glow a nice green in UV light.
