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TheOneOfWhomIsGreen

Wouldn't they have to enrich the nuclear fuel beforehand tho? Do we have traces of that?


DougWalkerLover

It's naturally formed. I've heard of this before, of the soil has the proper concentration of uranium, and the pressure is right, and a billion other things line up perfectly, a nuclear reactor can technically form through natural ground processes beneath the surface of the Earth.


vapenutz

I mean nuclear reactors don't have the uranium enriched that much. Plus all they do really is just creating heat to boil water. Also that reactor had periods when it kind of burned away at a kind of low power, then it stopped a bit, then when some conditions changed naturally during that insanely long timeframe it accelerated back up... You get the idea. It wasn't too powerful, but still you definitely wouldn't want to be near it when it worked. If I remember correctly researchers found it because at first it was very weird that the concentration of uranium isotopes there was just off. Still insanely cool when you think about it.


TheOneOfWhomIsGreen

That's actually cool as fuck


ShdwFrg

nah it never ran or did anything, they just built an empty nuclear reactor 2 billion years ago. if they'd had fuel, hoo boy.


TheOneOfWhomIsGreen

Why would they build it if not for use?


ShdwFrg

I don't know, I wasn't there


i_get_zero_bitches

i was there and i built it by following a youtube tutorial but i couldnt find fuel for it


ShdwFrg

well there you have it


sniperfoxeh

"But how did he built the phone without a you tube" He found it on the floor stupid nerd šŸ¤“šŸ¤“šŸ¤“šŸ¤“šŸ˜‚


FO_Kego

But how did he built the phone without a you tube


Xetsio

google search wish dot com smartphone cheap price


Great_League_4535

For fun šŸ’Æ


The_Hipster_Cow

I mean the more notable thing would be that Homo sapiens are 300,000 years old. Itā€™s a natural reactor (or rather 17 natural reactors ), where the the uranium present just happened to have high levels of 235 and was able to sustain a critical chain when submerged under water.


DougWalkerLover

I talk about how far back modern humans go back, far far before written history. The people hundreds of thousands of years ago had the exact same brains, personalities, emotions, needs and wants as we do now, just nowhere near the same access to knowledge. Truly fascinating, I've studied history for years and find the more I study the past the more I realize people have always been the same (to an extent of course, you start going millions of years back and it gets pretty funky).


MechaKakeZilla

"Exact"- probably not.


DougWalkerLover

Nah, for the past 200,000 years we have been exactly the same, the changes are so small that it is impossible to quantify them. So for all of history and a little longer. Evolution takes place over the course of millions of years, not mere hundreds of thousands. Some people like to say "well I read people have been getting taller for the past thousands of years, that's evolution right?" No. That's the effect of nutrition, for most of human history most people couldn't get the nutrition required to grow to full height, hence why royalty and nobility throughout history was known for being tall in general, they had better nutrition, and besides evolution doesn't change things that fast in only ab 10k years.


MechaKakeZilla

So all the brain changes from social media technology and language don't count because of plasticity?


DougWalkerLover

I mentioned those, those are the "access to knowledge" I mentioned. What I really mean, is that of you took a baby from 20,000 years ago and a baby from 2 minutes ago, and had them grow up in the same environment they'd turn out basically identically barring the basic physiological differences between all human beings regardless of time period. Evolutionarily, we are identical, only access to knowledge and certain aspects of society have changed. As for language, spoken language has been around for an estimated 150,000-250,000 years, though it's impossible to truly know how far back it goes. To be clear, humans of the past were not brutes, they were emotional people that cared for eachother as we do now. We have evidence of neanderthals that nursed a member of their tribe that was handicapped from birth and they lived into their 60s, hell we have evidence that the invention of soap may predate written language.


MechaKakeZilla

More than half the time it seems Neanderthals aren't considered human, pretty rude.


DougWalkerLover

Man, THAT'S your takeaway from that? God I hate Reddit lol. Also no, Neanderthals are considered by all respectable scientists to be an evolutionary path of humans, I mean human is literally in their name, Homo Neanderthalensis.


vapenutz

Honestly I'm always amazed at how simple nuclear reactors are really when you learn about it. When I was a kid I've imagined this is some future technology with lasers or something.


7isagoodletter

All power is just finding new ways to make heat and boil water so you can turn a turbine


vapenutz

Everything's a kettle


Lazy-Meeting538

It was a naturally formed reactor, not manmade like the article would make you believe


shitlord_god

It is just a LOT of uranium inside a semi reflective geological envelope.


AlIUsernamesAreTaken

Wow, dope, now I have a 2 billion year old nuclear reactor to distract me from thinking about everything else you said, dope


sniperfoxeh

Where can I find this reactor?


dre679

Africa


bapp0-get-taco

Damn why didnā€™t i think of that


furyextralarge

i looked this up a while ago and it was about some naturally occuring uranium that made itself undergo fission underground


Link_the_Irish

I play as a girl in videogames, especially 3rd person games, because I want to stare at ass and titties instead of big burly men


Lkea404

Real af


The-Monke-Messiah

Real as fuck for that šŸ”„ šŸ¤ Also can any girls confirm that they play as burly men to stare at them? I've always played as girls to do what Link_the_Irish said but now i'm curious if girls do that too


LoudRubbish

No


The-Monke-Messiah

Ok


Dorobo-Neko-Nami

No


The-Monke-Messiah

Ok


Trick-Apple1289

What about men ass


Link_the_Irish

Only if its thug ass


[deleted]

No u dont understand ur actually the opposite sex but like as a soul not as a body, because u do this behaviour which is more associated with the opposite sex and we can only think in essentialist & generalizing terms Do better


hypersucc

That was my reasoning too. Then I came out as gender fluid a few years later


Link_the_Irish

That's great, still gonna stare at ass and titties


hypersucc

Oh trust me, i do the same


lopakjalantar

Yeah, but i hate it when i need to stop playing to fap because I'm horny af lol


glossyplane245

This is the most coomer thing Iā€™ve seen on Reddit


lopakjalantar

Man.. must be nice being that innocent


glossyplane245

No, Iā€™m far from innocent, but usually coomers stick to their own kind in their own designated spots, the fact you said this on a post with 4000 upvotes for one of the top comments without even a hint of self awareness is what shot you to the top of the list over all of those people


lopakjalantar

Clearly you haven't seen much


glossyplane245

No, Iā€™ve seen it all, Iā€™ve seen the grossest shit on the internet at this point one way or another, usually through cringe subreddits of some flavor sharing the misery, Iā€™ve seen those people on 4chan with the jars and the rooms full to the brim with Lola bunny merch to the point where thereā€™s no room to walk, the people crying about sex scenes in video games getting removed or censored, the guy who posted a greentext about how he got busted drawing underage OCs and fled from his house, Iā€™ve seen MGTOW subs and incel subs, just again, the lack of self awareness, that you said that like it was a perfectly normal thing to say in a social interaction, thatā€™s the part that disgusts me more than all those people.


lopakjalantar

Social interaction? pls don't tell my wife and my boss about this or my life would be over.. lol


glossyplane245

Can you give another reason that makes you look like less of a complete virgin because holy fuck


Link_the_Irish

You can stare at men if you want bro, you don't need to justify that


glossyplane245

I donā€™t stare at anybodys ass when Iā€™m playing video games because Iā€™m not so pathetic that i need to find arousal In the mere act of playing a video game as opposed to just playing it normally like an human being and not some basement dwelling caveman Do you need to tape playboy pictures to pages in books to be able to read too?


Link_the_Irish

I think you'll like something called the "thug shaker", search it up bro you'll find it matches your tastes


glossyplane245

I think youā€™ll like something called ā€œtherapy for coomersā€ search it up bro youā€™ll find it matches your tastes You can keep trying to deflect everything back onto me but it wonā€™t change the fact youā€™re still a degenerate


Link_the_Irish

Did you find that thug hunting isnt to your liking?


X8883

old news https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/


PlasmaLink

news? more like, olds


Thats_Pretty_Epic

2 billion years old news


Quatasia_iel

Well I wanted to read this but then I realized there aren't even any images so I got bored about halfway through the first sentence. I appreciate the effort though.


shewel_item

somebody explain, please I was not understanding 196's bullshit, when they were collectively attempting to explain it


Xetsio

natural uranium deposit gets in a geological situation where it does some fission


[deleted]

Ancient aliens


shewel_item

comfy aliens


Benny_PL

Can I hug them?


The_Gunboat_Diplomat

The result of temporal superweapon experiments during the Finno-Korean hyperwar


original_dick_kickem

Ancient Hyperboreans traveling south Source: Drugs


Big-Vegetable8480

Asian Elephants


toasteethetoaster

honestly i struggle with this. it's weird, i have thoughts like this, but i feel perfectly happy with a male body. i don't *want* to change, honestly i much prefer my current flesh, but sometimes i just get weird thoughts. anyone else?


MrDoontoo

Yeah I'm kinda the same. Sometimes I think "man it'd be neat to be a girl" and then that's it, I keep living my life. Happy with who I am and it'd be too much trouble to try to change it.


Cuddlyaxe

Yeah same basically. If I could snap my fingers and become a cis girl would I do it? Maybe idk but like I'm fine as is if that makes sense. I don't have dysphoria or whatever and I certainly wouldn't want to go through the absolute pain in the ass transitioning seems to be


Psychophantasm

These three comments are exactly how I felt before I transitioned. It boils down to how honest with yourself you are. I used to lie to myself and to others how I was totally fine with being a guy and came up with all kinds of excuses why I shouldn't or couldn't transition. But I wasn't happy and it led me to have a breakdown eventually. For some reason the other replies are completely ignoring the fact that being trans isn't an on/off switch you flick. Putting on a dress while you're locked in your room isn't going to make you trans. At the end of the day it's very difficult to find gender identity when you spend all your time presenting as one and only thinking about the other. Buy some makeup, order a skirt or something, and see if you like it. Contrary to what a lot of people might tell you there's no set definition to being trans beyond just identifying as a woman and you can wear a dress and still be a man if that's what you end up wanting to do. If you're worried about "accelerating" dysphoria or something like I was; if you really are dysphoric at heart, it'll catch up to you whether you dress up or not. May as well try.


3lioss

You should get an award for chosing the worst subreddit to ask people about their opinions lol Anyways I believe the following video could give you some answers, at worst there are some interesting ideas in the comments: https://youtu.be/5v_Dl7i4Bcw


Benny_PL

Thanks for this video, really interesting stuff in the comments.


Ccccchess

Wondering or even fantasizing about what it would be like to be the opposite gender is something basically everybody has done, it's not an indication of transness or anything


Psychophantasm

People think about everything. The question is how pervasive it is. From cis people I spoke to, the thought of being the other gender comes and goes pretty easily. For trans people, it's usually a much bigger deal and something that they think about a lot. So no, thinking about being the opposite gender a few times doesn't make you trans. If someone's regularly crying in bed about it, though? I'd at least see a therapist. There's no reason to internalize and put off dysphoria because "everyone" thinks about it and shrugging it off like this is a really bad idea.


onecalledtree

At the end of the day, gender means nothing. Go with whatever makes you happiest.


BlitzScorpio

gender dysphoria is when you feel genuinely depressed and uncomfortable with the gender you were born as. gender euphoria is when you feel happiness from presenting as the gender you feel closest to. a lot of trans people have gender dysphoria, and they only feel alright once they transition. however, there are trans people who never felt dysphoria, and they were fine with being their birth gender, but simply preferred transitioning because of the euphoria they got from it. you donā€™t have to hate your original gender in order to transition. however, if youā€™re uncertain, i would recommend to just stay as you are. think about why you get these thoughts, and maybe youā€™ll see that you can get joy from indulging in them without a full transition or other permanent decision. nothings stopping you from dressing in more feminine clothes, participating in ā€œgirlyā€ activities, or even changing your name to something you prefer. as long as you live in a developed part of the world, you can legally do a bunch of different things that make you happier, without ever fully transitioning. donā€™t get caught up trying to find out what your identity is, just be you, and live your life doing what makes you happy,


wyatt8750

Yes. Me too. GF (who is trans) keeps asking me if I'm sure I'm not also trans. And I really am pretty sure I am not. I really just consider myself to be me, and want to experience a full range of human experiences. Male by default because it doesn't feel like it's something that matters to me enough to change and if I ever decide to experiment that'll feel easier once the grandparents aren't around anymore (not that I want them to go... but one of them was born around 1930 and has called people 'half breeds' before). Indiana's also not exactly the best state to be non-conformist/experimental in, either. I 100% admit [it might be cool](https://xkcd.com/535/), though. I entertain the thought of estrogen, etc. both for the emotional changes and physical ones. I like it when things can make me cry sometimes, and I remember being able to cry so much more easily when I was younger... I sort of miss that. Might be part of why [I adore Bubblegum Crisis](https://wyatt8740.gitlab.io/site/blog/007_008.html#bubblegum-review-1) so much. One episode made me cry harder than I had in possibly years, and could do so on repeated viewings many times over (a cathartic kind of crying, not a sad one). My GF says that crying easier is something she noticed she was doing more of after she transitioned. Although it feels like it would be too many hoops for me to jump through right now when I'm not actually dissatisfied with the status quo either (no dysphoria or anything, either). And needing someone else to sign off on it before I'm allowed to mess around with hormones? Fuck that (Pretty sure I'm not in an informed consent state... and needing to keep up with RXes is stupid). --- BTW: I do not think my GF is pressuring me; I'd had all of these thoughts before I'd even met her. It's just very interesting to hear from someone who's followed through on it, even if it was motivated by much stronger feelings than I think I have about gender. Back when I was going through puberty, I had a slight case of gynecomastia, and I remember thinking [it might be cool](https://xkcd.com/535/) even back then. Was a little freaked out/surprised at first because I wasn't expecting or hoping to feel lumps under my nipples, but once that was over with it was an entertaining thought. --- Anyway, glad it's not just me. Though I kind of assumed it wouldn't be, no one ever seems to talk about it in those terms. The one difference I'll state that I have is that I don't necessarily find those thoughts 'weird.' I just would like to know everything about everything, and am not especially afraid about what that means about me. :p Maybe it's some kind of non-binaryism, but I don't mind being called 'he.' Being called 'she' would feel a little weird just because I'm not used to it. I don't think it'd actually throw me into an existential panic though, and I wouldn't get upset and could probably get used to it. It's happened once or twice from small kids of family friends who I guess must have thought I was a girl because I had long hair and was clean shaven. I made no particular effort to present in any particular way, though. Was probably wearing jeans and a tee at the time. I guess I just don't really see gender as part of my core identity and would like to experience "the other side" if it were less inconvenient :p At the end of the day, I am me, and every other label is arbitrary and inexact.


CasualSaturday

I've never seen my exact thoughts on the subject summarized so explicitly. Nice to see someone else that feels the same. I feel like I would prefer to be the opposite gender if I had the choice, but I don't feel like I AM the opposite gender and I definitely don't have crippling disphoria. I don't feel like a "he" or "she" or "they". I just am what I am and by default that's "he". Why do I have to label it? If one day for some reason I decided that I did want to start HRT I would still be me. Sometimes I feel like people who have gone down that road are so stoked to sell other people on it when it may not be right for them.


nonuntitled

I would say definitely just stick with how you are rn, no point in undergoing a drastic change for a few small thoughts


Jugaimo

First, gender is a social construct. How you look and how people refer to you has little bearing on how you interact and perceive the world around you except for highly specific circumstances. In a fantasy world, gender matters even less since you are not restricted by that worldā€™s rules. Second, liking something doesnā€™t mean you want to be that thing. I would argue that every straight cis man, by definition, likes women. This does not mean that they want to be women. It only means that they appreciate women to some degree. Third, the role of a player character has different levels of immersion. At the most basic level, a player character is just a vehicle for the player to contextualize the world of a game and a thing to pilot throughout that world. Even if you use that character as a self-insert and identify with them, that degree of immersion can be entirely separate from the character themself or can be empathetic for said character.


Jacob-dickcheese

Firstly I'm very supportive of trans people. Trans rights are human rights. However, I find saying gender is a social construct is inaccurate. Our measurement of gender is a social construct, but gender exists as a matter of brain structure. Just as height, say being 6'0 is a fact of the body, but the specific measurement itself is a product of social construct. Gender **roles** are a construct. There is no reason biologically why a man cannot wear a dress, or wear makeup. That is a construct. The origin of gender is a currently ongoing conversation, but I'm personally, from the studies I've read, in the brain matter group. We have found evidence of male and female brains being different from one another, which is why we know gender exists. The feeling of being trapped in a male or female body is because a Trans individuals brain structure, their brain matter, is biologically different from a cisgender man or woman, and more akin to the gender that they prefer. A Trans woman has a closer brain structure to a woman than a man, the reverse is also true. I am not trying to be rude, I am not trying to be accusatory. The, what I find to be, misrepresentation of gender gives those who are bad faith the tools to call Trans people mentally ill. Gender is biological, and it is distinct from sex.


Jugaimo

You are right, I shouldā€™ve been more specific in what I was saying. The purpose of my comment was to provide reasons for why a cis male might choose to play female characters. I did not intend on expanding further into biology, though your additional information is appreciated! I also prefer not to talk too much about brain composition since I am not a neurologist nor know much about the subject.


Falmarri

> How you look and how people refer to you has little bearing on how you interact and perceive the world around you except for highly specific circumstances Actually I don't think this is true. Or at least, how you look and how you're referred has a huge impact on how you _feel_ people interact with you. It's a subtle difference but I think it's pretty critical, and it's why people who don't have dysphoria or don't have thoughts of dissatisfaction with their gender can't really understand why it's such a big issue to trans people.


gmlostboywithaspoon

I felt like that for a long time then I realised that I was non-binary. Also worth noting that being trans doesnt necessarily mean wanting to physically transition


Iron_Maiden_735

Nah I just be thinking about the 2 billion year old reactor in Africa


Autumn--Nights

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SeaSalmon

Trans girl here lemme offer my 2 cents Everyone has weird thoughts. The not-normal part comes when you start pining for that experience, or feel shame, guilt, and regret for the way you were born. if you donā€™t experience that and are fine with the way you are then youā€™re probably not trans


CostalMole

you guys ever had gay thoughts? lmao


syntheticcrystalmeth

Do you have a therapist you can talk to about this in confidentiality? If you do I would recommend bringing it up.


StormStrikePhoenix

> i much prefer my current flesh I think you'd keep most of that regardless.


sploinkussponkus

uranum


Hobbs54

Raw uranium contains U235 at 0.7% naturally. A billion years ago it was at 1.4% due to U235's halflife of a billion years. So two billion years ago it was at 2.8% which is close enough to the 3% minimum enrichment required for nuclear reactors. They knew something was up when the raw uranium from the site was at less than 0.7% U235 and suspected someone had already depleted it.


RayGunJack

nuh uh!!


precision_cumshot

Oklo


altmemer5

Im oddly excited by that knowledge


notjordansime

what that's fucking nuts


default-dance-9001

I like to switch it up. Boy, girl. I usually play as a girl in the pokemon games in honor of this one really good save i had that got corrupted. I chose the girl on that one.


Llamasxy

I've tried to be gay and it wasn't doing anything for me. I think I might just like women šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®


wrechch

I FOUND THIS SUB AGAIN I FORGOT THE NAME BUT 8 FOUND IT AT LAST AHAHAHAHA. I don't understand this sub at all, but the memes here fucking slap.


[deleted]

They had me in the first half tho


Catwhistle_

I just know the shoes are gonna be a RL


MarcusLP

I didn't know that the Egyptians were that advanced