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• caplanjr commented on Blogging for Orbit
  Is it just me or was there a lot of Scratch Monkey influence in Neptune's Brood? OGH has clearly been thinking about digitally transmitting personalities into waiting clone bodies for more than just a few years....
• ilya187 commented on Blogging for Orbit
  Two bodies yes, but it's not like the Moon is (or is a remnant of) the impactor. Impactor hit the Earth, two mixed together, some of the resulting mixture splashed up and became the Moon. Moon's isotope ratio is not the same as that of [i]primordial[/i] Earth, but same as resulting Earth....
• paws4thot commented on Blogging for Orbit
  Use "&gt $tag &lt" to opem HTML tags....
• paws4thot commented on Blogging for Orbit
  Make that &lt then &gt...
• Zorro commented on Blogging for Orbit
  Natural uranium on Earth contains more like 0.7% U-235 rather than 0.2%, so Shin-Tethys uranium at 1% is richer in U-235 than natural uranium than Earth but not by that much. If we apply the implied correction factor to real isotopic abundance (U-235 is 5 times more abundant on Shin-Tethys relative to Earth) then we get natural uranium at 3.5% U-235 on Shin-Tethys, ready to fuel a light water reactor or a blue smoker without further enrichment. /isotope-pedant...