Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So that's the same, you know, degree of ridiculousness to me. Because it's very difficult to maintain, you know, chain reaction for any meaningful period of time. Because they are saying, well, the circumstances were there just right where water was coming in and coming out, and this sustained, you know, this chain reaction for thousands of years. Right. I mean, I just don't believe it.

Because it took Oak Ridge, you know, Tennessee, a bunch of national labs figuring out how to how to maintain chain reaction, you know, how to synthesize these isotopes, how to build the reactor, how to maintain it. So took hundreds of PhDs and millions of man hours of engineering, and we're building this, you know, complex contraptions.

Because it took Oak Ridge, you know, Tennessee, a bunch of national labs figuring out how to how to maintain chain reaction, you know, how to synthesize these isotopes, how to build the reactor, how to maintain it. So took hundreds of PhDs and millions of man hours of engineering, and we're building this, you know, complex contraptions.

Because it took Oak Ridge, you know, Tennessee, a bunch of national labs figuring out how to how to maintain chain reaction, you know, how to synthesize these isotopes, how to build the reactor, how to maintain it. So took hundreds of PhDs and millions of man hours of engineering, and we're building this, you know, complex contraptions.

And the difficulty there is, so you have this radioactive material, and if the reactor is tuned wrong, there will be no reaction. And if it's, like, overtuned, it will explode. So you're basically trying to balance this nuclear explosion on the razor edge, where it's seeping energy. And by seeping, I mean megawatts or gigawatts, not like a multi-terrawatt explosion, right?

And the difficulty there is, so you have this radioactive material, and if the reactor is tuned wrong, there will be no reaction. And if it's, like, overtuned, it will explode. So you're basically trying to balance this nuclear explosion on the razor edge, where it's seeping energy. And by seeping, I mean megawatts or gigawatts, not like a multi-terrawatt explosion, right?

And the difficulty there is, so you have this radioactive material, and if the reactor is tuned wrong, there will be no reaction. And if it's, like, overtuned, it will explode. So you're basically trying to balance this nuclear explosion on the razor edge, where it's seeping energy. And by seeping, I mean megawatts or gigawatts, not like a multi-terrawatt explosion, right?

But if you tune it the other way, the reaction dies off. And if it goes the other way, you have a Chernobyl. So it's very difficult to keep it operating in this very narrow range where neutrons are produced in just right amount. They're not absorbed. When each neutron strikes a uranium-235, it shatters and it produces more neutrons. That's what the chain reaction is.

But if you tune it the other way, the reaction dies off. And if it goes the other way, you have a Chernobyl. So it's very difficult to keep it operating in this very narrow range where neutrons are produced in just right amount. They're not absorbed. When each neutron strikes a uranium-235, it shatters and it produces more neutrons. That's what the chain reaction is.

But if you tune it the other way, the reaction dies off. And if it goes the other way, you have a Chernobyl. So it's very difficult to keep it operating in this very narrow range where neutrons are produced in just right amount. They're not absorbed. When each neutron strikes a uranium-235, it shatters and it produces more neutrons. That's what the chain reaction is.

So for that to have occur naturally by chance, All right, well, maybe once. But sustained for thousands of years to where all of that radioisotope burned out is just beyond credulity. So to me, it's far easier to believe that what we found was a remnant of an ancient nuclear power plant. That's, for me, easier to believe.

So for that to have occur naturally by chance, All right, well, maybe once. But sustained for thousands of years to where all of that radioisotope burned out is just beyond credulity. So to me, it's far easier to believe that what we found was a remnant of an ancient nuclear power plant. That's, for me, easier to believe.

So for that to have occur naturally by chance, All right, well, maybe once. But sustained for thousands of years to where all of that radioisotope burned out is just beyond credulity. So to me, it's far easier to believe that what we found was a remnant of an ancient nuclear power plant. That's, for me, easier to believe.

It's less a stretch to assume that there was a civilization who mastered nuclear power and exploited it and now gone than just saying, well, it occurred naturally. Because, you know, I try different things in my lab on purpose and then nothing happens. Well, granted, they haven't tried, you know, for a billion of years.

It's less a stretch to assume that there was a civilization who mastered nuclear power and exploited it and now gone than just saying, well, it occurred naturally. Because, you know, I try different things in my lab on purpose and then nothing happens. Well, granted, they haven't tried, you know, for a billion of years.

It's less a stretch to assume that there was a civilization who mastered nuclear power and exploited it and now gone than just saying, well, it occurred naturally. Because, you know, I try different things in my lab on purpose and then nothing happens. Well, granted, they haven't tried, you know, for a billion of years.

But still, you know, this argument that if a monkey, you know, types on a typewriter and it will produce, you know, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is flawed. You know, it's a common argument that we hear sometimes that, you know, given enough monkey, enough typewriters, you get it.

But still, you know, this argument that if a monkey, you know, types on a typewriter and it will produce, you know, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is flawed. You know, it's a common argument that we hear sometimes that, you know, given enough monkey, enough typewriters, you get it.

But still, you know, this argument that if a monkey, you know, types on a typewriter and it will produce, you know, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is flawed. You know, it's a common argument that we hear sometimes that, you know, given enough monkey, enough typewriters, you get it.

But, you know, mathematicians and statisticians proved that that will not take, you know, all the time in universe for monkeys to type up, you know, Shakespeare or something else. You know, things just don't happen. So, I mean, that's why I think it's plausible.