that's how gravity works.

throughout the molten center of the earth.

"The 'China Syndrome' has always been thought to be just a figure of speech," Glick explains. "Obviously if the fuel melts right down through the Earth's crust it would then either break up, or if not, it would presumably sink to the very centre of the planet. One would imagine, naturally, that gravity would keep it there.

"But that turns out not to be the case."

The scientific computer modelling developed in past weeks shows that in fact the molten reactor-fuel blobs are so incredibly hot that even the liquid interior of the planet is cold compared with them. Thus, the so-called "Leidenfrost effect" comes into play, the same phenomenon which makes a drop of water skitter about on a hot skillet or permits a person to put their bare hand into liquid nitrogen unscathed.

The cores are enveloped in a layer of metallic plasma vapour, causing them to slip almost completely frictionlessly through the liquid planetary interior.
As the super-heavy, molten uranium blobs from Fukushima fell thousands of miles without resistance towards the centre of the Earth, they accelerated to enormous velocities."

The entire earth's gravitational field is pulling at a pin lying on the floor. A very small, weak magnet could pick it up.

while digging in the back yard as a kid. I live in Florida so once I got to three or four feet I hit water and the journey ended.

Then my father made me fill in in. What's amazing, I discovered after I filled in my magnificent hole, I had dirt left over.

about this. There just might be something to it. My somewhat skeptical reply was written without sufficient thought, perhaps.

I'll tell you, though: I'm changing my vacation plans for sure. Uranium and plutonium have some strange properties, I understand. Even scientists don't understand everything, you know. I just hope the starfish don't start dying in the Atlantic, too.

Congratulations! You earned it.

The article has 2 pages of supportive info. which offers opportunity for intelligent counter arguments.
How can one argue about "Leidenfrost effect" or the speed of the molten cores due to the metallic plasma vapour?

I mean, come on, now, let's raise the discourse level here.
Did you even read the article.
Page 2 esp. contains key information as to the meaning of the evidence.

The evidence is compelling.

Why is it so hard for others

It proves how much of a fool I was to believe in nuclear power.

first, it's Joni Mitchell's Morgellons, now it gravity-defying blobs of molten nuclear core.


Oh. April Fool's.

My bad.

Sid

April Fools!

I got April and then etgck and couldn't make another word

Sid

Please self delete your mean spirited post.

Oh dear..from what I hear, that is a very unusual health problem.

"Joni Mitchell's Morgellons, now it gravity-defying blobs of molten nuclear core..."

And then, if that's not bad enough, onto the half-witted and inaccurate punctuation when writing one of the simplest names of celebratory days. Indeed, grammar-school level punctuation can be as difficult as science, I imagine.

My bad, indeed.

but, it IS a tad early in the day, I would think.

I'd never really paid attention to the name, but had always assumed it was April Fool's Day - the possessive form of April Fool.

Now I've learned it's April Fools Day - a plural form.

I'll just have to live with the shame of having it wrong for these 47 years.

Sid

... is how it isn't so far off from some of the stuff that gets posted on other days of the year.

Still waiting for those cores to hit groundwater and result in hydrovolcanic explosions... 4+ years later. Or how Gundersen continues to claim that unit 3's fuel pool had a nuclear explosion... without damaging the fuel/racks.

Then, of course, there's the poor starfish.

Come on now, folks... the lone dog at the end, named Colin?

LOL

Poor Colin, someone should notify PETA about the evil plan to murder him.

Should we include them in our rescue?

Now just to figure out who to bill for the mission. The Brits are responsible for the attempted murder of Colin, but the Japanese did create the whole mess...I say we split the bill 50/50 between the two.

I just need to check if Princess Cruise Line allows penguins and sheep onboard.

This is my favorite so far today.

In response to this news, Queen Elizabeth announced Great Britain will give the islands to Argentina. "We had our doubts about taking them back from Argentina. I never trusted people who were that close to sheep. This seals the deal."