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army1987 comments on Where Fermi Fails: What is hard to estimate? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 June 2012 06:24:41PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but why there would be more such reactors today than there were one billion years ago?

Comment author: Thomas 13 June 2012 07:03:46PM 0 points [-]

Be cause U atoms are heavy and migrate under the influence of gravity to the center. Their relative abundance steadily rising.

I don't know if is it enough to have some effect. But if we discover some exoplanets, hotter than expected, it would be indicative for a process like that.

I don't know, it just might be, that the radioactivity of a planet rises for a longer time than usually postulated. Certainly, the Galaxy's atoms are more and more radioactive.