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Old 04-24-2010, 06:04 AM   #87
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
I'm remembering a classic Scientific American article (1990s, I think) on detecting high energy cosmic rays from the Earth's surface-- which means detecting the rain of debris caused by a high-energy cosmic ray hitting the atmosphere and shattering atoms.
I think you might mean cosmic rays ionize atoms, not that they cause nuclear fission.
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