life in outer space

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come to think of it, i dont know how nuclear power works at all!
i know that the atom is split to release huge amounts of energy but can anybody fill me in on the way that the energy is captured?

Nuclear reactions create an intense amount of heat, which boils water and the steam coming from the water turns turbines. Nuclear power sounds a lot cooler when you don't know it's just a big stove burner.

My theory is that other stars in an infinitley vast universe have got to produce at least one solar system with a planet resting in the "Goldilocks zone" (an area not too far and not too close to the sun so that it is neither too cold or too warm). In fact, the planet does not even need to have oxygen.

It is theorized that the Earth's atmosphere was mostly methane and ammonia, but the introduction of single-celled organisms broke these down into oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen.