...no, as big as it was, this was not "The Big One" that Californians have been dreading for decades. It wasn’t even on the same fault line as the one causing the most concern...
Three Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl. While nuclear accidents are extremely rare, they loom large in the public conscience, making nuclear energy a hard sell for many constituents, despite its numerous benefits.
Although the unique reddish hue has been a key defining characteristic of Mars in culture for centuries... there is much more to Mars than its color upon closer observation...
"The surface of the sun is normally a roiling, super-heated hellscape... But Nasa images have revealed that the face of our star is looking ominously calm right now..."