Yes, you are right. I think it was someone from Scunthorpe who was going on about having a Chernobyl on their doorstep as the exasperated bloke tried to explainthe difference between fusion and fission that put that idea in my head. As I said I missed the start of the discussion.
In 1985 I was on a course for work, we had to give an hours lecture to the class , but it had to be on a subject unrelated to our work. For some idiotic reason I chose Nuclear Fusion, I researched all about it and it's possibilities, how it would be endless energy etc. Managed to get through the lecture although I understood nothing about the subject and at the finish neither did the class.
New fossils are challenging ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa. A discovery of a child's tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago. That is several thousands of years earlier than previously thought, indicating that the two species could have coexisted for long periods. The research has been published in the journal Science Advances. The finds were discovered in a cave, known as Grotte Mandrin in the Rhone Valley, by a team led by Prof Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse. He was astonished when he learned that there was evidence of an early modern human settlement. "We are now able to demonstrate that Homo sapiens arrived 12,000 years before we expected, and this population was then replaced after that by other Neanderthal populations. And this literally rewrites all our books of history." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60305218 ................................................. So the Flintstones was correct, humans and Neanderthals were around at the same time!
