Comment Re:bad science question (Score 1) 373
Acutally, there are (or rather were) natural fission reactions, so that's another way of natural element transmutation. About two billion years ago, the concentration of natural Uranium was about 3% U235 (compared to 0.7% today), so a sustained reaction could occur if the conditions were just right. The only known example of this is in Gabon, but scientists estimate that the reactors were running for a few hundred thousand years.