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No need to warn them, a Geiger counter is more than enough to detect nuclear waste. Spared reading one article.
by jerome-jh 7y ago
No need to warn them, a Geiger counter is more than enough to detect nuclear waste. Spared reading one article.
- Kaibeezy 7y agoThe article explains how waste may leak and contaminate water supplies or make its way up the food chain. Future humans or others may find these facilities and not comprehend our warnings. It may or may not be possible for everyone carry a radiation detector at all times.
- jerome-jh 7y agoThere are areas where natural radioactivity or chemicals just occur at dangerous levels. So it is certainly not a new problem to spot and avoid those areas. So in xx years: Either humans still have technology, and they can find out there is contamination with a Geiger counter or chemical analysis, and stay away as much as possible from the contaminated area. Either they lost technology/knowledge, and they will over time find out the place is unfit for life, through unborn babies, malformed animals/human, or other signs, just like the ancients did. In this case, our warning signs are of no help either, may actually be counter productive. I stand by the idea that's the kind of article that's not worth reading past the title.
- Kaibeezy 7y agoI don't disagree with you. I think it's most interesting as an abstract semiotics puzzle. What information conveys extreme danger (whether emergency, acute or chronic) when the observer no longer shares our language, or even our species?