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That would be interesting, I wonder what other elements will eventually join it. Also, I'm sure they know what they are doing, but it came out of the ocean floo
by galangalalgol 5y ago
That would be interesting, I wonder what other elements will eventually join it. Also, I'm sure they know what they are doing, but it came out of the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, how did they rule out Fukushima? Is the way it was incorporated into the rock make it certain?
- HenryKissinger 5y agoThe Fukushima disaster was only 10 years ago, which is an eye blink in geology.
- simonh 5y agoThey said a Japanese oil exploration company, not that it was near Japan. It could have been anywhere in the pacific, and it was as gifted to researchers in Australia not Japan. Radionucleotide contamination is an issue though. Apparently carbon dating will be useless to date anything since the 1950s in the future due to carbon isotope emissions from nuclear testing. So they must have taken care to ensure they were examining clean samples.
- spfzero 5y agoPretty sure it was not an isotope producible in an Earth fission reactor. A stable plutonium you could date back to only 10 million years old would be a different animal.