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True but they might not know what it is. And radiation is something that's pretty unversally poisonous (instead of biological poisons which tend to be only poi
by GekkePrutser 4y ago
True but they might not know what it is.
And radiation is something that's pretty unversally poisonous (instead of biological poisons which tend to be only poisonous to certain species). I don't think there's a single species on earth to which radiation isn't deadly.
I just think the records would have been better launched on their own (and hundreds of them in different directions of potentially life-sustaining systems). That'd have been cool (even though it's still a total long shot).
- lazide 4y agoIt seems pretty implausible to me that a species has managed to bridge interstellar space (pretty much required to run across the probe before the RTG has decayed to harmlessness) and has no idea that plutonium (or whatever their name is for it) or radiation is harmful. Hell, they’d be getting harmful cosmic ray doses without some kind of shielding even worse than they’d likely get from the RTG unless they cracked it open to feast on the chewy pellets inside.
- knorker 4y ago> True but they might not know what it is. With a half life of 87.7 years there won't be any left by the time it's found. They'll have to know nuclear science to even propose a hypothesis about what was in that container. If they don't then they'll scratch their heads about how this thing was even powered. The nature of unstable (and therefore radioactive) elements is that they'll decay until they are stable elements.