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I’m usually one of the first to throw shade at the Australian government but to claim that “this thing has been missing for months” isn’t misleading - it’s a li
by atlastreasure23 4y ago
I’m usually one of the first to throw shade at the Australian government but to claim that “this thing has been missing for months” isn’t misleading - it’s a lie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioactive_capsule_incident#Timeline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_radioacti...
Also to say the tactics being used to find the capsule being limited to “post a picture of a watch batter on Facebook and hope it magically shows up” would be misleading.
1)The public alerts and posts are to keep the public informed as to what it is. This is for the very small chance someone does stumble onto it to limit the risk to the public.
2)They are searching the route with handheld detectors and soon detectors on vehicles using the trucks GPS data to map the route
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/29/new-technology-deployed-in-search-for-tiny-potentially-deadly-missing-radioactive-capsule https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/29/new-t...