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We still have remote tribes who have very little interaction with nuclear technology. We could test some of these communication methods and see how they interpr
by asimpleusecase 2y ago
We still have remote tribes who have very little interaction with nuclear technology. We could test some of these communication methods and see how they interpret them.
- defrost 2y agoThe British tried that already in '56 and '57 https://youtu.be/KHY13PCeSxc?t=46 https://youtu.be/KHY13PCeSxc?t=46 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maralinga#Nuclear_tests_and_cleanup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maralinga#Nuclear_tests_and_cl... They needed to do much better.
- szszrk 2y agoI don't think a series of nuclear explosions of 10, 8, 1, 6 and 25 kilotonnes should be considered "communication methods". It's more about visual markings.
- defrost 2y agoHow about the warning signs about posted about the sites of the intended tests and the signs posted about the tests sites after the explosions. Do you consider those signs to be "communication methods"? They used visual markings.
- szszrk 2y agoSorry, it's hard for me to understand your sentence, but are you refering to the fact there were actual physical signs placed, but unreadable to natives? Didn't realize it. The wikipedia page doesn't seem to cover that and youtube link is broken.
- defrost 2y agoThey put out signs before and after - the challenge was to convey a message to people with rich oral language skills but no written lnaguage traditions at all - so yes, they used pictures | graphics to convey danger - not with any real success. That challenge aside some would say it was a cursory and very much token effort as at that time in history indigenous Australians were considered to be part of the fauna of the unihabited Terra Nullus with no rights other than some use as test subjects for the effects of the new toy. Probably worth mentioning they also dusted Adelaide with fallout including a young Tony Blair, a future UK Prime Minister. But very much worse near ground zero. Re: youtube link - that's just to a 1986 song about the testing from Gossip by Paul Kelly - I dare say it's "broken" due to geo-locking (it works fine here in AU) - https://www.paulkelly.com.au/lyric/maralinga-rainy-land/ https://www.paulkelly.com.au/lyric/maralinga-rainy-land/
- szszrk 2y agoThanks, nice background to the whole event. I wonder why so little of it is part of wiki. Yes, song is likely geo-locked, but youtube just gives vague "video not available". Weird, it's usually more generous on error messages.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI think it would be better to leave these tribes alone instead of interacting with them.
- preisschild 2y agoThose tribes also have no idea how to dig hundreds of meters down into those hard rocks in the first place. So pretty useless overall.