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I wonder when/if places like vietnam will ever achieve this. Hell, Australia still has WW2 mines.
by gregjw 7mo ago
I wonder when/if places like vietnam will ever achieve this.
Hell, Australia still has WW2 mines.
- riffraff 7mo agoIs that actual land mines or generic lost explosives and unexploded bombs? Cause the latter is pretty common in Europe too, but I'm surprised you have actually minefields which haven't been cleared up in Australia.
- Animats 7mo agoFrance still has WWI unexploded ordnance, and keep-out areas are still being de-mined. This has been going on for a century now. About 900 tons of explosives are removed each year. Completion in 700 years at the current rate.[1] [1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/the-red-zone-land-still-abandoned.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/the-red-zone-la...
- scns 7mo agoThat is mind blowing, no pun intended.
- MattGaiser 7mo agoI imagine a lot has to do with motivation. Canada has UXO that it doesn't clean up as land is abundant.
- adamnemecek 7mo agoThis feels like a perfect use case for AI.
- matkoniecz 7mo agohow AI would help?
- adamnemecek 7mo agoRobots or drones with ground penetrating radar?
- strken 7mo agoDoes Australia have any landmines? I was under the impression that we had some areas with sea mines which had been swept but still weren't guaranteed safe, and that was it.
- xoxxala 7mo agoThere are an estimated one to two million mines in the Korean DMZ. Emplaced by both the South and North Koreans since the 1950s. There is no possibility all those mines are mapped properly. And most of them are not the self-disabling/destroying kind. It will take generations to clear.