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Re: The roaring forties
Reply #15 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 9:03pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 12^th, 2024 at 7:58pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 5^th, 2024 at 2:25pm:

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2024 at 9:21am:

Think of all that radiation going with it from the nuclear wars.

The radioactive fallout from nuclear tests is everywhere on the planet -
even in the ice of Antarctica.

Radioactive fallout is dangerous for the first few days after detonation. It is still bad a week after detonation. It is safe in the region about a month later. Radiation may well make it to the Antarctic from test sites like Mururoa Atoll. But the significance would be mild and barely something that stays around.

I don't believe it's ever safe till the end of time -
it gets into the food chain and we eat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout

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Late or delayed effects of radiation occur following a wide range of doses and dose rates
Delayed effects may appear months to years after irradiation and include a wide variety of effects involving almost all tissues or organs. Some of the possible delayed consequences of radiation injury, with the rates above the background prevalence, depending on the absorbed dose, include carcinogenesis, cataract formation, chronic radiodermatitis, decreased fertility, and genetic mutations.

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Re: The roaring forties
Reply #16 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 9:56pm

Maybe another Sapien 'bottleneck' is approaching.
The racism of unaffected people's breeding while those infected by radiation with mutations potential are rejected and scorned?
Will WW3 create a decimation of the population with BILLIONS being killed and eventually dying? Throw in the diseases and viruses that come with the stress of a World War and it doesn't look great even though maybe only 20% of the world's nations going to War.

Also, it won't be the 'End' of everything, because there are still many World Wars to go. We are at the French part where Frances loses its Christianity at the hands of Islam.
We still have the Italian and British stages to go, come further down the track - maybe the next century?

Regardless, the population might boom again as it does after War?
Still, I think BILLIONS will die, how many billions is anyone's guess in this very over-populated world, that this little planet can't really resource for.

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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Re: The roaring forties
Reply #17 - Feb 13^th, 2024 at 2:34pm

Bobby. wrote on Feb 12^th, 2024 at 9:03pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 12^th, 2024 at 7:58pm:

Radioactive fallout is dangerous for the first few days after detonation. It is still bad a week after detonation. It is safe in the region about a month later. Radiation may well make it to the Antarctic from test sites like Mururoa Atoll. But the significance would be mild and barely something that stays around.

I don't believe it's ever safe till the end of time -
it gets into the food chain and we eat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout

Long term

Late or delayed effects of radiation occur following a wide range of doses and dose rates
Delayed effects may appear months to years after irradiation and include a wide variety of effects involving almost all tissues or organs. Some of the possible delayed consequences of radiation injury, with the rates above the background prevalence, depending on the absorbed dose, include carcinogenesis, cataract formation, chronic radiodermatitis, decreased fertility, and genetic mutations.

People visit places like Chernobyl. I would bet that they take the proper precautions when visiting. But the radiation level 38 years ago is now dissipated today to a point that short-term visits could be possible. People may say that Chernobyl will be habitable in 20,000 years time. But, I bet that the place would be cleaned up long before then of its radioactivity by modern technology being able to draw the radiation out of the soil.

Mururoa Atoll might not be all that safe today, nearly 30 years after a number of nuclear tests. But I bet that the radiation levels there would be considerably diminished compared to a month after the last nuclear weapons test took place.

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