• @[email protected]
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    107 months ago

    Only on geologic timescales, though, which requires special preservation, otherwise there won’t be any remains.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      77 months ago

      Nah. The half-life is 5700 ±30 years. A 5% difference from normal can absolutely be measured and will occur in 422 ±3 years.

      So not human timescales but not geological ones, either.

    • @embed_me
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      37 months ago

      If my bones survive for 500 years will it be enough?

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        If I understand correctly we can’t do it to anything new because the ratios in the atmosphere got messed up after nuclear weapon testing in the 1950s. Anything breathing after that time can’t be properly compared with this technique. Maybe that will change though.