Shaggy
Vice Admiral
I got to thinking about Repleetah and the weapons used there. If I remeber right it got the full NBC treatment.
Now Chemical and Biological weapons burn themselves out relatively quickly. Chemical weapons tend to break down and dissipate into the environment, usually with no ill effects and infectious organisms usually die off after awhile.
Nuclear effects tend to stick around a lot longer.
Now according to a PBS special I watched the reason why radiation is so damaging is because the radioactive molecules are zipping around really fast and they knock pieces of your DNA loose, causing mutations that turne into cancers. They didn't name any specific type of radiation, Gamma, Alpha, or XRays, so this probably isn't completely accurate.
But keeping this sort of thing in mind does anyone think it's at least theoretically possible to create machinery capable of cleaning up radiation on a planetary scale and keep the process from taking thousands of years or have to dig up loads of top soil?
Now Chemical and Biological weapons burn themselves out relatively quickly. Chemical weapons tend to break down and dissipate into the environment, usually with no ill effects and infectious organisms usually die off after awhile.
Nuclear effects tend to stick around a lot longer.
Now according to a PBS special I watched the reason why radiation is so damaging is because the radioactive molecules are zipping around really fast and they knock pieces of your DNA loose, causing mutations that turne into cancers. They didn't name any specific type of radiation, Gamma, Alpha, or XRays, so this probably isn't completely accurate.
But keeping this sort of thing in mind does anyone think it's at least theoretically possible to create machinery capable of cleaning up radiation on a planetary scale and keep the process from taking thousands of years or have to dig up loads of top soil?