I Just Created A New Word
Nuclearche: 1. (n) the onset of nuclear activity by a civilization.
I was talking to benchilada about why carbon dating will not work for future archaeologists trying to date relics of our present due to the massive pollution of the planetary carbon cycle with a lot of Very Old Carbon, skewing the baseline carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratios.
However, I can envision the archaeologists of the future instead doing dating based upon the decay of nuclear weapons testing fission products. To them, 1945 will be Year Zero by which to scale time. The Nuclear Age is not just fancy words, we have created a distinct geologic era.
I was talking to benchilada about why carbon dating will not work for future archaeologists trying to date relics of our present due to the massive pollution of the planetary carbon cycle with a lot of Very Old Carbon, skewing the baseline carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratios.
However, I can envision the archaeologists of the future instead doing dating based upon the decay of nuclear weapons testing fission products. To them, 1945 will be Year Zero by which to scale time. The Nuclear Age is not just fancy words, we have created a distinct geologic era.