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Radioactivity (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It will be radioactive forever. The question is where you put the threshold, which is fairly arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eh, it could be non-radioactive next week. That's not very likely, but it could be

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

eh, i could randomly teleport to the moon suddently, but things like theese are unlikely enough to be in effect completely and utterly impossible.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

!remindme 10^10^10 universe lifetimes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I could also phase through a wall by sheer coincidence of all my molecules missing the molecules of the wall, but yeah, not going to happen unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It would imply a significant energy release within a short time in order to become non-radioactive right?

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