Is this a case of someone stumbling into the concept and wanting to share it with the world? Is there some trend in SV around low-background steel right now?
Genuinely curious about the phenomenon of posts around topics that have a great deal of understanding and aren’t necessarily trending in the general news cycle.
No, low-background steel is mentioned in the replies. It's similar in the sense that GPT-3 generated text is going to contaminate the data we collect from now on.
OP answered in a sibling comment, but might additionally be interesting to know why a repost like this gets upvoted: I upvoted it because I didn't know of it (this is the first time I see it) and I wasn't aware that there is that much radiation lingering from tests decades ago, which was interesting to me.
There was a post a week or so ago where low-background steel was discussed in the comments. I can't find it on Google though. Probably someone saw that and either made a calendar reminder for a few days out to post it or had it in their open tab backlog.
Edit: I'm pretty sure it was the knife steel post.
The 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test was just a few days ago, on July 16th. It's been in the news a bit lately, and this topic is related.
Is this a case of someone stumbling into the concept and wanting to share it with the world? Is there some trend in SV around low-background steel right now?
Genuinely curious about the phenomenon of posts around topics that have a great deal of understanding and aren’t necessarily trending in the general news cycle.