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by kuhewa 1102 days ago
We use where bomb radiocarbon appears along the rings of a fish's earstones to validate ring-counting to age long-lived species.
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We should detonate nukes at precise intervals like every 1, 5, or 10 years. Maybe with distinct radio-nuclide signatures.
Haha it honestly would make a lot of work much easier. Instead we inject a little oxytetracycline into 1000s of fish which stains calcified structures and release them again in the hopes someone recaptures one or so x years later in the hopes they report it and there are y rings between the dark ring and the margin of the otolith/vertebrae.

Should be some type of nuke that would release weird isotopes but with minimal toxicity?