I don’t understand how nuclear radiation affects a geographical area to the point where it’s dangerous for a human to be there for extended periods of time.
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Have you ever had a corrupted hard drive, where you looked at it and the files were all named “( @␣ d▐ ñ % E.mp♦” and the like? That happens because some outside interference opens and closes signals that aren’t supposed to be. Like a magnet, which pulls on the metal parts. (If you’ve never seen file corruption before, open some non-text file you aren’t going to miss in Notepad, and type and delete stuff in there.)
DNA is like a hard drive. One that files are constantly being copied from. The copied files are new cells.
Radioactivity is like a magnet that pulls on DNA like the metal parts of the drive. But the files get copied from them anyway, and they aren’t rendered correctly because they’re so damaged.
( @␣ d▐ ñ % E.mp♦ is a cancer cell. Just a few of them, and they can be deleted without much trouble. But when more and more files start turning into things like that, the data starts to become unrecoverable. And radiation speeds that up.
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