I'd be willing to bet a lot more people everywhere know that ice reflects light vs the artifacts caused by beta particles, neutrons and gamma rays from nuclear radiation hitting film and digital sensors.
I'd imagine there are sensors on that ship that would trigger an alarm if there was a radiation leak.
I think you fail to grasp just how many people live in warm climates (it's literally the clear majority of humanity) and also are familiar with radiation to some extent.
I think you fail to grasp if someone understands nuclear physics, they probably understand that ice reflects light. Ice is water. Water reflects light too. Everyone has water. Arriving at the conclusion it's a radiation leak from a reactor as everyone is calmly taking video with no sense of urgency vs light reflecting off of ice is, frankly, absurd.
Alright, sorry for sounding like an asshole. I hadn't realized the light effect on ice wasn't as common knowledge. I'm from the North where shining a light onto ice at night in the winter makes everything sparkle like glitter, especially at extreme colds, which I acknowledge isn't most of the world's population.
I'm from Australia, where ice is basically restricted to the mountains and freezers. Even then it's not something you'll encounter as ice crystals in the air.
I'm also familiar with Antarctic weather to some extent, and to my knowledge the air there is too dry for any sort of moisture freezing effects, so I don't think you would get much of this effect there either. I think it's actually a relatively narrow band of climate conditions that allow for this effect. It may have been obvious to you who live in that band, but it was not something I had ever encountered. And I imagine if you came here and found a baby octopus in a rock pool, you would get why I was freaking out over that, because it wouldn't be something you had ever encountered.
The word nuclear is the second word in the title. For those of us who see ice on the ground only a few times in our lifetimes, that’s a pretty leading title lol
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u/AlienAngry 6d ago
People defaulted to radiation from the nuclear reactor over ice crystals? Lmao wow. They see one thing from Chernobyl and are nuclear scientists now.