Dave Hone

And the idea being that like, yeah, if you want to investigate black holes or neutrinos or chemical crystallography or panda genetics or whatever it is, you can do that anytime you want.

Like that,

That's not going to change a million years from now, as it will from tomorrow.

But fossils are in places that erode, and if we don't dig them up, they're gone.

So we should dig all the fossils up now, and then we've got forever to study them.

But if we don't dig them up now, who knows?

Maybe there was something twice the size of T. rex, and it sat on a hillside for six months, and then the wind got to it, and it's gone.

And that was the only one that ever preserved.

Well, we'll never know now.

To be clear, this is a joke.

I'm not suggesting we should stop doing cancer research and physics and other things, but we're in a fundamentally different field where our science is literally disappearing.

it hits the ground and seismic.

And then they go, look, look, here's the whole skeleton.

Yeah.

They tried it.

It doesn't really work.

Um, we've tried looking for stuff with drones that helps you getting into some inaccessible areas, but until the resolutions probably better, you've still got that problem of like looking, you know, with human eyes, which are binocular and being able to, you know, just tilt your head completely changes how you see something in a way that flying over, uh,

just won't.

I know they've tried looking so because the bones are porous they tend to suck things up so actually dinosaur bones can be really radioactive if they're in areas where there are

things like uranium so yeah there are drawers which have lead boxes around them and stuff like this for dinosaur bones or just sign saying do not handle they're very low level radioactive like you'd have to like stick it in your pocket for six months to run any real risk but they're radioactive much more so than the background so can we do that turns out not really um