some an\a mixup in the logs, along with a few scp-xxx's. A few test logs seemed silly, but that didn't stop my upvote.
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How did I not catch those? All SCP-XXX's should be gone now, thanks for pointing that out.
SCP-118 is a species of ocean-dwelling protista that is capable of assembling functional, self initiating, nuclear devices from materials present in ocean water.
Though it's later made clear, this should probably say "nuclear fission devices", so it's obvious from the start.
While SCP-118 is unknown and hence has not been classified by the scientific community, specimens resemble protists of the phylum euglenophyta but have significantly increased levels of movement speed, nutrient storage capability and resistance to alpha radiation.
I think that the foundation would say something like "SCP-118 is a protist of the phylum euglenophyta, of an unknown class".
When in a survivable salt water environment, specimens of SCP-118 will seek out materials including but not limited to iron, silver, copper, carbon, TNT, and uranium isotopes.
How are they going to find enough TNT and uranium-235 to make a bomb?
First of all, thanks for the suggestions.
Regarding the TNT and the Uranium: TNT and other conventional explosives can be found in ocean water from unused ordinance that failed to detonate or sank with the ship it was carried on etc., either in their original "casing" or dissolved into the ocean when the casing failed. There are billions of tons of Uranium in the ocean, so much in fact that it is currently possible to retrieve uranium from ocean water, it's just not currently worth it economically. This uranium contains pretty much the same percentage of U-235 as uranium mined normally.
Now that I think about it though, perhaps it might make it better for the protists to synthesize their own high explosives. It is an avenue of research currently being looked into and is possible. I might make a change if more people find it hard to believe.
There are billions of tons of Uranium in the ocean, so much in fact that it is currently possible to retrieve uranium from ocean water, it's just not currently worth it economically
Yes, but what's the actual concentration? If the dilution is something like 1 uranium atom per cubic kilometer of ocean water, the protists aren't going to be able to gather enough to build a device. Unless they exist in MASSIVE colonies that occupy and coordinate across spaces measuring in the thousands or millions of cubic kilometers.
Plus, you have Uranium capitalized a lot when it shouldn't be.
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These things are complicated enough to refine weapons-grade uranium from seawater. Making them able to synthesize TNT isn't really a stretch.
I think this a good article, and upvoted, so I don't think it needs much to make it better. However, if I was writing it, I would change a couple of things.
1: Get rid of about half of the eradication suggestions. Most of them sound more like a plot of an episode of Captain Planet than a serious suggestion from scientists.
2: Same with redactions. What is this city that has a salt water lagoon in it's city limits. I honestly couldn't think of a city it would be, and naming the actual city would make it seem real and threatening, instead of just confusing.
3: This is just a personal hook I find really interesting, but this could be the reproduction model of a species of space-faring single celled life-forms. They build nukes to blow themselves into space, then wait potentially millions of years and maybe some of them land on another planet with water and the materials to build another nuke. To me, it would give the article less of a 'evil organization making evil protists that make nukes' article and more of a 'The universe is fundamentally crazy, and we can't even pretend to understand half of it' article.
I don't have a "canon" city in my head, but I was thinking either Istanbul (which the Bosporus strait bisects), New York, San Francisco or pretty much any other coastal city with lots of ships and aircraft.
And I must say, I do love your idea for Orion-drive microbes.
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God dammit I hate these things. You an make it [REDACTED] instead, or something. I really hate [DATA REDACTED] but that's a personal angry thing.
Proposal: Detonation of ██ megaton nuclear device
This comes off as incredibly lolfoundation and rather dumb.
Proposal: Detonation of ██ megaton cobalt-salted nuclear device
Again, incredibly lolfoundation and really dumb.
Proposal: Use of SCP-█████
I really would like to disagree with the use of SCP objects in experiments. Especially to actually do something. The reason why was just what you showed. It looked like it would be useful, then we used it and fucked up. I see no reason why the Foundation would allow such a risk as to PUT AN SCP OBJECT ALL OVER THE OCEAN FLOOR, in places where is HEAVY TRAFFIC, and near SHIPPING LANES.
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I've changed all the [DATA REDACTED]'s into [REDACTED] as the latter appears to be more standard.
Well those ideas didn't make it past the proposal stage. And the SCP used was (initially) safe class and was something that could be used while secured on a boat (or possibly even from a land based facility) as opposed to lowered or dumped into the water, for the very reasons you mention.
Then again, my justifications may be a little silly, as if I haven't written the logs well enough so that these concerns do not arise, what's the point of justifying them on a talk page? I'm considering trimming the experiments pending a bit of further feedback.
EDIT: "Nuke" proposals removed.
While you've obviously thought out exactly how micro-organisms would create a nuclear weapon (and congrats on doing so so thoroughly!), this just stretches believability too far for me. I simply cannot see how NO-ONE would notice undersea nuclear explosions, especially ones that can't be traced back to a sunk nuclear submarine or something. Nuclear detonations are kinda noticeable, even if completely submerged. Heck, your picture shows one tossing radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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Governments probably have, and they have a pretty vested intrest in keeping it on the down-low. Who else really has any reason to watch 75% of the earths surface?
It seems like the Foundation are going down and getting the devices on a regular basis. Presumably, there just haven't been that many (possibly none) detonations since containment began.
If there is a device they overlook, and for any pre-containment events, I don't think that it would be that hard to plant and/or doctor records to make it look like something more mundane happened. A nuclear sub went off course and the reactor malfunctioned, or a rogue state was illegally testing it's arsenal, or it was a natural phenomenon and the initial readings were just misinterpreted by over-enthusiastic ocenaogrpahers, or it was all a hoax. The Foundation is good at that sort of thing. Maybe a lot of that cold war nuclear weapon testing never actually happened, the bikini atol glows in the dark because of 118's handiwork, not Uncle Sam's.
Plus, let's not forget just how stupidly BIG the ocean is in the first place. I mean, less than .1% of the ocean is under direct observation at any one time. We could easily miss something as short-lived and relatively small as a submerged nuke.
Nope. World's seismographs and other devices that detects nuclear detonations picks up things like falied explosion of North Korea nuclear test. No one will "easily miss" underwater nuclear test, especially not in 2010s.
So the main criticism I've received is that some of the experiments are a bit too silly. Are there any in particular that bother anybody here (beyond soullesshuman and the nuke & SCP proposals)?
I upvoted after the first sentence of the description. Now I'm going to go back and read it to see if anything is worthy of changing my vote there.
EDIT: Nope, it's still good. Props for creativity.
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(account deleted)The idea of harvesting TNT at the bottom of the ocean, while possible due to sunken craft, still made me laugh. The eradication suggestions are a bit too lolfoundation, but can be easily trimmed to get rid of those parts without removing the entire log
I liked it, but…
Proposal: Use of SCP-█████
O5 Approval: Approved
Result: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Notes: SCP-███ has been reclassified as Euclid. -Dr Klaus
Inconsistent SCP designation. At the bottom you have 3 digits blacked out, but above you have not 4, but 5 black boxes. Also, I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of using an SCP on this, but the way it's executed here just doesn't add anything.
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