Nonsense.
Plutonium is frequently created naturally, when a neutron (usually from fissioning uranium) floats into another Uranium238 nucleus.
Its just that the halflife of the formed plutonium is relatively short, so the stuff does not hang around much.
I’m sure that the many people who still identify as Palawa (indigenous Tasmanians) will wish you all the best with finding your autograph book.
A lot of early films existed on nitrate stock and are wholly lost, every copy has been destroyed.
Many, maybe most, of the paintings Picasso made during his Blue period are utterly and irretrievably gone. So are several of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and for the same reason: In a moment of desperation, someone needed the fire more.
There are strains of bananas and tomatoes that have been lost, due to a commercial preference for other strains. Of course, there are still bananas and tomatoes.
The direct lineages of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are gone, although their indirect lineages proliferate.
Half-cup yogurt containers have disappeared in favor of something smaller. Quisp and Quake are suspiciously absent. Falstaff and Schlitz beers are gone, and I haven’t seen Boone’s Farm Apple Wine in a while.
Quisp is still available, Quake is not.
Tinmouth apples are thought to be gone, but the search continues, just as it does for the Tasmanian wolf.
And Common Decency.
I hesitate to say lost episodes of Doctor Who, because there are so many motivated fans out there looking for stashed copies and recreating episodes. Even Shada, which never completed filming, is now available in three versions.
But there are currently missing episodes of Doctor Who that may not be recovered.
Pabst is brewing Schlitz these days, along with a bunch of legacy American beer brands like Blatz, Old Style, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, etc…
Boone’s Farm is still around too… although supposedly it’s now 7.5% abv flavored malt beverage and not apple wine anymore.
If anyone should happen to stumble upon a vestigial tranche of Common Decency somewhere on this planet, could you also take a look around and see if there are any Microwave Oven parts there too? If so, please PM me.
Here is a list of lost films for anyone who is interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films
And some more list of lost creative works:
Jesus, the Son of God came and left, just like a visitor from Star Trek.
But he violated the Prime Directive left, right, up, down, and sideways.
Like billions of other people in history.
Sorry, my info was old. For much of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people were widely, and erroneously, thought of as being an extinct cultural and ethnic group. I likely live in the past.
He beamed down and back again using a Transporter? :dubious:
Followup on Tasmanians. I used to think that the only ethical ethnic jokes would target extinct peoples so nobody alive would be insulted. Now I can’t make fun of indigenous Tasmanians. But Denisovans are still available, right?
Q: What results when a Denisovan swims at Venice?
A: Ring around the Adriatic.
For some incredibly small values of “frequently.”
Naturally occurring Plutonium is measured parts per trillion.
Just for fun, I calculated how much plutonium would be present in a battleship-sized (60,000 ton) mass of Pitchblende, and came up with .02 ounces, or around the mass of a postage stamp.
Not bad, but Aboriginal Australians do carry more Denisovan DNA than other humans, as a result of leading the sprint out of Africa and making sweet anatomically modern human love to anyone they ran into.
If you want a non-living lineage to stick the boot into, a good candidate is Homo floresiensis, the little guys referred to as the ‘hobbits’ from Flores, Indonesia. But then expect someone to tell you to pick on someone your own size.
An Australopithecine, a Paranthropus and a Homo walk into a bar …
There was a PS4 only digital download game that according to it’s own developers sold a whopping total of 20 copies before it was taken off the service due to the developers original company going defunct, so unless you were one of the original 20 people who bought the game and kept it on their system the game is considered “lost”.
Makes you realize there’s probably a ton of recent digital download only games that literally don’t exist anymore. How many copies of a Star Wars game for flip phones in 2005 can be currently accessed?
The bartender says “We don’t serve primitives in this bar, get out!”
As they walked away, the Homo muttered " 'E wrect us!"
Yabba dabba doo!