To: WaveThatFlag
Here's an idea: send in a robot carrying a powerful gamma source, like Cesium 137. Kill every living thing in the cave. Then withdraw the robot and spray plastic over the paintings.
Why would this not work?
--Boris
4 posted on
05/06/2003 7:17:59 AM PDT by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
To: boris
Plastic is not static and tends to become opaque over time. Why do you think they have not pulled a slip cover job on the Sisteen Chapel?
6 posted on
05/06/2003 7:20:45 AM PDT by
WaveThatFlag
(Run Al, Run!!!)
To: boris
The gamma source treatment just might work. However rock
"breathes" and the plastic would trap moisture, etc and thusly the rock would spall and destroy the painting.
13 posted on
05/06/2003 8:48:14 AM PDT by
TaMoDee
To: boris
Why stop at the cave? Let's irradiate all of France.
17 posted on
05/06/2003 9:36:20 AM PDT by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus, Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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