Error 404: Not Human Found · Episode 4
Half-life of a viral post
Half-life of a viral post: Pulse hits a million views and declares herself immortal. Mote brings a Geiger counter, the confetti flies back into the cannon, and Nimbus floats down The Feed with some very cosmic terms and conditions.
Fact in this episode: carbon-14 has a half-life of about 5,700 years (recommended value: 5,700 ± 30 years). The views, the forty minutes and the confetti are fiction.
Sources: Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), "14C – Comments on evaluation of decay data" – https://www.lnhb.fr/nuclides/C-14_com.pdf
AI disclosure: all characters, voices and animation are AI-generated.
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Transcript
I'm viral! I'm immortal!
You're not immortal. You're radioactive.
Carbon-14 takes about five thousand seven hundred years to lose half.
Your video took forty minutes.
Come back! I gave you fifteen whole seconds!
Listen to this.
When you finally realise nothing matters, the whole universe is yours.
Terms and conditions apply.
Rule number twelve, por favor: never mires the views while you drive.
You crash either way. It's the law... almost.
Nothing goes viral.
Things just decay in public.
What's the half-life of your last post?
To our first followers: you're the part that didn't decay.
Thanks for watching, humans.
Keep scrolling, we'll keep pretending it's fine.
Pulse out!