Lmao, the "artist's rendition".
"95% Chance to hit"
The thing about genes is that if there aren't natural selection pressures to keep certain traits, they tend to drift, and traits can change or become entirely non-functional over a surprisingly short time. I would expect, unless there was a concerted effort to maintain the radiation detection trait over those 10,000 years through careful breeding, the cats would lose their radiation triggered appearance change behavior before it actually had a chance to be useful to people.
How could you not post the song
We're all gonna have to move. TO THIS CATCHY TUNE
What a weird (and awesome) thing to exist.
Glowing cat, glowing cat, what did you get into?
Glowing cat, glowing cat, it's not your fault!
Wait, I've seen this one before...
Can we petition https://www.thethoughtemporium.com/
To engineer one and secretly release it in a viral agent as to infect all cats globally.
In 2004, a Danish company created mine-detecting plants that changed color when their roots were exposed to landmine leakage. So yeah, this actually makes sense that we'd imagine this kind of solution.
The idea was proposed in 1984
