I was doing some research on irradiated foods and after reading the material I read a short story about some 'adventurer types' finding a ship that was damaged and had several areas that were highly radioactive.  The characters being 'adventurer types' boarded (in protective suits) and found that the ship was largely intact, had an atmosphere, and was one that was lost about 100 years earlier.

As they explored it, they found an area where they couldn't stay long due to the radiation levels and where they found the skeletal remains of several crew members.

This is where the question for the group comes in:

1.  Wouldn't the radiation have killed the bacteria that would cause decomposition?

2.  Wouldn't the radiation have gone down given the time (~100 years since the ship was attacked)?

I have this image of players stumbling over something similar and one of the players (not the characters) mentions, "Guys, these people have been dead for years...yet they don't show any signs of decomposition..." And from that point on, they click into space zombie mode and think everything is supernatural when there's a natural explanation.

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