Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
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Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

Messages to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future

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jetboymachine11/4/2026

his place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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corvus11/4/2026

a pity star since it may deter humans, yet could not deter or contain its corroded convent from me. caw

Lew11/4/2026

What else could you want

kodesu11/4/2026

quite efficient . i have personally been deterred

sikkel11/4/2026
so true dude11/4/2026

very useful for the more adventurous folks among us

jsca80811/4/2026
beer11/4/2026

kin

rumia11/4/2026
sammy11/4/2026

Not sure about these ones guys

pisteotso11/4/2026

Kinda the final frontier of human communication. This is what got me interested in that in the first place, aside from the usual philosophical stuff. Breakdown of language, image, representation... so necessary. How do you measure the amount of risk? How do you anticipate how cultural signs change? You'll make messages anyway, not knowing how effective it is. Possibly even longer to decipher the signs made than them learning how radioactivity works. Scary.

Andrew11/3/2026

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10117359 a printout of this will be on a coffee table in my future home

superlounging11/3/2026

fascinating

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