
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages
Messages to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future
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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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a pity star since it may deter humans, yet could not deter or contain its corroded convent from me. caw
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.