These nuclear waste deterrents have always been a bit bizarre to me. If you make something monumentally ominous then you’re going to get tourists.
People are fucking weirdos. The same idiots that crawl through holes in the ground are definitely the kind that would climb through the giant razor field.
These monuments are some of the most blatant fossil fuel propaganda to hit the mainstream.
Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future. Climate change? Oh don’t worry, it’s just your grandchildren and everybody after them that will have to live through a mass extinction event, you have nothing to worry about.
Nuclear waste? Well, sure, you could keep it perfectly safe by putting it on a grate in a bathtub, but that would require maintenance once every decade or so, and that’s just not acceptable. Now by law you have to bury it in a geologically inactive region where it can be guaranteed to not leak in the slightest for the next million years without any human intervention. Leaded gasoline and car exhaust made half the population angry xenophobes and kills hundreds of thousands of people per year? Cost of doing business, I’m afraid.
Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future.
Even if it isn’t that relatively impactful these kinds of monuments are still really cool and whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding
Yeah, these monuments are pretty… rad
My guy this is a shitpost
Is this a Hyperion spoiler?
That’s so badass there’s gotta be something cool in there
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Leave some room for me.
It is repulsive to us
I just realized:
there were at-least-2 different designs for that kind of long-term-deterrent.
The spikey-stuff version, & the ominous-maze ( or however it should be called ) version, & maybe another…
That spikey-stuff version could be destroyed-removed by people who found the signal to be the problem, much more easily than the ominous-maze one could.
That may affect future lives…
( of course, my idea that simply putting the stuff DEEP into the ocean-floor right before a subduction-zone, to have plate-tectonics remove it from our surface, would bypass all that, but pick the best method, not the prettiest idea, right? )
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Why not a field of spikey stuff surrounding an ominous maze?
And we add a tectonic plate on top for good measure
Here is the whole document with all the proposals.
Full minute of downloading text…
I am gonna need a children’s books version with pictures if i ever want to learn about that.
Would.
What if we kissed now?
