This Place is Not a Place of Honor

skidzilla · May 18, 2006, 17:29:23 PM

So youre burying tons of nuclear waste with a half-life of 10,000 years? How would you go about telling future generations?

QuoteThis 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 is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location? it increases toward 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.

redneck · May 18, 2006, 17:45:00 PM

i would bury the place under 100 feet of concrete, an tehn bury it under even more soil. plant trees an then run away

M3ta7h3ad · May 18, 2006, 17:45:19 PM

really interesting!

maximusotter · May 18, 2006, 17:48:03 PM

Put up a plaque that says "Archive of Hasselhoff", no one will dare open it.

Clock'd 0Ne · May 18, 2006, 18:22:08 PM

I wonder if they have considered turning the ground above into a form of eden, that any culture advanced enough would not want to destroy or dig up and that any unadvanced culture would be happy to leave unsettled similarly. Im of the thought that placing markers down will only lead to trouble - it always happens that way in Star Trek.

Clock'd 0Ne · May 18, 2006, 18:22:40 PM

Quote from: maximusotterPut up a plaque that says "Archive of Hasselhoff", no one will dare open it.

The Germans will, and on the scale of things globally look how much trouble theyve caused in the past!

Dave · May 18, 2006, 18:32:13 PM

Quote from: redi would bury the place under 100 feet of concrete, an tehn bury it under even more soil. plant trees an then run away

good plen

- thats what Id do too!

Pete · May 18, 2006, 18:57:10 PM

Warning! Wheel Clampers operate in this area.

Dead interesting read

Smugs · May 18, 2006, 19:42:27 PM

Good link that.

Serious · May 18, 2006, 19:59:51 PM

Quote from: Clockd 0Ne
Quote from: maximusotterPut up a plaque that says "Archive of Hasselhoff", no one will dare open it.

The Germans will, and on the scale of things globally look how much trouble theyve caused in the past!

Americans are going to use George W Bushs greatest speeches burried here...

One of the big problems with storing waste is that the area selected has to be geologically stable for a very long time. The most stable place available is a
huge river valley filled with lovely clay known as the Themes...

Anyone willing to place bets on the UK government putting a few thousand tons of nuclear waste under Big Ben? :mrgreen:

knighty · May 18, 2006, 23:54:32 PM

i dont see why they dont just stick all the waste in the sea where its nice and deep, theres nothing importand down there anyway, thats what the sea is for

Clock'd 0Ne · May 19, 2006, 00:05:23 AM

Quote from: knightyi dont see why they dont just stick all the waste in the sea where its nice and deep, theres nothing importand down there anyway, thats what the sea is for

Does that work on the inspectors as well Alan?

Serious · May 19, 2006, 01:16:42 AM

Quote from: knightyi dont see why they dont just stick all the waste in the sea where its nice and deep, theres nothing importand down there anyway, thats what the sea is for

Except for fish you might eat...

Mongoose · May 19, 2006, 09:38:41 AM

thats a really interesting site, spent over an hour last night just clicking on links to "related articles"!

Leon · May 19, 2006, 09:56:51 AM

v. interesting

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This Place is Not a Place of Honor