ryannathans 25 points 7 months ago
Better off writing "this place is cursed and will kill those that enter"
SnowmenMelt 23 points 7 months ago
This guy never watched Indiana Jones
a_non_monotonic_function 2 points 7 months ago
I wrote it on my mom's house.
WorldsDumbestMan 2 points 7 months ago
Yeah, I need these pants. They suit me.
Thunderbird4 43 points 7 months ago
This one looks cool, and I think that’s its biggest problem. It’s clearly a massive, man-made structure with no obvious purpose, yet with striking visual impact. To the hypothetical future civilization that is unaware of the dangerous nuclear waste, it basically begs to be investigated.
Rooster326 4 points 7 months ago
Yeah because desecrating religious sanctuaries has stopped humanity thus wait
Rooster326 8 points 7 months ago
Bro of course Excalibur is under the field of death. Where else would you hide something so powerful?
Hop in, let's go
SatansMaggotyCumFart 3 points 7 months ago
Oh man imagine jumping out of a plane and ramming one of those up your ass at full speed.
Sploosh.
Rooster326 4 points 7 months ago
If you are falling out of plane at full speed with no pant on.
You have bigger problem
CrackedLinuxISO 34 points 7 months ago
I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity
What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.
One of the engineers said something like: "When we seal this up with so much concrete, there's no way you're getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they've exhausted all other natural sources"
And then there's a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste "for all time", and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.
alteredraccoon 31 points 7 months ago
Man this would be such a killer start or premise for a sci fi book
This 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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someguy3 19 points 7 months ago
I was thinking about this and their thinking was way too complicated. The symbol you need is bones. Bones are always associated with death and decay because after death, bones are the thing that's left.
And yes I know they thought of it but I think their dismissal of it is wrong. Their counter argument that it was once a symbol of something else by some culture, therefore. But again by its very nature it's associated with death. Any society capable of this excavation is also capable of thinking "hmm what did they mean? outside of our own culture of course" and will quickly figure out it's bad.
wonderingwanderer 15 points 7 months ago
Yeah, Carl Sagan was like "skull and crossbones"
But of course everyone else wanted to over-engineer it, so you get proposed solutions like encoding messages in the DNA of plants, and color-changing cats with an accompanying viral song that no one's ever heard of twelve years later... 🤦♀️
Like, guys, if people today can't even figure out what it means, then it's not a universal and enduring message.
And then some of the suggestions would only serve to make it a glaringly obvious archaeological dig site.
Skull and crossbones is about as universal as you can get. Maybe some atomic diagrams and radiation symbols, and written warnings in as many languages as possible, just in case people still understand them. And a giant slab that someone could only drill through deliberately, requiring heavy equipment.
I can't believe these were supposedly some of the smartest people in the world, and yet they made the mistakes of assuming that future civilizations would be hyperintelligent and thoroughly inquisitive, while also not understanding any symbols from our era and being likely to avoid areas designed to seem ominous. As if egyptologists today respect the warnings on ancient tombs.
And yet they overlooked the skull and crossbones because it seemed too obvious. The whole point is that it's supposed to be obvious!!!
someguy3 5 points 7 months ago
Atomic diagrams would be good for advanced societies, but societies in the bronze age or middle age advancment are the ones that we have to worry about. They won't understand atomic phyiscs but they are capable of excavation. Any fancy symbols might just intrigue them.
I think they underestimated the intelligence of possible future societies. Any society advanced enough to excavate this will be intelligent enough to ask "what does this symbol logically mean". They won't be limited to the 'bad-vibes' that the current ideas are heavy on (language aside).
wonderingwanderer -1 points 7 months ago
They were really counting on a middle-age level of advancement when they suggested making a new religion with a priesthood and its own mythology...
ArsonButCute 15 points 7 months ago
What about when the time of Mammals is done, and the next inhabitant has a chitinous exoskeleton? I'm not sure they'd recognize bones as a sign of this place being dangerous.
RaphaelSchmitz 5 points 7 months ago
Technically yes, but in the context of symbols (which is what this is about) it doesn't work.
If you stumbled upon a sign with a bug exoskeleton, you'd think "ah yes, this means death"?
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artifex 15 points 7 months ago
Take a skull-and-crossbones. It might be taken to mean danger or poison. Or it might be taken to mean pirates or treasure. And if the future explorers did connect it with danger or poison, why wouldn't they also just think it was maybe a superstition meant to keep outsiders from getting "the good stuff," like the curses that were sealed into ancient Egyptian tombs?
someguy3 4 points 7 months ago
Why did pirates use it? Because it's "give us your shit or you die." Aka it was a symbol of death.
I think your fear is more likely with the current ominous but doesn't tell you why message (if the language part is lost).
wonderingwanderer 5 points 7 months ago
Yeah, a future civilization finds a field covered in spikes. "I wonder what that's guarding. Must be something good!"
someguy3 3 points 7 months ago
This is funny because it's a symbol of bones, not actual bones. You know laser etched onto a platinum disc (or whatever other alloy that doesn't degrade) along with other signals that death is what will happen to you if you dig there. Any civilizaiton capable of that kind of excavation will be capable of figuring out "This is a symbol conveying a message. The message is death, not marking a juicy graveyard".
And just like the other guy, I think your fear is more likely with these other ominiuos-but-doesn't-tell-you-why markings (if the language is lost). They see all those random spikes and will think "holy shit this is the mother of all sites".
HertzDentalBar 2 points 7 months ago
"Yea but there's a bone so clearly there must be bones."
- Future anthropologist from the idiocracy future.
Alcoholicorn 4 points 7 months ago
The symbol you need is bones. Bones are always associated with death and decay because after death, bones are the thing that’s left.
I think the only way to get it taken seriously is to include depictions of the site and depictions of what radiation sickness looks like.
Make like a 100 page comic that starts with someone opening a cask and removing a fuel element, then dying days later, the element leaving contamination, which kills someone else months later, causes birth defects, etc until it's returned.
You're not going to scare a society into never investigating something, but you might be able to convince them to put it back and bury it again after they realize the predictions are accurate.
Rooster326 2 points 7 months ago
And what exactly do you make the comic book out of?
Because "pages" denotes paper and paper will disintegrate long before this place becomes safe
Alcoholicorn 4 points 7 months ago
You carve it into the walls. Make the walls out of quartz or something that's not materialy valuble, but very hard to destroy and impossible to steal.
Calming_Pants 17 points 7 months ago
Rooster326 1 point 7 months ago
This is the face you make when you realize that under there is the thing you have been looking for.
The mythical WMD, the one to eliminate your enemy, and finally bring peace to your peoples
SpaceNoodle 7 points 7 months ago
There's also a song to accompany genetically-engineered cats that change colors when exposed to radioactive material
MonkderVierte 6 points 7 months ago
Put it out of reach of humans without advanced tech. Under 2km of antarctic ice, in a deep sea trench, things like that. We are not talking millions of years, only a few thousand. And in case of accidents, water/ice is a great radiation blocker.
tigeruppercut 3 points 7 months ago
When you gaze long into the abyss...
Confused_Emus 3 points 7 months ago
Made from dead plants, rather.
MutantTailThing 48 points 7 months ago
Early nuclear scientists were batshit crazy deranged lunatics. Louis Slotin was researching the criticality of a plutonium core by lowering half a sphere of beryllium over it using the tip of a screwdriver and not a single piece of safety equipment.
It did not end well.
humanamerican 22 points 7 months ago
They sacrificed their lives so we could know both the power and danger ofthee subatomic world. They are accidental heroes. Now, someone who did that shit today with full knowledge of the consequences - they would be batshit insane.
plenipotentprotogod 38 points 7 months ago
For what its worth, Slotin in particular knew the consequences. If i recall correctly, he had a reputation for being a bit of a "cowboy" when it came to experimental protocol. I believe the lab even had specially made tools for handling the core, but Slotin insisted on using a screwdriver because it was easier.
humanamerican 2 points 7 months ago
Thanks, I will read more about him. Was not aware.
Buddahriffic 2 points 7 months ago
To add on to what the other comments said, when the screwdriver slipped and the shell closed completely briefly, making the ball go critical, they all knew what happened and he immediately asked everyone in the room to note their position and calculated the approximate radiation dose they each got up figure out who was going to slowly melt into goo over the next few days and who was going to die of cancer over the years.
He knew right away that he was one of the goo ones.
So I'm not sure I'd call that heroic discovery because they already knew what would happen and were just showing off how much balls they had fucking with something so deadly.
MutantTailThing 20 points 7 months ago
Maybe, but Slotin knew exactly what kind of dangers he was dealing with. He just chose to be a nuclear cowboy instead.
antonymous_bosch69 9 points 7 months ago
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some_guy 12 points 7 months ago
That explains it. All the mystical, mythological stories in the past weren't fanciful fairytales after all. Turns out that ancient people had sophisticated science that we still don't understand. Holy shit, all those history channel shows about ancient aliens or whatever were right!
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commie -2 points 7 months ago
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cm0002 11 points 7 months ago
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
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There are groups of designers who have the job of making symbols and systems that can survive for an extremely long time. One of their tasks was to design “signage” that might let generations thousands of years in the future not go poking around in nuclear waste yards. But the more crazy deadly and dangerous you make an artifact look, the more those future scientists are going to want to get into them.
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