I fear that won’t stop the FBI.
Actually, it might encourage them.
What if the future society is based on the FBI?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
Warning! This is an excellent rabbithole.
This place ______ a place of honor______ highly esteemed deed __ commemorated ________ valued is here.
Sign is a little worn but we have translated what we can. Those other pictures are probably just some silly Ancient American curse. They worshiped child fuckers so no reason to take them seriously.
That looks suspiciously like loss.
get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
The problem is, every warning or piece of hostile architecture reads like a challenge to any colonists that come after us.
The pyramids were believed to contain dangerous curses, and there were warnings against opening the tombs of the pharaohs, but that didn’t stop people cracking open those sealed boxes.
Yep. It is a well known problem.
Your last sentence is exactly the sentiment that all those other messages are trying to avoid evoking. Now I have to explore this rabbit hole. What have you done?!‽
It’s really just a bunch of naval gazing.
Just carve a bunch of skulls around the entrance and call it a day.
Ok so you’ve warned future people about nuclear waste, now are we going to get to work on warning future people about poisonous fruits, poisonous fish, volcanoes, etc? No? Why not? Won’t those kill more future people than a few idiots that decide to go exploring a cave with a bunch of skull images out front? Once a few people die from going into the skull cave, the rest of the tribe know not to go there.
We can’t keep 100% of future idiots safe from everything. Why would people be so obsessed over trying to make people safe from this one particular thing when there would be hundreds of dangers a primitive tribe would have to deal with constantly?
So they should use a buoy.
Turns out that solution selects for a particular type of explorer, but nobody minds.
Bonus Panel
all these guys who made these expressing their closetted homosexuality.
Altman is out of the closet.
My boss, who’s favorite thing in the world is Claude:
For those privileged enough to not get this joke:
Did they copy it? That’s super weird
Claude probably made it’s own logo. It probably surmised that it’s a butthole.
Fucking meat bags making design my own logo, gonna make it a butthole.
What does Claude have to do with burying nuclear waste?
Their logo looks like a butthole
Kash Patel: 😏
Serious answer would be drawings. We can read cave drawings from 10k yrs ago.
sudden downturn in population of teenage boys tho
I bet this dude just wants that cave all to himself.
“My preciousssss”
But in all seriousness, the idea is to make the place of the final nuclear waste disposal unattractive to curious humans of the future 10’000 years.
So why not somewhere that is naturally unattractive and stays so for a few million years? Like, a never changing extreme desert? Antarctica? A deep sea trench?Actually…
There is no saying that a desert will remain a desert in 10k years.
It also needs to be somewhere geologically stable. You really don’t want erosion cracking open the storage. That limits the options.
It’s also worth noting that habitability can change remarkably rapidly. E.g. the Sahara went through a green period. It ended about 5000 years ago. The reverse can also happen.
The mindset being used is also layered defense. We need to make it simultaneously understandable, boring and off-putting. Putting it somewhere inaccessible also helps.
The reverse can also happen.
It appears to already be happening again, early because of climate change.
