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Semi-related 99 Percent Invisible episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
by tnorthcutt 10y ago
Semi-related 99 Percent Invisible episode: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
This WIPP site is going to be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, though this panel was only responsible for keeping this place sufficiently marked for humans for the next 10,000 years—thinking beyond that timeframe was thought to be impossible.
- llamataboot 10y agoThis place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. 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.