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Holy shit. Dieter Ast was my landlord in college. This explains so much about my basement. To those who haven't read the article yet, the real title is Judgmen
by amk_ 10y ago
Holy shit. Dieter Ast was my landlord in college. This explains so much about my basement.
To those who haven't read the article yet, the real title is Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Prof Ast was the material scientist on one of the multidisciplinary teams tasked to design warning symbols for 10,000 year nuclear waste storage sites. He used to go around collecting old lab computers that were going to be thrown out and resurrect them with Windows 2000 or Puppy Linux installs.
- colanderman 10y ago… your basement was plastered with iconographic warnings against entering due to interminable life-ending substances contained within? … did you enter?
- 2bitencryption 10y ago>This place is not a place of honor. >No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. >Nothing valued is here. "But I just need to use the laundry machines." >...Fine.
- jean- 10y agoBrilliant. This just reads like a conversation with Death in a Terry Pratchett novel.
- willvarfar 10y agoAnd was there one saying "beware of the leopard"?
- turkeybone 10y agoHello, fellow Dieter tenant! I was one of his last tenants in 2013. I always enjoyed conversing with him.