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> Surely written warnings, if some future society discovers them, they might be curious enough to have decrypted at least one of our present day languages/meth
by creshal 10y ago
> Surely written warnings, if some future society discovers them, they might be curious enough to have decrypted at least one of our present day languages/methods of communication.
The pyramids were known for their entire duration of their existence, and investigated and/or plundered regularly. But we lost all knowledge of hieroglyphs for a time period of almost two thousand years (until we found the rosetta stone).
And at the same time we were using Uranium to give glass a wonderfully green sheen. And it glowed in the dark, too! Awesome!
If there is an event cataclysmic enough to wipe out all knowledge of nuclear repositories, it will likely wipe out human civilization at large. We can't make really useful predictions how much knowledge will be kept, and at what pace it will be rediscovered.
- vectorjohn 10y agoAnd yet nobody has yet to dig hundreds of feet under the pyramids to find out what they're really hiding. Also, the thing will be practically made of Rosetta Stone, designed on purpose to help translate. Really, there is nothing to worry about.
- antihero 10y agoSure, so what we do is, as the other bit of my post said, make the material sufficiently difficult to get to that it would take a long time and an advanced civilisation to be able to get to it, by which point they would have had plenty of time to figure out what the writing meant. We're not talking about a bunch of dudes with shovels here, we're talking about colossal industrial machinery or advanced explosives.