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I find the "human comes near box with radioactive sign/sign is on human now/human sick" drawing to be a pretty universal warning sign. No matter how many years
by pqhwan 10y ago
I find the "human comes near box with radioactive sign/sign is on human now/human sick" drawing to be a pretty universal warning sign.
No matter how many years we're aiming for the message to survive, as long as we're warning against humans, wouldn't using the human form somehow in the message be the best way? Isn't drawing narratives with bipedal stick figures something we've had since the dawn of humanity?
- cgriswald 10y agoOg came upon a cave and discovered a strange symbol on a strange kind of stone he had never seen before. The stone was flat, and the symbol was neither painted on nor carved. On the strange stone, there were also what looked like people to Og, but the people were strange. They did not look like Og looked. Maybe they weren't people at all, but demons. And these demons looked to be dying. Suddenly, Og understood. This cave was a holy place. Og would tell his people about it and they would make offerings to the gods. And when the demons caused fires and floods, they would flee to this cave.
- SCHiM 10y agoBut reading from left to right/top to bottom is definitely not universal. How will you make sure that the figures are read in the correct order? Perhaps a future culture will read the signs to mean that they should bring old and dying people to the stone to resurrect them?
- golfer 10y agoMaybe arrows would help with the designated order of the frames.
- waqf 10y agoWhat makes you think that the interpretation of pictographic arrows is universal?
- mhink 10y agoLook at the tree. In the pictures, it gets larger from top to bottom, marking the passage of time.
- jbandela1 10y agoOg says "Look, if we sacrifice a virgin in this spot, we will have abundant crops. See how the tree is getting bigger as the person dies"