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Doesn't embedding these messages into art defy their very purpose of being a warning?

• EForEndeavour 7y ago
  These messages aren't currently used as warnings, and exhibiting them as art will never diminish the literal message that they convey.
  • dsqrt 7y ago
    I am just thinking that, if future archeologists discover these warnings / language in frequent association with art, then they will probably not think twice about excavating an actual nuclear disposal site that exhibits them. They will probably think that the warnings were placed there to scare away thieves.
    • drjesusphd 7y ago
      The warnings will not be in English.
• jameshart 7y ago
  That list was never intended to be literally used as a warning - think of it as a set of acceptance criteria against which any plan to mark a nuclear waste disposal site must be judged. It needs to communicate those things, unambiguously, across time and culture, for 10000 years.