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Funny thing is, if we discovered some ancient tomb or burial site with these messages we'd write it off as superstition and open it up anyway. I'm not sure some
by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Funny thing is, if we discovered some ancient tomb or burial site with these messages we'd write it off as superstition and open it up anyway. I'm not sure some future civilization would be any different.
- gonzo41 7y agoYou are totally right. I read that and I felt a chill right up my back telling me, There's cool stuff in there, go get your crowbar!
- turk73 7y agoThe Pharoah's curse.
- sago 7y agoI agree. Hiding something and saying "please don't look for it," seems extraordinarily naïve of human nature. If the threat is widespread human and environmental destruction, I wonder if an additional layer of warning does not need to consist of more constrained lethality. "We're going to show you what this stuff is, you should've really paid attention to the warnings." "It is a place of evil: all who venture into the pit die in agony within a few days," seems like something that would have more cultural weight. And be trivially re-discoverable at any point. People don't go wandering into lava to see what's below. People wouldn't have stripped the Egyptian tombs if the warnings on the wall consistently came true. Perhaps the best warning of danger is danger. And then, if the threat model is drilling, it seems to me very unlikely that a future mining civilisation would not understand pictures, maps and diagrams illustrating the content. Is an illustration really more culturally ambiguous than language?
- jaggederest 7y agoEspecially given we know cave paintings from several thousand years ago are relatively intelligible. People hunting bison.
- Already__Taken 7y agoI thought someone was quoting halo at first. Anyway, that's probably the reason that energy line is here. But you'd simply check everything you can measure at the time, conclude superstition and continue anyway.
- saalweachter 7y agoI also particularly liked the idea of covering it with a layer of small boulders to make it unappealing to agriculture. It's like, have you ever heard of New England?
- Retra 7y agoBut is that better than leaving things lying around in unmarked caves? People's curiosity might kill them, but the best you can do is warn them.