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they look like the proposals for ominous landmarks of radioactive waste burial sites, which makes zero sense of course!
by DoctorOetker 7y ago
they look like the proposals for ominous landmarks of radioactive waste burial sites, which makes zero sense of course!
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoYeah I've seen numerous links to that pointed to from HN over time. The problem with all of those proposals is that to an ignorant archeologist from, say, a hundred years ago, any visible sign, warning or construction will only pique the curiosity. I mean Tutankhamun's tomb had plenty of warnings inscribed on it, but they were dismissed as silly curses and there's no such thing as curses. The same will happen with nuclear storage sites that are 'protected' like that. Better to put it away very deep, where erosion and tectonic shifts won't expose it for a million years and just forget about it. I read something about putting it in deep boreholes the other day.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThere was a discussion of how to permanently (100.000 years or more) mark a dangerous site. Creative solutions abounded. I like the one where it kills you quickly, so it stays obvious that the site is dangerous. Better than killing thousands slowly over many years!