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It seems odd, that with our current level of technology we are considering how best to erect a warning using symbols. It seems to me that we should build monume
by giberson 16y ago
It seems odd, that with our current level of technology we are considering how best to erect a warning using symbols. It seems to me that we should build monuments that utilize pictures and videos--warning by observation. One set of animation should be that of the nature of radiation. Something like you would see in an 8th grade science video. An illustration of the energy that irradiates from waste. The second set of animation should show two humans standing side by side-away depicted away from the monument. The animation proceeds with one human venturing towards the monument and as he gets closer, the human displays the sign of radiation sickness, and dies.
Obviously, it isn't practical to try to sustain a working media player for 10,000 years--but thats not the only way to show animation. Instead, lets embed a series of image cells of an animation into a permanent medium like concrete.
- bdonlan 16y agoWe don't have the technology to build a video player that'll last 10,000 years, nor a power source that will last that long either. Leaving data media is fine, but anyone with the technology to play such media will probably understand the danger quite quickly if explained to them in words.