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This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a p

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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elaus 5y ago
I think there's a lot to learn from this message, even in your daily communication with people from other fields of exertise. It's very clear and communicates without any technical terms – if only all error/warning messages were a bit (!) like that. For reference, the message parent quoted is a Long-time nuclear waste warning message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
- earthboundkid 5y ago
  I dunno, I TL;DR'd in the middle. Seems like it's dangerous maybe? Whatever, can't be that bad.
  - amacbride 5y ago
    “You’ll soon be glowing with health!”
- selestify 5y ago
  I've seen commentary before that this messaging could actually backfire, if you imagine intrepid explorers seeing this message and thinking there must be some great ethereal power located inside, ready to be unleashed with the right set of rituals.
  - brimble 5y ago
    Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean. Otherwise, "curse of the mummy? LOL, yeah, I'm sure that's a real thing. Must be something great buried here. Watch out for actual traps, but we're about to get rich, boys!"
    - thaumasiotes 5y ago
      > Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean. This is pretty well guaranteed if they can read your message at all.
      - brimble 5y ago
        I alluded to European expeditions to Egypt for a reason :-) Though maybe there's only a brief window of development in which a culture is both not superstitious enough to be scared by this, and also lacks the technology & knowledge to figure out what you actually mean and verify it themselves.
        thaumasiotes 5y ago
        Europeans could read Egyptian inscriptions for two reasons: - A descendant language had been preserved in the Coptic Bible. - The Rosetta Stone provided a parallel text between Egyptian and Greek, and Greek was well understood. But the ability to read Greek gave us more than just an understanding of what the Rosetta Stone said. The Greeks wrote a lot about Egypt, too.
contravariant 5y ago
It's odd how surprisingly difficult it is to convince people to stay away or their skin might fall off.

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elaus 5y ago

I think there's a lot to learn from this message, even in your daily communication with people from other fields of exertise. It's very clear and communicates without any technical terms – if only all error/warning messages were a bit (!) like that. For reference, the message parent quoted is a Long-time nuclear waste warning message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...

earthboundkid 5y ago
I dunno, I TL;DR'd in the middle. Seems like it's dangerous maybe? Whatever, can't be that bad.
- amacbride 5y ago
  “You’ll soon be glowing with health!”
selestify 5y ago
I've seen commentary before that this messaging could actually backfire, if you imagine intrepid explorers seeing this message and thinking there must be some great ethereal power located inside, ready to be unleashed with the right set of rituals.
- brimble 5y ago
  Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean. Otherwise, "curse of the mummy? LOL, yeah, I'm sure that's a real thing. Must be something great buried here. Watch out for actual traps, but we're about to get rich, boys!"
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    > Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean. This is pretty well guaranteed if they can read your message at all.
    - brimble 5y ago
      I alluded to European expeditions to Egypt for a reason :-) Though maybe there's only a brief window of development in which a culture is both not superstitious enough to be scared by this, and also lacks the technology & knowledge to figure out what you actually mean and verify it themselves.
      - thaumasiotes 5y ago
        Europeans could read Egyptian inscriptions for two reasons: - A descendant language had been preserved in the Coptic Bible. - The Rosetta Stone provided a parallel text between Egyptian and Greek, and Greek was well understood. But the ability to read Greek gave us more than just an understanding of what the Rosetta Stone said. The Greeks wrote a lot about Egypt, too.

contravariant 5y ago

It's odd how surprisingly difficult it is to convince people to stay away or their skin might fall off.