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These are all interesting thoughts but I think that if society lasts another 10k years AND it has somehow lost knowledge about nuclear waste sites it seems pret
by cogman10 3y ago
These are all interesting thoughts but I think that if society lasts another 10k years AND it has somehow lost knowledge about nuclear waste sites it seems pretty unlikely that it will then have the ability to dig up those sites.
We still have roman government records over 2000 years old. It's hard for me to believe that the current digital archiving of records wouldn't survive with society (barring catastrophic problems spelling the end of civilization).
If society doesn't last that long, I really doubt we'll get to a level of sophistication that allows us to dig up nuclear waste while somehow also losing access to old records.
- candiddevmike 3y agoIf you're interested in a fantasy book series like this, the Broken Empire series (first book is called Prince of Thorns) is quite good.
- reed1234 3y agoBeing able to dig a big hole does not equal knowledge about where things are buried. We are still finding ruins to this day. And digital records on things like ssds will decay faster than parchment for the most part.
- bombcar 3y agoWe’ve merrily dug into Egyptian pyramids with even more dire warnings on them. How would we know if future people would consider our warnings just as silly?
- mc32 3y agoIs it likely there be a society that can dig a mile into rock but also not be able be sophisticated enough to detect radiation?
- bombcar 3y agoWe were able to dig a mile into rock before we could deal with radiation well.
- haswell 3y agoAll future discoveries will be relative to the world’s knowledge of the time. I’d imagine future civilizations will have access to enough knowledge to take the threat of nuclear waste seriously. We take the Egyptian warnings as seriously as we take the Egyptian’s understanding of the workings of the world at the time.
- est31 3y agoThat's what a logically thinking person thinks. Covid has shown that most people are not logically thinking, and the logically thinking majority cannot prevent them from not doing stuff that's bad ideas.