There's a much better article on this here [1] and 7 year old HN discussion on a now deleted but similar article here [2]. This is where the "this is not a pla

There's a much better article on this here [1] and 7 year old HN discussion on a now deleted but similar article here [2]. This is where the "this is not a place of honor …" meme comes from if you've heard that before [4] 99 Percent Invisible also has a good podcast / article on this [3]. [1] https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/ https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871 [3] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ [4] The panel decided the message the structure or markings should attempt to communicate should be: 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 is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward 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.