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About the Sandia Labs report... imagining myself as a future archaeologist, such a place would only attract me! even if I were a bronze-age post-apocalyptic cul
by nnq 13y ago
About the Sandia Labs report... imagining myself as a future archaeologist, such a place would only attract me! even if I were a bronze-age post-apocalyptic culture "wise man", if I could somehow figure out that there is a poison in there, I could only think "cool! we can use this poison against our enemies in the next battle! maybe some of our slaves will die digging it up, but boy, we'll sure make a killing with it!" ...and most other things they assume seem wrongly optimistic about human nature: something that instills pride and owe would only communicate that there is probably something of value in there, therefore something that is worth getting or stealing! (most ancient tombs were robbed, you know!) ...imho the best bet for such a place would be to make it inconspicuous and hard to open: for example, after properly cloaking everything, you could make the actual storage rooms for the dangerous stuff be part of some "stone"/concrete "walls", with no entrance, and have "dummy rooms" with "dummy content" (for whoever actually digs beyond the cloaking and warning signs) surrounded by these "walls" - no modern archaeologist would, for example, consider smashing what seems like a solid granite wall to look for a hidden chamber inside it if there is no sign of it.
- supergauntlet 13y agoAssuming that this future civilization is sufficiently advanced, wouldn't they have the ability to detect what's inside the ground without actually digging? I know we can through (I believe) echolocation, why wouldn't they? Then they would see a cavity that's been sealed on all sides by concrete. However I suppose by this point they would have also discovered radiation and nuclear reactions so it might be a moot point.
- delinka 13y agoI believe the assumption is that a future civilization will be less advanced. Should society collapse, you can expect knowledge to be lost and advancement to cease. Sure, we hope that our civilization will continue to advance, but we plan for the worst and leave the message in simple language in the hope that the last remnants of mankind will survive by avoiding a serious threat left by their ancestors.
- lotu 13y agoIf the future civilization is advanced then the warnings are unnecessary. They already have the technology to deal with radiation, in fact it is possible that a future civilization would want to mine one of these sites for fuel. This is actually why I feel the whole exercise is pointless.