• paranoia@feddit.dk
    19·
    11 hours ago

    These nuclear waste deterrents have always been a bit bizarre to me. If you make something monumentally ominous then you’re going to get tourists.

    People are fucking weirdos. The same idiots that crawl through holes in the ground are definitely the kind that would climb through the giant razor field.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      26 minutes ago

      What they need to do are make really cool temples nowhere near the site, scatter them around, with the whole story.

      I also like the idea of a nuclear priesthood.

      • paranoia@feddit.dk
        2·
        13 minutes ago

        The nuclear priests are obviously hiding something of great value from us, we must kill them and take it for ourselves!

    • LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 hours ago

      It is our warrior tribe’s right of passage. To become a man, each boy of age must spend five nights in the god spears.

      • paranoia@feddit.dk
        1·
        10 minutes ago

        Nuclear cats deemed too unlucky to keep around because they keep getting eaten by radioactive wolves

  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
    49·
    20 hours ago

    These monuments are some of the most blatant fossil fuel propaganda to hit the mainstream.

    Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future. Climate change? Oh don’t worry, it’s just your grandchildren and everybody after them that will have to live through a mass extinction event, you have nothing to worry about.

    Nuclear waste? Well, sure, you could keep it perfectly safe by putting it on a grate in a bathtub, but that would require maintenance once every decade or so, and that’s just not acceptable. Now by law you have to bury it in a geologically inactive region where it can be guaranteed to not leak in the slightest for the next million years without any human intervention. Leaded gasoline and car exhaust made half the population angry xenophobes and kills hundreds of thousands of people per year? Cost of doing business, I’m afraid.

    • binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Not to mention that the nuclear fuel can be recycled, albeit with some loss, but (at least in the USA) you’re legally not allowed to do that.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      15 hours ago

      Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future.

      Even if it isn’t that relatively impactful these kinds of monuments are still really cool and whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        2 hours ago

        whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

        Some of those “experts” proposed genetically engineering a bioluminescent breed of dogs to detect when radiation is nearby, and making viral pop songs about “when the dog starts glowing, run very far away”…

        I think some of them got a little too imaginative. Sometimes you think so abstractly that you miss the obvious.

        For instance, Carl Sagan suggested we simply mark them with a skull and crossbones, which every organism with an endoskeleton can recognize as a symbol for “death” and thus “danger.”

    • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      I remember hearing similar reasoning from Simba …




      edit: Inappropriate noun to more fitting gerund.

  • Paragone@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    22 hours ago

    I just realized:

    there were at-least-2 different designs for that kind of long-term-deterrent.

    The spikey-stuff version, & the ominous-maze ( or however it should be called ) version, & maybe another…

    That spikey-stuff version could be destroyed-removed by people who found the signal to be the problem, much more easily than the ominous-maze one could.

    That may affect future lives…

    ( of course, my idea that simply putting the stuff DEEP into the ocean-floor right before a subduction-zone, to have plate-tectonics remove it from our surface, would bypass all that, but pick the best method, not the prettiest idea, right? )

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