Comments on: This Place is Not a Place of Honor

By: DamnAwesome

DamnAwesome — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:56:23 +0000

why dont we just take the pyrimid idea build it like a pryrimid and then put traps in then put a fake treasure at the end so they think OMG we found the treasure

By: wayno@oz

wayno@oz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:19:21 +0000

If future humans become dumb enough to lose all ability to interpret these signs ( i suspect this may be possible) woud’nt the loss of life be benificial to the remaining (possibly smarter) population? Putting some chlorine (i.e. nuclear waste) in the gene pool so to speak!

By: mossberg8

mossberg8 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:53:27 +0000

I wonder what’s under stonehenge.

By: Locifer

Locifer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:33:53 +0000

Hmmm,seems to me if anyone would reopen this dumps they would fall ill and die,if that isnt a good enough warning i dont know what is.After a few deaths i think they would get the picture and reseal it,if not…they are to stupid to live anyway.

By: Jospec5Star

Jospec5Star — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:55:10 +0000

I am thinking that human remains is a good idea however I believe this would only be an effective warning system on a grand scale. Make a huge concrete (or some other long lasting material) skeleton and embed the universal radioactive symbol somewhere on or near the skeleton. Regardless of the warning I think it should absolutely be universal throughout the country/world. Why make several different forms of the same warning?

By: Bob Nesbo

Bob Nesbo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:22:38 +0000

It’s something how when committees get together, an expensive and complicated way to do something will occur.

If the “future” maintains a steady lineage of knowledge, keeping the stuff buried deep enough with the “classic” radioactive signs ought to be enough. If society as we know it is wiped out, and things return to the way they were during the bronze age, humans won’t have the technology to get to the stuff. I guess someone could argue the premise that there could be a resurgence of technology. That is, society gets wiped out, cave men regroup, and years go by and there is another dawn of an “Industrial Revolution” ala the 1880’s. People with steam shovels big enough to dig deep, but not smart enough to understand what the radioacive signs mean.

Hmm, maybe we should put more effort making ourselves aware to the danger of nuclear war (or whatever the mass cataclysm will be) than to warn future, unwitting societies.

By: veekie

veekie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:10:01 +0000

A rather callous, if effective method to do the warning would be to combine the warning messages with a sealed container of radioactive and toxic material, as a ’sample’ of the contents. An advanced society that discovers it will know the exact danger from examining the sample as well as interpreting the message, and handle it(and the complex) appropriately, while a primitive society that forces their way through regardless would experience first hand, how deadly the contents are and hence, back off.

Whatever is released from the sample container would be an insignificant quantity compared to what would be released by breaching the main complex itself.

By: Mirage_GSM

Mirage_GSM — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:23:18 +0000

[quote]insanegrey said: “How can we be so sure? If a catastrophe occured tomorrow (giant meteor impact, nuclear armageddon), these sites would be left unmarked and unsealed. It seems to me the sites should have been marked first–before any waste was deposited. Do they really think they can wait until the 24th century before marking Yucca Mountain as a dangerous site?”[/quote]
Well, if such a thing should happen, a little stray radiation is probably going to be the least of our problems ;-)
[quote]Apology: Flinging it into space would be a pretty bad idea though, ethically.[/quote]
Why? By the time it reached anyone it would be completely harmless.
[quote]Sd9sd: Guys, we live in a very different world from the animals around us. We see things around us as they are, but animals and insects have different sensory systems. The “world” would be a very different place for an earthworm. There is no gurantee that if humans get wiped out, the next set of organisms that occupy the earth would have the same sensory equipment as we do.[/quote]
Dito for the workings of evolution ;-)
The Link in post #89 is excellent – puts all this into a reasonable perspective.
No matter how culturally advanced a future society might be – if they are interested in archaeology and have the technology to get in there, they will also have the ability do decipher our messages.