That explains it. All the mystical, mythological stories in the past weren't fanciful fairytales after all. Turns out that ancient people had sophisticated science that we still don't understand. Holy shit, all those history channel shows about ancient aliens or whatever were right!
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"There is a black ichor in center of earth, made from the dying flesh from old beast. When using it you can reach ultimate power, but by using it you slowly doom the world"
When you gaze long into the abyss...
Or you could hit these yellow rocks together and become death itself.
Yellow custard cake baked in neutrons. Delisciously deadly.
There are groups of designers who have the job of making symbols and systems that can survive for an extremely long time. One of their tasks was to design “signage” that might let generations thousands of years in the future not go poking around in nuclear waste yards. But the more crazy deadly and dangerous you make an artifact look, the more those future scientists are going to want to get into them.
Is this loss?
This is the face you make when you realize that under there is the thing you have been looking for.
The mythical WMD, the one to eliminate your enemy, and finally bring peace to your peoples
Put it out of reach of humans without advanced tech. Under 2km of antarctic ice, in a deep sea trench, things like that. We are not talking millions of years, only a few thousand. And in case of accidents, water/ice is a great radiation blocker.
Yeah, I need these pants. They suit me.
Better off writing "this place is cursed and will kill those that enter"
They wrote that on the entrance to the pyramids. It didn't discourage anyone.
I wrote it on my mom's house.
This guy never watched Indiana Jones
The nuclear spike deterrent field has been a favorite of mine
Bro of course Excalibur is under the field of death. Where else would you hide something so powerful?
Hop in, let's go
This one looks cool, and I think that’s its biggest problem. It’s clearly a massive, man-made structure with no obvious purpose, yet with striking visual impact. To the hypothetical future civilization that is unaware of the dangerous nuclear waste, it basically begs to be investigated.
man-made structure with no obvious purpose
Probably something religious.
Yeah because desecrating religious sanctuaries has stopped humanity thus wait
Oh, I meant it more in the sense how archeologists/historians often say something was used for some religious or ritual purposes when they can't come up with a better explanation. See for example Stonehenge or roman dodecahedrons. There was also the idea for an atomic priesthood which would be charged with keeping the knowledge about nuclear waste sites.
His Glow will spread!
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Yeah iirc the absolute best solution proposed was to not put any markings at all and bury it deep enough that any future civilization advanced enough to get to it will probably realize what it is long before they actually get to it.
I watched a documentary about that: Into Eternity
What I thought was interesting about the film was the balance between entertaining a fantastical vision of some future explorer stumbling across the radioactive site, and the mundanity of most of the actual work.
One of the engineers said something like: "When we seal this up with so much concrete, there's no way you're getting in here without machinery. We should be more concerned about a future civilization that comes back here for radioactive materials when they've exhausted all other natural sources"
And then there's a whole section of the film about rules-lawyering the storage site. The dump was chartered by the Finish government to seal waste "for all time", and the engineers were mad that nothing is truly permanent.
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The arc of the covenant…. The Italians have to give it back to Ethiopia
Early nuclear scientists were batshit crazy deranged lunatics. Louis Slotin was researching the criticality of a plutonium core by lowering half a sphere of beryllium over it using the tip of a screwdriver and not a single piece of safety equipment.
It did not end well.
They sacrificed their lives so we could know both the power and danger ofthee subatomic world. They are accidental heroes. Now, someone who did that shit today with full knowledge of the consequences - they would be batshit insane.
For what its worth, Slotin in particular knew the consequences. If i recall correctly, he had a reputation for being a bit of a "cowboy" when it came to experimental protocol. I believe the lab even had specially made tools for handling the core, but Slotin insisted on using a screwdriver because it was easier.
Thanks, I will read more about him. Was not aware.
Maybe, but Slotin knew exactly what kind of dangers he was dealing with. He just chose to be a nuclear cowboy instead.
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