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This Place is Not a Place of Honor
macnigel writes "DOE tries to find a good warning sign for the nuclear waste dump out in Nevada. This is one of those scary yet true things our government actually does; research into finding what exactly can be interpreted as "dangerous" 10,000 years from now." I was sure we had run a story about this before, but I don't see it in the archives. The report on how to mark the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (complete version in pdf 19.5Mb) makes chilling, yet somehow inspiring reading, and IMHO is much less deserving of mockery than the Salon author makes it out to be.
Simple! Just print out the collected works of Jon Katz at font size 72 and spread them around the whole area.
If you've seen the Red Dwarf episode "Quarantine", recall the 'Most Gross Danger' sign which featured an illustration of a man stick-figure grabbing his throat while his guts exploded from his abdomen.
I think that'd probably do.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
They should also put up automated laser turrets (of course nuclear powered so they work for a few eons) to vaporise everyone who approaches so that nobody dies from that deadly radiation.
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
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No one will *ever* top this as a symbol of universal terror: http://www.goatse.cx/
Just post a sign with the goatse guy on it. That should scare away most any intelligent being.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
C'mon, this is a great chance to play a practical joke on future generations.
How about a sign with amorous stick figures, hearts, and in every modern language, "Procreate here and you will have interesting offspring"?
I swear, government takes the fun out of everything.
-b
Two words: Neverland Ranch.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
You could bury it in Nevada then nuke the area. Once people see the desolate waste land that destroys all life and sucks your will to live right out of you...
Oh wait, it's Nevada. Nevermind.
Just put a casino nearby, then nobody will care where the nuclear waste is.
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And it's not like civilization will forget that there's a whole bunch of really nasty shit in the Nevada.
Fuck. I forgot where I put Atlantis. Anyone?
Kevin Fox
Alright, so now that I've been up all night, here's my suggestion:
What we should do rather than a sign we should make the hole facility a death trap, so anyone curious enough to explore it will never get close to the deadly radiation. Kind-of like the Scarab of Ra (really old game I played on a Mac), we can keep mummies, lions, leapords, spike traps, or whatever the hell they had in that game all throughout our nuclear waste pyramid.
To make it more of a challege we can give them points for every level down they get, up until the last level when they find the nuclear waste and die.
btw, its spelled "honour".
It's not like we can't change the sign if a new language comes along.
Damn those stupid Egyptians for not updating all their heiroglyphic inscriptions to English.
There's no if left, regarding the rest of the country. Votes in Washington were 3 to 1 that we should fill trains with nuclear waste, and send them to Nevada.
marked anything with something that looked like a skull with bones we'd know to avoid it
Exactly, plus it'll attract Goths, so it'll be a two-birds-with-one-stone type of thing.
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Over here! You can come by and pick it up when you want. I'm having some Aztec friends over tonight for a beer. If you pick it up tonight, you're more than welcome to have a drink with us. I think those crazy, stone-carving guys from Easter Island are comming over to, they're always great people to have over....I just wish they would stop carving rude things out of my concrete wall.
You've never watched Teletubbies have you?
A second idea.... Maybe this is acctually a good reason to accelerate a few chrononauts to relativistic speeds and drop them out every thousand years? It would take ten volunteers, and they would have a very simple job, that of popping out of the capsule, saying "Oh, excuse me, we took a big shit in Nevada," and then going on to live as time travel celebrities.
It's radioactive material. It's not going to kill them instantly - it'll take a long time. And it'll cause them to have really messed up children, which would most likely just make things worse... mutant goth children, shudder...
Not if hilary rosen has anything to do with it. They will probably think it is a massive illegal mp3 database and try to destroy it to appease the great RIAA gods who circle the earth in their massive space fortress.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
I have yet to see a Green walk to a protest rally on bare feet while wearing nothing else but crude fabrics woven by hand from natural
sources.
now you have:
http://www.nuvs.com/ashram/gallery/
In some cultures, skulls mean LIFE, not death. To a Maya priest, for example, a building emblazoned with skulls and crossbones would look like a holy place, an altar or king's temple or someplace similarly inviting. Imagine our descendants are cannibals: a building covered in skulls would, to them, mean "restaurant."
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Damn, Gandhi schooled yo' punk ass...