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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.
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.
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
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.
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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You've never watched Teletubbies have you?