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This Place is Not a Place of Honor

Posted by michael on from the no-highly-esteemed-deed-is-commemorated-here dept.

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.

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  1. My proposal by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Why bother? by brooks_talley · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  3. Re:Skull and Cross Bones by beertopia · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Sure it will by vspazv · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've never watched Teletubbies have you?