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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. EUA by JustAnOtherCodeSerf · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Just shrinkwrap the whole place with an end user agreement... "by entering this place... bla bla bla"

    Would make me run like the wind ;)

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  2. Re:Unnecessary Overkill by ClarkEvans · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Somebody needs to remind DOE that the signs only need to be effective for 600 years or so.

    Given that Nuclear Winter may be just around the corner and we could all be killed off, in say 20 minutes from now; 600 years is enough time to spend money on signs. After all, the money we are spending on this is _nothing_ like the money we pay _daily_ for our "defence" spendings.

  3. Not pragmatic enough to use a proper audio format! by SPYvSPY · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Stop propogating this RealNetworks nonsense. Your points about this person's intelligence are negated (and then some) by the choice of the Real format. Shame!! Shame!!