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.

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Do we really care?

[wo1verin3]

I mean....we won't be here, I'm against putting my hard earned money towards helping people 10000 years from now, let them figure it out on their own.

It has to be repeated in brail

[sam_handelman]

So that our sightless post-apocalyptic descendents can discern the danger as they undulate along the ground on their many legs. Also, it needs to be pulsed out in high-frequency morse code so that they can use their sonar to avoid it.

Also, if they really want to deter Mad Maxx, they should point out that it contains no gasoline.

*I* think it's every bit as silly as the Salon article makes it out to be. It's cool, but it's still stupid.

"No Treasure Here!"

Sigh.