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Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste

Posted by kdawson on from the opportunists-we-will-have-always-with-us dept.

Smivs writes "How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about our nuclear waste dumps? There is a thought-provoking essay in the The Guardian newspaper (UK) by Ulrich Beck concerning this problem. Professor Beck also questions whether green issues are overly influencing politicians and clouding our judgement regarding the dangers of nuclear power."

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  1. Why bother? by jscotta44 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Since global warming is obviously [snicker] going to destroy the world, there will be no one to warn.

  2. Nuke Powered Warning Sign by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about sealing in quartz (like the Apollo spacecraft windows) a series of pictures of people touching the entombed object and horribly dying? Embed some radioactive material against some phosphor or other light emitting elements charged up by the nuke waste.

    Or we could just keep doing what we're doing, and eventually poison our whole society to death, and just let the legends of the "apocalypse" grow for a few millennia.

    Though that's probably failed before.

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    1. Re:Nuke Powered Warning Sign by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

      Moderation -1
          100% Troll

      TrollMods would rather people get nuked to death rather than warned of the truth.

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