Keeping people of the future from playing with our nuclear waste. - VGF

**Dr. Horrible** · 09-10-2006, 06:04 PM

A half-mile below the surface of the New Mexico desert, the federal government is interring thousands of tons of monstrously dangerous leftovers from its nuclear weapons program --plutonium-infested clothing, tools and chemical sludge that will remain potentially lethal for thousands of years to come.

It may be safely secured now, but how to keep our descendants centuries in the future from accidentally unearthing it?

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,7172...?tw=wn_index_1

***CaptHayfever*** · 09-11-2006, 09:29 AM

Simple: Just tell them it's there. No one in their right mind will go near it.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

**Dr. Horrible** · 09-11-2006, 09:59 AM

I'm pretty sure all those markers and everything would just encourage post apocolyptic archeologists 10,000 years from now.

***Ace Mercury*** · 09-12-2006, 09:55 AM

In the case that the world is just fine between now and ten kiloyears in the future, I think warning signs in a dead language would be more useful (e.g. Latin, Sanskrit). Remember that brief instance in the eighties where "bad" meant good?

If there's going to be a post-apocolyptical society, though, they might treat this as a temple, a New Mecca of sorts. It comes with a bonus that the celebate preists of the temple can't have kids anyways. But, I'm pretty sure the future goobers who pop it open will catch wise it's a bad place to live once their hair falls out and all their white blood cells go missing.

09-10-2006, 06:04 PM	#1
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09-12-2006, 09:55 AM	#4
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09-11-2006, 09:59 AM	#3
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