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Long-time Nuclear Waste Warnings Quiz

Research, primarily by the Human Interference Task force in the 80s and Sandia National Laboratories in the 90s, has put forward many ways for dealing with the problem of humans in the far future disturbing dangerous nuclear waste from our time. Can you answer these questions about their work?
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Last updated: December 12, 2020
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Proposed ideas for conveying information
An institution, similar to the Catholic church, which hands down information across generations
Atomic priesthood
These machines would transmit information about nuclear waste sites for millennia
Artificial satellites
These plants would have their DNA coded to contain information about the sites they grow at
Atomic flowers
These animals would be genetically engineered to change colour in the presence of radiation, and myths would reinforce this danger
Cats
 
Information to be conveyed
This place is a message...
and part of a system of messages...
pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... nothing valued is here.
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location...
it increases towards a center...
the center of danger is here...
of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
 
Suggested physical markers
A mass of many irregularly-sized spikes protruding from the ground in all directions
Landscape of Thorns
A series of extremely large spikes emerging from the ground at different angles
Spike Field
A large square grid pattern, through which large spikes protrude at various angles
Spikes Bursting Through Grid
Large mounds of earth shaped like lightning bolts, from the edges of a square site
Menacing Earthworks
An enormous slab of basalt or black-dyed concrete, rendering the land uninhabitable
Black Hole
A large square-shaped pile of dynamited rock, which would give a sense of destruction
Rubble Landscape
A network of house-sized stone blocks, arranged in an irregular square grid
Forbidding Blocks
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