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