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Is this loss?
I think I may be hallucinating but I'm pretty sure this is loss
I think about these a lot. It's a cool way to frame "how do we communicate to someone who may not share any languages or even iconography with us?"
Almost alien to think about. So cool.
Reminds me of the golden record
Just get done with an article read that was way more emotional than I needed this morning and then the top comment makes me damn near fall over laughing.
My question is - why is the only sane respondent listed last?
Physicist Emil Kowalski from Baden, Switzerland, proposed that terminal storage locations be constructed in such a way that future generations could reach them only with a high technical ability. The probability of an unwanted breach would then become extremely small. Kowalski expected that cultures able to perform such excavations and drilling would be able to detect radioactive material and be aware of its dangers.
Also I've been thinking about making one of these. I already made ones for me and my partner that say "goblin" and "mothman" a la
(I can't find the og Tumblr post)
In retrospect the fact that I felt like I should be drawn to banshee, harpy, selkie or succubus, but was ultimately much more drawn to goblin and cryptid was an early sign of me not really having a gender (jokes on me, now I'm an agendered succubus. Well, sort of. It turns out succubus vs incubus has more to do with bottoming / topping than it does with gender and I'm a switch so I AM a concubus, but NOT because of my gender or lack thereof).
you're welcome for the laughter
Sometimes once in a long while, you come across a comment that changes your worldview. This is one of those days
Don't get me wrong, I think these warnings are important, but the wording especially strikes me as something that would achieve the exact opposite of its intended purpose - could you imagine an archaeologist, random explorer, or even grave robber, would heed such a warning, or think "if someone wanted to hide something of great value or interest, this is exactly how they would try to keep people out"? It didn't work for the Egyptians..
It reads like a riddle, especially with those repeated words. Someone's definitely going to spend some time trying to solve this. Wonder what kind of conclusion they would draw.
Exactly.
I think a version of "DANGER! Nuclear waste, do not disturb!" in a couple dozen language like they have in user manuals for electronics and stuff, and maybe a selection of visual warning symbols to be safe, would work much better. That way, even if all current languages are no longer commonly known, there should be enough info to figure out at least one of them (a bit like how they did with the Rosetta stone).
"tribespeople, I have sat for quite some time by the lake of the glowing water, attempting to solve the riddle of the carvings! I have a weird tingling rash all over, but I think I have decoded it!"
Why did I think that was an xkcd strip at first? 🤣
I think it's loss
I mean, kinda.
same, actually!