This Place is Not a Place of Honor

[Hamma]

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=160

Interesting Article.

[LimpBIT]

hmm that is very interesting. All the messages they came up with are all different....yet the same :\

[Kikinchikin]

Best idea would be a sign that says DON'T GO HERE, YOU'LL DIE.

[Electrofreak]

Why not just a picture of radioactive waste spilled over a dead dude?

Seems to me like that would send the message.

[Shadwulf]

nice trick, any1 know who made the sign in the first place?

[Ivan]

The idea about leaving human remains above-ground would do the trick. I'll donate my remains. So my family doesn't have to go broke to pay for my funeral.

[Jaged]

Originally Posted by Ivan

The idea about leaving human remains above-ground would do the trick. I'll donate my remains. So my family doesn't have to go broke to pay for my funeral.

decomposition?

[Ivan]

Bones would remain for a long while... We're still finding dino bones.

[Rbstr]

This is realy interesting.

How do you convey complex information like the kind of material stored, the period of time needed for it to be safe, to a culture that has no common ground to our own.

Like in video games and movies.

Giant relics of past cizilizations or aliens that were beyond our technological level.(Halo springs to mind)

[Hamma]

Indeed what means DANGER to us may mean "OMG FREE ICE CREAM" to someone else

[Jaged]

Originally Posted by Ivan

Bones would remain for a long while... We're still finding dino bones.

But how would they be different from any other fossil this future civilization digs up?

[Rbstr]

Because these bones are human(assumign you ment any old fossil, not specificaly human fosils)? and becasue they would be connected with other more advanced messages.

That would mean something to future human civilizations for sure. If they were primative, all those bodies would probably scare them away, if they were advanced, the other messages would take care of that.

For non-humans it wouldn't matter, Aliens would probably understand right away(with technology to get here from whereever they came from they better)

And the time for a non-human civilization to evolve here is surely greater than 10,000 years, so they don't have to worry.

[LimpBIT]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

For non-humans it wouldn't matter, Aliens would probably understand right away(with technology to get here from whereever they came from they better)

and also considering the possibility that these radioactive materials may not be harmful to aliens. May even be helpful?

[Rbstr]

Well, I think any creature with a chemistry that requires complex molecules(our protiens, horomones ect.) inorder to function faces a similar threat in any kind of ionizing radiation(The higher end of the EM spectrum).

It's going to break or rearange those complex molecules and make them useless, or worse, harmfull. And it could probably do the same to the molecules that store the information on how to make everything(analogous to your DNA)

I can't think of a way for anything with organism-like complexity to not be effected by high energy radiation(I could see organisms ajusted for UV levels of energy, but much higher I dono).

[xuur]

what makes anyone think they'd heed a warning anyway?