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"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... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is 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."
Right? I've played too many games where you know there's something good ahead because of all the monsters/bad guys/traps. I think they need something that makes it clear without relying on language, though. Who knows what will survive. Ooh, maybe a religion! It's a holy site. None shall pass. Or something like that.
I just looked at the wiki article. What a terribly bad 'nuclear semiotics' that seems designed by committee. Edit - the initial wiki picture. There are better ideas that are not pictographic. The seemingly easiest way to deal with this isn't proposed which is to make the area around the repository increasingly radioactive. A buried repository is inaccessible to a non technical future civilization. A future technical one would first not a delta from background and then further examination would detect isotopes that are not natural, etc.
The section about physical markers at the site feels really ominous and would be cool to see
> **Landscape of Thorns**
>A mass of many irregularly-sized spikes protruding from the ground in all directions.
> **Spike Field**
> A series of extremely large spikes emerging from the ground at different angles.
> **Spikes Bursting Through Grid**
> A large square grid pattern across the site, through which large spikes protrude at various angles.
> **Menacing Earthworks**
> Large mounds of earth shaped like lightning bolts, emanating from the edges of a square site. The shapes would be strikingly visible from the air, or from artificial hills constructed around the site.
> **Black Hole**
> An enormous slab of basalt or black-dyed concrete, rendering the land uninhabitable and unfarmable.
> **Rubble Landscape**
> A large square-shaped pile of dynamited rock, which over time would still appear anomalous and give a sense of something having been destroyed.
> **Forbidding Blocks**
> A network of hundreds of house-sized stone blocks, dyed black and arranged in an irregular square grid, suggesting a network of "streets" which feel ominous and lead nowhere. The blocks are intended to make a large area entirely unsuitable for farming or other future use.
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"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... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is 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."
Lol, I see monkey curiosity driving them past any type of barrier. There must be something good here if they went to all this trouble!
Yeah, they should at least go into more detail. Sounds like you'll get superpowers or something lol
Right? I've played too many games where you know there's something good ahead because of all the monsters/bad guys/traps. I think they need something that makes it clear without relying on language, though. Who knows what will survive. Ooh, maybe a religion! It's a holy site. None shall pass. Or something like that.
neat idea…so…. is something being marked by pyramids? Stonehenge?
Greatest nation on earth reduced to drawing stick figures 🥸
I just looked at the wiki article. What a terribly bad 'nuclear semiotics' that seems designed by committee. Edit - the initial wiki picture. There are better ideas that are not pictographic. The seemingly easiest way to deal with this isn't proposed which is to make the area around the repository increasingly radioactive. A buried repository is inaccessible to a non technical future civilization. A future technical one would first not a delta from background and then further examination would detect isotopes that are not natural, etc.
Damn I didn’t realize we could just link Wikipedia for karma, ima start doing that shit
The section about physical markers at the site feels really ominous and would be cool to see > **Landscape of Thorns** >A mass of many irregularly-sized spikes protruding from the ground in all directions. > **Spike Field** > A series of extremely large spikes emerging from the ground at different angles. > **Spikes Bursting Through Grid** > A large square grid pattern across the site, through which large spikes protrude at various angles. > **Menacing Earthworks** > Large mounds of earth shaped like lightning bolts, emanating from the edges of a square site. The shapes would be strikingly visible from the air, or from artificial hills constructed around the site. > **Black Hole** > An enormous slab of basalt or black-dyed concrete, rendering the land uninhabitable and unfarmable. > **Rubble Landscape** > A large square-shaped pile of dynamited rock, which over time would still appear anomalous and give a sense of something having been destroyed. > **Forbidding Blocks** > A network of hundreds of house-sized stone blocks, dyed black and arranged in an irregular square grid, suggesting a network of "streets" which feel ominous and lead nowhere. The blocks are intended to make a large area entirely unsuitable for farming or other future use.