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That's fucking interesting man, that's fucking interesting! (nsf56k)
#pipe
Cocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
Cocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
The internet is a fun place. If you're like me, sometimes you hear about a thing and you go look it up, and suddenly it's four days later and your finger tips have blisters and you have a beard and your girlfriend has moved out but damn if you don't know everything there is to know about shoelaces.
This is a thread to post and talk about things that make you say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhJOx_4WSzg
In 2006 I read an article that I really loved about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A massive nuclear waste facility designed to store hazardous material that will continue to be hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years. Specifically, the article was about a project manned by multiple linguists, archeologists and sociologists hoping to design a warning system to tell people, 10,000 years in the future, that this place is dangerous and will kill you if you don't leave.
It's an interesting problem to solve, because you can't just write a message or put up radiation symbols because the meaning of that stuff degrades and evolves over even just a hundred years or so. Humans 10,000 years in the future would be completely impossible to understand and probably even difficult to recognize as humans.
Today's episode of 99 Percent Invisible (possibly the best non-comedy podcast in existence and something you should be listening to) was also about this project (It's a long project - the facility isn't due to be sealed and these markers installed until 2038) and it reminded me about it, and it's still really fucking interesting.
Seriously, they had ideas like shaping the landscape to be impassible and ominous
and they floated an idea
no shit
about genetically engineering cats that change colour in the presence of radiation, and trying to proliferate culture-wide stories and warnings that basically say "when the cat changes colour, get the fuck out."
SO INTERESTING
This is a thread to post and talk about things that make you say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhJOx_4WSzgIn 2006 I read an article that I really loved about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A massive nuclear waste facility designed to store hazardous material that will continue to be hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years. Specifically, the article was about a project manned by multiple linguists, archeologists and sociologists hoping to design a warning system to tell people, 10,000 years in the future, that this place is dangerous and will kill you if you don't leave.
It's an interesting problem to solve, because you can't just write a message or put up radiation symbols because the meaning of that stuff degrades and evolves over even just a hundred years or so. Humans 10,000 years in the future would be completely impossible to understand and probably even difficult to recognize as humans.
Today's episode of 99 Percent Invisible (possibly the best non-comedy podcast in existence and something you should be listening to) was also about this project (It's a long project - the facility isn't due to be sealed and these markers installed until 2038) and it reminded me about it, and it's still really fucking interesting.
Seriously, they had ideas like shaping the landscape to be impassible and ominous
and they floated an idea
no shit
about genetically engineering cats that change colour in the presence of radiation, and trying to proliferate culture-wide stories and warnings that basically say "when the cat changes colour, get the fuck out."
SO INTERESTING
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Just an aside, because the whole thing is super fucking interesting. I heard about it a while ago.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Looking through the first article it does mention funny coloured cacti, so I must've heard about that sometime.
I mean I'm not saying cats are going anywhere just seems like cockroaches might have been a better bet all things considered.
Plus their genes are easier to tinker with. And they have quite interesting visual systems and ok actually I'm just gonna walk away because cockroaches are probably not that cool to most people.
Nah, cockroaches are pretty sweet. I just don't want them in my house or near me ever.
Because then the saying would be, "if the cockroaches are completely unaffected then you're in a radiation zone!"
they're useless nowadays for all practical purposes but they were totally awesome before we invented rat poison
except dogs were specifically used for that purpose
cats weren't
Show me a cat that is a better foot/lap warmer than this girl right here:
Checkmate, atheist
PSN- AHermano
PSN- AHermano
And how much you miss having a face
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
What if your parents never met?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
They aren't even storing the really dangerous stuff at WIPP. That stuff is why people have been arguing about Yucca Mountain for a decade (two?), and is currently just spread all over the place.
They do not chomp at the bit.
He has a ball of nickel he heats up and puts on random stuff people suggest just for the sake of seeing what would happen. I was running on little sleep when I discovered it so I thought it was cool as shit. I was surprised with some of the results, but it's mostly fun to watch.
what if your mom never met me
Glass blowing
Also Blacksmithing
Anything with fire.
Two problems:
There's a lot of it, and sending shit into space is expensive.
If the rocket fails, you might as well have been handing it out as Halloween candy.
Also, shooting it into space means it might come back.
Then in a thousand years people of earth might have to assemble a new giant ball of radioactive waste and shoot it at the space one to deflect it.
because launching stuff into space costs tens of thousands of dollars per pound
and we're probably not talking about only a couple pounds of stuff
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Timur, founder of the Timurid dynasty, was a right asshole. He saw himself as the sword of Islam, and sought to reconquer the territories of the Mongol Empire. Though he didn't succeed, he killed a shit load of people trying. It is estimated that roughly 17 million people died as a result of his conquests, which was roughly 5% of the human population back in the late 14th century.
What I find most interesting about this guy is actually the legend surrounding the exhumation of his tomb. In 1941 a Soviet archeologist opened his tomb. The story goes that written in his casket was the phrase: "whoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I". The date that the exhumation of his tomb began was June 22, 1941 - the day Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the USSR, began. The story goes on that his remains were re-buried in full Islamic ritual in November 1942, just before the Russian victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur
there's a guy who paints scantily-clad anime girls onto foil magic: the gathering lands cards and seeks them on ebay for, like, forty bucks
(nsfw maybe? not really, but i guess a little)
anyway, what's that about