come buy my funny nuclear warning shirt
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Thanks to the Wikipedia article on Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, lots of people know the "THIS PLACE IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR" quote, but it occurred to me to look up the original document that it comes from, the 1993 report "Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant," by Trauth, Hora, & Guzowski of Sandia National Laboratories... and the whole thing is pretty fascinating.
Specifically, the famous quote and the pages above all come from the sub-report by "Team A," consisting of Dieter G. Ast (Cornell University), Michael Brill (Buffalo Organization for Social and Technological Innovation), Maureen F. Kaplan (Eastern Research Group), Ward H. Goodenough (University of Pennsylvania), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), and Woodruff T. Sullivan, III (University of Washington). "Team B," I was surprised to notice, included astronomer Frank Drake (creator of the Drake Equation for estimating the changes of contacting extraterrestrial life).
The diagrams of possible construction options look a little bit like architectural plans, but also quite a bit like Dungeons & Dragons environment designs... and perhaps like the ruined architecture of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
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📢📢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 ⏹⏮🏃🏻♀️🏃🏃♂️💨🏚🏚🏚
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this place is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. nothing valued is here.
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DM: none of you can understand the writing on this dungeon door
Wizard: I cast comprehend languages
DM: Ok, the writing translates to "this place is not a place of honor..."
The one player who knows:
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high voltage transmission lines that are damaged, wet, or poorly designed will discharge a pale blue flame
cherenkov radiation through water will appear intensely blue
earthquake lights, in the rare cases they've been caught on film, will fill the horizon with an eerie blue glow
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People give me the best presents
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Doin hot girl shit
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Welcome to Tumblr
This post 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 is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward 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. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
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