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Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Dickinson, 1880s // Hozier, “From Eden”

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Richard Siken, Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper

(From my Journal)

utopians

I have become obsessed with long term nuclear waste disposal warnings

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LOOK AT THE HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE PROPOSED TO WARN FUTURE CIVILIZATIONS I’M GOING TO CRY

Like this is the closest thing we’re ever gonna have to old gods I’m really losing my mind

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@jonathan-sins EXACTLY… THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT BABY

anais-ninja-bitch

“we sure are a species huh”

archliches

this fails to include all of the UN’s proposed companion text, which reads:

“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.”

which gives a nice drizzle of cosmic-dread inspiring je-ne-sais-quoi to te whole thing imo

inthroughthesunroof

I suspect (and hope!) the whole thing will be of more interest to historical anthropologists than anyone else. If you’re technologically advanced enough to understand and detect radioactivity, at minimum a site like this tells you:

- The culture that made this understood radiation and knew it was dangerous to them.

- They had some ability to process and use radioactive materials, but not enough to render it completely inert. The exact composition of the waste will probably give them some pretty specific ideas of our abilities.

- They used radioactive materials for *something*

- The amount of radiation in the site was dangerous to them, but the amount outside the site was considered acceptable

- They knew that this stuff would far outlive them (they did not expect to live forever)

- They thought it might be dangerous to future humans and/or other life forms and they cared about that.

- They wanted to communicate with those future people, and expected very, very significant barriers to that communication.

- Radioactivity scared them shitless in ways that other similarly deadly and long lasting stuff (like arsenic) didn’t.

Human attempts to communicate with people vastly separated from us (in time, distance, or biology) fascinates me, but mostly for what it says about us.