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This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. 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.

Draft message created for inscription as a warning on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP, an extremely long-term nuclear waste storage facility) to ensure no inadvertent human intrusion in the facility for 10,000 years

#i find this message fascinating #the combination of exceedingly ominous language #and than that last line #it sounds for all the world like a message from ozymandias of the nuclear age #but then there's the use of the past tense #it's stark #some of the physical architectural plans are also astounding #how does one design a place that people will actively avoid?#how does one deter the curious?#how does one educate without common language culture are knowledge?#does one have an obligation to do so?#or is it better left intentionally forgotten?#can one intentionally forget?

I finished knitting my second scarf a few moments ago!! Stark is being such a good model. Mostly because I may have spilled catnip on it a couple days ago...