This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)
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Re: This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)
#2I went looking for this page to confirm the exact quote for a story I'm writing. The original link on HN where I found it was dead, so I had to go to the wayback machine. Hopefully no one has to do that again...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871
Re: This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)
#3No it's just a place where you can find enough Plutonium to destroy your enemies or enough U238 to run your civilization for 1000 years...
I used to dream that maybe 2500 years from now the Scientologists and the Mormons would fight it out over Yucca mountain but now it's clear the Scientologists won't last that long.
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#5I always imagined a concept such that instead of trying to deter people from entering was designed to convey that it was trying to keep something dangerous from escaping.
Someone trying to keep you out of an ancient tomb? Clearly there are valuables in there. An ancient tomb that's locked from the outside? That's creepy.
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#6This is the executive summary of the full paper from 1993, which is well worth a read for several reasons and can be found (slowly) here:
Re: This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)
#7I went looking for this page to confirm the exact quote for a story I'm writing. The original link on HN where I found it was dead, so I had to go to the wayback machine. Hopefully no one has to do that again... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871
Couldn't you have used https://urbigenous.net/library/WIPP/ or https://prod-ng.sandia.gov/techlib-noauth/access-control.cgi... which turn up if you google any of it?
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#8I always imagined a concept such that instead of trying to deter people from entering was designed to convey that it was trying to keep something dangerous from escaping. Someone trying to keep you out of an ancient tomb? Clearly there are valuables in there. An ancient tomb that's locked from the outside? That's creepy.
An ancient tomb that's locked from the outside? That's creepy.
Going by 20th and 21st century media, there should be lots of Asian tombs with "seals" placed on the outside of them. Reality is probably quite different.
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#9No it's just a place where you can find enough Plutonium to destroy your enemies or enough U238 to run your civilization for 1000 years... I used to dream that maybe 2500 years from now the Scientologists and the Mormons would fight it out over Yucca mountain but now it's clear the Scientologists won't last that long.
now it's clear the Scientologists won't last that long
Good. However, references?
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#10"An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system."