The messages that survived civilisation's collapse

Post by hrayn3 » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

GoldenRacer wrote: post #27

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #18

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There's a few projects like that already happening, like Github's code repository on Svalbard. That said, I think one big reason why the artifacts mentioned - Sumerians, Mayans, Egyptians, or even Vesuvius - were preserved was because they were lost; buried in the desert, overgrown in dense jungles, buried under volcanic rock and ash, etc. For something to stand the test of time, it has to be lost. Al-Quaeda and ISIS…

The space container idea could make for a really interesting book plot. It starts in modern day where they send the capsule up. Then skips forward several hundred years to society collapsing. Then skip forward a few hundred more to see how the myth of knowledge falling from the sky is being passed down. Then it keeps skipping ahead to see how the myth evolves. By the end you just have some super cryptic prophecy like…

Post by coffeeling » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC

Nannooskeeska wrote: post #56

BitwiseFool wrote: post #44

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I genuinely believe the people working on this problem are looking at it the wrong way. Instead of trying to make the waste repository into something highly visible, or mystical, they should instead choose a remote and inhospitable location where attempting to access the repository is economically nonviable for any future civilization. Assuming civilization collapses or regress to pre-industrial levels where the conc…

Tom Scott has a great video[0] about the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland[1], in which he talks about one of the reasons that they decided on the particular area - why would anyone dig there? Skip to 4:29 in the video for the relevant info. [0]: https://youtu.be/aoy_WJ3mE50 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...