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“Ten thousand years from now, most of the radioactive waste from making nuclear weapons will still be dangerous. The half-life of plutonium, a key to fission bombs, is 24,000 years. Ten thousand years is equivalent to 400 generations of human life, a stretch of time as far ahead of us as the last Ice Age is behind us. How do we communicate, so far into the future, the catastrophic danger of burial sites for nuclear waste? Current human languages may no longer be useful, and iconic images might actually attract future visitors, as the Great Pyramids do now, rather than warning of inherent danger, as would be their intent.”
Wasteland and wilderness | Harvard Gazette Online seen first at BLDGBLOG.
