fun fact: the biohazard sign ☣ was designed to be as striking as possible. test subjects were shown several different designs for the symbol and asked to pick the one that stood out to them the most. the symbol we currently use is the one that was picked the most often.
@@MrC0MPUT3R Yeah, I can imagine that once the meaning is forgotten, it COULD be interpreted as indicating the presence of a cache of valuable resources, or something..
@@ItsRy_666 well if everything is stored on site, there will be no purpose for those symbols. It's just if everything really gone wrong the symbol is the last defensive line.
@@mannygutierrez7654 I mean our language will continue to be bastardized and shortened and simplified, at least that much is true. As long as we have the ability to keep records though there I think it will be stable enough to be understood for a very long time. All this is assuming no world ending catastrophe will occur in the next 10 or 20,000 years which is unrealistic. There have been so many advanced civilizations in the past that were completely wiped out by huge events that reset humanity, there's no reason to assume it won't continue to occur in the foreseeable future.
Bury it with a paper that says "this is radioactive and dangerous." In every known human language, one of our known languages will prevail. It will have that language in it
A few issues with that.. What paper lasts over 20000 years and what language had survived for over 20000 years? Can you understand Sumerian or Akkadian and read Cuniform? Can you read hieroglyphs or Hieratic, Indus Script, Oracle bone script or Elamite? Sumerian is the oldest written language and is probably not even 5000 years old. We need something that survived 4x as long as Sumerian while still being widely understood worldwide by whoever happens to stumble upon it.
@sirjayko33 On top of that future humans probably won't have as much reference material for modern language as we do for ancient languages because digital data is extremely prone to decay over a shorter term than paper so unless we thoroughly maintain archives it'll almost all be gone in 100 years or less.
that's sort of what the Atomic Priesthood is doing. all the waste is being entombed in a deep salt cave I think? that being filled with concrete and lead, and the walls are carved in every language, with a warning of what's in there. lol
@@sirjayko33i think that even that long there will be enough records of at least most of our languages that they will be able to decode them somehow, for ancient languages we have much less to go on
and if we put the same phrase over and over but in different languages it could help future civilizations with reference on how to decode the other languages
@@yanyanz3011Wow looks like we found the least fun person on earth. Better start planning on how to communicate your ignorance to people 10,000 years in the future
But then someone who doesn't know better migjt think that it is a pictogram of some strange character/god. Maybe some of the details are wiped away by time and erosion. If you try to make a causal link by putting next to healthy looking person, you run the risk of it being misinterpreted as a place of healing, of going from the sickly to the healthy and not the other way around.
@Ajmo Sutra now you run two risks. First, you assume that future cultures will bury their dead underground, when they could also be cremated, given a sky burial, etc. Second, you run the risk of them reading the comic backwards and them interpreting the message as some divine life giving material.
@@michaelweiske702 arrows would solve that issue. And I’m sure if that can’t be understood by people in the future then our species likely and ironically died out due to nuclear armageddon and were sent wayyy back from prehistoric times
*A row of 6 pictures shown on the container.* *1. A person with a smile, just standing there next to the same closed container.* *2. A person in the process of opening that exact container and peaking in.* *3. That exact same person laying on the ground dead next to the completely opened container with fumes coming out of it.* *4. Showing the same person still laying there next to the opened container that has fumes coming out of it, but now it’s just a skull and bones, to show a lot of time has passed, with several other people surrounding him who are still alive.* *5. The original person’s skull and bones still laying on the ground, next to the opened container with fumes coming out of it, and now all of the new people are also dead next to him on the ground.* *6. The container still opened with fumes still coming out of it surrounded by a shit ton of skulls and bones all scattered about.* *And you would put a hat or something on the first person to show it’s the same person, and same with the others so you can show they are who died, like then keep whatever they wore on their skull and bones too.*
@@tbk2010 that was my first thought too, I even wrote just the 3 but then I thought there needs to be a way to show this is going to be like this for a LONG time, because that is super important too!
When I was in 9th grade, one of our art classes was about trying to convey a dangerous scenario in the best way possible. People who made signs and symbols did pretty well but the people who made 4 panel comics all won.
Put something even worse in front of it. We need something worse. Something obvious. And then something even worse to put in front of that. Then a short break for ice-cream. Then the most terrible thing of all. Never forget, they'll try to give you ice-cream to distract you. Eat it fast and resist brain freeze then escape. You must eat the ice cream before you escape. The ice-cream will come, beware of the ice cream, the ice cream marks the time of action.
My mind first went to planet of the apes. I forget which film it was, but in the film a group of religous apes worship a neglected nuclear warhead from human era, and i think when they believed it was their biblical apocalypse they launched it.
@@geeksdo1tbetter It was part of the message that Sandia National Laboratories suggested. Here's the whole thing: "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." What I love about it, is that it also doubles as a warning about some eldritch horror. Like, I could imagine the Elder Things inscribing this on the door of some grand, black-basalt prison, locking away a creature of unspeakable horror whose very existence is a corrupting, destructive influence on reality itself.
Terry Pratchett said it best: if you place a switch in a hidden cave and put a sign up saying "World Ending Switch Do Not Touch" the paint wouldn't even have time to dry
Catastrophism is un fortunate baked into the bread after last bottleneck . . as in the Sun swap caper war in heaven near extinction event of us planet of apes
As soon as I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me, I craved the strength and certainty of steel you act as the body you call a temple with not degrade and fail you, for I am already saved.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal. Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal. Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
For the cog the wheel and the motive force, the omniessiah knows all comprehends all. The steel is pure and the flesh is weak. When your temple of a body finally crumbles, you will come to us seeking salvation, but we are already saved. Give praise to the Machine God!
I like the related question of "How would you warn another life form of the danger?" We only have our own forms of sensing and communicating to go off of but life may not evolve the same methods elsewhere.
There really isn't any kind of way to communicate with a non-earth related entity without establishing some sort of direct communication / translations before hand.
"How do you communicate with people 10,000 years in the future?" I love your optimism that human civilization or even our species will make it that far. Good luck with that.
Yup, warnings are not enough. We need to present EVIDENCE of what happens when the warnings are ignored if we want to protect future civilations. If only we had a way to preserve a sight for posterity. Some kinda device that flashes a short burst of light onto a material that changes color based on the intensity of light it's been hit with and stays that way after the fact...
@@thegrandcactus then it will eventually be unburied with people opening the barrels to find out what's inside. Perhaps using the contents as doorstops
@@theconphentedcow241 this in case they dont. In case , like, farmers, or a housing developement doesnt accidently uncover it. Use it as paper weights lol. If were super futuristic, then its not a problem.
They touched on this in fallout 76. You can find a nuclear waste site thats surrounded by large concrete spikes and weird inscriptions that you find out are ment to keep people away.
@@luichinplaystation610 if anything it drew me in. It looked so unnatural and out of place. I had to know what was in there. Good thing your guy has a geiger counter on them at all times.
Considering that you're holding the identification symbol for Biohazard instead of the one for Radioactive, whoever undertakes this task really has their work cut out for them.
Well, wouldn't something that is radioactive be... biohazardous(?) (is that considered as a word?) *I have no idea if its correct or not though, but that is my initial thoughts
@@AntTonyLOLKID It's about properly identifying the type of hazard so that the proper precautions can be taken. If one were to wear the proper PPE (personal protective equipment) for dealing with a biohazard and begin handling something radioactive, they would likely get exposed because they have the wrong PPE. A similar situation would exist for a mislabeled biohazard (viruses, bacteria, prions, spores, etc.). Ultimately, it's important to label things in a way that people properly trained know how to identify it more specifically, but at the same time anyone who may not understand the dangers is given appropriate warning to just leave it alone and stay away. That's why stuff is usually labeled "Dangerous" or "Hazardous" in addition to being placarded more specifically.
Lmao, true. But that's kinda the point why it is so difficult. Even nowadays, pretty much everyone knows that those symbols mean "great danger" but not everyone knows the exact meaning of those symbols (biohazard, nuclear hazard, and so on). And 20.000 years (or whatever it was) is a damn long time. There's no way to know for certain that this far into the future those symbols - or any others that we might use - will be known or have any meaning to people at all. Best option is to just slap as many warning signs on there as possible and hope that at least some of them will be interpreted correctly.
Re: Nuclear Waste Disposal. Encase it in (reusable, once payloads are released) structures that can withstand reentry from space & use Starships to launch the materials toward the sun. That’s the ONLY sure solution. Have spent a lifetime pondering this.
@@Crunch_dGH Why even go to that length? If you have the money and technology to just launch large quantities of extremely heavy material into space, there's no need for any additional structures or anything. Just launch that stuff up there, make it go either into the sun or somewhere outside of the solar system (preferably outside of the galaxy) and that's it. The issue is that, as I've mentioned, nuclear waste tends to be incredibly heavy, and when sending stuff into space, weight is one of the major concerns, due to increased fuel requirements. All the stuff that you need to get into space in the first place - including the fuel itself - already weighs a lot, so there's not really very much room for any additional weight. You'd probably be limited to sending like maybe a ton of the stuff up at a time, and that's an extremely generous guess. So you'd need a large number of flights, which would be insanely expensive. That money has to come from somewhere. If governments paid it, there'd be very many people questioning wether or not this is a good use of tax money, and many smaller countries would actually run the risk of going bankrupt. If corporations paid it, their stocks would absolutely tank from them spending a huge amount of money (probably billions) on something that's absolutely never gonna increase their profits in any way.
I know this is a joke, but to anyone that thinks this is how it would go, radiation is a slow killer, and the effects generally aren’t immediately apparent, it would likely result in everyone around getting radiation poisoning as they wouldn’t realize until much later(this has occurred on multiple occasions already).
@@Dovahkiin049 yeah lol, but depending of the level of radiation, you could feel your skin itchy and burning, you become sick and vomiting, headache and many more... So at least they would associate something is wrong perhaps wouldn't figure it how that thing makes you sick but they will know that thing made then sick...
The electrical box next to my childhood home had the figure of a contourted man, clearly in pain with a lightning bolt striking through his body. I didn't want to look like him, so I stayed away from it.
☠ i still remember my uncle saying to me if you touch that box you'll get electrocuted and become "exactly" like the guy in the pictogram ☠ . As a kid i thought only two bones and skull would remain after getting electrocuted and everything else would just vaporize.
I'm going to be honest, whoever created the nuclear radiation and biohazard symbol is amazing because there is no symbol that is so menacing in every language.
The radiation symbol ☢️ was created by scientists at Berkeley in 1946 to represent activity radiating from an atom. Biohazard ☣️ was created by the Dow Chemical Company in 1966.
I think they ended up basically just putting down rosetta stones in like 10-15 different languages so that if someone did come upon it they'll hopefully be able to translate at least one of the languages
@@akshayhazari6570I think one of the main reasons plutonium is dangerous is because it can damage pretty much all carbon based life. If anything ever evolves to eat plutonium, it won't be human and it'll take longer than that
2000 years ago is when the stories in the bible are said to have taken place. It's really hard to grasp how long ago that was. That was before Cleopatra's reign. Going even further back 10,000 years ago the earth was just leaving ice age. It's entirely possible for humans to evolve in the next 10,000 years before this radioactive material becomes harmless let alone the pictures staying intact for that long.
The best idea I've heard is to simply bury it REALLY fucking deep and don't leave any symbols of messages at all. Any means of communication is going to arouse curiosity in someone at some point, so simply hide it.
Nuclear 'waste' is useful, if we decide to hide it we run the risk of robbing future generations of a powerful energy source. Spent nuclear fuel still retains 90% of it's potential energy, countries like France already recycle their 'waste'.
Additionally if you bury it deep enough, the civilization has to be technologically advanced enough to find it, so they highly likely detect the danger it presents.
Don't even leave garbage around that future archaeologists might find interesting. Make sure the ground is entirely infertile and useless for farming, and no minerals like ores, gems, or salt are in the ground.
Experiments from Switzerland (where they basically abolished most of their security protocols to be able to leave their oldest, rickety reactor Beznau on the grid) have indicated that it is impossible to pack highly radioactive waste in such a sterile manner that there won't be microorganisms producing enough gas to make any container burst over the extremely long periods of time the waste is dangerous. Leaky containers + several 10,000 years = contaminated ground water.
@Feuerling some archeologist 10000 years in the future: "This ancient civilization put a lot of effort to make this place uninteresting... I wonder what they wanted to hide..."
Also the word “danger” will likely be easily translatable for future languages bc there’s billions of danger signs on earth right now. There would be thousands of examples of dangerous places/materials that have the same word/symbol on them. And assuming future generations are smarter and more advanced they’ll easily be able to identify these cautions. Also we have the internet which contains all common information. The future generations will definitely be able to identify these hazardous areas/things.
@@bluehammer1245 what if there’s another mass extinction event that wipes us back down to 40 breeding pairs like what happened in 70,000 bc due to the eruption of toba the super volcano. Do you think between those 40 breeding pairs one of the pairs knows about nuclear waste? Humanity isn’t guaranteed neither in knowledge, for all we know the super volcano in yellow stone can erupt and all our silicon data is wiped and we’re back to legends and myths.
@@bluehammer1245 indeed, unless there's a nuclear warfare or any type of apocalyptic event that would wipe out most, if not all, of our informational resources, then yes they'll most probably know radiation and better ways to manage them.
A futuristic movie of how a hero wanders through a forest of stone spikes to find treasure that was forgotten by the ancient priesthood would be lit af though ngl
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 Nah, we aren't shown what the tressure actually is when he opens the box packs it up and leaves. When someone else asks him to show it he gets it from a pouch hanging across his chest and shows it to her and what we finally see is: "Cobalt 60 Drop and Run" *Cuts to credits*
Ive seen this before. the answer is; safely store and make is so difficult to get into (thick metal walls etc) -and also use some symbols/text of warning, that what ever future civilisation does come across the underground storage and have the technology to enter, will be advanced enough to know that it is radioactive material and it is dangerous
Meanwhile a class of kindergarten kids said to take pictures of what would happen and imprint it on the box. That way you don't need electricity or figuring anything out
@@xavierzabie8184 haha that's kind of true. It would need to be made well and encased. The main idea is battery and electrical components could easily fail in 10k years...
Fhudufin is right! We can't assume they read right to left. Also detailed images are probably not going to last more than a few millennia at most. Maybe if laser cut into lab grown diamonds though?
@@e.matthews but, argument is there are people who read Opposite way in middle east, Same could happen to English in a few thousand years. That's not considering people's intelligence, Ideology, beliefs like it could turn into a religious spot, society could change in 100 years. Think what can happen in a Thousand years.
@@razzedy_gamer 100%! And if the half-life is over 20,000 years then it's still dangerous 30,000+ years from now. There could be supervolcano eruptions, thermonuclear war, or just climate change. We can't bet on any kind of communication after a world cataclysm
I mean yeah if youre talking about social media and text messages but I know when im at work and i see a box containing some material with a skull and cross bones that I better not touch it unless I know damn sure what it is.
@@LayzeeJayNow imagine in 10 thousands there is people looking at our social media posts as we look the hieroglyphics now thinking that the box with a ☠️ has something funny inside ☠️☠️☠️
Just chisel pictographs of melding people dieing horrible deaths in stone everywhere you can near those sites. With their hair, teeth and skin falling off. Also show them touching the stuff. Should be fairly easy, if you don't wanna use weird symbols that can be easily misunderstood.
@@Leftyotism using this design need to make sure the future readers understand the direction of time. If they read it in reverse order, they may think they come across some type of magic cure.
I was thinking, maybe some sort of equation that relates to how to split an atom, and blue prints of a plutonium reactor. Hopefully the rest is self-explanatory.
@@JoseNovaUltra More like say Egyptian chisel work as you know it, but with the symptoms in chronological order, seeing them touching stuff and then deteriorating. Best to use materials that are not valuable per se, so nobody would steal the shit. You can also show the barrels with their symbols as the stuff they are touching and stuff, easy game.
I lived in a small town that was identified as having the 'right strata' to store nuc-waste. At the meeting, which was well presented by the company, they had a Q&A session. A woman asked how long the facility would be secure for. The rep said 500 years. A man then asked how long the radioactive waste would be dangerous. The rep said it had a half-life of 130,000 years. No more questions were asked, the board voted not to proceed any further.
I would have asked how long they've been a company and followed up with how can a company in business for 20 years (example) guarantee 500 years of security?
@@BEdwardStover Architectural integrity. If everyone disappeared and there was no more maintenance there'd be 500 years of guaranteed safety. After that, its a crapshoot as the materials begin breaking down to risky levels but one would hope by then that we have the tech to deal with it or we're permanently wiped out and can never fix it so what does it matter?
@@PhoenixFires How can there be a guarantee though? Who will be there to sue if the company doesn't exist when the architecture fails at 286 years? And what incentive does the company have to build it to last longer than their expected survival time? Cutting corners that won't be discovered for 200 years is a great way to get some extra profit from the project...
@@pendlera2959 There isn't a financial recuperation in case it goes wrong but the promise made to said people is irrelevant by then anyways as they'll all be long dead, perhaps not even any humans around or more than likely the tech to deal with any contaminants. However, the reason infrastructure can last is because it is built up to code. We have state building inspectors who inspect materials used and the structures themselves. To "cut corners" and make something structurally weaker would take more money to purposefully weaken your structure made of materials which were already thoroughly checked, especially with how tight government restrictions are around nuclear waste storage.
some cultures read backwards > who says humanoids will open it? > could it be misintepreted as a potential weapon? think before you speak, goofball. edit: idk if im getting shadowbanned or if people are just so embarrassed at how stupid they are that they wont respond anymore 🤣
@@emilstumme9645 Some cultures read backwards, and it's possible that the interpretation of the images may vary. However, I believe you may be overlooking the fact that cave paintings, some of which date back approximately 36,000 to 40,000 years, serve as an example of long-term visual communication that has endured for millennia. Additionally, consider the longevity of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which have been around for over 5,000 years. Even when cultures have different ways of reading or understanding these messages, they have demonstrated the remarkable ability to comprehend and interpret what these ancient people were trying to convey. While it's possible that it could be a new species or visitors who come across these containers in the future, we cannot disregard the fact that our imprint on the planet is so significant that it will not be a mystery to anyone 25,000 years from now, at a minimum, our appearance. Furthermore, considering the challenge of effectively communicating the risks associated with the containers, it might be important to employ striking images that vividly depict the consequences of opening them. For instance, in the first image, we see the individual opening the barrel against a backdrop of a vibrant and green environment with plants, water, and animals. In the second image, once the barrel is open, everything is lifeless, with contaminated water, lifeless plants, animals, and trees. This type of visual representation could be an effective means of conveying the severity of the situation to those who encounter the containers in the future. But, hey, good observation, even though the initial comment was clearly made in jest, it does make sense when you think about it.
Wow! Emilstumme is rude for no reason.. you know if they read backwards then we could put it in both directions.. either way if someone is dumb enough to read that, and still open it.. then they deserve to no longer be with the living. Meanwhile the living should be nicer to each other 😉 after all a picture is worth a thousand words.
@@_You_Are_Not_Him_ because it's toxic and needs to be monitored especially if containment measures failure and could cause a disaster. Like for example poisoning underground water supplies, rivers, oceans then will have an impact on wildlife among other things. Watch the movie Sahara pretty much same concept and very real threat if stuff isn't stored and secured properly.
I find this so fascinating. I love the thought process behind trying to discover a universal language. Like when they sent voyager one into space it had a record i believe it was, like a music record with things on it about earth that way just in case aliens ever found it they would be able to learn about earth and all that but before they could do that they had to create directions so the aliens could know how to use the record player and before they could do that they had to attempt to create a language or a way to communicate with someone who obviously wouldn’t speak any earth language and would probably not even communicate remotely the same as we do on earth. They had to basically find a way to talk to something that cannot possibly understand any language or letters or words, even globally recognized symbols and images wouldn’t matter. And I found that so freaking interesting, it’s fascinating that they even thought about doing this much less that they actually sat down and tried to figure it out. Am i making sense? The idea of trying to figure out how to communicate with somebody from another planet or someone from so far in the future that they might as well be on another planet is one of the most fascinating and interesting things I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And I’ve seen some really cool shit but this is just next level. Nothing fascinates me more than this idea of trying to communicate with someone who cannot understand any kind of language that we humans use. Am i the only one? This is just so cool. Id kill to have that job but i know im definitely not smart enough to do it haha.
@@strok2962 Edit: The topic in discussion is warning symbolism and since there was a Biohazard symbol in the video I put forth this comment. (Just for the guys jumping down my throat about context) Just wondering if a biological hazard can actually be viable that long. I'm guessing, they will diminish in ability with time, may even die out without proper substrates and regulated temperature. These samples are burned more often than preserved. It would seem, the biohazard symbol would have context, only when applied in the present.
In the documentary "Into Eternity" they discuss the same thing. I thought it was interesting that one other option was different ominous oil paintings of decayed lands and animals to invoke a feeling of dread and danger. I think the expert in the film said that the best option is probably to have NO signs at all and just hide them, since human curiosity win over any warning.
Yeah, currently the plan is to just bury them in concrete deep underground; any society with the technology to dig it up should have knowledge of radiation.
The podcast 99% Invisible discussed this a long time ago and one of the ofd solutions was to create new breeds of animals that glow when exposed to radioactive materials. And then you’d create lores about neon cats that signify danger
@@jesussaves8549see, lots of other cultures used imagery of their apocalypses to signify danger, but we still investigated their tombs and holy sites. Just because we show them the danger doesn’t mean they’ll understand it’s real.
For anyone curious: the solution that's apparently been decided on is to simply make sure that the location information is kept in records, but the actual locations themselves will have no discernable markers on the surface. No signs, no structures, nothing. Just a shitload of concrete some bit below the top earth to stop people from digging. That way nobody gets curious.
@@het_eiland75 Idk how old are you but the crying and skull emoji are basically only used to Say "that's funny" or in certain cases to laugh and mock at the same time
Well, he must have done something to anger the ancient gods right? People will always find ways to blame some higher powers and blame the victims instead of doing some reflection on their own stupidity.
@@worldeconomicfella3228 then they will just think that gods don't want them to go there and that's ok too, humans are pretty good at pattern recognition ( someone goes place A then dies, another one goes to place A and dies ) a few lives might be lost but that's all.
Have a massive bunker with only one entrance, at the entrance is the radiation symbol on a box, inside just a bit of radioactive waste. They open the box and get slightly injured, learning that that symbol means danger. Then inside the bunker we store all the rest of the waste with that symbol. They'll realize that a small box with that symbol almost killed them so opening a big box with that symbol would be stupid.
@Joker-em6oz 2 pictures, one of a perfectly fine person with the container sealed and another of a corpse with the container open. Granted ideally you'd want to slap as many of these ideas together to increase your odds of success.
@@pineappleudh6561I can see someone thinking "oh this is poison, I can use it on my enemies" and then dying shortly after. Then the next guy comes along and puts the pieces together. "Oh, this is a potent poison! I can use it on my enemies!" He dies shortly after. Eventually someone stumbles upon a pile of corpses, and thinks, "Gee, whatever is in here must be valuable! Damn, just poison." Then he dies shortly after.
@Joker-em6oz That's why I specified the images having the container opened and closed, the order doesn't matter the intended message is just "container open = death, container closed = fine" To try and circumvent the order issue.
The two people above me missed out on the joke, which is that the guy talking about sheep is part of a cult and thus enlightened. Unless he is fr in which case uh oh
Yeah the hostile architecture thing definitely got me in fallout 76. My ass went right to that waste disposal sight after I saw the "Cool fucking land spikes".
To me that just a sign there's something cool in there. I'm willing to bet there actually is as well. Though I hate 76 and refuse to play it, being a man of exquisite and rich tastes I prefer New Vegas, so I have no idea.
@@RoosterFloyd it’s got some implications around it if I remember regarding the cryptids and such. With like government agents and stuff having been through there and logging on the computer
@@alyxg2764 Like investigations surrounding the odder "supernatural" life forms you see with wild wasteland or as cannon Easter Eggs/dlc? Or is cryptids the name of some kind of new enemy mob in 76?
@@RoosterFloyd so there’s cryptids in fallout 76 each with their own explanation and mostly all based on real legends. Flatwoods monster is just a zetan,snallygaster is an FEV reject,etc. The lore of the location if I remember is tied to an agent sent to Appalachia to investigate these weird anomalous creatures and events. There’s a whole conspiracy thing where another agent doing the same was murdered so the one we follow left Appalachia but promised his return
@@RoosterFloyd I've played all the fallouts from 1-4 (including New Vegas) but didnt bother with 76. I dont play multiple player games anymore, New vegas was good, but there is not the same kind of replayability that I found in 4.
That should definitely be a thing I hope some dude like Alfred Nobel leaves behind their money to fund a Brotherhood of the Atomicform Shield for guarding future generations
The point is that symbols can have different meanings in different culture. If we see a skeleton face and think of pirates, a future civilization could have their own non-death meaning for it
You could make a sign with an open box with "stink" waves to all directions and a dead human and a dead animal (and maybe a dead insect on it's back) beside it (with crosses for eyes and stuff). They would probably assume that it's deadly, and if they somehow decide that it's something soporific, narcotic or anything else - other people will learn from their mistake
i was at a jobsite that had shipping containers full of lithium batteries. they had a logo of a barren land with a dead tree and dead fish. enviromental hazard. pretty obvious.
@@5crassrockerYeah the environmental hazard symbol is the most obvious of them all. Can't go wrong with it unless it's so far ahead in time that no fish is left in the sea because of pollution, but even then, I highly doubt they wouldn't get the meaning of a normal ass sign in year 5000 lol
They did not store this radioactive waste. i've read that the Americans found out about Soviet's plan to turn these nuclear waste into dust. Then these radioactive dust will be spread using planes flying over a city to make it radioactive for thousands of years. It was the soviet secret plane if a nuclear war started and all their nuclear weapon ran out, they will use this improvised weapons. so both side lies about hiding this waste underground and keep it in secret.
No matter how much effort they put into telling the future generations not to open that thing,curiousity will always kill the cat,especially when the person who found it is an archeologist
@@ytr5153Honestly, considering how long Latin has lived for, that probably makes the most sense. But sadly, if they knew the meaning, they will weaponise it.
To be fair the dangers of these boxes are also highly over-stated. Just opening the box would hardly kill you. Itll give you a decent dose of radiation, but unless you have prolonged exposure to it you'd probably be fine in the long term. Even with reasonable exposure its not like youd instantly die either. Its dangerous yea, but its not like its insanely dangerous and instant death or anything. Just put a few symbols on it that show its dangerous, maybe some text, and if somehow in 10K+ years people dont know what that means, or have lost the technological ability to determine what is inside it, then thats just the unfortunate reality. But that also all completely depends on like, society destroying itself in the next like 10K+ years to the point that people no longer understand what radiation is and cannot determine that the contents of the box are radioactive with the technology for that time. If human society doesnt collapse in the next 10K years, then its hardly an issue to begin with. Even if they dont speak the language or understand the symbols, they can just measure what is inside the box with equipment and realize its radioactive.
We can kill their curiousity by just simply showing what happens like displaying imagines that progressively show what radiation exposure does to a human being.
The only place that comes to mind that we have knowledge of but refuse to actually enter would be emperor Qing’s tomb. The actual reasons for why the main burial chamber hasn’t been excavated are complicated but in part it involves the myths, maps and contemporary ground surveys which suggest the place is riddled with traps and mercury. The best way to keep people away from something is probably going to be the age old technique of hiding it really well.. think Tutankhamun’s tomb..
Just have someone write a warning near it every 100 years. Not only will it stay linguistically up to date, it will leave a history on how the language changed over time
1820: Here lies unrecognizable waste with unknown purpose, do not tread on this ground 1920: I say good man keep the whippersnappers away from this box unless you want another Great War! 2020: This shit a little too lit fam, stay out unless you want your bones to be lit (that’s bad).
I believe that was actually one of the proposed methods of designating nuclear waste. Just put tons of signage up periodically, and hopefully, at least some of them would still be recognizable. Also, they’d use as many languages as possible. It wasn’t an elegant solution,but it’d probably work decently.
The funny part about this solution is, people would eventually start seeking them out as possible Rosetta stones for lost language drawing people closer to the dangers and peaking curiosity. @@KingOfDarkBunnies
Just write, "Do not open. You'll die." in several different languages. Let them figure it on their own. First guy to go will definetly be the proper communication.
Isaac asimov's foundation series has something like that in the first books, not exactly same but pretty similar (first books published in late 1940s-early 1950s)
One man's atomic warning is another man's dnd campaign
Kids in 2450 using the nuclear waste as decoration for their dorm cus they like the symbols
@zyourzgrandzmaz Tbh that already happened. ~2005 we had patches and buttons with that symbol.
Stop calling me and my radioactive OC out!
Lol
Underrated comment
fun fact: the biohazard sign ☣ was designed to be as striking as possible. test subjects were shown several different designs for the symbol and asked to pick the one that stood out to them the most. the symbol we currently use is the one that was picked the most often.
it's a very sharp symbol.
Same with the nuclear sign, it was in the same test and everything
They both look cool af. Ironically probably a bad thing long term.
@@MrC0MPUT3R Yeah, I can imagine that once the meaning is forgotten, it COULD be interpreted as indicating the presence of a cache of valuable resources, or something..
Which makes sense, it’s a symbol that activates a sort of instinctual fear in us. The symbol features sharp, enclosing architecture.
When those Priests gather together it’s called “Atomic Mass”
underrated
Amen!
Amen! They was cooking meth and cocaine😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
The larger sects are very schismatic
i got the 1 thousandth like
The future person:
* Sees a radioactive symbol * ah this must be some fallout game crate from the past
Except, all nuclear waste is stored on site. So that'd be pretty unlikely
@@ItsRy_666 well if everything is stored on site, there will be no purpose for those symbols. It's just if everything really gone wrong the symbol is the last defensive line.
"nothing of honour is here" Always liked that phrasing.
"...thing of honour is here"
The chances anyone will speak anything resembling English in 10,000 years is 0%
@@mannygutierrez7654proto indo European was spoken 10,000 years ago. You probably know many similar words to people then.
@@mannygutierrez7654 I mean our language will continue to be bastardized and shortened and simplified, at least that much is true. As long as we have the ability to keep records though there I think it will be stable enough to be understood for a very long time. All this is assuming no world ending catastrophe will occur in the next 10 or 20,000 years which is unrealistic. There have been so many advanced civilizations in the past that were completely wiped out by huge events that reset humanity, there's no reason to assume it won't continue to occur in the foreseeable future.
No great act took place here.
The whole thing reads like a dream, I love it
Years of horror movies have taught me that anything with a warning label will eventually be opened.
What warning label to put on the ark of the covenant?
The 245 trioxin barrels from return of the living dead
Blame the tech industry and thei "Warranty void" stickers
Always by white people
Won't be nearly as glamourous though
Atomic Priesthood sounds like a very dope triple A game that was rushed to release with a lot of bugs but gets better with patches over time
Fallout?
Gets better with patches over time?
Thats not very Bethesda of you.
I like your mind 🤣
May the fat man guide your way.
Sounds like Asimov’s Foundation
Bury it with a paper that says "this is radioactive and dangerous." In every known human language, one of our known languages will prevail. It will have that language in it
A few issues with that..
What paper lasts over 20000 years and what language had survived for over 20000 years?
Can you understand Sumerian or Akkadian and read Cuniform? Can you read hieroglyphs or Hieratic, Indus Script, Oracle bone script or Elamite? Sumerian is the oldest written language and is probably not even 5000 years old. We need something that survived 4x as long as Sumerian while still being widely understood worldwide by whoever happens to stumble upon it.
@sirjayko33 On top of that future humans probably won't have as much reference material for modern language as we do for ancient languages because digital data is extremely prone to decay over a shorter term than paper so unless we thoroughly maintain archives it'll almost all be gone in 100 years or less.
that's sort of what the Atomic Priesthood is doing. all the waste is being entombed in a deep salt cave I think? that being filled with concrete and lead, and the walls are carved in every language, with a warning of what's in there. lol
@@sirjayko33i think that even that long there will be enough records of at least most of our languages that they will be able to decode them somehow, for ancient languages we have much less to go on
and if we put the same phrase over and over but in different languages it could help future civilizations with reference on how to decode the other languages
"use symbols"
"scary buildings"
"Brothers and Sisters of the Cult of Atom, we are gathered today to..."
Lmao
Directly thought of the "Children of Atom" from the Fallout Franchise😂
@@xkaix96x69 that's where I got it from haha, just forgot it was Children and not Cult
Use all those ideas together
Glad I'm not the only one
in 10k years the TH-cam algorithm will recommend people this video.
There is no human 10k years in the future
@@yanyanz3011pretty sure it was a joke, love. You okay?
@@digitalharmony26 no I'm not joking, what are you going to afraid? You will not live that long.
@@yanyanz3011 I meant OP was joking. Calm down 😂
@@yanyanz3011Wow looks like we found the least fun person on earth. Better start planning on how to communicate your ignorance to people 10,000 years in the future
You need a pictogram of a diseased person (covered with spots maybe) throwing up. Saying basically, this stuff will make you sick
But then someone who doesn't know better migjt think that it is a pictogram of some strange character/god. Maybe some of the details are wiped away by time and erosion. If you try to make a causal link by putting next to healthy looking person, you run the risk of it being misinterpreted as a place of healing, of going from the sickly to the healthy and not the other way around.
Yes and vibrant colors ot a comic showing step by step what will happen first you get sick and later became a sceletom and get burried
@Ajmo Sutra now you run two risks. First, you assume that future cultures will bury their dead underground, when they could also be cremated, given a sky burial, etc. Second, you run the risk of them reading the comic backwards and them interpreting the message as some divine life giving material.
Bet that would be interpreted as a curse/warning to protect the burried grave treasures inside and dismissed as silly superstition.
@@michaelweiske702 arrows would solve that issue. And I’m sure if that can’t be understood by people in the future then our species likely and ironically died out due to nuclear armageddon and were sent wayyy back from prehistoric times
Almost makes you wonder if alot of "cursed" items from ancient times are just a form of toxic waste containment.
*A row of 6 pictures shown on the container.*
*1. A person with a smile, just standing there next to the same closed container.*
*2. A person in the process of opening that exact container and peaking in.*
*3. That exact same person laying on the ground dead next to the completely opened container with fumes coming out of it.*
*4. Showing the same person still laying there next to the opened container that has fumes coming out of it, but now it’s just a skull and bones, to show a lot of time has passed, with several other people surrounding him who are still alive.*
*5. The original person’s skull and bones still laying on the ground, next to the opened container with fumes coming out of it, and now all of the new people are also dead next to him on the ground.*
*6. The container still opened with fumes still coming out of it surrounded by a shit ton of skulls and bones all scattered about.*
*And you would put a hat or something on the first person to show it’s the same person, and same with the others so you can show they are who died, like then keep whatever they wore on their skull and bones too.*
That's clever 👍👍
I can see the discoverers planning to use this as a weapon.
That's the first thing I thought as well. And you really only need the first 3 images, but the 6 make it more striking for sure.
@@andrewtime2994 Sure, but spent nuclear fuel makes for surprisingly bad weapons. A "dirty bomb" doesn't really kill a lot of people.
@@tbk2010 that was my first thought too, I even wrote just the 3 but then I thought there needs to be a way to show this is going to be like this for a LONG time, because that is super important too!
When I was in 9th grade, one of our art classes was about trying to convey a dangerous scenario in the best way possible.
People who made signs and symbols did pretty well but the people who made 4 panel comics all won.
yeah that's what I thought too. short cartoon: find box, open box, get sick, die
The problem with that is we have no way of knowing if they will be read left to right vs right to left, top down, or bottom up
@@sethbarash8671so they could think the content can revive the dead, lol!
Is this loss?
@@sethbarash8671 Use arrows?
"Hmm, how do we keep this nuclear waste away from people?"
" *WE MAKE A CULT* "
Children of atom fallout?🤨
Put something even worse in front of it. We need something worse. Something obvious. And then something even worse to put in front of that. Then a short break for ice-cream. Then the most terrible thing of all. Never forget, they'll try to give you ice-cream to distract you. Eat it fast and resist brain freeze then escape. You must eat the ice cream before you escape. The ice-cream will come, beware of the ice cream, the ice cream marks the time of action.
They're coming. We can't get out. Save yourselves we must hrthhvf ex VB
That guy wanted a cult, he just needed an excuse
@@Rumplestiltskinthethird War...war never changes.
humble start for the children of atom
bro wanted a children of atom from fallout in real life lol
Chad idea
My mind first went to planet of the apes. I forget which film it was, but in the film a group of religous apes worship a neglected nuclear warhead from human era, and i think when they believed it was their biblical apocalypse they launched it.
@Master Pope Yoda maybe that's where fallout got the inspiration?
@@masterpopeyoda3290It's the second movie in the series
@@masterpopeyoda3290
Actually-they weren’t apes, they were mutated human beings.
Didn't they decide that planting a thick forest on top and leaving no indication that there is anything underneath was the best deterrent?
What if that’s what the Amazon is
@@JBB685 well they do think it's human cultivated going back millennia 🤔
@@outside8312 I know!
@@JBB685 another deterrent against excessive deforestation....
@outside8312 who tf thinks that?
Atomic priesthood is a bad ass name for an alternative band
Goddamn that’s so true. Now I just need to learn the electric
😂
A new genre - Thermonuclear Rock.
It does.
An alternative to what, fossil fuels?
I love that they considered making the children of atom a real thing
"This is not a place of honor, what was buried here is repulsive to us"
this was my fav. can't remember who said it?
@@geeksdo1tbetter It was part of the message that Sandia National Laboratories suggested. Here's the whole thing:
"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."
What I love about it, is that it also doubles as a warning about some eldritch horror. Like, I could imagine the Elder Things inscribing this on the door of some grand, black-basalt prison, locking away a creature of unspeakable horror whose very existence is a corrupting, destructive influence on reality itself.
@@RaptorJesus It's metal AF
like ppl in 10000 years are going to be able to read that
@@RaptorJesus that was excellent, thanks for adding the whole brilliant script!
"Bask in the atoms glow"
Which Fallout was that church in?
@@MJOLNIRMARKSIX both 3 and 4 if I’m not mistaken
@@MJOLNIRMARKSIX I think it's in Megaton where the children of atom are, and there's a big dormant bomb in the middle
Ah yes. The Atom
@@MJOLNIRMARKSIX Church of Atom
Terry Pratchett said it best: if you place a switch in a hidden cave and put a sign up saying "World Ending Switch Do Not Touch" the paint wouldn't even have time to dry
true that
GNU Terry Pratchett
Catastrophism is un fortunate baked into the bread after last bottleneck . . as in the Sun swap caper war in heaven near extinction event of us planet of apes
bro in 10k years they will know what's inside any container by scanning the entire molecules
Homie straight up brought the Mechanicum into the real world.
As soon as I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me, I craved the strength and certainty of steel you act as the body you call a temple with not degrade and fail you, for I am already saved.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.
Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.
Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
Time to start moving all the nuclear waste and church to Mars.
For the cog the wheel and the motive force, the omniessiah knows all comprehends all. The steel is pure and the flesh is weak. When your temple of a body finally crumbles, you will come to us seeking salvation, but we are already saved. Give praise to the Machine God!
“Atomic Priesthood” has to be the most badass thing I’ve heard all week
its probably the best idea myths are the oldest stories that have been passed down without being altered
Best metal band name I've ever heard
I’d join
It's basically the plot of Asimov's Foundation.
Play Fallout and you'll see it more.
I like the related question of "How would you warn another life form of the danger?" We only have our own forms of sensing and communicating to go off of but life may not evolve the same methods elsewhere.
Oh well
There really isn't any kind of way to communicate with a non-earth related entity without establishing some sort of direct communication / translations before hand.
"How do you communicate with people 10,000 years in the future?"
I love your optimism that human civilization or even our species will make it that far. Good luck with that.
It doesnt matte what we do. The more warnings, the more people will think "ahhh not falling for it. Your treasure is mine!"
Yup, warnings are not enough. We need to present EVIDENCE of what happens when the warnings are ignored if we want to protect future civilations.
If only we had a way to preserve a sight for posterity. Some kinda device that flashes a short burst of light onto a material that changes color based on the intensity of light it's been hit with and stays that way after the fact...
What if we bury it deep somewhere and not mark it at all?
@@thegrandcactus then it will eventually be unburied with people opening the barrels to find out what's inside. Perhaps using the contents as doorstops
You'd hope in 10 000 years they'd have the tech to make sure that it wasn't terribly radioactive
@@theconphentedcow241 this in case they dont. In case , like, farmers, or a housing developement doesnt accidently uncover it. Use it as paper weights lol. If were super futuristic, then its not a problem.
They touched on this in fallout 76. You can find a nuclear waste site thats surrounded by large concrete spikes and weird inscriptions that you find out are ment to keep people away.
That also has it's issues, but seems like it'd be most effective especially if they realize people are dying when they go there.
But still they let you in
@@luichinplaystation610 if anything it drew me in. It looked so unnatural and out of place. I had to know what was in there. Good thing your guy has a geiger counter on them at all times.
And as he said, seeing that would immediately make me want to touch it.
@@Hawkborat same
Considering that you're holding the identification symbol for Biohazard instead of the one for Radioactive, whoever undertakes this task really has their work cut out for them.
Well, wouldn't something that is radioactive be... biohazardous(?) (is that considered as a word?)
*I have no idea if its correct or not though, but that is my initial thoughts
@@AntTonyLOLKID It's about properly identifying the type of hazard so that the proper precautions can be taken. If one were to wear the proper PPE (personal protective equipment) for dealing with a biohazard and begin handling something radioactive, they would likely get exposed because they have the wrong PPE. A similar situation would exist for a mislabeled biohazard (viruses, bacteria, prions, spores, etc.).
Ultimately, it's important to label things in a way that people properly trained know how to identify it more specifically, but at the same time anyone who may not understand the dangers is given appropriate warning to just leave it alone and stay away. That's why stuff is usually labeled "Dangerous" or "Hazardous" in addition to being placarded more specifically.
Lmao, true. But that's kinda the point why it is so difficult. Even nowadays, pretty much everyone knows that those symbols mean "great danger" but not everyone knows the exact meaning of those symbols (biohazard, nuclear hazard, and so on). And 20.000 years (or whatever it was) is a damn long time. There's no way to know for certain that this far into the future those symbols - or any others that we might use - will be known or have any meaning to people at all. Best option is to just slap as many warning signs on there as possible and hope that at least some of them will be interpreted correctly.
Re: Nuclear Waste Disposal. Encase it in (reusable, once payloads are released) structures that can withstand reentry from space & use Starships to launch the materials toward the sun. That’s the ONLY sure solution. Have spent a lifetime pondering this.
@@Crunch_dGH Why even go to that length? If you have the money and technology to just launch large quantities of extremely heavy material into space, there's no need for any additional structures or anything. Just launch that stuff up there, make it go either into the sun or somewhere outside of the solar system (preferably outside of the galaxy) and that's it.
The issue is that, as I've mentioned, nuclear waste tends to be incredibly heavy, and when sending stuff into space, weight is one of the major concerns, due to increased fuel requirements. All the stuff that you need to get into space in the first place - including the fuel itself - already weighs a lot, so there's not really very much room for any additional weight. You'd probably be limited to sending like maybe a ton of the stuff up at a time, and that's an extremely generous guess. So you'd need a large number of flights, which would be insanely expensive.
That money has to come from somewhere. If governments paid it, there'd be very many people questioning wether or not this is a good use of tax money, and many smaller countries would actually run the risk of going bankrupt. If corporations paid it, their stocks would absolutely tank from them spending a huge amount of money (probably billions) on something that's absolutely never gonna increase their profits in any way.
It's one thing to communicate to another person what something is, but history has shown that people will regard curiosity and ideals over safety.
Imagine being an Atomic High Priest
164 likes and no comments... What are we doing here?
Also yes, I want to be that.
Well sign me up for the job.
The year is 12,023; the fusionites have completely eradicated all fissionites.
@@Nexusquofawk bro lol
atomic priesthood how could that go wrong, oh wait children of atom from fallout XDDD. First thing that came to mind when i heard atomic priesthood.
*The first guy: Open the box, fucking dies*
*The second guy: NOTED*
Essentially how our ancestors found out what was and wasn't food
I know this is a joke, but to anyone that thinks this is how it would go, radiation is a slow killer, and the effects generally aren’t immediately apparent, it would likely result in everyone around getting radiation poisoning as they wouldn’t realize until much later(this has occurred on multiple occasions already).
Second guy:"NOTED"
Except now you've already opened a Pandora's box. Except this one doesn't have hope in it
@@Dovahkiin049 yeah lol, but depending of the level of radiation, you could feel your skin itchy and burning, you become sick and vomiting, headache and many more...
So at least they would associate something is wrong perhaps wouldn't figure it how that thing makes you sick but they will know that thing made then sick...
It’s worked before it can work again
The electrical box next to my childhood home had the figure of a contourted man, clearly in pain with a lightning bolt striking through his body. I didn't want to look like him, so I stayed away from it.
☠ i still remember my uncle saying to me if you touch that box you'll get electrocuted and become "exactly" like the guy in the pictogram ☠ . As a kid i thought only two bones and skull would remain after getting electrocuted and everything else would just vaporize.
Those would scare me fr 💀
@@Ra-Hul-KLOL
Smart. Maybe we put a photo of a man dying from radiation poisoning around all the radioactive waste
@@censored4christ162hisashi ouchi. The photos of his bed sheets would keep me away, poor guy
That dude that recommended the atomic priesthood 100% is a member of the 40K fandom
That linguist must’ve been smoking some good stuff before coming up with that idea
Or Played too much fallout😂
nope, he just watched planet of the apes, first movie
Reminds me of Dune... Still checks out lmao.
Have fun when people open it thinking it contains the holy grail.
@@Nuggetmonk Or read too much Isaac Asimov - the Foundation books go in kinda the same direction...
I'm going to be honest, whoever created the nuclear radiation and biohazard symbol is amazing because there is no symbol that is so menacing in every language.
The radiation symbol ☢️ was created by scientists at Berkeley in 1946 to represent activity radiating from an atom. Biohazard ☣️ was created by the Dow Chemical Company in 1966.
How do you know that (or how) menacing it is in every language?
Well yeah, for now. That's the whole point.
@@Elcheecho it's a universal sharp edged symbol don't be a dunce
So is the middle finger
Atomic Priesthood is how you get weird cults in Fallout...
Literally about to mention the children of atom
Praise be to Atom
@@businessgoose2370I like the idea that it mixed with Christianity. Atom = Adam
@@isaacjacobs4397 but I mean it's an actual in fallout universe cult
Meanwhile, some random dude In the Shadows:
"I. AM. ATOMIC. IC-IC-IC"
Scientists: “how should we communicate that this is dangerous?”
Linguist: “idk, you ever read Dune?”
I think they ended up basically just putting down rosetta stones in like 10-15 different languages so that if someone did come upon it they'll hopefully be able to translate at least one of the languages
May be 10,000 years in the future,
humans will evolve to feed off Plutonium.
@@akshayhazari6570 Exterminate! Exterminate!
@@akshayhazari6570I think one of the main reasons plutonium is dangerous is because it can damage pretty much all carbon based life. If anything ever evolves to eat plutonium, it won't be human and it'll take longer than that
By the time they get it deciphered, they will already have been tossing the glowing rocks around to each other.
@@itachi1448 just like the skull and crossbones that could mean something else in the future.
Just put a picture of a man dying from opening a box that's got a picture of a man dying on it, on it.
People might think of it backwards opening it will give the dying man life good idea though
@@Mrmedusiodlol 😅😅😅
So basically just clips playing of Indiana Jones and lost ark?
People in africa and asia read backwards
2000 years ago is when the stories in the bible are said to have taken place. It's really hard to grasp how long ago that was. That was before Cleopatra's reign. Going even further back 10,000 years ago the earth was just leaving ice age. It's entirely possible for humans to evolve in the next 10,000 years before this radioactive material becomes harmless let alone the pictures staying intact for that long.
The best idea I've heard is to simply bury it REALLY fucking deep and don't leave any symbols of messages at all. Any means of communication is going to arouse curiosity in someone at some point, so simply hide it.
Nuclear 'waste' is useful, if we decide to hide it we run the risk of robbing future generations of a powerful energy source.
Spent nuclear fuel still retains 90% of it's potential energy, countries like France already recycle their 'waste'.
Additionally if you bury it deep enough, the civilization has to be technologically advanced enough to find it, so they highly likely detect the danger it presents.
Don't even leave garbage around that future archaeologists might find interesting. Make sure the ground is entirely infertile and useless for farming, and no minerals like ores, gems, or salt are in the ground.
Experiments from Switzerland (where they basically abolished most of their security protocols to be able to leave their oldest, rickety reactor Beznau on the grid) have indicated that it is impossible to pack highly radioactive waste in such a sterile manner that there won't be microorganisms producing enough gas to make any container burst over the extremely long periods of time the waste is dangerous.
Leaky containers + several 10,000 years = contaminated ground water.
@Feuerling some archeologist 10000 years in the future: "This ancient civilization put a lot of effort to make this place uninteresting... I wonder what they wanted to hide..."
Also the word “danger” will likely be easily translatable for future languages bc there’s billions of danger signs on earth right now. There would be thousands of examples of dangerous places/materials that have the same word/symbol on them. And assuming future generations are smarter and more advanced they’ll easily be able to identify these cautions. Also we have the internet which contains all common information. The future generations will definitely be able to identify these hazardous areas/things.
"This box is sealed with an ancient curse, but we aren't superstitious so let's crack this thing open"
They gonna be religious after that eye melting meting
Unless we have a complete regress of society, then I would like to imagine that future humans have an understanding of radiation.
@@bluehammer1245 what if there’s another mass extinction event that wipes us back down to 40 breeding pairs like what happened in 70,000 bc due to the eruption of toba the super volcano. Do you think between those 40 breeding pairs one of the pairs knows about nuclear waste? Humanity isn’t guaranteed neither in knowledge, for all we know the super volcano in yellow stone can erupt and all our silicon data is wiped and we’re back to legends and myths.
@@viktorthykjr1966it's not an active demon core.
It will simply kill them in a week and fuel the superstition.
@@bluehammer1245 indeed, unless there's a nuclear warfare or any type of apocalyptic event that would wipe out most, if not all, of our informational resources, then yes they'll most probably know radiation and better ways to manage them.
He just suggested to create the Children Of Atom sooner
I knew I wasn't the only one 😂
What's stopping us?
I really hope not. Those fuckers are annoying.
Sooner
Sooner
“You could make a religion out of this!”
“No, don’t”
exactly. that's all we need is another cult based on nuclear waste.
Man of culture I see
Planet of the apes. Classic
L Ron Hubbard
@@ozzyaustin9574
Who? Sounds familiar but I was thinking Bill Wurtz .
I'm taking that Atomic Priesthood for a DnD campaign, thank youuuu!
A futuristic movie of how a hero wanders through a forest of stone spikes to find treasure that was forgotten by the ancient priesthood would be lit af though ngl
At the end he just drops dead and melts
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798
Nah, we aren't shown what the tressure actually is when he opens the box packs it up and leaves.
When someone else asks him to show it he gets it from a pouch hanging across his chest and shows it to her and what we finally see is:
"Cobalt 60
Drop and Run"
*Cuts to credits*
It would be like a reinmagining of Indiana Jones, but id be frighteningly realistic.
that's fallout
Planet of the Apes
Atomic Priesthood? That’s the most badass thing I’ve ever heard.
Best band name ever
Sooner or later they would end up like the Children of Atom from Fallout, and venerate the radiation as a sign of their atomic god
Came here to say something about the Children of Atom but I was beat.
I’m joining.
That’s from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series.
Just draw a little 4-panel comic of someone opening the barrel and dying
Exactly
It could look like a curse. Ancient egyptians tried that. Didn't stave off graverobbers
@@aarr8936RIP
but to be fair, that would actually work, since people would ACTUALLY die
What if people read it right to left? Opening the vault resurrects the dead
Ive seen this before. the answer is; safely store and make is so difficult to get into (thick metal walls etc) -and also use some symbols/text of warning, that what ever future civilisation does come across the underground storage and have the technology to enter, will be advanced enough to know that it is radioactive material and it is dangerous
Meanwhile a class of kindergarten kids said to take pictures of what would happen and imprint it on the box. That way you don't need electricity or figuring anything out
People 10,000 years from now could think it was cave paintings or something
Do you really think a picture will last 10k years? If so I got a bridge to sell ya...
@@xavierzabie8184 haha that's kind of true. It would need to be made well and encased. The main idea is battery and electrical components could easily fail in 10k years...
@@roejogan5094 except it wont be in a cave, but on a giant metal container buried deep in the desert.
@@nikki1400 if I found a giant metal box with primitive paintings on it in the middle of no where desert I would open it
Man Atomic priesthood would be a sick power metal band
Name of my band called it
Why is he assuming future humans wont know what radiation is or have a geiger counter? Come on lol
And they've got to sign onto nuclear blast
Sets of pictures progressively depicting the effects of radiation exposure on actual human beings.
Very detailed and very graphic.
Number of people with Room Temperature IQ is not small.
They will read,
THIS BOX WILL CURE ALL DESEASES & MAKE US HEALTHY
sadly they could read it backwards and think it's a magic potion
Fhudufin is right! We can't assume they read right to left. Also detailed images are probably not going to last more than a few millennia at most. Maybe if laser cut into lab grown diamonds though?
@@e.matthews but, argument is there are people who read Opposite way in middle east, Same could happen to English in a few thousand years.
That's not considering people's intelligence, Ideology, beliefs like it could turn into a religious spot, society could change in 100 years. Think what can happen in a Thousand years.
@@razzedy_gamer 100%! And if the half-life is over 20,000 years then it's still dangerous 30,000+ years from now. There could be supervolcano eruptions, thermonuclear war, or just climate change. We can't bet on any kind of communication after a world cataclysm
The last one is definitely how the children of atom came about in fallout
"☠️" now means "I'm dead" but in a comedic way. Meaning does evolve overtime 💀
@tinoxc3769 "my grandma just died 💀"
I mean yeah if youre talking about social media and text messages but I know when im at work and i see a box containing some material with a skull and cross bones that I better not touch it unless I know damn sure what it is.
@tinoxc3769my dog got ran over ☠️
More like devolve lol
@@LayzeeJayNow imagine in 10 thousands there is people looking at our social media posts as we look the hieroglyphics now thinking that the box with a ☠️ has something funny inside ☠️☠️☠️
It's a very daunting challenge to say the least and I don't think there's any foolproof solution
Just chisel pictographs of melding people dieing horrible deaths in stone everywhere you can near those sites. With their hair, teeth and skin falling off. Also show them touching the stuff.
Should be fairly easy, if you don't wanna use weird symbols that can be easily misunderstood.
@@Leftyotism using this design need to make sure the future readers understand the direction of time. If they read it in reverse order, they may think they come across some type of magic cure.
@@Leftyotism like cigarrete boxes lol?
I was thinking, maybe some sort of equation that relates to how to split an atom, and blue prints of a plutonium reactor. Hopefully the rest is self-explanatory.
@@JoseNovaUltra More like say Egyptian chisel work as you know it, but with the symptoms in chronological order, seeing them touching stuff and then deteriorating. Best to use materials that are not valuable per se, so nobody would steal the shit.
You can also show the barrels with their symbols as the stuff they are touching and stuff, easy game.
I lived in a small town that was identified as having the 'right strata' to store nuc-waste. At the meeting, which was well presented by the company, they had a Q&A session. A woman asked how long the facility would be secure for. The rep said 500 years. A man then asked how long the radioactive waste would be dangerous. The rep said it had a half-life of 130,000 years. No more questions were asked, the board voted not to proceed any further.
I would have asked how long they've been a company and followed up with how can a company in business for 20 years (example) guarantee 500 years of security?
@@BEdwardStover Architectural integrity. If everyone disappeared and there was no more maintenance there'd be 500 years of guaranteed safety. After that, its a crapshoot as the materials begin breaking down to risky levels but one would hope by then that we have the tech to deal with it or we're permanently wiped out and can never fix it so what does it matter?
@@PhoenixFires How can there be a guarantee though? Who will be there to sue if the company doesn't exist when the architecture fails at 286 years? And what incentive does the company have to build it to last longer than their expected survival time? Cutting corners that won't be discovered for 200 years is a great way to get some extra profit from the project...
@@pendlera2959 There isn't a financial recuperation in case it goes wrong but the promise made to said people is irrelevant by then anyways as they'll all be long dead, perhaps not even any humans around or more than likely the tech to deal with any contaminants. However, the reason infrastructure can last is because it is built up to code. We have state building inspectors who inspect materials used and the structures themselves. To "cut corners" and make something structurally weaker would take more money to purposefully weaken your structure made of materials which were already thoroughly checked, especially with how tight government restrictions are around nuclear waste storage.
@@BEdwardStover There were no further questions because the board voted not to proceed any further.
Gordon doesn’t need to hear all this. He’s a highly trained professional!
Man was really like "We should start the Church of Atom!"
Adam and eve Atoms and Keys
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Was just about to say this…
with knowlegde of the fathers passed to their son like Sons of Atom or children... or something like that could be fun
2 Images printed on the barrels
Image 1: "Someone opens the container"
Image 2: "He's dead now"
some cultures read backwards > who says humanoids will open it? > could it be misintepreted as a potential weapon? think before you speak, goofball.
edit: idk if im getting shadowbanned or if people are just so embarrassed at how stupid they are that they wont respond anymore 🤣
@@emilstumme9645
Some cultures read backwards, and it's possible that the interpretation of the images may vary. However, I believe you may be overlooking the fact that cave paintings, some of which date back approximately 36,000 to 40,000 years, serve as an example of long-term visual communication that has endured for millennia. Additionally, consider the longevity of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which have been around for over 5,000 years. Even when cultures have different ways of reading or understanding these messages, they have demonstrated the remarkable ability to comprehend and interpret what these ancient people were trying to convey.
While it's possible that it could be a new species or visitors who come across these containers in the future, we cannot disregard the fact that our imprint on the planet is so significant that it will not be a mystery to anyone 25,000 years from now, at a minimum, our appearance. Furthermore, considering the challenge of effectively communicating the risks associated with the containers, it might be important to employ striking images that vividly depict the consequences of opening them. For instance, in the first image, we see the individual opening the barrel against a backdrop of a vibrant and green environment with plants, water, and animals. In the second image, once the barrel is open, everything is lifeless, with contaminated water, lifeless plants, animals, and trees. This type of visual representation could be an effective means of conveying the severity of the situation to those who encounter the containers in the future.
But, hey, good observation, even though the initial comment was clearly made in jest, it does make sense when you think about it.
@@emilstumme9645 just put nothing on it and they would find out it's deadly once someone gets killed by it 🤣
Wow! Emilstumme is rude for no reason.. you know if they read backwards then we could put it in both directions.. either way if someone is dumb enough to read that, and still open it.. then they deserve to no longer be with the living. Meanwhile the living should be nicer to each other 😉 after all a picture is worth a thousand words.
@@BobPullman-qp9cmthe fuck are you on about what if society, language, and culture as we know collapses fully what you gonna do now
The council 5,000 years from now:
“Praise be to the waste, which we vow to protect with our every strength.”
Until they become a doomsday cult using the knowledge of the waste to further a corrupt leaders scheme.
“Children of the Light, hear my words and feel Atom's warmth!”
Brother, why do we protect the waste?
@@_You_Are_Not_Him_ because it's toxic and needs to be monitored especially if containment measures failure and could cause a disaster. Like for example poisoning underground water supplies, rivers, oceans then will have an impact on wildlife among other things. Watch the movie Sahara pretty much same concept and very real threat if stuff isn't stored and secured properly.
The children of atom
I find this so fascinating. I love the thought process behind trying to discover a universal language. Like when they sent voyager one into space it had a record i believe it was, like a music record with things on it about earth that way just in case aliens ever found it they would be able to learn about earth and all that but before they could do that they had to create directions so the aliens could know how to use the record player and before they could do that they had to attempt to create a language or a way to communicate with someone who obviously wouldn’t speak any earth language and would probably not even communicate remotely the same as we do on earth. They had to basically find a way to talk to something that cannot possibly understand any language or letters or words, even globally recognized symbols and images wouldn’t matter. And I found that so freaking interesting, it’s fascinating that they even thought about doing this much less that they actually sat down and tried to figure it out. Am i making sense? The idea of trying to figure out how to communicate with somebody from another planet or someone from so far in the future that they might as well be on another planet is one of the most fascinating and interesting things I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And I’ve seen some really cool shit but this is just next level. Nothing fascinates me more than this idea of trying to communicate with someone who cannot understand any kind of language that we humans use. Am i the only one? This is just so cool. Id kill to have that job but i know im definitely not smart enough to do it haha.
If _Atomic Priesthood_ doesn't signal the beginning of the end, I really don't know what does.
Sounds like a heavy metal band name.
@@Hambone3773 I would absolutely listen to that band
@@Hambone3773 It's metal as fuck. Can't wait for the new mastadon album "Apostles of the Atom"
Ironically, the 💀 emoji now refers the funniest shit on internet
Omfg that is soo fuknin true like now it means I’m dead like I’m dying of laughter
It means funny and is a way to diss someone lol
Isn't the symbol he is holding for biological hazards though?
@@menezesamit yeah, but the point this guy is making is that the meaning of symbols can change in some of the most unexpected ways.
@@strok2962
Edit: The topic in discussion is warning symbolism and since there was a Biohazard symbol in the video I put forth this comment. (Just for the guys jumping down my throat about context)
Just wondering if a biological hazard can actually be viable that long.
I'm guessing, they will diminish in ability with time, may even die out without proper substrates and regulated temperature.
These samples are burned more often than preserved.
It would seem, the biohazard symbol would have context, only when applied in the present.
In the documentary "Into Eternity" they discuss the same thing.
I thought it was interesting that one other option was different ominous oil paintings of decayed lands and animals to invoke a feeling of dread and danger.
I think the expert in the film said that the best option is probably to have NO signs at all and just hide them, since human curiosity win over any warning.
Yeah, currently the plan is to just bury them in concrete deep underground; any society with the technology to dig it up should have knowledge of radiation.
The podcast 99% Invisible discussed this a long time ago and one of the ofd solutions was to create new breeds of animals that glow when exposed to radioactive materials. And then you’d create lores about neon cats that signify danger
@@CatskillOne just like your profile picture!
Simple detailed pictures depicting horrific images that would happen if opened
@@jesussaves8549see, lots of other cultures used imagery of their apocalypses to signify danger, but we still investigated their tombs and holy sites. Just because we show them the danger doesn’t mean they’ll understand it’s real.
For anyone curious: the solution that's apparently been decided on is to simply make sure that the location information is kept in records, but the actual locations themselves will have no discernable markers on the surface. No signs, no structures, nothing. Just a shitload of concrete some bit below the top earth to stop people from digging. That way nobody gets curious.
Oh my god, the evolution of 💀 as a deadly symbol into a hilarious thing happened right before our eyes 💀💀💀
Even the symbol for crying 😭 means something funny now
@@TovenDo.O.Video-no, it really doesn´t
@@het_eiland75 Idk how old are you but the crying and skull emoji are basically only used to Say "that's funny" or in certain cases to laugh and mock at the same time
@@Valerio-z2v I understand the skull, but never understood crying emoji plus praying emoji.
@@het_eiland75 "laugh so hard you cry"? ive also seen people shocked put their hands together in front of their face before laughing out loud before
Unfortunately you just might have one poor guy ignore the warnings, come back and just be hella sick to get the message across every once in a while
Well, he must have done something to anger the ancient gods right?
People will always find ways to blame some higher powers and blame the victims instead of doing some reflection on their own stupidity.
@@worldeconomicfella3228 then they will just think that gods don't want them to go there and that's ok too, humans are pretty good at pattern recognition ( someone goes place A then dies, another one goes to place A and dies ) a few lives might be lost but that's all.
“Don’t open this box, you’ll fucking die”
**opens anyway**
“I’m serious, don’t open it
**dies**
*E V O L U T I O N*
"Don't tell me what to do, liberal!"
**succumbs to radiation poisoning**
You have to tell me why i'd die! It's the same with all those "Do not press button" please just tell me what the button does!!
@@ilikedinosaurs392 it kills you
@@mr.waterbottle1265 but howw? why? are you sure? Maybe they're lying? I need to know!!
Have a massive bunker with only one entrance, at the entrance is the radiation symbol on a box, inside just a bit of radioactive waste. They open the box and get slightly injured, learning that that symbol means danger. Then inside the bunker we store all the rest of the waste with that symbol. They'll realize that a small box with that symbol almost killed them so opening a big box with that symbol would be stupid.
dude turning toxic waste dumps into deities and myths is so wild and they gotta do it
Well, in the fallout series there's a religious group that worships radiation and nukes. They're called "the children of atom"
It might not work but it will be cool
"Hey, we need to make sure people don't get hurt cause of this thing."
"Yeah just start a cult lol"
"nothing ever goes wrong with cults"
I mean it wouldn't not work right?
*founds Dema*
Or write it in some "holy book", maybe it may pass on by thousands of generation😂😂😂
@@allenhayden9218double negative
Just leave Raiders of the Lost Ark playing on loop, they'll get it.
A quite literally timeless classic
I know if you know how funny this is
But… the not sees didn’t get it… there will always be a not see. Such is the folly of man. But we should do it anyways. Great movie. I like the music.
Imagine people 20k years from now find this video AS they find the nuclear waste and understood what was being said in the video
so cool
A series of Photos step by step! Showing how & what can potentially happen is the best way in my opinion
No way to show order Joel
@Joker-em6oz
2 pictures, one of a perfectly fine person with the container sealed and another of a corpse with the container open.
Granted ideally you'd want to slap as many of these ideas together to increase your odds of success.
@@pineappleudh6561I can see someone thinking "oh this is poison, I can use it on my enemies" and then dying shortly after. Then the next guy comes along and puts the pieces together. "Oh, this is a potent poison! I can use it on my enemies!" He dies shortly after. Eventually someone stumbles upon a pile of corpses, and thinks, "Gee, whatever is in here must be valuable! Damn, just poison." Then he dies shortly after.
@@pineappleudh6561 that didn’t solve anything. Read if backward and they can think it’s a potent potion that revives the dead through exposure
@Joker-em6oz
That's why I specified the images having the container opened and closed, the order doesn't matter the intended message is just "container open = death, container closed = fine" To try and circumvent the order issue.
"But I could see how that could go poorly."
Meanwhile in another alternate timeline: "May we all bask in Atom's warm glow!"
We are the children of the atom
😂
Love it !
Imagine being born and your only purpose is to say “hey don’t open that box”
better than having no purpose at all
more meaningful than 90% of human life around
A new Pandora... 🤔
I'm already born but compared to my job I'd take that right
You mean I get to have an easy life?
Hell ya.
Okay the last guy’s idea sounds like he just wanted to start a cult
Atomic Priesthood sounds like a Fallout cult and I'm here for it.
Either that, or some 40k Shenanigans.
It literally is, it’s called the children of atom
Fun fact the brotherhood of steel is based on a book known as a canticle for lebowitz
I think they end up becoming Islam and Christianity like cult just imagine if it actually work .
Fat man to the face while wearing power armor, very fun
Bro really said “a cults always a good option”
Why do all the sheep say "bro" in every video?
@@levigivens We all can't be as unique as you.
@@levigivens “sheep” to describe something perfectly harmless. you’re just like everyone else
The two people above me missed out on the joke, which is that the guy talking about sheep is part of a cult and thus enlightened.
Unless he is fr in which case uh oh
Church of the Children of Atom
Yeah the hostile architecture thing definitely got me in fallout 76. My ass went right to that waste disposal sight after I saw the "Cool fucking land spikes".
"Yea, your suffering shall exist no longer; it shall be washed away in Atom's Glow, burned from you in the fire of his brilliance." Confessor Cromwell
It evokes the primal "Bro No" response
Why not just send all the plutonium waste to sun, so it will all just burn..
@@Niilo2.2ah yes just shooting out plutonium into space …
@@Niilo2.2one failed launch and we’re in some deeeeep shit
@@AleksandrMitiuninthis
@@RealKingCrabgonII No, not space. I said the sun. Wouldn't it all just burn, since sun is so hot?
Fallout 76 actually has several dumping locations and one of them does use hostile architecture with the massive spikes coming out of the ground
To me that just a sign there's something cool in there. I'm willing to bet there actually is as well. Though I hate 76 and refuse to play it, being a man of exquisite and rich tastes I prefer New Vegas, so I have no idea.
@@RoosterFloyd it’s got some implications around it if I remember regarding the cryptids and such. With like government agents and stuff having been through there and logging on the computer
@@alyxg2764 Like investigations surrounding the odder "supernatural" life forms you see with wild wasteland or as cannon Easter Eggs/dlc? Or is cryptids the name of some kind of new enemy mob in 76?
@@RoosterFloyd so there’s cryptids in fallout 76 each with their own explanation and mostly all based on real legends. Flatwoods monster is just a zetan,snallygaster is an FEV reject,etc. The lore of the location if I remember is tied to an agent sent to Appalachia to investigate these weird anomalous creatures and events. There’s a whole conspiracy thing where another agent doing the same was murdered so the one we follow left Appalachia but promised his return
@@RoosterFloyd I've played all the fallouts from 1-4 (including New Vegas) but didnt bother with 76. I dont play multiple player games anymore, New vegas was good, but there is not the same kind of replayability that I found in 4.
I wouldn’t mind being in the atomic priesthood, that sounds badass
The Children of Atom.
I’m glad I’m not the only one
You are in one right now not even knowing
That should definitely be a thing I hope some dude like Alfred Nobel leaves behind their money to fund a Brotherhood of the Atomicform Shield for guarding future generations
Especially if made immortal
In 10,000 years if they don’t recognize what the symbol for nuclear waste is, how the hell would they have even the slight clue what a pirate was.
It’s just an example fool
The point is that symbols can have different meanings in different culture. If we see a skeleton face and think of pirates, a future civilization could have their own non-death meaning for it
Huge pirate comeback in the 40th century
@@easyidle123but don’t you think they’ll be living with advanced technology? That’s they’ll be able to get information instantly? 🤷🏿♀️
@@ezra6454 not necessarily
“Clearly we must start a religion based of atomic waste” -that one guy in the board meeting
sounds neat, I'm in.
Clearly
I'm in
Bathe in Atoms glow! \o/
"Atomic priestood" goes HARD
It actually happened in Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, give it a watch if you're interested in Atomic Cults.
The fallout series has its own version, The children of Atom
Kinda reminds of "Knights of the Atomic Round Table" from Marvel comics.
Both names go Hard
What do you mean?
Sounds like a Metal group!
Humanity brought "shitting all over the place" to a whole new level.
You could make a sign with an open box with "stink" waves to all directions and a dead human and a dead animal (and maybe a dead insect on it's back) beside it (with crosses for eyes and stuff). They would probably assume that it's deadly, and if they somehow decide that it's something soporific, narcotic or anything else - other people will learn from their mistake
i was at a jobsite that had shipping containers full of lithium batteries. they had a logo of a barren land with a dead tree and dead fish. enviromental hazard. pretty obvious.
@@5crassrockerYeah the environmental hazard symbol is the most obvious of them all. Can't go wrong with it unless it's so far ahead in time that no fish is left in the sea because of pollution, but even then, I highly doubt they wouldn't get the meaning of a normal ass sign in year 5000 lol
Maybe they'll assume the treasure hidden behind the sign requires human sacrifice or something though
@@peterstangl8295well that would kinda be correct, if the treasure was the nuclear waste lol
They did not store this radioactive waste. i've read that the Americans found out about Soviet's plan to turn these nuclear waste into dust. Then these radioactive dust will be spread using planes flying over a city to make it radioactive for thousands of years. It was the soviet secret plane if a nuclear war started and all their nuclear weapon ran out, they will use this improvised weapons. so both side lies about hiding this waste underground and keep it in secret.
No matter how much effort they put into telling the future generations not to open that thing,curiousity will always kill the cat,especially when the person who found it is an archeologist
You can just write "toxic, do not open" in red. If they speak another language they could google the meaning
@@ytr5153Honestly, considering how long Latin has lived for, that probably makes the most sense.
But sadly, if they knew the meaning, they will weaponise it.
@@ytr5153 man really overlooked the entire video
To be fair the dangers of these boxes are also highly over-stated.
Just opening the box would hardly kill you. Itll give you a decent dose of radiation, but unless you have prolonged exposure to it you'd probably be fine in the long term. Even with reasonable exposure its not like youd instantly die either.
Its dangerous yea, but its not like its insanely dangerous and instant death or anything. Just put a few symbols on it that show its dangerous, maybe some text, and if somehow in 10K+ years people dont know what that means, or have lost the technological ability to determine what is inside it, then thats just the unfortunate reality.
But that also all completely depends on like, society destroying itself in the next like 10K+ years to the point that people no longer understand what radiation is and cannot determine that the contents of the box are radioactive with the technology for that time. If human society doesnt collapse in the next 10K years, then its hardly an issue to begin with. Even if they dont speak the language or understand the symbols, they can just measure what is inside the box with equipment and realize its radioactive.
We can kill their curiousity by just simply showing what happens like displaying imagines that progressively show what radiation exposure does to a human being.
The atomic priesthood would play dubstep during worship
Except instead of dropping the bass they drop a pipe-organ
@@beastwarsFTW Do i smell a high ranking tech priest here?
Hello my fellow high ranking tech priests
@@VolkerAlmighty May the Omnissiah bless you this night :)
..they did the Atomic Priesthood thing.."Beneath the Planet of the Apes" ....🕳⚛️ ⇠🦍❓🏢🏬
The only place that comes to mind that we have knowledge of but refuse to actually enter would be emperor Qing’s tomb. The actual reasons for why the main burial chamber hasn’t been excavated are complicated but in part it involves the myths, maps and contemporary ground surveys which suggest the place is riddled with traps and mercury.
The best way to keep people away from something is probably going to be the age old technique of hiding it really well.. think Tutankhamun’s tomb..
"ITS NOT A CULT MOM ITS AN ATOMIC PRIESTHOOD"
I can't believe It I'm funny
kek
kekek
MOM GET A JOURNAL, IM GOING TO START A RELIGON!!
Shadilay
Fallout4 children of the atom
Just have someone write a warning near it every 100 years. Not only will it stay linguistically up to date, it will leave a history on how the language changed over time
1820: Here lies unrecognizable waste with unknown purpose, do not tread on this ground
1920: I say good man keep the whippersnappers away from this box unless you want another Great War!
2020: This shit a little too lit fam, stay out unless you want your bones to be lit (that’s bad).
@@tOSdudelmao
I believe that was actually one of the proposed methods of designating nuclear waste. Just put tons of signage up periodically, and hopefully, at least some of them would still be recognizable. Also, they’d use as many languages as possible. It wasn’t an elegant solution,but it’d probably work decently.
The funny part about this solution is, people would eventually start seeking them out as possible Rosetta stones for lost language drawing people closer to the dangers and peaking curiosity. @@KingOfDarkBunnies
@@KingOfDarkBunnies
The magic of doing periodic maintenance and having redundancy plans… truly amazing.
Just write, "Do not open. You'll die." in several different languages. Let them figure it on their own. First guy to go will definetly be the proper communication.
Egyptian's did the same thing with their pyramids, didn't help, didn't stop it.
@@geofff.3343did the Egyptians have radioactive waste
Like the egyptians did with the pyramids?
@@ALFA-sm2nm probably.
@@geofff.3343well i feel like our civilization is advanced enough to maintain the languages that we use for really long time
"let us bask in the glow of atom"
Bro really played Fallout, saw the Church of the Children of Atom, and had been waiting for any reason to propose the idea.
A Canticle For Leibowitz outdates that by decades
Isaac asimov's foundation series has something like that in the first books, not exactly same but pretty similar (first books published in late 1940s-early 1950s)
I was about to say this haha
Lmao