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So I've got a bunch of work due tomorrow, or today, as it's currently 3 in the morning. This therefore is the obligatory, wasting time LJ post.
So I'm writing this paper for my environmental ethics class about nuclear waste containment. In summary it's a good thing cause you don't want this shit lying around just anywhere.
In New Mexico (my home) the US government has started the WIPP, Waste Isolation Pilot Project where they are storing the highest level of radioactive waste, categorized as Transuranic Waste. It's pretty friggen' hazardous for about 10,000 years. This waste, unlike other kinds of high level waste can potentially explode if water is trapped inside it, since it could hydrolyze water creating hydrogen-> creating boom. This place has been designed and located in such a way that the biggest risk to it not reaching that 10,000 year safety mark is future human drilling or excavation. So they're designing icons and markers to tell people in the future that there is some nasty shit buried here. They've got radio frequency markers, magnetic markers, and they plan to build giant friggen blocks 25ft tall of stone engraved with warnings in various languages and pictograms such as this:
Ok, so yeah, I'm a graphic designer, and my standards are pretty high. It's uglyness aside, Would this shit scare anyone away? Imagine you couldn't read any of the languages this is written in, but there are 40 of these giant stone markers arranged around a square permitter and they may seem to want to scare you away, with a person that may be burping or taking a nap. But what does it usually mean when someone is trying to shoo you away? It means some AWESOME shit is nearby and they don't want you to have it. Egyptian tombs warned of curses. Skulls and grimaced faces decorated mayan temples. They didn't want us all up on their shit, but we took it anyways.
Yeah, people in the future are fucked.
Ok, I should really get back to work...
So I'm writing this paper for my environmental ethics class about nuclear waste containment. In summary it's a good thing cause you don't want this shit lying around just anywhere.
In New Mexico (my home) the US government has started the WIPP, Waste Isolation Pilot Project where they are storing the highest level of radioactive waste, categorized as Transuranic Waste. It's pretty friggen' hazardous for about 10,000 years. This waste, unlike other kinds of high level waste can potentially explode if water is trapped inside it, since it could hydrolyze water creating hydrogen-> creating boom. This place has been designed and located in such a way that the biggest risk to it not reaching that 10,000 year safety mark is future human drilling or excavation. So they're designing icons and markers to tell people in the future that there is some nasty shit buried here. They've got radio frequency markers, magnetic markers, and they plan to build giant friggen blocks 25ft tall of stone engraved with warnings in various languages and pictograms such as this:
Ok, so yeah, I'm a graphic designer, and my standards are pretty high. It's uglyness aside, Would this shit scare anyone away? Imagine you couldn't read any of the languages this is written in, but there are 40 of these giant stone markers arranged around a square permitter and they may seem to want to scare you away, with a person that may be burping or taking a nap. But what does it usually mean when someone is trying to shoo you away? It means some AWESOME shit is nearby and they don't want you to have it. Egyptian tombs warned of curses. Skulls and grimaced faces decorated mayan temples. They didn't want us all up on their shit, but we took it anyways.
Yeah, people in the future are fucked.
Ok, I should really get back to work...