"Hmph! I wonder what these folks were hidin'?"
Once again, I have to tip my hat to Harry Shearer's le Show. He's always bringing the info I'd end up missing otherwise.
This week, I really had to laugh at the story of New Mexico's WIPP Nuclear Waste Storage Site sign. It seems that since they're burying radioactive stuff that needs to stay where it is without disturbance for 10,000 years, they were wondering how should they go about labeling the site so future morons don't break out the shovels and start digging. How could you possibly get people to keep their grubby hands off your glowing garbage many millenia from now? Well, they formed a committee (first mistake), and here's what they finally came up with:
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
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 week, I really had to laugh at the story of New Mexico's WIPP Nuclear Waste Storage Site sign. It seems that since they're burying radioactive stuff that needs to stay where it is without disturbance for 10,000 years, they were wondering how should they go about labeling the site so future morons don't break out the shovels and start digging. How could you possibly get people to keep their grubby hands off your glowing garbage many millenia from now? Well, they formed a committee (first mistake), and here's what they finally came up with:
This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
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.