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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.
Excerpts from Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human
Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Sandia National
Laboratories report SAND92-1382 / UC-721, p. F-49
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[Ozymandias for the 222nd century? ]
Full story on how people are trying to deploy warning "Don't come any
nearer, this is a bad and poisonous place" memes 10,000 years into the
future. fascinating
http://www.halcyon.com/blackbox/hw/wipp/wipp.html
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