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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] [S] 17 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    a proposed long-term nuclear waste warning message that could be understood 10,000 years in the future

    If I was some post-apocalypse caveman and I saw a glowing cat I'd assume it was a god and just live wherever it glows.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    You missed the part about the atomic preisthood and "inventing a body of folklore, passed on through proverbs and myths, to explain that people should flee when a cat changes color." Such as the cute little song

    Don't change color, kitty.
    Keep your color, kitty.
    Stay that pretty gray.
    Don't change color, kitty.
    Keep your color, kitty.
    Keep sickness away.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    that will not last 10,000 years

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    My black cat often licks the bottom of my bedroom door for reasons beyond my understanding

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    My door turns purple when it's about to eat a cat.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    What am I, some sort of pupae expert!?

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