Holy shit it sounds like something out of Indiana Jones or something. I think no matter what they do, someone will try and get inside. But damn if that isn't an amazingly creative way to keep most people out.
They fully expect interlopers to enter, but they made it unpleasant and difficult (for example, one part has a hole you have to climb through that's about two feet in diameter. Uncomfortable and creepy.)
They put a whole bunch of the specific bits of information on the Level III warning plaques, with the TC-99 and Plutonium-240, etc. diagrams there. Hopefully a sufficiently advanced culture will do what you said and just fuck off.
Urghhh, I know you're right, but honestly the idea of a non-advanced culture digging it up and thereby contaminating the earth and water around the burial site and getting sick is really repulsive. I'm honestly shocked that there was even a discussion about "acceptable" deaths, but, hey it's the government so that should have been expected tbh.
Okay, you just blew my mind with the elevator-is-not-broke-just-temporarily-stairs thing.
And I agree that you need to think of the worst-case scenario, but I should have clarified that some of them suggested horrible, intentional radiation poisoning as a first-course measure. Like, intentionally making the hot-cell really radioactive so that someone who wandered in would be poisoned. I think that's pretty cold.
edit: extreme failure mode is the now the name of my punk band thanks
Fuck me, I heard about this when it was in the early planning stages - all I knew was that they were going to make a building that worked on basic human psychology to appear unwelcoming/dangerous. The pictographs, mazes and tunnels are new to me!
Yeah, they're intentionally making it very asymmetrical, with jagged and rough flooring and walls built to make the vieweruneasy, and when you get close enough they're angled so they seem to be looming over you.
And to get into one of the informational cells, you have to crawl through a two-foot diameter hole in the wall that's going to be intentionally curved to make it feel like it's biological and getting smaller.
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Holy shit it sounds like something out of Indiana Jones or something. I think no matter what they do, someone will try and get inside. But damn if that isn't an amazingly creative way to keep most people out.
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Urghhh, I know you're right, but honestly the idea of a non-advanced culture digging it up and thereby contaminating the earth and water around the burial site and getting sick is really repulsive. I'm honestly shocked that there was even a discussion about "acceptable" deaths, but, hey it's the government so that should have been expected tbh.
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And I agree that you need to think of the worst-case scenario, but I should have clarified that some of them suggested horrible, intentional radiation poisoning as a first-course measure. Like, intentionally making the hot-cell really radioactive so that someone who wandered in would be poisoned. I think that's pretty cold.
edit: extreme failure mode is the now the name of my punk band thanks
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This is some hard-core sci-fi stuff, dude.
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And to get into one of the informational cells, you have to crawl through a two-foot diameter hole in the wall that's going to be intentionally curved to make it feel like it's biological and getting smaller.
It's super sci-fi! It's like, damn!
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