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Ten Thousand Years

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The Raycat Solution

The panel that meant to figure out the markre system was actually not the first instance of thinkers being brought together to consider how to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste over time. There was one such meeting in 19 81 for the yucka mountain project, which was eventually scrapped. And even though it never suggested for whip, it's become the 99 p i inhouse favorite method of communicating with people ten thousand years in the future. Call it the raycat solution. When you see the cats turn color, run far, far awaydonsta la tn jani e a fa radt whatever that is somhe dont want wither.

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