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37: Loving Toxicity, Future Warnings, and Better Burials

Let's Learn Everything!

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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

In the early 1990s, Sandia National Laboratories charged a team of experts to come up with a 10,000 year marking system or warning message. So no digging, no land husbandry, no living there, no visiting. How do we make this clear to people 10,000 years in the future? Who do you think would be the best people to do this? Psychologist. People understand what humans would want. Tombstone says, I can has afterlife on it. Oh my God.

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