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QuoteHow do you build a nuclear waste facility to last for 100,000 years, and what sign do you put on the door?
I don't think you'd want a "door" on a serious nuclear waste facility. Once you've put it in there you'd want to "permanently" seal it somehow.
Incidentally, the old TV show "Space: 1999" is based on the idea of using the moon for this purpose. They put all of Earth's nuclear waste in underground storage on the moon. An unexpected thermal reaction ensues, that doesn't generate any radiation, so no warning sensors are tripped. The whole thing goes KABLOOEY and the moon is blasted out of Earth's orbit. Mankind has only developed short range spacecraft, so now the moon is effectively the "mother ship" for the colonists as it travels around the galaxy. They always have to return to the moon, they can never stop anywhere unless they want to abandon the moon base permanently.
Space: 1999 and Star Wars are night and day different from each other. I would say Space: 1999 pays a lot of homage to "2001: A Space Odyssey." For instance, they use the same space suits, although they're not the only ones to do that since then. One thing I find interesting about the series, is each episode has a visual montage at the beginning of what's going to happen. I haven't really seen that format before. I wonder if other shows did that, if it was more common once upon a time.
There is a chance that there was ancient technology and we are not the first ones leaving nuclear waste behind, but of course we have not learned from our mistakes. Any sign put up might not be there already after 1,000 years, seeing of how nature around us changes…so there is just NO warning you can really leave behind except written knowledge passing down in books
What about the iridium layer in the Earth's crust, which appears to be a record of a planetary disaster? I think it is inaccurate to say that things cannot leave marks of long duration. We just may have trouble interpreting the marks.
It might be better to talk about the signs that ancient peoples left behind. Such as, ancient peoples whose worlds ended, and who predicted our present day "2012" fetish. Consider the oddly named 18-Rabbit: his achievements of monumental architecture, his beheading, the decline of his city, and of the Maya generally. Is "things are going to go away" really such a mystery within this cultural framework?
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