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Re:Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Pow... by D_Alex on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:57PM (#19925769)
"We cannot guarantee that any simple or complex message, even when recognized and correctly interpreted, will deter a human being from inappropriate action."

From https://prod-ng.sandia.gov/techlib-noauth/access-control.cgi...

See also https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of...

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Re:Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Pow... by mc32 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:07PM (#19925822)
Unless humanity reverts to a pre industrial state, future inhabitants should have tech to detect radioactive material —just as we can now. If we fall to a pre industrial state, it’s doubtful we’d be able to get to the buried waste material like Yucca mountain.
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Re:Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Pow... by toper-centage on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:00AM (#19936998)
Just add Geiger sensors to phones. If it goes beyond a certain level, you lose data connection. Then watch the people flock away.
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Re:Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Pow... by moviuro on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:36AM (#19927182)
> I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173

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Re:Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Pow... by aeneasmackenzie on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:13PM (#19934415)
The sign wasn't kidding. Leave any skeletons from people who thought it was in place and that will be warning enough.
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