Re:Ten Thousand Years
by Balgair on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:34PM
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or a weapon. Just think of what a Genghis or Cesar would have done with such a thing, especially if he had no idea of what the long term effects were. I think labeling the stuff is too dangerous as well, politicians can get their hands on the stuff. It's better to just bury it, as safely as possible, and then remove all outside traces of existence.
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>It's better to just bury it, as safely as possible, and then remove all outside traces of existence.
Seems quite rude to leave unmarked radioactive waste lying around where future people might stumble over it.
I side with curtis here[0]. If you burry this stuff deep enough in sealed containers, using best tech available, then (barring any massive geological changes) the only way for someone to stumble over it is if they have technological capabilities comparable to ours.
Yes and as a person in a culture with technology comparable to ours it seems like, miners for instance would be pretty ticked off if they were falling into old pits of unmarked radioactive waste all the time.
They would send a few expendable soldiers and later on observe the effects of radiation sickness.
Then they would try using the stuff as a weapon and discover you can't clean up after throwing it at the enemy.
A couple of cities would become uninhabitable and everyone will learn that when the sign says "do not touch", we actually mean it.