#nuclearsemiotics — Public Fediverse posts

#NuclearSemiotics, or: How to communicate the potential threat of our hidden "radiant heritage" over vast chronological distances?

Thinking about an #archaeology of the #future: https://trowelandpen.com/2024/08/28/dont-dig-here-the-challenge-of-hiding-and-marking-our-nuclear-waste-long-term

#NuclearSemiotics, or: How to communicate the potential threat of our hidden "radiant heritage" over vast chronological distances? Thinking about an #archaeology 🏺 of the #future: trowelandpen.com/2024/08/28/d...

“Don’t dig here!” – The challe...

Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research with the goal of communicating nuclear waste warning messages well into the next 10,000 years. Attempts include written messages, physical markers, artificial satellites, and a song designed to be "so catchy and annoying that it might be handed down from generation to generation over a span of 10,000 years".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amn3kn0XPLQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

#language #linguistics #communication #music #NuclearSemiotics #NuclearWaste #TenThousandYears

"Sweden's plan to ensure future generations remember highly radioactive nuclear waste"

The design puts an additional burden on future generations: "The document therefore tasks future generations with updating the information and transferring it to new storage media if necessary"

#NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #NuclearSemiotics #Sweden @sts

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-sweden-future-generations-highly-radioactive.html

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Nuclear waste messaging:

How our ideas about sending messages to future generations about our nuclear waste reveal our own irrationality. Ideas taken from the book, *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha*

@nuclearhumanities @histodons @sts #nuclear #NuclearWaste #NuclearSemiotics #NuclearMessaging #Anthropocene

https://vimeo.com/663187398

Another, well … kind of, contribution to the #NuclearSemiotics debate. With #Cheetos. 🧐

But also: Sorry mate, this is not how #baffling™ archaeologists works. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.iflscience.com/tiktokker-buries-sarcophagus-filled-with-flamin-hot-cheetos-to-confuse-future-archaeologists-66105 by @[email protected] via @[email protected]