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I followed a link to the Sandia National Labs discussion of the matter.
Their approach seems archetectural in scale, not along the lines of
human-level symbols (if that makes sense). Here's one conclusion they
draw for marking a pilot project for Yucca Mtn - a pilot project that is
much smaller than Yucca Mtn:
If the WIPP is ever operational, the site may pose a greater hazard than
is officially ackowledged. Yet the problems involved in marking the site
to deter inadvertent intrusion for the next 10,000 years are enormous.
Even if knowledge exists that would allow translation of the message on
the markers, there might be little motivation to solicit such knowledge.
Pictorial messages, however, are unreliable and may even convey the
opposite of what is intended.
This panel member therefore recommends that the markers and the
structures associated with them be conceived along truly gargantuan
lines. To put their size into perspective, a simple berm, say 35-m wide
and 15-m high, surrounding the proposed land-withdrawal boundary, would
involve excavation, transport, and placement of around 12 million cubic
meters of earth. What is proposed, of course, is on a much greater scale
than that. By contrast, in the construction of the Panama Canal, 72.6
million cubic meters were excavated, and the Great Pyramid occupies 2.4
million cubic meters. In short, to ensure the probability of success,
the WIPP marker undertaking will have to be one of the greatest public
works ventures in history.
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Chris Despopoulos, maker of CudSpan Freeware...
Plugins to Enhance FrameMaker & FrameMaker+SGML http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/
cud -at- telecable -dot- es
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