{"id":296,"date":"2009-03-19T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/?p=296"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:06:10","slug":"10000-year-danger-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/colins-blog\/10000-year-danger-marker\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Year Danger Marker?"},"content":{"rendered":"[PICTURE danger.gif]\n<p>Here&#8217;s a real-world puzzle for students of precautionary cognition.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Energy&#8217;s &#8220;Waste Isolation Pilot Plan&#8221; is a program to store nuclear waste in an area that will remain toxic to humans for at least 10,000 years. The planners need to place markers that will discourage vandalism and reliably convey danger for 400 generations.<\/p>\n<p>The Edvard Munch aspect of the image above seems promising, but English text?<\/p>\n<p>They also considered planting immense spikes to inspire awe as well as aversion:<\/p>\n[PICTURE spikes-02.jpg]\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>To explore some of the options the planners have considered, see here [http:\/\/downlode.org\/Etext\/WIPP\/].<\/p>\n<p>What would you propose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[PICTURE danger.gif] Here&#8217;s a real-world puzzle for students of precautionary cognition. The US Department of Energy&#8217;s &#8220;Waste Isolation Pilot Plan&#8221; is a program to store nuclear waste in an area that will remain toxic to humans for at least 10,000 years. The planners need to place markers that will discourage vandalism and reliably convey danger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10,000 Year Danger Marker? - International Cognition and Culture Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/cognitionandculture.local\/blogs\/colins-blog\/10000-year-danger-marker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10,000 Year Danger Marker? - International Cognition and Culture Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[PICTURE danger.gif] Here&#8217;s a real-world puzzle for students of precautionary cognition. 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