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[Parisbre56]

I found the following. Strange that a warning written by real life humans can sound like something written in a science fiction book, something that could be around an alien anomaly in ER, told by the mouth of a possessed teammate:

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    This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

    What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

If movies are to be believed, nobody will heed/understand that warning until it's too late and bad things will happen.

if I ever get a powerful nyarstifact ill join the union.

if only to cultivate slaves policital meatshields economic cultists space technomages.

Don't you mean "if I ever get a Nyarstifact and I have no idea what it does, I'll give it to the union so they can do the dangerous testing for me"?

Oh, and by the way, what did you do with those healing bones? I bet they are meant to be used as replacements for your limbs. Four bones, four limbs. Probably meant as an enhancement for fleshies. Could try to sell them to somebody as either medical aid or enhancements. Or both. Maybe Lars, he's in the market for a lower body.

[Unholy_Pariah]

well I offered one of them up for sale to radio but he didnt bite. if someone else wants to buy it...

also is that warning from the japanese nuclear plant that melted down?
it has a very chernobyl-ish radiation vibe, but the "not a place of honor" part kinda makes me think its not from there.

[Parisbre56]

Some place they're dumping nuclear waste deep underground in the US. Said waste will be dangerous until 12 000 AD (or CE). It's from one of their design documents. They were trying to find a way to warn future humans/aliens/whatever not to dig there unless they know what they're doing.

[Unholy_Pariah]

well I got the radiation part right

still, 12000 AD... thats a longass time to shun a place.

then again well probably know how to fix it long before then.

[Ozarck]

well I got the radiation part right

still, 12000 AD... thats a longass time to shun a place.

then again well probably know how to fix it long before then.

We already know how to mitigate this: recycling spent nuclear material for reuse. I believe rance does this, but it is illegal in the US.

...

Uranium has a loooong half life.

[piecewise]

I found the following. Strange that a warning written by real life humans can sound like something written in a science fiction book, something that could be around an alien anomaly in ER, told by the mouth of a possessed teammate:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

    This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

    What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

If movies are to be believed, nobody will heed/understand that warning until it's too late and bad things will happen.

if I ever get a powerful nyarstifact ill join the union.

if only to cultivate slaves policital meatshields economic cultists space technomages.

Don't you mean "if I ever get a Nyarstifact and I have no idea what it does, I'll give it to the union so they can do the dangerous testing for me"?

Oh, and by the way, what did you do with those healing bones? I bet they are meant to be used as replacements for your limbs. Four bones, four limbs. Probably meant as an enhancement for fleshies. Could try to sell them to somebody as either medical aid or enhancements. Or both. Maybe Lars, he's in the market for a lower body.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm

[Nikitian]

It is very curious to see that document as basically a study in explicit ominousness, as perceived by humans. It certainly gives some useful points to would-be mystery/horror writers, painters and film-makers, for example. H.P. Lovecraft achieved a lot, but this is like the first step on realising and actually visualising his images (on a conscious level). All the more interesting that, usually, humanity has strived for beauty; occasionally beauty in ugliness, out of spite or as a form of enlightenment; but rarely (if ever) in active, specific, determined repulsiveness.

@M23 Don't you discard all virtuous-paragon-moral-compass-enabled doctors! Maurice came that way, you know. Sometimes all you need is a little faith in the greater good of your actions... and the ability to see the ends past the means employed. I know, I know, not all people can go that way, and even for some of those who can a little (or not so little) moral push might be required.
It might require of you some propaganda effort inside your little criminal operation, but in the end 'idealists' are slightly (or far, if proper propaganda/ethical working conditions are maintained) less prone to sell out than casual pragmatists, I think. It might be worth it in the long run.

[Twinwolf]

Panic.

...PW is totally going to roll for this.

[Empiricist]

Panic.

...PW is totally going to roll for this.

Of course he is. You even have to take willpower rolls to stop playing tetris.

[piecewise]

It is very curious to see that document as basically a study in explicit ominousness, as perceived by humans. It certainly gives some useful points to would-be mystery/horror writers, painters and film-makers, for example. H.P. Lovecraft achieved a lot, but this is like the first step on realising and actually visualising his images (on a conscious level). All the more interesting that, usually, humanity has strived for beauty; occasionally beauty in ugliness, out of spite or as a form of enlightenment; but rarely (if ever) in active, specific, determined repulsiveness.

@M23 Don't you discard all virtuous-paragon-moral-compass-enabled doctors! Maurice came that way, you know. Sometimes all you need is a little faith in the greater good of your actions... and the ability to see the ends past the means employed. I know, I know, not all people can go that way, and even for some of those who can a little (or not so little) moral push might be required.
It might require of you some propaganda effort inside your little criminal operation, but in the end 'idealists' are slightly (or far, if proper propaganda/ethical working conditions are maintained) less prone to sell out than casual pragmatists, I think. It might be worth it in the long run.

Of course if I saw a land of spikes and stuff I'd be interested as to what it meant and go explore it.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

It is very curious to see that document as basically a study in explicit ominousness, as perceived by humans. It certainly gives some useful points to would-be mystery/horror writers, painters and film-makers, for example. H.P. Lovecraft achieved a lot, but this is like the first step on realising and actually visualising his images (on a conscious level). All the more interesting that, usually, humanity has strived for beauty; occasionally beauty in ugliness, out of spite or as a form of enlightenment; but rarely (if ever) in active, specific, determined repulsiveness.

@M23 Don't you discard all virtuous-paragon-moral-compass-enabled doctors! Maurice came that way, you know. Sometimes all you need is a little faith in the greater good of your actions... and the ability to see the ends past the means employed. I know, I know, not all people can go that way, and even for some of those who can a little (or not so little) moral push might be required.
It might require of you some propaganda effort inside your little criminal operation, but in the end 'idealists' are slightly (or far, if proper propaganda/ethical working conditions are maintained) less prone to sell out than casual pragmatists, I think. It might be worth it in the long run.

Of course if I saw a land of spikes and stuff I'd be interested as to what it meant and go explore it.

But would you just start digging into the ground is the question.

[Urist McCoder]

yes i would to find out what the spikes are protecting

[Parisbre56]

Well, the document does propose the HMRC style of deterrence: Let a few people get in and die. That oughta scare them and make them run away.

Then again, that has the danger of eliciting the HMRC response: Keep going in and dying and then bomb the thing with excessive force, somehow making matters worse.

[Urist McCoder]

Yeah this is one of the few places where ER logic can be used in real life

[Parisbre56]

As long as they don't try to use their willpower to overpower the nukes. Or eat the nukes to gain their power. Or shoot the nukes. Or make their bullets out of nukes.
Or build a city around them, with crude power plants powered by the decaying material, basing their entire technology on something for which they have the barest understanding, Fallout style.