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You will die.
When you do, nothing will change.
Time will persist unflinchingly.
Plutonium, conversely, will conquer time itself as we know it.
Because when that nuclear matter finally stabilizes in 7 billion years, mankind will likely be extinct. http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
When you do, nothing will change.
Time will persist unflinchingly.
Plutonium, conversely, will conquer time itself as we know it.
Because when that nuclear matter finally stabilizes in 7 billion years, mankind will likely be extinct. http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
South Carolina currently houses about 12,000 kilograms of plutonium.
It’s left over from nuclear weapons we amassed during the Cold War, and it’s been here for nearly 20 years.
The process will take years, but it might be headed out. http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
It’s left over from nuclear weapons we amassed during the Cold War, and it’s been here for nearly 20 years.
The process will take years, but it might be headed out. http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
The government’s plan? Bury it.
Where? New Mexico, potentially, if the state will allow it.
If it does, the material will be entombed nearly half a mile below earth until, well, the end of time.
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Where? New Mexico, potentially, if the state will allow it.
If it does, the material will be entombed nearly half a mile below earth until, well, the end of time.
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Now, that’s a *big* if.
But no matter where the plutonium winds up, it’ll reside there for an eternity.
Which begs the question: How do you tell people thousands of years in the future to stay away? http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
But no matter where the plutonium winds up, it’ll reside there for an eternity.
Which begs the question: How do you tell people thousands of years in the future to stay away? http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
A special team in the 1990s devised several strategies to warn humans 10,000 years from now about it.
A couple ideas:
Foreboding messages
Ominous drawings
Literal spikes to keep people out
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A couple ideas:
Foreboding messages Ominous drawings Literal spikes to keep people outhttp://bit.ly/2s85yjG
It’s hard creating a message that will last twice as long as recorded human history.
So they picked several methods.
The current plan? Surrounding the burial site with granite slabs, engraved with warnings in 7 languages and images of faces in horror.
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So they picked several methods.
The current plan? Surrounding the burial site with granite slabs, engraved with warnings in 7 languages and images of faces in horror.
http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
Again, this all takes some time.
New Mexico doesn't know if it'll take the plutonium, and SC has sued the government repeatedly to keep from getting stuck with it indefinitely.
But what's a couple years when we're talking about millennia? http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
New Mexico doesn't know if it'll take the plutonium, and SC has sued the government repeatedly to keep from getting stuck with it indefinitely.
But what's a couple years when we're talking about millennia? http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
The debate will likely continue for a while.
But by the time the last remnants of the Cold War are gone, life on earth will have already been extinguished, lost to the dying, expanding sun.
Read the final chapter of #LethalLegacy from @thadmoore: http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
But by the time the last remnants of the Cold War are gone, life on earth will have already been extinguished, lost to the dying, expanding sun.
Read the final chapter of #LethalLegacy from @thadmoore: http://bit.ly/2s85yjG
