does halliburton have a spinning blade/invisible bridge division?
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posted by tom / May 07, 2006 / 
This is kind of fascinating. How do you design a warning sign for a nuclear waste repository that will remain dangerous for ten thousand years? How can you make that warning remain comprehensible and credible for twice as long as human civilization has existed?
Apparently you start by commissioning a government study that considers hazards like psychotic mining robots and an Amazonian anti-male dystopia. Then you pour a lot of concrete.
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blogger mind-meld! we were just talking about this article last night. I've become slightly obsessed with the idea of robots mining the wrong things.
All we can guess about the future inhabitants of the area near WIPP is that they are human — unless they are cyborgs
Those cyborgs always screw up even the best-laid plans.
UCLA hosted an exhibit for a design contest for the Yucca Mountain marker, here's my friend Andrew's article about it.
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