Symbols modify meaning over meter , so how do you set up a warning organization to monish people off of living near nuclear waste repositories for 10,000 years or more ?
A radio show on design , 99 % Invisible , tackle the problem , outlining the limitations and purport result . The whole history of ideas is fascinating , but one of the most surrealistic is to bioengineer inhabit Geiger counters , cats that change colours in the presence of radiation . Of course , this only work if you could also pass along intellect on why colour - changing kittens are a terrifying idea . The second half of the proposal is to publicizefolk songsand chronicle driving home the moral that if you ever see these computed axial tomography , lean out .
While citing the longevity of moral codes from religions as a successful deterrent example , to me the approximation evokes in the urban legend that Ring a Ring o ’ rose is a monition of plague signs . Although folk lore historiographer doubt the veracity of the legend , if it were genuine , it ’s a good argument that a mere two C is enough to dilute a monition to incomprehensible . And if it ’s not true , it speaks to our capacity to assay out import and symbol where none was intended , make another layer of complexness by needing to create a admonition organisation that does n’t admit unintended veil message .
It also brings up another problem : how do you keep the substance on - track that it ’s not the cats that are evil , but the environmental term that prompt the cats to change coloring material ? Otherwise , I can well figure a future reminiscent of Anne McCafferey ’s world Pern from the Dragonrider ’s series , where a warning to monitor the outspread ofprotective grubstransforms into an imperative to destruct the grub on sight . A future that demonise the very creatures we create to protect us seems far too plausible to me .
Even worse , given our long history of manipulating nurture , I can see future - human beings alter colour - transfer cats to oppose to other stimuli , change the warning of epical doom into furred , stylish pets kindred to humor rings .
So , what would you do to cross off a nuclear permissive waste adeptness for millennium into the future ?
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