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"Julius Caesar" was the original long-term nuclear waste warning message.
Attachments:
- Marc Antony’s speech from "Julius Caesar", side by side with lines from the Sandia Labs long-term nuclear waste warning message report: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" = "This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!" "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." = "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here." "So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault," = "Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture." "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us." = "This message is a warning about danger." "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." = "The center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us." "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;" = "The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill." (remote)
