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A problem of semantics: Designing symbols for aliens
I Saw the Sign'How do you tell someone centuries from now not to dig up radioactive waste from a burial site that may be long-forgotten, or from a place that's attractive to the curious? A thousand years from now, will the United States still exist? Will an earthquake or volcano have wrecked the burial site? Will the people understand English? Who will show up at an ancient, possibly forgotten burial mound in the year 3000 A.D. -- Mad Max, or the Jetsons, or someone we can't even imagine?'
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I got this book out from the library some time ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Massive-Ch…In it was an illustration of what you'd make a place look like if you wanted to warn future visitors to the site to not mess with it. It looked like a cross between a hedgehog in defense mode and Superman's secret home-theatre cave made of ice shards. Just imagine giant spikes all over the place.
So I guess the answer is: make it look uninviting. Note: making it look like suburbia will not suffice.