ETUDÉS - MANECING EARTHWORKS

I once read a blogpost about the difficulty scientist have, with marking nuclear waste sites for the next 10.000 years. In the case that our civilization ceases exciting, and humanity (or whatever follows) forgets, where we put all our radioactive waste, we would still need to warn those future beings. Warn them, that the very place they enter will eventually kill them, without them even knowing. Scientists developed four easy steps, that are needed to convey that information to someone, that might not speak a language, that we know of today.

Step 1: there is something here, that was man-made. Or woman-made I guess. Looking at you Marie Curie.
Step 2: Something man-made is here, and it is dangerous.
Step 3: basic information, like the lovely W-questions. What When Where Who Why and the interloper HOW
Step 4 then goes into specific details about what radioactive radiation is. And let’s be honest that’s even too complicated for me, even though I do speak contemporary languages.

Some smart people also thought about building structures, that scare you away from this radioactive areas. The main problem is, that a structure that is designed to look dangerous and scare you away, will definitely look absolutely cool. Look at the last two slides for some of those designs.

In our film „MENACING EARTHWORKS“, which is named after one of these concepts, our protagonist walks through a highly radioactive desert WITHOUT any markings at all. He feels the heat of the radiation all around him, but he can just go forward, walking this deadly runway that is a fashion film.