Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id RAA00763 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 27 May 2002 17:01:01 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 11:54:51 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F281P0zGbkiNX0q2hgR0000b107@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2002 15:54:52.0022 (UTC) FILETIME=[D668C960:01C20596] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever
>Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:52:53 +0100
>
>Sounds a lot like every other Star Trek episode.
>
>One Voyager episode springs to mind where the memory of a war atroicity is
>transmitted to passing ships and people on board have the atrocity
>implanted
>in their brains as though they committed it- so no-one ever forgets the
>horror of it.
>
>Putting up massive earthworks and the like, as on Star Trek, may just make
>future generations more curious to see what's been hidden.
>
>How about a motion sensitive guided missle system, a la magrathea?
>
>Certainly, it's an interesting dilemma, but at the end of the day we can't
>stop future generations, any more than the ancient egyptians could by
>putting curses on their tombs.
>
Keeping with the theme of Ray's post about the archaeological find of chimp
tool usage, there's the possibilities from the *original* _Planet of the
Apes_ movies, specifically _Beneath the Planet of the Apes_. With Yucca
Mountain we may eventually see our own version of the Forbidden Zone. Now if
only there might eventually arrive mutants on the scene who worship the
nuclear waste.
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