In Kesennuma , Japan , there are gigantic slabs of endocarp , erected century ago , that admonish of environmental catastrophe .
“ eminent dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,“one read . " Remember the calamity of the great tsunami . Do not establish any homes below this dot . ”
Some of the Tsunami pit were placed there over 600 class ago , to warn anybody who came across them not to build home beyond them . Others were placed more recently , like the one observe above that was put up in 1933 . Built after several major tsunamis across the 100 , the tablets use several unlike methods of conveying their message . Some list decease tolls , others simply tell all who see it to leave out everything and get up luxuriously after an earthquake .
By design , they are suppose to last through the hundred .
“ The tsunami stones are warning across generation , telling descendant to avert the same woe of their antecedent , ” specialist in the story of rude catastrophe Itoko Kitaharatold the New York Times .
The stones have often been adhere to , and have save many lives from subsequent tsunamis . However , they highlight an interesting job which we still have n’t come up with a solution for : how do you transmit danger to your descendent C or even thousands of years in the future ?
In the early eighties , the Human Interference Task Forceattempted to come up with solutions , quick for a nuclear wastefulness computer storage facility that was suggest to be built near Las Vegas . They decide that any message leave alone as a warning to future man needed to convey three things : That it was even a subject matter , that dangerous material is stored in the localisation , and then the hard part – selective information about the types of dangerous center store in the adeptness .
A number of solutions were proposed , with vary degrees of wackiness .
TheAtomic Priesthoodis clear one of the coolest , as it sounds like something that would be in Fallout long before Fallout even existed . Proposed by linguist Thomas Sebeok , the musical theme was that an " nuclear priesthood " would be constitute by a council , who would then replace themselves as they grow old and retire and/or die . The priesthood – actually comprised of experts rather than the spiritual common people – would be responsible for passing on knowledge down the generation , partly through " by artificial means created and nurtured ritual - and - caption , which would be a " false trail " for the uninitiated , who would be steered away from the hazardous site for intellect other than the scientific knowl[e]dge . " This would be used to ward off people confab the sites , without turn over away what they contain , should any villainous thespian come up across it .
They would create an annual ritual , and the legend of what lie in these location would be reiterate , ward people off . In the meantime , as a backup , they would update any messages at the interment site every three generations or so , to ensure that it could be understood .
A more simplified version of this from Vilmos Voigt ( unhappily lacking priests ) propose that translation of signs near the site be updated every now and then .
Perhaps the strange of root ( and that ’s saying something , given that a previous paragraph involved atomic priests ) was proposed by author Françoise Bastide and semiotician Paolo Fabbri . They believed that the most sensitive form of military action was to breed " radiation cats " , that would vary colour when they came near radioactive material .
That was the leisurely bit . Like with the priesthood , the plan would be to install cultural legends and myths around cats that change colour
The myth and fairy tale ( why not ) would then be transcend on through poetry , paintings , and music . So hopefully when someone years from now came across a radiate qat , they would know to run like hell . Which , to be fair , you would probably do today as well .
Others have later hint using the landscape painting to deter people from enter the situation , scenery that is " non - born , ill and repulsive " and bring danger to anybody who sees it . As they get closer , the architect who proposed this suggested , there would be sculpture of human faces contorted into horror .
Less flakey ideas involved making certain that people could only get at the site using high - technical school solution , making it unlikely that people would stumble across it , figuring that anybody adequate to of getting in would have the equipment necessary to detect actinotherapy as well .
More recently , solutions have strayed quite far the other way , seeking to keep future societies integrate with the deftness in monastic order to keep the noesis alive .
“ You do n’t have to endeavor to scare people off by looking jeopardize and symbolising danger , " James Pearson , who make for on the Preservation of Records , Knowledge and Memory Across Generationsinitiative told the BBC . " You need attempt to inform people of what ’s there , so they can then make an informed determination for themselves . ”
