That’s the thing with the radioactive waste and it being still dangerous for many thousands of years… We humans manage to ruin the planet within a fraction of that time already. How could we ever manage anything correctly, let alone something that requires attention for tens of thousands of years. It’s like the ultimate technical debt. A burden we can’t handle, among many other problems we also can’t handle. Collectively speaking.
We can’t even truly expect to communicate the dangers of these sites to our future beings.
It will be Alien/Event-Horizon/Shamma-lamma-ding-dong:“calls from inside!”
Having immediately plundered or dwelled, many many years later linguists Rosetta stone it… and probably no one accepts their findings, cause “the curse” has already been explained by “SCIENCE!” Phlogiston flow or whatnot, or political leadership will be like “Since I dont care bout future, why would anyone back then? Clearly an MohenguDarek double bluff! Send more people in, its probably secret of eternal life!”
Engineering-wise we could manage, but no-one would be willing to spend more than anything considered ‘good enough’.
It’s like the old roman concrete question - it’s not that we’re worse at making concrete today, quite the opposite, but that we’re working with maximum cost to value ratio.
That’s the thing with the radioactive waste and it being still dangerous for many thousands of years… We humans manage to ruin the planet within a fraction of that time already. How could we ever manage anything correctly, let alone something that requires attention for tens of thousands of years. It’s like the ultimate technical debt. A burden we can’t handle, among many other problems we also can’t handle. Collectively speaking.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning-for-10000-years-time
We can’t even truly expect to communicate the dangers of these sites to our future beings.
It will be Alien/Event-Horizon/Shamma-lamma-ding-dong:“calls from inside!”
Having immediately plundered or dwelled, many many years later linguists Rosetta stone it… and probably no one accepts their findings, cause “the curse” has already been explained by “SCIENCE!” Phlogiston flow or whatnot, or political leadership will be like “Since I dont care bout future, why would anyone back then? Clearly an MohenguDarek double bluff! Send more people in, its probably secret of eternal life!”
Engineering-wise we could manage, but no-one would be willing to spend more than anything considered ‘good enough’.
It’s like the old roman concrete question - it’s not that we’re worse at making concrete today, quite the opposite, but that we’re working with maximum cost to value ratio.
We germans do it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvSu2GOC_s
Humanity’s greatest fault it’s it’s lack of responsibility. Most of our issues trace back to that.