Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia¶
Sebeok, T. A. (1984). Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia.
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- The deep-time frame became operationally urgent in the 20 century when humans generated radioactive wastes with half-lives (plutonium-239, 24,000 years; technetium-99, 210,000 years) that exceed all existing institutional, linguistic, and political timescales—a problem Sebeok (1984), in Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia, formalized for the U.S. Department of Energy by analyzing how warning messages could survive across spans longer than any continuously legible written tradition.
This sourceTechnical Report BMI/ONWI-532, Battelle Memorial Institute / Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, for the U.S. Department of Energy. Analyzes how warning messages about radioactive waste could survive across 10,000-year horizons; proposed an 'atomic priesthood' and multi-redundant communication.
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Sebeok's DOE report frames warning messages for a 10,000-year waste-repository horizon, but the claim's half-life figures and timescale comparison are not in it.
“The Department of Energy created the Human Interference Task Force (HITF) in 1980 to investigate the problems connected with the postclosure, final marking of a filled nuclear waste repository. The task of the HITF is to devise a method of warning future generations not to mine or drill at that site unless they are aware of the consequences of their actions. Since the likelihood of human interference should be …”
- The deep-time frame became operationally urgent in the 20 century when humans generated radioactive wastes with half-lives (plutonium-239, 24,000 years; technetium-99, 210,000 years) that exceed all existing institutional, linguistic, and political timescales—a problem Sebeok (1984), in Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia, formalized for the U.S. Department of Energy by analyzing how warning messages could survive across spans longer than any continuously legible written tradition.
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