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  • This is funny because it’s a symbol of bones, not actual bones. You know laser etched onto a platinum disc (or whatever other alloy that doesn’t degrade) along with other signals that death is what will happen to you if you dig there. Any civilizaiton capable of that kind of excavation will be capable of figuring out “This is a symbol conveying a message. The message is death, not marking a juicy graveyard”.

    And just like the other guy, I think your fear is more likely with these other ominiuos-but-doesn’t-tell-you-why markings (if the language is lost). They see all those random spikes and will think “holy shit this is the mother of all sites”.


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    If I know there was a message a more advanced civilization was trying to tell me, fucking yes that’s the logical conclusion.

    With other random symbols like spikes, who the fuck knows what they’re trying to say. Guess they were spike worshippers. How long have we been trying to figure out what the Easter island heads mean? Weird symbols don’t work. Something innately tired to death, like bones, works as a symbol and a message.


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    Atomic diagrams would be good for advanced societies, but societies in the bronze age or middle age advancment are the ones that we have to worry about. They won’t understand atomic phyiscs but they are capable of excavation. Any fancy symbols might just intrigue them.

    I think they underestimated the intelligence of possible future societies. Any society advanced enough to excavate this will be intelligent enough to ask “what does this symbol logically mean”. They won’t be limited to the ‘bad-vibes’ that the current ideas are heavy on (language aside).




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    I was thinking about this and their thinking was way too complicated. The symbol you need is bones. Bones are always associated with death and decay because after death, bones are the thing that’s left.

    And yes I know they thought of it but I think their dismissal of it is wrong. Their counter argument that it was once a symbol of something else by some culture, therefore. But again by its very nature it’s associated with death. Any society capable of this excavation is also capable of thinking “hmm what did they mean? outside of our own culture of course” and will quickly figure out it’s bad.