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Re: infotainment: LANGUAGE EXPERTS SPEAK TO THE FUTURE

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 1:13
Padraic Brown wrote:
> They'll probably think it's some damn temple or grave and dig it up.
Hmm, hadn't thought about them deliberately digging it up.
> Of course, there's also > the curious mumification process, which involves burying the decedant > in deep chambers surrounded by tons of radioactive materials. Must > have been some kind of religious superstition wherein the Ancients > thought that a dead person would come into some kind of afterlife if > nuked over a period of time.
Or quite probably, they won't know about radioactivity, and think that the pictographs were just to scare off superstitious people, like legends of curses on mummies. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor