• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Any civilization advanced enough to dig deep enough will quickly understand that the material is dangerous.

    Well look, there’s only really one civilisation we can look at to see if this is true, and that’s our current civilisation. It turns out, though, that this civilisation learned to dig through clay and boulders to any depth a few centuries before it understood what radioactive nuclei do to the human body. It’s fair to say a new civilisation would probably learn quickly why all of the people mining near the glowing rocks were dying in pain, but progress in that area would probably be measurable in agonising deaths, which is presumably what people are happy to spend money on these signs to avoid.

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      71 month ago

      Having the same sample of one civilization, it has never been particularly deterred by threats of evil and curses on those who enter. If anything, that only increases its curiosity.

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        41 month ago

        "The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. "

        Energy … Can we mine that?