Not a place of honor

Slate explores the proposed method of warning future civilizations about the dangers of nuclear waste repositories. Really fascinating stuff—how do we convince our descendants 10,000 years in the future that these sites don’t contain Tutankhamun-like treasures? The angle the assembled group of linguists, scientists and anthropologists have decided to go with? “[T]his place is not a place of honor … no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.”