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I'm just gonna fill my tomb with nuclear waste so everyone that loots it dies a slow and horrible death
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Aug 17, 2020 03:56
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm just gonna fill my tomb with nuclear waste so everyone that loots it dies a slow and horrible death idea: defray the cost of nuclear waste dumps by selling the right to have your corpse and whatever burial goods you want dumped in there with the waste
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Aug 17, 2020 03:59
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Just have all your grave goods made of highly radioactive uranium ceramics.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:42
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Ah, the Marie Curie defense.
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Aug 17, 2020 05:21
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The Lone Badger posted:What if I put my tomb in a cometary orbit than only comes near earth every 300 years? If the tomb is bright enough, this'll probably cause more death than the radioactive coffin idea
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Aug 17, 2020 05:32
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm just gonna fill my tomb with nuclear waste so everyone that loots it dies a slow and horrible death Leukemia: a radioactive way of saying REMEMBER ME to future generations.
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Aug 17, 2020 05:32
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Herostratus.
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Aug 17, 2020 05:35
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So that's why my curse tablets never worked. BRB, need to buy some sheet lead and Vaseline.
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Aug 17, 2020 05:43
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You could have an incredibly small nuclear reactor powering a mechanism that mixes and releases a nerve agent, which would protect your tomb for thousands of years. Or, at least, it would kill the first people to break the seal on your tomb and not offer any protection against the ones who came after.
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Aug 17, 2020 06:04
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:You could have an incredibly small nuclear reactor powering a mechanism that mixes and releases a nerve agent, which would protect your tomb for thousands of years. Or, at least, it would kill the first people to break the seal on your tomb and not offer any protection against the ones who came after. even if it doesn't protect your tomb in the long run, it should be good for your mystique when your tomb eventually gets plundered for museum pieces, especially if you carve some vague warnings about curses into the walls
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Aug 17, 2020 06:06
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just fill it with phenazepam, if everyone who enters the tomb loses all sense of fear, blacks out for a week, and wakes up with no memory of what they did after ruining their life, people will believe your tomb is cursed as poo poo.
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Aug 17, 2020 06:14
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:even if it doesn't protect your tomb in the long run, it should be good for your mystique when your tomb eventually gets plundered for museum pieces, especially if you carve some vague warnings about curses into the walls "May all people who defile my tomb eventually suffer hair loss, decreased sexual function, loss of bowel control, reduced mental acuity, and a lack of audience for their repetitive stories"
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Aug 17, 2020 06:15
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Krazyface posted:If the tomb is bright enough, this'll probably cause more death than the radioactive coffin idea Oh you better believe its gonna be bright. Polished platinum everything. What's the point of having a badass tomb if nobody knows about it?
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Aug 17, 2020 06:15
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Marie Curie beat you to it by making her corpse so radioactive it's in a lead-lined coffin. Even her personal effects like papers or her cookbook require wearing protection before handling them.
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Aug 17, 2020 07:00
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Tunicate posted:just fill it with phenazepam, if everyone who enters the tomb loses all sense of fear, blacks out for a week, and wakes up with no memory of what they did after ruining their life, people will believe your tomb is cursed as poo poo. the curse of the grand piano
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Aug 17, 2020 07:29
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This plant seems to be Haoma / Soma, so maybe that's actually what is meant here, that people were stuffing drug plants up their rears.
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Aug 17, 2020 08:34
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Stringent posted:I reckon if Bill Gates built a tomb there'd be ppl who'd consider it a sacrosanct monument to capitalism and ppl who'd loot the hell out of it given a moment's opportunity. Wouldn't that be the same people? You can't worship capitalism by ignoring its core tenets, after all.  Kevin DuBrow posted:Marie Curie beat you to it by making her corpse so radioactive it's in a lead-lined coffin. Even her personal effects like papers or her cookbook require wearing protection before handling them. Radium has a half-life of 1600 years. That's some nasty surprise for whoever poor bastard archaeologist opens up this particular box of Pandora in the far future.
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Aug 17, 2020 08:39
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Better genetically engineer some bioluminescent cats to scare people off!
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Aug 17, 2020 10:14
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KiteAuraan posted:Seems they aren't all that needed to specialize. I know Post-Classic Mesoamerica had organized workshops that kept large areas supplied without the wheel, and the Hohokam of what is now Arizona and north Sonora had part time specialists who seem to be based in extended family households, supplying decorated ceramics to as many as 30,000 people in an area stretching from modern Phoenix and Lake Roosevelt, south to Tucson and Safford. While wheels certainly speed up production, they don't seem to have been experimented with and in most places the existing technology was more than capable, so why spend the time? You answered your own question.
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Aug 17, 2020 13:44
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Someone plotted the last 12k years of temperatures above/below the 20th century average. https://twitter.com/alxrdk/status/1295016785180270594
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Aug 17, 2020 13:51
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm just gonna fill my tomb with nuclear waste so everyone that loots it dies a slow and horrible death So you want to buried with your posts 
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Aug 17, 2020 14:29
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Mr. Nice! posted:Someone plotted the last 12k years of temperatures above/below the 20th century average. Obviously the spike on the right hand side is terrifying, but the slow curve before that is interesting. Warmest point is around the beginnings of the Bronze Age, right? Wonder if there's any particular correlation.
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Aug 17, 2020 15:25
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A big part of why they haven't excavated the tomb of emperor Qin is that they detected large amounts of mercury and that can gently caress up both the environment and the persons doing the excavating.
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Aug 17, 2020 15:49
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Libluini posted:Wouldn't that be the same people? You can't worship capitalism by ignoring its core tenets, after all. Marie Curie's tomb has already been opened (to move her body) and was surprisingly radiation-free. She did not die due to radium exposure. It was most likely due to the poorly shielded X-ray machines she was running at the front lines of WWI.
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Aug 17, 2020 15:58
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Alhazred posted:A big part of why they haven't excavated the tomb of emperor Qin is that they detected large amounts of mercury and that can gently caress up both the environment and the persons doing the excavating. IIRC he made like an entire model ocean out of mercury or something like that
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Aug 17, 2020 16:04
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only surviving example of a Roman scutum: recovered from the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Roman fortified town on the Persian border. Probably dates to the mid 3rd century, when the fort was destroyed by the Sassasinds under Shapur I. The shield was recovered from one of the defensive towers that had been undermined during the siege, presumably being buried when the sappers collapsed it (several bodies have been recovered as well). Squalid fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 16:12
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Tunicate posted:IIRC he made like an entire model ocean out of mercury or something like that He also took prodigious quantities of it as part of an immortality treatment.
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Aug 17, 2020 16:16
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:He also took prodigious quantities of it as part of an immortality treatment. If we haven't opened his tomb, he could be still alive and hanging out in there.
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Aug 17, 2020 16:19
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Throwing wheels come into the history of ceramics relatively late. There are lots of kinds of quasi wheels which were used all over, including lots of Greek pots which you might at a glance assume we're wheel thrown. Eg you put your pot into the bottom of another broken pot and coil build from there, rotating it as you work around. Something like a rough lazy Susan works as well. None of these would leave a significant archaeological record. A skilled potter using a technique like that can make something just as round and smooth as a wheel thrown pot, and produce volume almost as fast because it requires less leather-phase trimming to get the desired shape.
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Aug 17, 2020 16:30
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Mr. Nice! posted:Someone plotted the last 12k years of temperatures above/below the 20th century average. F
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Aug 17, 2020 17:06
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:He also took prodigious quantities of it as part of an immortality treatment. A truly stunning number of Chinese emperors killed themselves with mercury and arsenic based immortality potions. It's the funniest running gag in Chinese history.
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Aug 17, 2020 17:37
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sebzilla posted:Obviously the spike on the right hand side is terrifying, but the slow curve before that is interesting. That looks to be a little before the "3500ish bce" mark but the first peak of that warm period is easily 2000 years long so maybe the bronze age's administrative/technological changes to agriculture were a response to 100 generations worth of people slowly concentrating towards pockets of arable land. That's a lot to infer from a graph not to mention a really spotty historical record at the time - writing, where it was established, was still a "these are my commands to you, behold the conquests and accomplishments of my reign" thing and not a "we harvested 5000 fewer bushels of wheat this year, this river didn't flood" kind of thing.
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Aug 17, 2020 18:16
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Grand Fromage posted:A truly stunning number of Chinese emperors killed themselves with mercury and arsenic based immortality potions. It's the funniest running gag in Chinese history. I’m reminded of the bit in one of the Master Li books, where they make an "immortality potion" that they then test on an elephant. gently caress, I just found out that Barry Hughart died a year ago.
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Aug 17, 2020 18:17
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Alhazred posted:A big part of why they haven't excavated the tomb of emperor Qin is that they detected large amounts of mercury and that can gently caress up both the environment and the persons doing the excavating.  This is China you're discussing.
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Aug 17, 2020 23:28
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Squalid posted:only surviving example of a Roman scutum: That's a pretty decorative shield for something found in an active military site.
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Aug 17, 2020 23:44
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Nothingtoseehere posted:That's a pretty decorative shield for something found in an active military site. Maybe it was the Roman equivalent of a blinged-up gun covered in tacticlol accessories.
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Aug 17, 2020 23:47
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Nothingtoseehere posted:That's a pretty decorative shield for something found in an active military site. maybe it was ceremonial
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Aug 17, 2020 23:58
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something something ritual or religious purposes
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Aug 18, 2020 00:19
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There's a fun book called The Royal Art of Poisoning that looks at a bunch of purported assassinations by poison. About 0.5% of them are plausibly actual poisonings, and for the rest it's just like, "drank a daily mercury tonic. Drank a daily arsenic tonic. Drank a daily mercury/arsenic blend."
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Aug 18, 2020 00:30
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Nothingtoseehere posted:That's a pretty decorative shield for something found in an active military site. There’s quite a lot of paintings in Dura Europos, including a synagogue and a very early churchhouse both with interesting murals. So there was definitely a few guys in town who were already seemingly painting poo poo for a living. Might as well ask him if he can do up your company’s shields sometime. Distinctive decoration helps to let you know who’s in your unit. It also helps you feel cool.
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