The most awesome Yuletide nom so far

In (e: 1993), Sandia Labs called in a team of experts to consult on (excerpt) how to mark (e: entire PDF) a nuclear waste dump so that the markings would still be meaningful 10,000 years hence. " The panel of experts was divided into two teams. This is the report of the A Team; a multidisciplinary group with an anthropologist (who is at home with different, but contemporary, cultures), an astronomer (who searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence), an archaeologist (who is at home with cultures that differ in both time and space from our own), an environmental designer (who studies how people perceive and react to a landscape and the buildings within them), a linguist (who studies how languages change with time), and a materials scientist (who knows the options available to us for implementing our marking system concepts)." I've known about this document for a few years, but using it as a springboard never occurred to me. I don't know if any of the options were ever implemented.

This place is not a place of honor.

No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

Nothing valued is here.

This place is a message and part of a system of messages.

Pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us.

We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.