Sunday Things - nuclear wasteland edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday March 19 2017
Prompted by no recent events whatsoever, here's a guide to nuclear wastelands of various types - and the apocalyptic events that might trigger them.

Bonus No Really This Isn't An ARG corner:
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2. Sunday of good things
Posted by Pace at 2:36PM, Sunday March 19 2017
That spike field looks familiar, the land beyond the portal in Minerva? Actually I seem to remember those spikes from 'Someplace Else' as well? (I deserve acolyte of the decade if I'm right).
That excerpt was great, they should convene committees of academics to do science fiction. Very Jack Vance-ish.
Bonus 'It's a small world' corner: Dieter Ast from Team A was on my PhD committee. Smart guy, and a bit scary.
I don't know what links those places.
..but I must know!
3. Re: Into Eternity, Sunday of good things
Posted by Cargo Cult at 10:23PM, Wednesday March 22 2017
D: I saw it a few years ago. Definitely tickled the 'deep time' part of my brain (see also: The Clock of the Long Now, etc.) - thinking in timescales beyond normal human comprehension.
Pace: I can't actually remember if Someplace Else was influenced by the proposed WIPP architecture, but it may not have been? I found the mention in NTK (which, blimey, has been gone completely for a decade) of the WIPP stuff which *may* be where I found it first, but it's from 2003. And Someplace Else is from 2002.
But that land beyond the portal in MINERVA? Most definitely! As with aspects deep underground in Portal 2...
The location puzzle? Born of insomnia and watching too much old telly on YouTube. I realised I could specifically locate a series of places from the vaguest of descriptions. Definitely original research. But of what?
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1. Into Eternity
Posted by D at 9:17AM, Sunday March 19 2017
If you've not yet seen it, you may be interested the documentary "Into Eternity".