Ten Thousand Years (2014)
Courtesy of WIPP
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation’s only permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. Courtesy of Jon Lomberg
This WIPP site is going to be radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, though this panel was only responsible for keeping this place sufficiently marked for humans for the next 10,000 years—thinking beyond that timeframe was thought to be impossible. Calico Jack Rackham’s emblem
Nazi SS Death’s Head division emblem
Weathered Jolly Roger Kid’s Water Bottle
After that trial, the skull and crossbones permeated culture as a symbol of danger.
Source: 99percentinvisible.org