Ep. #199 - What If You Sent A Message 100,000 Years Into The Future?

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

There are more than 200,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste in the world today. It must be disposed of in a location that won't be disturbed for at least 100,000 years. Eric Mayson joins to discuss how to safely dispose of radioactive material, and more importantly, how to communicate with future generations about it.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's the What is podcast. I'm Spencer and that's Eric Mason.
0:06.3	Hello. What's going on, buddy? Oh, you know, just hanging in there.
0:11.2	I feel it. I know. Yeah, I'm good. How are you? I'm okay. I feel like every fucking Zoom meeting now has to start with some attempt at Small Talk
0:23.4	that just instantly fails because there's no interest from any party involved.
0:27.8	Yeah.
0:28.3	I don't know.
0:28.8	I'm fine.
0:30.0	Why are you asking?
0:31.9	What do you mean?
0:32.6	You try to suggest something?
0:34.7	I'm doing fine, okay.
0:37.4	Fucking look around, bud. Everything sucks. I have pants on. No. Just something? I'm doing fine, okay?
0:38.7	Fucking look around, bud.
0:39.5	Everything sucks.
0:40.3	I have pants on.
0:41.9	Nice.
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:48.7	I feel like we need a life update from you before we get to our topic today, though.
0:50.1	Yeah, well, I think.
0:53.8	What's going on with the airplanes and the school and the Mankato and stuff?
0:54.3	Yeah.
0:59.0	So I am now officially a licensed pilot, which is new.
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