#though experiment

So when nuclear power first started being developed and nuclear waste became an evident problem. The US government decided that any waste site should have a warning to any future inhabitants not to disturb the nuclear waste. This is called Nuclear Semiotics And that this warning should be understandable into the far future. The number they arbitrarily set was 10,000 years. For context on just how long 10,000 years is, the earliest known written language is only 5000 years old. And the languages have changed many times since then.

Proposed solutions ranged from extreme hostile architecture like giant spikes, religion around genetically engineered glow cats, to simply burying it deep and hiding all trace relying on isolation and obscurity to protect it.

What they ended up going with was pretty much a multi layered signage system warning of the hazard, and burying it deep in a remote location.

Now back to the thought experiment.

In essence, it’s the nuclear semiotics problem, but turned up to hard mode.

Imagine you are an advanced civilization, you have a danger. A danger you are able to contain, but you can not destroy. It is long lasting but you know that there is a risk of its containment site being found by intelligent species who might try to disturb it. You can not assume this intelligent species will have any cultural, biological, or technological similarities to you. Let’s assume you can build structures and technology that is resilient enough to last eons of environmental damage. But they can be destroyed if someone is determined enough.

How do you communicate to all potential species that this site is dangerous and should not be disturbed?

My answer under the cut. So comment with your own ideas before reading mine.

We're gonna play a game.

This game is gonna help you learn something, transitioning or not, this is all just a hypothetical game.

Really, it's more of a quiz. It only has one (1) question!

Ready?

Let's say that there are two options to dealing with your current gender problems:

Take a pill that makes you keep your current body, but you no longer have the psychological issues that come with not being your desired sex.

Take a pill that changes your sex completely, new body, new everything. You are now the opposite or desired sex, but there is no real guarantee that it will cure any psychological problems.

You may choose either of these options. Both work flawlessly in this hypothetical situation. This may not seem like an important question, but it is. Think about it deeply. Which pill are you going to take?

Answer the question in your head before moving below this line.

Now for the internal analysis part. If you chose Option 1, then clearly it's all about feeling comfortable. You just wanna be happy. This is clearly about the pain which you suffer on a day to day basis. It makes sense.

Option 2 presents a dilemma. Why do you want to replace your body? If you could solve your sorrow, why wouldn't you? Are you truly dysphoric? Is it a problem of identity or image?

I currently live near the equator which means summer time extremely bright and the heat melts away every exposed part of the body which makes life a living hell so while driving to do my chore, an interesting idea popped on to my head.

I was thinking, what if we had a material in nature, or could make a material in lab that could generate electricity if one end of it is placed in dark while the other end exposed to sunlight. The different between the light intensity would generate electricity when the end receiving the light would excite its electrons generating a potential difference between the two end, much like how thermocouple functions - a device that generates electricity due to temperature differential (one end place under cold temperature while other end is heated).

Needless to say, I am not talking about Solar Cells which has the exact same functionality except that it doesn't generate electricity due to difference between light intensity but require a constant beam of light in order to excite the electrons in PV cells in order to generate electricity.

What makes this idea unique is the fact that sunlight and darkness are easy to find. As long as we have sun, we will be better off. If a material with this property exist than we could have our very own near perpetual motion machine, which has always existed on papers.

The application of such a material would be endless. Even if such a material generate milli-ampere of current than it would be enough to generate low power devices that are used to power watches, mobile phone's sensors or low powered cell phone charger.