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TIL about linguist Thomas Sebeok's 1984 proposal for a church of "atomic priesthood" who'll use "folkloristic devices" like rituals, legends, and superstitions to ensure people of the distant future stay away from nuclear waste sites even if the scientific reasons for it have been forgotten.
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