As a “prank”…
What items/writing/etc could you put in a 2012 time capsule to REEEALLY confuse future archaeologists?
Your very own Voynich manuscript.
Nice one! never heard of it before.
A video of Jersey Shore. That’s sure to confuse everyone in the future…
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Include a printout of the timecube website.
A broken phaser prop from Star Trek TOS, along with one or two pages from the Star Fleet Technical Manual.
The philosophy of Dr. Bronner(of Dr. Bronner’s Soap fame) set in a bronze plaque.
Hey, just what ya see, pal.
Frog skeleton with a tiny little top hat and cane.
A little large for a time capsule, but I’d put in one of the models for a flying car and some fake documents implying it was our everyday mode of transportation. Three hundred years later they’d dig it up and exclaim, “Where the hell’s OUR flying cars? They had them centuries ago! What happened???”
People, we’re just talking about light-hearted pranks here. We don’t want The Future to send the killer cyborgs back at us.
How about some “authentic” Klingon weaponry?
This is an excellent idea.
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Hello! ma ragtime galHeh. A car. Seriously, I just found out about this: In the late '50s, the good people of the city of Tulsa, OK, buried a Plymouthin their time capsule to be unearthed 50 years later. Of course, the people at the unearthing knew the car was there, so it wasn’t all that puzzling to find it, but there was a ton of buzz about what sort of condition it would be in, what a collector’s item it would be, and so on.
This story just totally fascinates me - both the optimism of those back in the '50s to bury a car, and the disappointment at the unveiling. But even a ruin unearthed, it’s still pretty awesome, and some of those photos are real art - a bygone era captured, as it were.
Holy crap that is awesome. Is it possible to fully waterproof something like that these days?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
One of that cans of peanut brittle with spring loaded snakes.
On the other end of the deal, if there is one being opened soon you could use simple sleight of hand and show how the video from the past (that you made last week) has all kinds of correct predictions.
For the OP though, just use photoshop to show all kinds of people (neighboors, celebrities, Obama, etc) wearing a style such as muscle shits or platform shoes.
I don’t believe I’m familiar with that. was it an event in the World’s Strongest Man competition?