have any of you participated in this? will you?
it’s an interesting time capsule project. the difference is, this one will orbit earth for 50,000 years before descending. the project artist is calling for letters from everyone on earth to be a part of the capsule.
Ok Let’s say it stays up there all this time. It falls, Bob Knows Where, and nobody knows about it. Or, it falls in the ocean (more likely than not) and is unrecoverable because it is too far down. I mean, what is the point? Besides, our modern language would be unreadable by the future people just as caveman-speak would be unintelligible by us. I think it is all a crock!
Thanks, and Good Night!
wow, that sounds like an interesting project. I hope they include some dictionaries of different languages and encyclopedias so they can see where we were in the ol’ progress timeline.
Personally, I’m not certain what I would write to someone 50k years in the future. I’ll probably be mulling this one over for a bit.
wow, that sounds like an interesting project. I hope they include some dictionaries of different languages and encyclopedias so they can see where we were in the ol’ progress timeline.
Personally, I’m not certain what I would write to someone 50k years in the future. I’ll probably be mulling this one over for a bit.
hey Wonko, why don’t you go to the site to see why you just don’t get it.
the main thing is: what if?
goof.
i expected more of a response.
pffft.
maybe someone could submit the guy stuff thread.
hmm… it’s probably too long.
Just checked this out yesterday. Looks pretty cool, if it can actually be implemented. Still thinking of what to submit.
[hijack]One of the regrets of my life is that I didn’t get to see the unveiling of the time capsule in my dad’s hometown. All my life, I used to play on the town green across from my grandma’s house. There was a stone tablet marking the place where a time capsule had been buried in 1937, and stating that it would be unearthed in July of 1987. Both those years seemed impossibly far away to me, but I looked forward avidly to the resurrection, when I would be 17. So the years chugged on…and in July of 1987, I couldn’t be there because I was at scholarship camp. Of course, my dad was there, but he “forgot” to take pictures, and as for his description…Let’s just say my dad could have been in the audience for the Gettysburg Address, and if asked, would have said, “The President went up to the podium…he’s looking really skinny lately. Anyway, he talked about the founding of America, and he’s against the war.”
So my point, assuming I have one, is that fifty thousand years is way too long for a capsule to have any relevance. My dad was too young to have contributed anything, but my grandmother and second cousins recognized stuff they put in. (I wonder what happened to it all, after it’d been gawked at?) You want the time span to be short enough so that the people who open it have some idea what they’re looking at.[/hijack]
sure, if you want to create something of little importance to people of the future.
let’s say we did make a capsule for the strange world of 2050. what would these historians and others learn from the contents of said capsule? zilch. in today’s world of record-everything-that-we-do-and-store-it-in-archives-of-some-sort, there is nothing that we could put in that capsule that would be of any real signifigance. it would be a mere novelty for antique dealers and dick clark. hell, i’ll probably be still alive by then.
as you can see, a capsule of 50 years and a capsule of 50 000 years can’t even be compared in signifigance.