tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post9166246898150848407..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Time Capsule OpenedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-85021439329212552512009-02-19T09:51:00.000+01:002009-02-19T09:51:00.000+01:00FWM, Thanks for sharing that personal brush with t...FWM, Thanks for sharing that personal brush with the time capsule. I find the whole business fascinating. It's neat to think that in 100 years a photograph of you would look like one of those turn-of-the-century pictures looks to us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-29225524832173346862009-02-19T03:56:00.000+01:002009-02-19T03:56:00.000+01:00Our local village celebrated their Centennial in 1...Our local village celebrated their Centennial in 1987 by burying a time capsule in the park with the idea that it could be opened during the town's bicentennial. I remember everyone donating items addressed to their future generations to find. Being a fairly young and arrogant punk at the time, I didn't contribute. The thought of one day having children then never even occurred to me. Someone did take my picture and photos of others and toss them in the vault. I don't know if Polaroids will really last one hundred years but maybe in the cold and dark they will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-79686071251568257262009-02-18T08:26:00.000+01:002009-02-18T08:26:00.000+01:00Great links, Nomen.Great links, Nomen.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-76849754008429835222009-02-17T14:00:00.000+01:002009-02-17T14:00:00.000+01:00i'm fascinated by "deep time" thinking such as cha...i'm fascinated by "deep time" thinking such as championed by <A HREF="http://www.longnow.org/" REL="nofollow">The Long Now Foundation</A>. i think thinking more long-term is necessary for us as a civilization and a species.<BR/><BR/>if i ever get the money to have a house of my own built (looking unlikely) i've made my mind up to massively overengineer the thing, build it to last a century of use, two centuries if i can work out how. right now i'm living in a structure that's showing serious wear and tear after only sixty-odd years, and that's just <I>shoddy.</I><BR/><BR/>one thing, though; building for centuries is doable, because human civilizations last that long and you can assume there'll be people around to care and maintain your thing on such time scales. building for <I>millennia</I> is a whole other ball of wax. we have very few things left that old, unless you count crumbling ruins, and building something so that it'll leave a nice ruin seems defeatist.<BR/><BR/>burying a hundred-year time capsule is doable, because your great-grandkids will be there to open it. burying a thousand-year time capsule... i'd recommend not publishing the fact that you buried it, because people will stop caring that you were their ancestor long before it comes time to open it. that means they'll smash it to bits the moment it becomes inconvenient to them, so bury it someplace nobody will care to build in in the meantime.<BR/><BR/>also, <A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2009/02/making_the_archaeological_reco.php" REL="nofollow">this archaeologist</A> seems to be talking about something like the same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com