• 100 years later, a time capsule is opened
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/io-w.jpg[/img] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/100-years-later-time-capsule-opened-185852550.html[/url] [quote]The First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City dug up and opened its Century Chest, a time capsule that was buried under the church 100 years ago. The chest was full of treasures. Among the finds: a newspaper from the day the capsule was buried (April 22, 1913); a dress; a telephone; a flag; a pen used by President William McKinley; a camera; and a pair of women's shoes that still had their shine. Perhaps most remarkable was a phonograph record featuring voices of citizens from the era.[/quote]
this is amazing
imagine timecapsules of today with terabytes of information on data storages buried deep within the ground to be discovered a hundred years from now with technology as alien as computers are to 1913's.
We didn't get to hear the voices :(
[QUOTE=lifehole;40408812]imagine timecapsules of today with terabytes of information on data storages buried deep within the ground to be discovered a hundred years from now with technology as alien as computers are to 1913's.[/QUOTE] "Finally, a step for the ancestral history of mankind! ...it's full of child porn. Also, what the fuck is a pewdipie"
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408870]The problem with that is its hard enough to interpret data on 30 year old hardware on modern computers, never mind a century old. Somehow I doubt anything will still use SATA or USB in 2113.[/QUOTE] The difference is, they'll probably be able to reconstruct a 21st century-era computer and look at the data that way. Who knows, they'll probably be able to 3D print one or something.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408944]with all the documentation about current computers available on the interwobble, I don't think it would be much of an issue.[/QUOTE] link rot is a massive problem [editline]24th April 2013[/editline] the people making this capsule didn't know that they were only a year away from witnessing a serbian nationalist set the world on fire
I really want to listen to that recording.
They should scan that record with [URL="http://irene.lbl.gov/"]IRENE[/URL] and upload the audio somewhere
I like how everything is wrapped in paper. Today, stuff would be in plastic and I don't know about the future.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408870]The problem with that is its hard enough to interpret data on 30 year old hardware on modern computers, never mind a century old. Somehow I doubt anything will still use SATA or USB in 2113.[/QUOTE] USB 3.0x10^6
I wish everyone put their stuff in a box before their death and dig it down under
Hey my church didnt get no news about its 100 year old time capsule.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;40409526]USB 3.0x10^6[/QUOTE] UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUSATRON 3000
There'd be more than hard drives, there'd also be physical items, such as dragon dildos.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408870]The problem with that is its hard enough to interpret data on 30 year old hardware on modern computers, never mind a century old. Somehow I doubt anything will still use SATA or USB in 2113.[/QUOTE] Then just bury the hardware to watch it with the data.
I would make a time capsule and fill it with official looking documents with pages from the SCP Foundation, then put it in the ground somewhere near a old building. :v:
[QUOTE=garychencool;40409503]I like how everything is wrapped in paper. Today, stuff would be in plastic and I don't know about the future.[/QUOTE] pixels and laserbeams
[QUOTE=Appellation;40409938]There'd be more than hard drives, there'd also be physical items, such as dragon dildos.[/QUOTE] "and here is a silicon mold of a penis. obviously, this is how human penises used to look back in the year 2013" "ooh aah *cameras clicking*"
The people in the video are picking up items with white gloves to preserve the artifacts... then a women holds a newspaper with her bare hands...
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408870]The problem with that is its hard enough to interpret data on 30 year old hardware on modern computers, never mind a century old. Somehow I doubt anything will still use SATA or USB in 2113.[/QUOTE] Put a computer in there too.
[QUOTE=RedStar;40410028]"and here is a silicon mold of a penis. obviously, this is how human penises used to look back in the year 2013" "ooh aah *cameras clicking*"[/QUOTE] I read the second "penis" as "pelvis", I was so damn confused
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408870]The problem with that is its hard enough to interpret data on 30 year old hardware on modern computers, never mind a century old. Somehow I doubt anything will still use SATA or USB in 2113.[/QUOTE] reconstruction of the components will be hilariously easy... and data can be converted
When I was a child I participated in a time capsule. I drew a spacecraft and it was chosen. The capsule will be opened in 1000 years.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40408944]They need to store several TB's of r34 clop porn for shits and giggles.[/QUOTE] And people wonder why the future keep s sending us genocidal robots.
If we were going to do this now, We had better pack a computer in the capsule also, Since I doubt 100 years in the future they will be able to build one from scratch.
[QUOTE=Jellyman;40410103]Put a computer in there too.[/QUOTE] Put a really low spec terrible PC in there and make it look like technology was something miles far from what it is in their time
[QUOTE=Shotz;40410397]Put a really low spec terrible PC in there and make it look like technology was something miles far from what it is in their time[/QUOTE] Or put a beast in it and say that it was the low-end affordable consumer PC.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;40410223]When I was a child I participated in a time capsule. I drew a spacecraft and it was chosen. The capsule will be opened in 1000 years.[/QUOTE] Will it really last that long?
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;40410739]Will it really last that long?[/QUOTE] Well, that is kind of the whole point of a time capsule.
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