• 100 years later, a time capsule is opened
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[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'd throw one of those "fantasy" dildos in just to screw with historians
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;40415649]While physically written copies is usually the best preservation method, it all boils down to environmental conditions. Given a perfect environment, a CD can in fact last up to 100 years, but maintaining such an environment would be tricky.[/QUOTE] Fun fact: We already have the know-how to encode any arbitrary data into DNA at a rate of over 2.2 petabytes per gram. Under ideal conditions DNA can last for over a million years. Problem solved, and it only takes up a tiny amount of space.
This is actualy making me consider filling a box with shit from 2013, with pictures of my house, the internet and stuff, might give it to my kids when I die or something
Every decade, a time capsule of everything about that decade. [I]Everything[/I]. Should be made. It will be inside a large storage facility. After a Century, one will be opened, decade by decade.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40409003]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[/QUOTE] Or that plague a little later; wonder how many of that bunch brought it then?
McKinley!? The President that warned against Imperialism!? The President that was the Third assassinated?! Lucky!
[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] [IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=153204&dateline=1343996230[/IMG]
Imagine if we buried a time capsule, and 100 years later, when it's opened, technology has reverted back to the early 1900's.
news headline 1913 "war in europe inevatable, will america be dragged in?" today's headline "war in middle east/asia inevitable, will america be dragged in?" [editline]26th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=latin_geek;40411542][t]http://i.imgur.com/6F3f3X8.jpg[/t] Aw dang, phonograph cylinders? I don't think there's a way to reproduce those without wearing them out... (afaik IRENE and laser turntables only work on discs) They should really only do it once, on the best equipment they can find and while recording it, those things must be really fragile.[/QUOTE] luckaly the national archives figured out how to CAREFULLY record them by reading them once with a very sensative and delicate 1-off digitizing machine then they put them away for good, i can't wait till they get their hands on these things and make the words known, i mean pre-ww1 stuff is from an entirely different world, its from a time when america had just stepped out onto the world stage, imperialism and nationalism was rapidly driving the world to war, and this capsul was burried on the eve of the first great, and probably still bloodiest war in human history [editline]26th April 2013[/editline] probably the most amazing thing in the chest though was all the indian culture items preserved inside, i mean it really was a civilization that doesn't exist anymore
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