Let's say it was going to be opened in 4 months...I'm kidding.

Let's say 1000 years. And let's also say that anything that you put in would be able to be used/read/played/understood in 1000 years.

#1. A handwritten letter explaining my life, hopes and fears for the human race. There would probably be an apology in there somewhere.

#2. A DVD of photographs of people with audio explanations of why they were relevant to me.

#3. Seeds of various plants to water and grow.

#4. Something fun. A game maybe. A deck of cards with a book of card games.

#5. Something with my DNA. A tooth or hair follicle or something.

Great question.

Herb

Those were just off the cuff and I reserve the right to change my contribution or steal ideas...in my imaginary time...capsule...message board...thing...ahem.

And not to hijack my own thread, but could you imagine having a full history of yourself when you were alive and then being cloned 1000 years later?

Trippy dude. Pass the hookah.

bush
gore
"edited" scientific papers from the Bush admin.
An Inconvenient Truth (the book).
Jim Lehrer

With the planet having obviously survived the Bush adminstration, I think it would be cool for Bush and Gore to have a debate with Jim Lehrer on the threat of Global Warming. One or the other will be confirmed as the world's biggest dope.

Gotta include poker in the set of games for sure. Include a sum of money to play the game with, coins and bills. They might find the idea of value notes interesting and entertaining --if enough time goes by. Toss in some stories about the game, things that happened, who played, who lost, who won.

An assortment of things we think are clever and take for granted. Stickers, common but useful items, stuffed animals, just all kinds of goofy people stuff we all tend to hold on to, for some reason or another.

Great food recipes, along with the appropriate measuring tools, seeds, etc... Everything necessary for some great meals. Assume that meat might not be the same then, so include some veggie meals, SOY, nuts, etc... All of these things can be grown and consumed later.

The DNA idea is a great one too. Include common pets, farm animals, various people & genders. Who knows? They might need it! At the least they can get the meat for the meals!

Smells. Surely there is a way to package those in such a way they can be experienced later. What did the city smell like, those flower seeds included with the package, people?

Would be very cool for that other version, cloned in the future, to see the world through both eyes!

Of course it would not really be any of us that ends up there --we've no way to store state, so that's out.

But, it would be somebody like me --or us, from this time. I think, given some significant time passing, this might be really valuable.

Maybe the laws change, expectations change, tech changes enough to make the idea of building somebody from the past an ok thing to do. I like the idea of that.

I know we would fight over it today. I also know a lot of us would be wondering just what a person from 500 - 1000 - 10000 years ago was like. Would they think the same kinds of ways? Smell different, move different, etc...

How do they love?

What do they think of us? Did we get better as a race or worse?

1- a CD player and a recording of "The Sounds Of Earth" with music, environmental sounds, samples of several different spoken languages, radio news reports etc. If it's a CDROM with MPEG3 audio, possibly even a smattering of BMPs or at the very least, JPEGs of pictures of the earth as it is in 2007, as well as text files of several books and magazines that are currently popular. Think of it as a modern takeoff of the Voyageur Interstellar Record project, in other words.

2- Pictures of me, and my BMX score sheets of the last +-10 years or so. (Does that count as two items?)

3- Recipes.

4- A curent JCPenney catalogue. Can you imagine what people in the year 2507, when they are all wearing space suits and jet packs and living in high-rise apartments resembling somewhat the International Space Station, would think if they saw what people in 2007 wore and used to decorate their homes?

5- A computer hard drive, preferrably of the highest capacity available at the present time. In a time when everybody's entire PC's are small enough to fit in a wristwatch-like device (with some 300 exabytes of data storage accomplished by recombinant DNA technologies, no doubt) think of it as a statement of "This is how we used to store our data in our computers!!"

Herb
Wayne
Okie
DJ
And a renuzit stick-up

Hmmmm.....we would then have to call it a "Time Bomb" and not a capsule! Feel sorry for the poor saps that opens this baby!

1. pot
2. a hendrix album
3. porn
4. an explaination of greed and self gratification
at the expense of others.....

Fairly representative of society.....

In the year 2525................

oooh what a downer... Rainy days and tuesdays always get me down..........

Where (exactly) are you burying this?

And what's the 5th item? A bong?

"In the year 2525................"

I remember that tune:

ARTIST: Zager and Evans
TITLE: In the Year 2525


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.


In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.


In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.


In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.


In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh


In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.


Guess it's time for the judgment day.


In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh


In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing. Whoa-oh



Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.


But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.


In the year 3535 {fade}

Whats the point of putting porn in a time capsule Roger???
Are you going to open your time capsule in 20 years and go"jeez they just don't make porn as good as they did back in 2007".

I would try to keep the contents relatively simple and low tech:

1) A collection of newspaper article clippings from about the past 25 years, encompassing major challenges and events such as: the challenger explosion, AIDS, the obesity epidemic, teardown of the Berlin wall/reunification of Germany, collapse of the Soviet Union, Gulf War I, growth of the Internet, the 2000 Presidential election controversy, 9/11, dot-com failures/bursting of tech stock bubble, Gulf War II, etc.

2) Collection of newspaper and magazine advertisements showing contemporary cars, clothing, and consumer products.

3) Human and some animal DNA samples along with magazine or newspaper editorial clippings on the ethical controversies over cloning and genetic engineering. With these clippings should be a transcript of the part of the 2006 State of the Union Address on the subject of bioethics: "A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners and that recognize the matchless value of every life.

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms..."

4) Photos of the Portland skyline and major landmarks, as they appeared in 2007.

5) Samples of US currency.

Oglethorpe University has a time capsule society:

http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/international_time_caps ule_society.asp

I just found this page today, so I haven't been able to look through it very thoroughly.

I wasn't putting this stuff into MY time capsule I was putting it in Chickenjugglers.... The 5th thing was a bag of Brachs Jube Jells, but I got hungry and ate them.

Sex drugs and rock and roll... I thought that's all that was important to the youths of america.....


As for the stuff listed... Never did pot, find porn boring, not a hendrix fan; Terry Kath was a better guitar player, but really disillusioned with the whole me, mine, more-more-more competition.

My time capsule would only have a hank o'hair and a piece of bone so someone can make their own walkin', talkin', honeycone........

What I always wanted to know is what happened in 7575 and 8585

Now, commentary on that song.....

In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

( they may find they have been engineered as ASEXUAL)

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

( wow, doesn't that describe current politics? truth and lies interchangeable)

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.

(It will be like living in West Virginia They don't need teeth either)

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.

( Just in time for christmas, XBOX ten thousand the ultimate gaming device. kids then will be just like kids now.)

in the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

(Rosie O'donnell was way ahead of the curve on this one.)

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
Guess it's time for the judgement day.

(Didn't we go through that once with the Ark thing? If so aren't we all decendants of Noah?)

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

(It only took 6 days to build the place but a 1000 years to decide what to do with it. Sounds like too much middle management)

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing. Whoa-oh

(Depending on what the decision was in 8510, there might not be a 9595, making this verse moot)

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.

I thought men don't cry)

But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.

(Yesterday, When I was young....
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.)


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

(That missing ear ring)

I've changed my mind about putting samples of currency (item 5) into a time capsule. Instead, I would like to put in some sample text written in standard English, with some random postings printed from the Internet and printouts of text-messaging abbreviations. You can bet money that DjFrresh's writing would be included! The people of the future will laugh or cry when they see this!

1. A Tom Peterson watch.
2. Wayne Newton's Christmas LP ("Jingle Bell Hustle").
3. Jimmy Swaggart's "What Shall The End Be" sermon LP.
4. A Kenner Close-N-Play Phonograph for #2 and 3.
5. A fudgesicle.

5 Word's

We're
Sorry
For
Polluting
Earth