So, when putting together a time capsule, you should put in something more interesting than a bunch of old newspapers and hockey rulebooks.

How about the 1931 equivalent of a gameboy? Let the future generations laugh at your primitive technology.

Also, the leafs suck.

Heard an interesting idea on the radio the other day when this was being talked about: put whatever the current issue of Playboy is into a time capsule.

So when someone opens it up decades down the line, they can be as repulsed by our physical and sexual tastes as we are by our parents'.

This makes my head hurt .... Again!

Why does the trinket have to signify anything at all? People toss all sorts of things in time capsules for various reasons, but mainly just to show the folks of the future what the past was like.

I get annoyed when people start looking for answers to questions that never should have been asked in the first place.

I know of a time capsule which was sealed during the NYC world fair, and it contained a bunch of souvenirs of the event, rolls of dimes of that year and assorted things like newspapers and information about the time. Had the owners waited about another 30 years before opening it, the dimes might have been worth something more than their silver value.

I still haven't figured out how the guy soldered it shut without burning anything inside.

Rik01: Why does the trinket have to signify anything at all? People toss all sorts of things in time capsules for various reasons, but mainly just to show the folks of the future what the past was like.

My theory -- somebody tossed in a random knicknack thinking, "Hey, when this gets dug up, I bet people will go 'WTF?' and we'll laugh cause it'll be funny watching them try to assign meaning to some random piece of crap."

Cause, that's what I'd do.

Rik01: Why does the trinket have to signify anything at all?

Because Rosebud.

mynameisdouglas: Rik01: This makes my head hurt .... Again!

Why does the trinket have to signify anything at all? People toss all sorts of things in time capsules for various reasons, but mainly just to show the folks of the future what the past was like.

I get annoyed when people start looking for answers to questions that never should have been asked in the first place.

I know of a time capsule which was sealed during the NYC world fair, and it contained a bunch of souvenirs of the event, rolls of dimes of that year and assorted things like newspapers and information about the time. Had the owners waited about another 30 years before opening it, the dimes might have been worth something more than their silver value.

I still haven't figured out how the guy soldered it shut without burning anything inside.

Time capsules are the worst. Lets all pull this random shiat out of the ground and look at it!
No explanation, and nobody cares.
Time capsules are made by idiots. As evidenced by this shiat that happened in the last century. If it is really important, it takes a minute to write a few sentences about it.

Are you also puzzled by cameras?