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- Bara, on 10/12/2007, -18/+273Pics or it didn't happen.
- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+115He just didn't mention it was his sister.
- Laton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+104@mrsteveman1: I think you are a little prouder than you should be at that achievement.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70they unknowingly chronicled pre-silicone breasts.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+74You must of missed Health 101, a microwaved banana is not a reproductive organ.
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67Probably the maximum amount of time that you would want to leave it so that it could be opened in the lifetimes of college graduates. Makes sense to me.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63a partially burnt Gray's Sports Almanac 1950-2000
- localzuk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50I don't get it. What is the point of opening a time capsule after only 50 years? 50 years is not a long time on the scheme of things. Why not just leave it there 200 years or 500 years? Most people who would have planted that pod should still be alive shouldn't they?
- OgnodoD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43RTFA. The porn slipped in was from the 1980s, not the 1950s. Your statement is sometimes correct, but this article does nothing to support it.
- vemerge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38insovietrussia is correct. It's more of a novelty than an actual "let's lock this sucker up and let the people of the future find out what we were about" type of thing. There's enough of those throughout the world anyway.
And what's stopping them from resealing it and keeping it unopened for 200 years from now? - AngryPenguin47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32@stevethegreat
Didnt bother to read 1984, did ya. - jhaitas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32"There aren't any suspects in the case. "
are they launching an investigation? - gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34Was the dirty underwear purple and owned by one "Calvin Kline"?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28So you don't think it would be cool to put something very high tech in a capsule and open it decades later? It's just a way to show how fast we evolve. I would definitely enjoy opening it later and marveling out how far we have progressed.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31May I be the first to say...
GILF! - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27"...includes pics of a bunch of stupid looking old people"
As a 40 year old, let me point out that life will so kick your ass for that one. - mgrucker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24or somebody opened it and added stuff you ***** moron.
- highdef, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"The new capsule will be filled with digital media with a focus on "communication from a global perspective," said Coma Te, a senior among six students who created the new capsule."
How the hell are they going to look at the digital media 50 years from now? USB? Are they really going to be able to view it on their brain jacked computer monitor and 32EB (exabyte) soild state holigraphic hardrives and Zetahertz 3D neural network processors? Damn they better pack a couple laptops in the capsule as well... - DesuKN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23A wizard did it
- vinividivici, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I went to college pre-internet (yes, I'm old!) and it was tradition to hide porn somewhere in the room like behind a mirror for the next class. Does that still happen now that porn is so readily available on the internet?
- Skas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Doesn't happen anymore.
- poisonborz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14What a loose story... what was originally in the capsule?
- TrueVox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19My memory is fuzzy, but that's a reference to our good buddies, Marty and Doc, right?
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I recommend a USB flash drive. USB stands for UNIVERSAL Serial Bus. If there's still a universe in 50 years it'll work.
- katsanes, on 01/30/2008, -1/+9RTFA
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Highdef: Great point. I was thinking the same thing when I read it.
If someone gave us a digital time capsule from 1985 other than the fact we can still find those computers laying around I don't know how we would open half the filetypes. - diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8They were wearing space suits.
- ichabodcrane, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"The new capsule will be filled with digital media with a focus on "communication from a global perspective," said Coma Te, a senior among six students who created the new capsule."
I always cringe at the thought of people burying recorded media in time capsules knowing that 1) there may not be anything that will play the media many years in the future and 2) the recorded media may even degrade over the years leaving behind nothing. - theragu40, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Doesn't the internet kind of negate the need for time capsules? I mean, there's no longer the risk that knowledge is just going to "fade away". Later civilizations are going to know what we did, because it will be archived electronically (Wikipedia for example...perhaps it won't exist in 100 years, but the idea is there). Unless we seriously somehow destroy major parts of our modern infrastructure (nuclear war, I suppose), people are going to be able to look up how things were today. I guess it's still cool to see how things change, but that kind of supports the short term time capsule idea. The people who will really be fascinated by how fast things changed will be people who have lived through the change.
- smallestmills, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not like all previous knowledge will have disappeared in 50 years. People will know that these things existed, and I'm sure there are some people making pains to make sure CD players, floppy drives, etc. will still be around in 50 years. (Especially that University). They're not going to open it wondering what these strange devices are. We can still drive a Model-T and a 57 Chevy today, even though the car technology has advanced. If not, I'm sure someone, somewhere, wrote down how to work those things.
- OgnodoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm curious why you say that. It's certainly not an impossible scenario (someone taking the time capsule at some point, putting in some 1980s-era stuff in it, and then putting it back in the wall), and I'd be surprised if it's the first tme something like this has happened.
- tim507, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Ha, this prank is Classic!...literally...
- hypoxide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"replaced by digital media"? That sounds like a horrible idea. 50 years from now, who's going to have a CD player? It's like the floppy disc. Not to mention, they'd better put a generator, a computer, a display, and some peripherals in there or people in the future will have no idea what to do with this "digital media", and potentially have no means of powering it.
- orrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I really don't think reading the media would be impossible (and it isn't hard to make an optical disc that won't degrade). There will always be some hobbyist or scientist that will be able to play it. If you want to play an Edison cylinders from the 1800s for example, it isn't hard to find a hobbyist with a player for it.
The actual problem with storing digital media in a time capsule is that it's a lame choice. Actual objects from a different time are far more interesting than watching a video or sound clip from some time ago. - Nudar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes why don't you give us more information about just how they were able to pull that off.
- SeoulBrother, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3About two years ago a friend and former Comm student told me about how he a a couple friends pulled off this caper. I thought he was blowing smoke but there were elements of the story that rang true. To see this story today means that I owe him a drink.
I'm in ur capsule
putting in pr0nz - Ishtar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3One of the Comm faculty is a family friend and was at the opening. It actually wasn't a total surprise. They opened the capsule before the ceremony to make sure it was all still in tact. Apparently there was some REALLY bad porn in there, like terribly done 80s stuff, and they took it out before everybody got there. Their first clue something wasn't right was that there was a centerfold laid out on the top. The person(s) who pulled the prank must have been really determined because the capsule was actually built INTO a wall and there were something like 80 bolts that have to be removed with a special tool securing it shut. They all thought it was really funny, so they left everything but the really offensive stuff in there :)
- bobcatred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Somewhere out there are a couple forty-something men cracking up about their college prank now...
- thebrok3nsystm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ever think that maybe someone opened the capsule in the 80's and put porn, condom, and underwear in there and sealed it back up... Jus maybe?
- Schamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You don't need EVERYONE to have the media to play the capsule material, you need ONE person to be able to. And if there are absolutely no CD players in 50 years, chances are that the nuclear holocaust also took out the capsule.
- nick415, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol, i have class in that building like every day
- chicoer2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a badly sealed capsul
- tifomsirk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Huskies are such sluts.
- buildmorerobots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"it just slipped in there", that's what she said, ZING!
- Futurejunior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're sad.
- ChrisTek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Just a note that has nothing to do with the porn whatsoever -- The article said the new capsule will feature "digital media". Think back to 1957, when most people didn't have computers, and the ones that did exist were massive and had no storage. Looking to 2057, what's to say that technology has advanced so far that a computer that could actually read a CD or a USB flash drive is very rare.
- autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First of all, in this case it seems to be an accurate story. Regarding the larger issue, I think it's certainly true that people are gaming the system. Whether a story is simply possibly is only a small part of determining if it's true or not. More important is looking at the context, judging whether it's actually probable and considering how much the story affirms a widely held viewpoint or set of opinions.
It's similar to the process of identifying spam. Digg spam is designed to have a set of attributes that make it appealing specifically to a demographic associated with Digg. Since we have those qualities that spammers aim to appeal to, we have to look at our own reactions to those stories, look at the context and determine whether it was designed to fit into and affirm the view of a stereotypical Digger. - Dilz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ daroach - I agree 101%
I fired up a floppy disk from 1990 the other day, amazingly, it still worked. It contained three text files, and a .gif file. The floppy hasn't totally died as of this year - they're still readily available, though they're certainly not as popular as they once were. USB or some similar derivative should be around 50 years from now. Let me state it another way:
The trusty 1.44MB floppy has been with us for 20 years, and 20 years before that, floppies didn't even exist. I have a difficult time finding motherboards w/o floppy cable connectors, so it is reasonable to believe that the rate of change among interfaces/media types has slowed considerably - except for Sony, of course. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
As for the integrity of the data on the media, this stuff hasn't been around long enough for us to know what its true tolerances are, but, as many others have proclaimed, the prognoses aren't good. Perhaps we should just leave behind printed lists of will-have-been forgotten blogs and whatnot. - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Prank jokes are the best.
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