The time capsule

Hi friends, I watched a movie yesterday, Predictions with Nicolas Cage, a nice movie, a little scary but I will not tell you more if you have not seen it yet ...
In this film, it is about a time capsule, I did not know that it existed, it's great as an idea I think! You know what it is ?
I love that kind of story, it makes me think of Benjamin Gates or Indiana Jones, it makes me think of a treasure hunt.

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A time capsule is a work of collective safeguarding of goods or information collected and kept as a testimony of time spent for future generations.

The time capsule is sometimes buried during ceremonies.
On the occasion of village festivals or graduation ceremonies, especially in American universities, people have fun putting objects or a message representative of their time in a box.

Then, the box or capsule is sealed and then buried in a place little frequented to prevent someone from finding it without doing it on purpose during work or renovation.

Steve Jobs himself created his time capsule in 1983. In 2013, we opened it and we found inside a Rubik's Cube, drinks cans, an Apple mouse and other objects he wanted to put in.

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The time capsule is not recent, indeed, there was already time of the first human civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The time capsules are classified into 3 main groups:

• The intentional or programmed, we place objects of the present moment in a box or another container hoping that years later (10, 50, 100 or 1000 years for example), a new generation discovers it. Or, we place objects / drawings / crafts of our children and we open at their 30th birthday, ...

• The involuntary: as in Pompeii where the lava to freeze people and objects.

• Non-programmed: like some space probes.

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Scotland

At a construction site, a time capsule was found that spent 121 years underground.
The capsule was buried under the foundations of a bridge. This capsule was brought to a museum for expert appraisal.
This capsule contained a bottle of whiskey and a newspaper clipping of the time on which was inscribed the date of September 29, 1894.

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Boston

In Boston, during a building restoration, we found in the head of a golden lion statue that was at the top of the Old State House, the former capitol, a capsule that had been hidden there since 113 years old.

It is a sculptor responsible for the restoration of statues that adorn this building that found this capsule.

Yet, in 1901, the year the capsule was closed, the Boston Globe had covered the story, detailing the contents of the box. Since then, however, she had fallen into oblivion.
The capsule contains photos, autographs, Boston politicians' letters, newspaper clippings and badges from the presidential campaigns of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish online music streaming service that allows you to listen to all kinds of music.

Spotify has also decided to create a time capsule in the form of a playlist, it includes pieces that you probably listened to during your youth.

This playlist called Time capsule is accessible to all users of this service.

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So ?

Did you know the time capsule? Have you ever created one? It makes me want to fill one and open it with my children in twenty years, it could be super nice o) I'll think about it ... The hardest is to decide what we will put in and where to place the capsule?