Of all the things possible, I think I would put in a current newspaper, ensuring that it contained world news and op eds. I think it would be important for someone 50 years in the future to know what we were thinking and feeling about the things happening in our time, not just the events of the day.

I would absolutely include a CD-ROM because, even if they are obsolete in 50 years, it will probably still be possible to find a way to play them. It’s still possible to get phonographs, after all.

My CD-ROM would include not only my own thoughts on the newspaper and on the current happenings in the world, but also video clips from other news agencies, pieces of current hit songs, and perhaps the most recent New York Times Bestseller list. I wouldn’t spare future generations the opportunity to see just how warped our priorities are, so, right alongside clips about the war in Iraq and unprecedented flooding in China, I’d include stories about Paris Hilton’s jail drama and the latest celebrity baby buzz.

I’d also write up a letter explaining my time capsule and where I’d buried it and stash that with other important papers (my diplomas, birth certificate, so on and so forth. I would seal it in an envelope expressing my wish that it be given to someone I know, but not be opened until a certain date. That way, if I’m not around in 50 years, someone will still know about it.

Good luck with your project!

I would probably choose one of my diaries. I don’t mind people knowing about my personal life, and it would be a good chronology of these times. In 50 years, people will still know English close enough to ours to be able to tell what we’re saying (otherwise no one would understand their grandparents in this day and age).

If I didn’t have a diary, I’d probably choose one of my favorite novels. In 50 years, it’ll be a collector’s object for the lucky person that finds it.

As long as I make the time capsule correctly (vacuum pack, seal out moisture, etc), the paper shouldn’t rot in 50 years.

CD-ROMs will probably be obsolete in 50 years. Just like floppy disks are more or less obsolete now. So I think that isn’t a very good idea. And how would I make sure that someone finds it in 50 years? Dig a hole exactly deep enough for the soil to erode away…?

A funny idea would be to bury a plastic box with just some ordinary stuff (say, school supplies) but mark it with the radioactive symbol. In 50 years, people probably won’t be able to trace it back to you if you don’t leave fingerprints… 😉 Just kidding, though. That would be a really nasty thing to do…

song is sturdy, assuming they are going to have the skill to play CDs interior the destiny. (I advise, think of in the event that they had put in an 8-music tape interior the Nineteen Seventies?) i admire the weightloss pill thought. i might additionally put in a human beings magazine, so as that they could chuckle at what some human beings thought grow to be significant. you will be able to desire to place a fashion magazine, or an particularly piece of known outfits. Do you particularly could desire to place those issues in, or is it in basic terms the assumption of those issues? If that’s in basic terms the assumption, i might say put in a gallon of gas. hopefully, interior the destiny, we will not choose gasoline to ability autos.