"On June 15, 1957, a new gold and white 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe was buried in a time capsule in downtown Tulsa, OK. The time capsule was part of Golden Jubilee Week: Tulsa's celebration of Oklahoma's semi-centennial. The car is buried under the sidewalk in front of the Tulsa County Courthouse, approximately 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue. " -www.buriedcar.com
On June 15th (two weeks from now for those of you who are challenged), this car will be dug up and removed from it's vault after 50 years underground, and all of the contents of the enclosed time capsule will be opened also.
This absolutely facinates me for two reasons:
1) Time capsules are cool ways to show how we live and who we are (we put one in the cornerstone of our church, which included a two pack of Hostess Ho-Ho's)
2) The fact that we over-estimate how far the world will move on in the future, but it actually doesn't that much (they put a can full of gasoline with this car assuming that we wouldn't use gas or cars in the future)
2 comments:
Maybe I just dreamed this, but I think me and my parents buried a time capsule in the yard at one time- I would have NO CLUE where to look for it!
What a weird human urge: bury something for the future to find it. (On an evolution / creation note, you don't see apes doing that!!)
That is correct, and we also don't throw our defications at people either....
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