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As soon as you say "Hitler" I see Antifa terrorizing the place just to erase his name from history. On the other hand; they do have a surrogate now in lord emperor Trump.
14:02 When you say these time capsules are bias and reflect a "white, anglo-saxon, protestant" world view my question is "why should other cultures not make their own time capsules? Why are white, anglo-saxon, protestants required to make time capsules for everybody? Simon is starting to sound a little racist.
Personal time capsules are more immediately interesting as I opened mine a few years ago. In 1974 my class of fellow seven-year-olds planted our personal time capsules to be opened when we turned 50. To me, the most interesting thing was a journal that we were assigned to write in. Specifically, what things we were interested in, what we did for fun, even secrets that we would never tell anyone, and, most fascinatingly, what we thought the world would look like when we were 50. My journal actually had a lot more information than I ever recall putting in it as it was supposed to be a summer-long project. Reading it now, it is quite the education of little boy me. Oh, and like all the other kids, I parted with precious things that meant a lot to little me that I currently have on display next to this computer. Surprisingly, they still mean a lot to me... Probably more so now.
Thank you for sharing this. I was in 1st grade, 6 years old, when I donated my favorite Mickey Mouse locket to a time capsule in the tiny town we lived in. I have absolutely no idea where it was hidden, and no idea when it was scheduled to be opened.☺🤔
On each of my kids 1st birthday we made a “time capsule“ for their 18th birthday. Oldest is 15. I hardly ever think about it, but now i am really looking forward to seeing what we thought was interezting then.
my school did the same thing, only it was to be opened in 50 years, that was in 1992, so we've still a while to go. The only thing I remember going in to it was the school t-towel (on which my 5 y.o. self portrait looks EXACTLY like an onion!) and a photo of 4 other class mates and myself in our uniforms. I remember some of the older girls putting in some cassette tapes of (i think) Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and some others that I can't remember. It'll be interesting to see what else went in there, because I remember it taking aaaaaages to go though everything and give a little speech etc.(it was v. cold and v.wet.....it is England, after all!)
Well just in case Simon isn’t immortal or a robot, if I did a time capsule I would of course have to include samples from all of Simon’s UA-cam channels. Explaining Danny, the writer of Business Blaze, being locked up in a basement surviving on MagicSpoon cereal would be a fun challenge.
Since he doesn't seem to write these videos (according to the end credits), I sometimes wonder if he's a man of culture in private, or if the "bald teacher with a sexy voice" thing is just a shtick
@@jandrews6254 we can make extremely educated guesses about a lot of them though, based on poetry, like the other guy said, the evolution of writing, and the descendant languages, among other things
I don't get it, why would they assume we just happened to make the crypt at the end of the world? Why would they not find evidence of civilization after that? The point of a time capsule is to preserve artifacts well, not to be their only source. And why would they wait till 8113 to open it if nobody was around to give them those instructions?
Fun fact: The Crypt of Civilisation was already forgotten. In the seventies(?), a staffer came across the massive steel door, that was covered and obscured by time. It had been years since anyone had been in that wing, and this person rediscovered the vault.
Couldnt we just 'seal up' a GoodWill store? All of the low value items inside will become outrageously valuable, and it has Windows for people to view the items inside. Change the name to 'the GoodWill Museum', and ... there you go.
Lol Sounds like the longest cruise. The business blaze video of best job ever. The german ships where gone so long that the goods they where shipping increased in value 10 fold. One of Simon's best Videos ever.
But then people who actually NEED the items won't be able to have them...and believe it or not, but you can get better quality stuff (especially furniture....furniture from the 70's was made to LAST) at Goodwill than you can at Walmart or from the "big box" stores. Aside from my mattress, the only item of furniture I have that wasn't bought at Goodwill are a chair designed by Eero Saarinen in the 1960s that some rich person threw out and an even older chair that I inheirited from my grandmother.
Did you see pictures of the car that was burried in the Tulsa Time Capsule? They did start a restoration process of the car in early 2007, sadly the car was not in any shape to be fully restored to a functioning car. Instead it was rust treated to clean the car and as of 2009 sits on display in an auto museum in Detroit.
Suppose Simon made a time capsule. What do you think would be in it? - "The past was the worst" T-shirt - One of Simon's blazers - A used Business Blaze script - Several red Solo cups - An Enron mug - A clipping from Simon's beard, and some Beard Blaze - Keys to the basement - A bag of white powder (and we all know what kind of white powder, allegedly) - A box of that mail order breakfast cereal - A copy of Danny's bio - Anything else?
An audio recording of "Smash that dislike button." Plus another audio recording of "How not to sing" by Yoko Ono. And at least two promotional ads. With inflation he will be able to buy himself a mansion!
The one thing it appears the Crypt of Civilization is missing: a Rosetta stone. Or in contemporary terms, throw a variety of English-French, English-Spanish, English-Chinese, etc. dictionaries in there so that if even one of those languages survives in semi-recognizable form it could unlock the secrets of the other languages which may have been lost to time.
Did you not watch the video? Or just not pay attention at all? They have that. It was talked about in the video. They _literally_ used the words Rosetta stone in describing it. 🤨
@@TheMrVengeance But it's only for English rather than all the other languages. Helping translate one language is good, multiple languages is much better.
@@willythemailboy2 - .... It's translating to English because all the material in the vault is in English. And if you can translate numerous language TO English, you can also translate them to each other. That's literally how the Rosetta stone worked too. 🙄
@@TheMrVengeance That's exactly my point. Everything in the vault is in English, so nothing in the vault could help future people translate anything they found that wasn't. That's the shortcoming that should have been addressed but wasn't. There's a translation guide to English but no true Rosetta Stone because nothing references other languages.
So one historian complained that the contents of time capsules were selected by those who buried them to represent only what they wanted future historians to see, but then also complained that they were a haphazard assortment of junk? So which was it - it was either curated or it was a random assortment? That historian seemed to have limited imagination - a time capsule doesn't tell future generations what life was like, but it does tell them how they wanted to see themselves.
This is amazing! My mother taught at Oglethorpe when I was in high school (late '60s, early '70s), and I have been in the Phoebe Hearst building many times. This is the first I have heard of the Crypt, however!
Out of curiosity, do you pronounce "Oglethorpe" like Simone does? In Georgia we pronounce it "Oh-gal-thorpe." The "Oo-gal-thorpe" pronunciation caught me off gaurd.
Future civilization - finds time time capsule, uses their technology to go back in time to leave a note in the ground for the people about to bury their capsule: “Stop sending us your junk.”
The Millennium time capsule of 2003 in our backyard was opened in 2019 during a deck renovation. It contained a Giants sports page from 2004 which had deteriorated, and several baseballs and tennis balls. More interesting were the baseballs, which had been placed there as caught balls from my nephew's little league and from high school. He buried it in his senior year. It was only 16 years later, but the deck stone it was in had been disturbed. Then he rebuilt the deck but did not replace it with paper from 2019.
With the uptake in science and knowledge, things change much faster than before. Even for us the content of that crypt would look like ancient artifacts. And what is today a normal household item, would be a wondrous magical gadget for the 1930s. They might have envisioned space flight, but they did not think of Candy Crush...or the idea of a smartphone or any device with the computational power of it. You could say, there is about as much change between 1930 and 2020 than between...say...1680 and 1930. While in former times usually not much did change within a persons lifetime, nowadays we can barely go a decade without something being discovered or invented that changes society (for better or worse). A family of farmers plowing their land in the 17th century would go generations and nothing would change. Yes, a new government, a war, new land discovered...but in the end they will plow the field like their grandparents did and their grandkids will do.
This video was super interesting! As someone that loves exploring abandoned places and dwelling on its history I think its pretty cool that they did that set up this crypt
Robert Rodriguez directed a movie called 100 years. It was produced and then sealed in a vault for 100 years. For our descendants sake I hope it's good.
As a teen I and some friend demolished an house (don't worry the owner paid us) inside a wall we found an newspaper from the day Japan capitulated and WW2 ended. I guess they put up or repaired the wall and thought that newspaper was worth preserving or that people in 50 years might enjoy it.
1937 though. That thing could really use an update. How about backing up all of Wikipedia and providing a device and power source for reading it? The sum total of human knowledge, good, bad and frivolous, can now fit in a package smaller than a shoebox.
This is one of my FAVORITE videos you’ve made!!!!!! I’m a sucker for some Gilgamesh fun facts and any kind of cool unknown/unpopular history. Love your channel ❤️ and the many others you have
Hello Simon! I have been watching your videos for a while now. I live in California, and we do not have very much ancient history here. I have never been to England, but I have been fascinated with the history documentary programs about the Roman occupation of Britain. I would be very interested in the future some more information about the origins of the "-wich" towns. I read somewhere that town names ending in "-wich" were Roman salt towns? I am also curious about weird and odd pagan festivals, such as "The Obby Oss Festival" in Cornwall, The "Nutter's Dance", "Up Helly Aa", and "Twelfth Night Bankside". I mean, we have weird people in California, but some of those festivals are really bizarre, and I would love more information about them. Thank you for your videos. They really are quite informative!
I'm surprised didn't mention the time capsule made of conxrete that the Mormon church just opened. Salt lake city temple. Was the capstone. Unfortunately most of it was books that sucked up the moisture from the concrete but still interesting and was around 1876 when it was made.
Carpenters doing re-models find things inside of walls. Bottles of beer, photographs, newspapers and magazines. House builders have been sealing things inside of walls for as long as there have been walls (or foundations) to tuck things into. The house my husband and I built has toys hidden in behind the drywall. A box with photos, full beer bottles... And a couple of joints.
The Long Now Foundation could make for a good video topic. There is their 10,000 year clock. Their Rosetta Project to preserve languages expected to go extinct. The Long Bet project to keep track of predictions for long in the future to see if any of them win. There is also their book collection which they call the Manual for Civilization which they believe contains books necessary to rebuild civilization in the event of catastrophe.
When they open that vault thousands of years later and find the mannequins and toys, those civilizations will think they're some sort of gods that we worshipped.
Imagine if the crypt is lost to time and then 1000 years from now there are rumors of a vault containing untold riches buried somewhere in an old swimming pool
In 2025, I’m attending a time capsule opening from when I was 9 in 2000. I made a speech and everything before we lowered it in front of my elementary school. So maybe I’ll speak in front of hundreds when we open it again. Time capsules are cool thanks for the knowledge.
I enjoyed this topic very much, and consider you, Simon, to be one of the best channel owners due to your scientifically skeptical attitude, your intelligent choice of topics, and your sense of humour.,
There was an attempt to land a time capsule in the moon, which crashed but is planned to be repeated in a future lander. The design was much like the crypt but modern and miniature. The top layers can be read more easily but lower layers require better microscopes and so on.
This made me remember that i was the lucky kid in charge of my elementary schools time capsule that should have been opened around 4 years ago. Maybe ill swing by to see what garbage i tossed in there
Yes, Oglethorpe, the man who wanted Georgia to have no slave trade and Georgia to be a home for people in debtors prison and all British Jews. Sadly, George Whitfield, a clergyman thought to be one of the leaders of the Great Awakening, thought that Georgia needed slavery. Many agreed. The Georgia colony was doing just fine with its original charter immigrants, free blacks, and Native Americans. But no, Georgia had to have slavery. I am not a Christian, but I have read Matthew 25. Whitfield will meet Jesus at the Judgement and be condemned. Mathew 25 pretty much says that Christians are going to Hell. I think Princess Diana might make the cut though. She used what she had, her fame, to help the "least of these". Her two visits to AIDS wards broadcast on the BBC really changed how the English speaking world perceived AIDS. She touched men dying of AIDS and informed the public that this type of contact could not transmit the disease. I think younger people understand what we used to call "full blown AIDS" looked like. It was weight loss, pale skin with darker patches, and the stench of death. Diana went there when these patients were "the least of these" and used her fame to show people the truth. Maybe a TIFO about Diana's hospital films would be a good idea. Or how Rock Hudson's death finally got Reagan to take AIDS seriously. And what about Koop's excellent response to the AIDS crisis? Back in the day we thought Koop was a fringy dumbass, but he came through. BTW, wear a mask. Read Matthew 25. I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty sure Matt 25 says Jesus will take personal notice of you if you claim to have faith in him and do not wear a mask. I an am not a Christian, nor have I ever been. But I know and admire what Jesus said even though it likely condemns me. But if I wear a mask. If you claim faith in Jesus and do not wear a mask I am pretty sure you are facing the harsher judgement.
Then there is Andy Warhol's 'Time Capsules' which are basically warehouse storerooms he filled with junk and shut the door. Not even any preservation effort (on his part) because distillation was part of the process. More recently people have been sorting this stuff out, finding partially eaten toast and cigarettes. And just stuff
Egyptian tombs only reflected Egyptian life and no one is calling racism on that. Any attempt to capture the entire world is bound to fail because of in-built biases. The better option is that every government around the world funds their own so that way people in the future can know that this is what this area looked like in the past.
I could see the usual suspects digging these things up and destroying the evidence, that offends their ideological constructs and contradicts their re-written history.
I just thought of something the one that tries to use the radio and 8,137 is going to be kind of out of luck for one reason or another either the Caps or the a.m. band will have gone quietly into the night by then.
When the cave men open this crypt, and marvel at the artifacts within, they may wonder how such a race could ever have failed. Do you think it will ever cross their minds that we were simply too polite to insist on our own existence?
This reminded me of the storyline in the game Fallout 4, where a prewar time capsule becomes the focus of scavengers some 200 years after nuclear war. They called it the "Treasures of Jamaica Plain" so naturally all these people expected it to be valuable (to them) but in the end it's just junk. Kind of a story about how what the past might find useful or important might be ultimately worthless in the future.
I restored a home with my children and my BFFs kids helping me out. I told them we were putting a time capsule between the floors of the house (itself from the early 1800s.) I allowed them to place anything they felt valuable to people of the future in the container. Hence? A hall pass for the local high school, a favorite book, a plastic collectable critter, and many other interesting (to them) items, along with short pencil scribed letters on acid free paper! I don't know how long before the cache is found. We did good work on the flooring (oak) so, I figure at least 100 years!
I think it's good that we preserve things for future generations, though I think that the point made about items that are well used telling more of a story is a good point to make. I collect historical artifacts, especially ones with military significance, and I've seen sterling examples of pieces in pristine condition from long ago. But for the most part, I don't find them interesting at all. What I usually spring for are pieces with a more checkered past, the well-used and obscure that tell a story of the people who made the artifact, held it and used it through the decades, albeit often a vague tale full of unknowns. It invokes a sense of curiosity and mystery about the piece that draws one in. I understand the want to preserve a record full of the truly known for a time capsule. The preservation of core ideas, important events of our day, and the like has its place, but the preservation of the everyday is something that shouldn't just be sealed away, it should be used to teach history to the living, rather than being buried with the dead.
In the late 60's my brother and I buried a time capsule in our back yard. It's still there but the house and land has passed on through a few different families. I've often thought about going there ti see if they would let my dig it up but I expect that unless they are receptive to the idea, they'll think I'm crazy and just say no. I'd need to rent a metal detector but that isn't that difficult I imagine.
Are there any scifi novels about civilizations in the distant future opening any of these time capsules? I would very much like to read something like that.
The trees that will become books remind me of that Doctor Who episode in library when they realize that the books were once trees.... 'hey, who turned out the lights?'
I went to both New York Worlds Fairs, in 1940 as a little kid with my parents, and in 1966 when I was working for a New York radio station and had a season pass and went many times---Don't remember any talk either time of a time capsule. In the first all attention was on the Trilon and Perisphere and the rides in the moving cars in Ford and GM pavilions. In the second the Belgian Village (which introduced Belgian waffles but was risibly late in construction.)
A nearby town, during a civil war re-enactment event, decided to open a time capsule they had buried. Cool, I thought, until I learned it had been buried less than 30 years ago. Yeah, that sounds exciting.😉
They put a Key -symbol on their sign. A type of key that was already outdated when they made it. That's just dumb, who in 50 years would recognize that key? In 150? 1000? Nobody!? The Key-Symbol as a clue might be around now but it's not gonna survive forever!
I was thinking of how mysterious our electronics are recently. And decided to go see how these microchips are created. And while all the documentation is probably available, if the world were to lose a major number of humans and civilization had to be rebuilt, would it be able to have enough knowledgeable, capable people to understand and restore the computer industry, after it spent the first 40 years, or so, rebuilding agriculture and society in general?
That's the thing, we've crossed a technological threshold where information itself is now nigh indestructible. It will take a planet-wide calamity to undo progress. Take it from me, I study computer science in university. It's not that hard. The physical technology of the silicon industry may be hard to recreate but the door has already been opened. There are endless intelligent people with endless drives for creation.
Dental floss will be fascinating? My, our future descendants will be seriously bored with life. "Look! What's this? Waxed and flavored string?! How fascinating." and then he keels over dead from over excitement.
People will be smart enough to recognize that any curated artifacts will necessarily reflect the ideals of the individuals who created the time capsules.
Well some of the Egyptian stuff is half that age, 4K year more would not had an significant impact. You want an dry place however. Freezing it or remove oxygen is better but harder to pull off.
G'day, Rio Tinto Mining Pty Ltd dynamited a pair of 46,000 year-old Dwelling Caves, in northern Western Australia, only last year...; before blowing up the whole Cliff to sell the Dirt to China (Iron Ore) for $130 million, they conducted an Archaeological Dig in the Cave Floors - recovering a Belt, woven of Human Hair. Things which People made, used to last, once upon a time...; before Industrial Atmospheric Fossil Carbon Emission, and Anthropogenic Global Warming really got into their stride and started running at an ever accelerating pace. The liklihood of any underground "Stone Bunker", in Georgia, being left unopened & intact and unmolested or repurposed during the imminently approaching chaotic implosion of the EcoGnomie of the entire Global Vile Age, seems roughly as remote as the chances that - if indeed the Repository does survive Civilisation's downfall..., unopened, then in 8,000 years' time there will be someone near to hand who is able to open a Steel Door which has been welded shut on a Granite Cave for 4 times longer than Humans have been able to smelt Steel, at all..., at this point in time... It appears vanishingly unlikely that the Crypt of Civilisation will ever fulfil ANY of the grandiose Plans it was hubristically intended to realise. What an arrogant waste of Lifetime, and Resources....; a true Fool's Errand of a thing. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
No, copyright claims will get too much deleted. Lots of videos get taken down by copyright trolls, including huge companies who unfairly claim videos from smaller creators. Then records of who owns what will be lost before copyright expires.
I hope that that Rosetta's Stone thing has the means for them to interpret the date on the admission tickets, because they might not use our dating system anymore by that time.
14:03 and as someone with Hispanic blood here’s a question, what’s wrong with that? If it’s such a big issue just make your own because they are already including a little bit of other cultures and it’s their own project.
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As soon as you say "Hitler" I see Antifa terrorizing the place just to erase his name from history. On the other hand; they do have a surrogate now in lord emperor Trump.
14:02 When you say these time capsules are bias and reflect a "white, anglo-saxon, protestant" world view my question is "why should other cultures not make their own time capsules? Why are white, anglo-saxon, protestants required to make time capsules for everybody? Simon is starting to sound a little racist.
Personal time capsules are more immediately interesting as I opened mine a few years ago. In 1974 my class of fellow seven-year-olds planted our personal time capsules to be opened when we turned 50. To me, the most interesting thing was a journal that we were assigned to write in. Specifically, what things we were interested in, what we did for fun, even secrets that we would never tell anyone, and, most fascinatingly, what we thought the world would look like when we were 50. My journal actually had a lot more information than I ever recall putting in it as it was supposed to be a summer-long project. Reading it now, it is quite the education of little boy me. Oh, and like all the other kids, I parted with precious things that meant a lot to little me that I currently have on display next to this computer. Surprisingly, they still mean a lot to me... Probably more so now.
Thank you for sharing this. I was in 1st grade, 6 years old, when I donated my favorite Mickey Mouse locket to a time capsule in the tiny town we lived in. I have absolutely no idea where it was hidden, and no idea when it was scheduled to be opened.☺🤔
On each of my kids 1st birthday we made a “time capsule“ for their 18th birthday. Oldest is 15. I hardly ever think about it, but now i am really looking forward to seeing what we thought was interezting then.
my school did the same thing, only it was to be opened in 50 years, that was in 1992, so we've still a while to go. The only thing I remember going in to it was the school t-towel (on which my 5 y.o. self portrait looks EXACTLY like an onion!) and a photo of 4 other class mates and myself in our uniforms. I remember some of the older girls putting in some cassette tapes of (i think) Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and some others that I can't remember. It'll be interesting to see what else went in there, because I remember it taking aaaaaages to go though everything and give a little speech etc.(it was v. cold and v.wet.....it is England, after all!)
I love y'all's stories! If any of you remember this post when you open your respective capsules, please share the experience!
@@jaspr1999 will UA-cam even be a thing then? 😉 and if it is, will updates and time erase all our comments?🤔 hmmm🙂
When the Crypt of Civilization is opened in thousands of years time Simon will still be there to make a video about the opening.
Will he still have Danny's corpse?
Well just in case Simon isn’t immortal or a robot, if I did a time capsule I would of course have to include samples from all of Simon’s UA-cam channels. Explaining Danny, the writer of Business Blaze, being locked up in a basement surviving on MagicSpoon cereal would be a fun challenge.
At that point it will just be "Simon tube"
@@man_without_fear6518 and all human life will be in his image.
The Simon 6000, with a dome made of actual chrome! 🤣
Simon , you have outdone yourself . That was the most unique pronunciation of "Tutankhamun" I have ever come across. Well done sir .
Since he doesn't seem to write these videos (according to the end credits), I sometimes wonder if he's a man of culture in private, or if the "bald teacher with a sexy voice" thing is just a shtick
@@lptomtom I mean go watch Business Blaze, I am fairly sure this is a persona he does for the video
Nobody knows how ancient languages were pronounced
@@jandrews6254sometimes there are clues from poetry. If you know that two words rhymed, you can start to make educated guesses
@@jandrews6254 we can make extremely educated guesses about a lot of them though, based on poetry, like the other guy said, the evolution of writing, and the descendant languages, among other things
The aliens in 8113 that open this thing will get to the Atlantic Journal showing the start of WW2 and be like “damn, cancelled on a cliffhanger”
They probably thought the war ended us when they don’t find us here anymore
Or they will think we worshiped Gone With the Wind
I don't get it, why would they assume we just happened to make the crypt at the end of the world? Why would they not find evidence of civilization after that? The point of a time capsule is to preserve artifacts well, not to be their only source. And why would they wait till 8113 to open it if nobody was around to give them those instructions?
@@Arfarf69 lot of assumptions going on there
Fun fact: The Crypt of Civilisation was already forgotten. In the seventies(?), a staffer came across the massive steel door, that was covered and obscured by time. It had been years since anyone had been in that wing, and this person rediscovered the vault.
To paraphrase Beloq from Raiders of the Last Ark " Bury anything for a thousand years and it becomes priceless"
Including literal crap.
Couldnt we just 'seal up' a GoodWill store? All of the low value items inside will become outrageously valuable, and it has Windows for people to view the items inside. Change the name to 'the GoodWill Museum', and ... there you go.
Lol Sounds like the longest cruise. The business blaze video of best job ever. The german ships where gone so long that the goods they where shipping increased in value 10 fold. One of Simon's best Videos ever.
Thats brilliant!
But then people who actually NEED the items won't be able to have them...and believe it or not, but you can get better quality stuff (especially furniture....furniture from the 70's was made to LAST) at Goodwill than you can at Walmart or from the "big box" stores. Aside from my mattress, the only item of furniture I have that wasn't bought at Goodwill are a chair designed by Eero Saarinen in the 1960s that some rich person threw out and an even older chair that I inheirited from my grandmother.
Given how excited archeologists get about corproliths, I'm going to declare my septic tank a Millennium Time Capsule: Open In 1,000 Years.
Did you see pictures of the car that was burried in the Tulsa Time Capsule? They did start a restoration process of the car in early 2007, sadly the car was not in any shape to be fully restored to a functioning car. Instead it was rust treated to clean the car and as of 2009 sits on display in an auto museum in Detroit.
Imagine a time when the humans do not remember who first went into space. When the humans forget which planet was the first one for us.
Asimov's Foundation series uses this as a subplot, set some 25,000 years in the future.
'The' Humans...?
@@curiodyssey3867 humans gotta human!
U some people would say the egyptians saw that happen and we did forget.
I am not part of that group.
This "earth" never existed. just look at how dumb it sounds. Humanity was created ~6000 years ago on mars.
The bible states this very clearly.
That lovely time of the week when your phone blows up with Simon notifications lol
Suppose Simon made a time capsule. What do you think would be in it?
- "The past was the worst" T-shirt
- One of Simon's blazers
- A used Business Blaze script
- Several red Solo cups
- An Enron mug
- A clipping from Simon's beard, and some Beard Blaze
- Keys to the basement
- A bag of white powder (and we all know what kind of white powder, allegedly)
- A box of that mail order breakfast cereal
- A copy of Danny's bio
- Anything else?
An audio recording of "Smash that dislike button."
Plus another audio recording of "How not to sing" by Yoko Ono.
And at least two promotional ads. With inflation he will be able to buy himself a mansion!
That stupid f ing heater he used to talk to.
The one thing it appears the Crypt of Civilization is missing: a Rosetta stone. Or in contemporary terms, throw a variety of English-French, English-Spanish, English-Chinese, etc. dictionaries in there so that if even one of those languages survives in semi-recognizable form it could unlock the secrets of the other languages which may have been lost to time.
Did you not watch the video? Or just not pay attention at all? They have that. It was talked about in the video. They _literally_ used the words Rosetta stone in describing it. 🤨
@@TheMrVengeance But it's only for English rather than all the other languages. Helping translate one language is good, multiple languages is much better.
@@willythemailboy2 - .... It's translating to English because all the material in the vault is in English. And if you can translate numerous language TO English, you can also translate them to each other. That's literally how the Rosetta stone worked too. 🙄
@@TheMrVengeance That's exactly my point. Everything in the vault is in English, so nothing in the vault could help future people translate anything they found that wasn't. That's the shortcoming that should have been addressed but wasn't. There's a translation guide to English but no true Rosetta Stone because nothing references other languages.
@@willythemailboy2 - .. It does reference other languages... what do you think the translation guide IS. Or what do you think the Rosetta stone IS?
The funnest thing coming out of a time capsule was a singing and dancing frog (brought to you by Warner Brother's Looney Toones)!
Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime doll🎶🎶🎶
Axel frog from Jamba Baby. Look for that 90s nokia advertising on you tube it's funny.
As long as the singing fish hopefully will never have been into a time capsule. 🤦🏼♀️
Important caveat:
"Singing frogs sing only for their masters."
--Chuck Jones
So one historian complained that the contents of time capsules were selected by those who buried them to represent only what they wanted future historians to see, but then also complained that they were a haphazard assortment of junk? So which was it - it was either curated or it was a random assortment? That historian seemed to have limited imagination - a time capsule doesn't tell future generations what life was like, but it does tell them how they wanted to see themselves.
No time-capsule will please everyone, and a lot of the criticism of the ones thus far created is through modern cultural filters.
This is amazing! My mother taught at Oglethorpe when I was in high school (late '60s, early '70s), and I have been in the Phoebe Hearst building many times. This is the first I have heard of the Crypt, however!
Someone will open the one up before the 8000 or so. When you want a cigarette you will do anything.
Someone will find it early and freak out cause it looks like a bomb
The only thing worse than needing a cigarette is having a cigarette and needing a lighter.
Where's the lie though
Uh-oh, Simon's got his sleeves rolled up. Things just got real!
He’s serious
He's about to upload a video on everyone of his channels..watch out
The original Oglethorpe came from my home town, Godalming, in the county of Surrey in the UK. He founded the colony of Georgia.
Out of curiosity, do you pronounce "Oglethorpe" like Simone does? In Georgia we pronounce it "Oh-gal-thorpe." The "Oo-gal-thorpe" pronunciation caught me off gaurd.
@@grant0617 It's pronounced the Georgia way as in Oh-gal-thorpe - equal emphasis on each of the three syllables.
Haven't watched the video but I'm gonna guess Nicholas Cage has searched for a treasure there...
Future civilization - finds time time capsule, uses their technology to go back in time to leave a note in the ground for the people about to bury their capsule: “Stop sending us your junk.”
The Millennium time capsule of 2003 in our backyard was opened in 2019 during a deck renovation. It contained a Giants sports page from 2004 which had deteriorated, and several baseballs and tennis balls. More interesting were the baseballs, which had been placed there as caught balls from my nephew's little league and from high school. He buried it in his senior year. It was only 16 years later, but the deck stone it was in had been disturbed. Then he rebuilt the deck but did not replace it with paper from 2019.
With the uptake in science and knowledge, things change much faster than before. Even for us the content of that crypt would look like ancient artifacts. And what is today a normal household item, would be a wondrous magical gadget for the 1930s. They might have envisioned space flight, but they did not think of Candy Crush...or the idea of a smartphone or any device with the computational power of it. You could say, there is about as much change between 1930 and 2020 than between...say...1680 and 1930. While in former times usually not much did change within a persons lifetime, nowadays we can barely go a decade without something being discovered or invented that changes society (for better or worse). A family of farmers plowing their land in the 17th century would go generations and nothing would change. Yes, a new government, a war, new land discovered...but in the end they will plow the field like their grandparents did and their grandkids will do.
This video was super interesting! As someone that loves exploring abandoned places and dwelling on its history I think its pretty cool that they did that set up this crypt
Robert Rodriguez directed a movie called 100 years. It was produced and then sealed in a vault for 100 years. For our descendants sake I hope it's good.
As a teen I and some friend demolished an house (don't worry the owner paid us) inside a wall we found an newspaper from the day Japan capitulated and WW2 ended. I guess they put up or repaired the wall and thought that newspaper was worth preserving or that people in 50 years might enjoy it.
I have a question, if you don't mind. Why did the owner want the house demolished?
Actually they probably used it as insulation.
1937 though. That thing could really use an update. How about backing up all of Wikipedia and providing a device and power source for reading it? The sum total of human knowledge, good, bad and frivolous, can now fit in a package smaller than a shoebox.
Watching this video after binge watching Business Blaze is extremely confusing for my two remaining brain cells
For sure. Honestly, throwing some of the blaze's energy to his other channels would probably be a good thing.
I've noticed that BB has leaked into a few TIFO videos lately
I still love this channel and his other ones but yeah I'm missing a little of that bb energy
This is one of my FAVORITE videos you’ve made!!!!!! I’m a sucker for some Gilgamesh fun facts and any kind of cool unknown/unpopular history. Love your channel ❤️ and the many others you have
There's an important factor they overlooked in deciding on that date: literacy is far more common now than it was 6000 years ago.
Hello Simon!
I have been watching your videos for a while now.
I live in California, and we do not have very much ancient history here.
I have never been to England, but I have been fascinated with the history documentary programs about the Roman occupation of Britain. I would be very interested in the future some more information about the origins of the "-wich" towns. I read somewhere that town names ending in "-wich" were Roman salt towns?
I am also curious about weird and odd pagan festivals, such as "The Obby Oss Festival" in Cornwall, The "Nutter's Dance", "Up Helly Aa", and "Twelfth Night Bankside". I mean, we have weird people in California, but some of those festivals are really bizarre, and I would love more information about them.
Thank you for your videos. They really are quite informative!
... there are thousands of years of human history in the Americas
There is significant history in the Americas. Lack of written old-world history =/= lack of history.
I'm surprised didn't mention the time capsule made of conxrete that the Mormon church just opened. Salt lake city temple. Was the capstone. Unfortunately most of it was books that sucked up the moisture from the concrete but still interesting and was around 1876 when it was made.
Carpenters doing re-models find things inside of walls. Bottles of beer, photographs, newspapers and magazines. House builders have been sealing things inside of walls for as long as there have been walls (or foundations) to tuck things into. The house my husband and I built has toys hidden in behind the drywall. A box with photos, full beer bottles...
And a couple of joints.
I love this channel. It’s hard cause I wanna watch all 5 at once. Lol
5? Lol why not all 9? XD
*Archaeologists in the Distant Future:* Ohh great, yet another sealed metal tube, stuffed with random pointless bullshit....
The Long Now Foundation could make for a good video topic. There is their 10,000 year clock. Their Rosetta Project to preserve languages expected to go extinct. The Long Bet project to keep track of predictions for long in the future to see if any of them win. There is also their book collection which they call the Manual for Civilization which they believe contains books necessary to rebuild civilization in the event of catastrophe.
When they open that vault thousands of years later and find the mannequins and toys, those civilizations will think they're some sort of gods that we worshipped.
They wont be entirely wrong.
Imagine if the crypt is lost to time and then 1000 years from now there are rumors of a vault containing untold riches buried somewhere in an old swimming pool
I’m glad you guys tackled time capsules. I meant to suggest the topic.
In 2025, I’m attending a time capsule opening from when I was 9 in 2000. I made a speech and everything before we lowered it in front of my elementary school. So maybe I’ll speak in front of hundreds when we open it again. Time capsules are cool thanks for the knowledge.
That "Gone with the Wind" inclusion was a type of foreshadowing of the nature of the vaults.
I enjoyed this topic very much, and consider you, Simon, to be one of the best channel owners due to your scientifically skeptical attitude, your intelligent choice of topics, and your sense of humour.,
There was an attempt to land a time capsule in the moon, which crashed but is planned to be repeated in a future lander.
The design was much like the crypt but modern and miniature. The top layers can be read more easily but lower layers require better microscopes and so on.
This made me remember that i was the lucky kid in charge of my elementary schools time capsule that should have been opened around 4 years ago. Maybe ill swing by to see what garbage i tossed in there
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Yes, Oglethorpe, the man who wanted Georgia to have no slave trade and Georgia to be a home for people in debtors prison and all British Jews. Sadly, George Whitfield, a clergyman thought to be one of the leaders of the Great Awakening, thought that Georgia needed slavery. Many agreed. The Georgia colony was doing just fine with its original charter immigrants, free blacks, and Native Americans. But no, Georgia had to have slavery.
I am not a Christian, but I have read Matthew 25. Whitfield will meet Jesus at the Judgement and be condemned. Mathew 25 pretty much says that Christians are going to Hell. I think Princess Diana might make the cut though. She used what she had, her fame, to help the "least of these". Her two visits to AIDS wards broadcast on the BBC really changed how the English speaking world perceived AIDS. She touched men dying of AIDS and informed the public that this type of contact could not transmit the disease. I think younger people understand what we used to call "full blown AIDS" looked like. It was weight loss, pale skin with darker patches, and the stench of death. Diana went there when these patients were "the least of these" and used her fame to show people the truth.
Maybe a TIFO about Diana's hospital films would be a good idea. Or how Rock Hudson's death finally got Reagan to take AIDS seriously. And what about Koop's excellent response to the AIDS crisis? Back in the day we thought Koop was a fringy dumbass, but he came through.
BTW, wear a mask. Read Matthew 25. I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty sure Matt 25 says Jesus will take personal notice of you if you claim to have faith in him and do not wear a mask. I an am not a Christian, nor have I ever been. But I know and admire what Jesus said even though it likely condemns me. But if I wear a mask. If you claim faith in Jesus and do not wear a mask I am pretty sure you are facing the harsher judgement.
Then there is Andy Warhol's 'Time Capsules' which are basically warehouse storerooms he filled with junk and shut the door. Not even any preservation effort (on his part) because distillation was part of the process.
More recently people have been sorting this stuff out, finding partially eaten toast and cigarettes. And just stuff
Just graduated from Oglethorpe last May !!! Pretty cool
Egyptian tombs only reflected Egyptian life and no one is calling racism on that. Any attempt to capture the entire world is bound to fail because of in-built biases. The better option is that every government around the world funds their own so that way people in the future can know that this is what this area looked like in the past.
I could see the usual suspects digging these things up and destroying the evidence, that offends their ideological constructs and contradicts their re-written history.
C’mon man. I was having fun. We were all having fun. Now im just sad.
Just as I was thinking about how much the crypt reminded me of the front room of Tutankhamun's tomb, the photo of his tomb popped up.
Nobody is going to talk about how the information people put on the internet is the largest and most accurate time capsule man has created?
I just thought of something the one that tries to use the radio and 8,137 is going to be kind of out of luck for one reason or another either the Caps or the a.m. band will have gone quietly into the night by then.
Something I haven't heard of at all? Time to strap in!
My main concern is: How many time the stuf on the Time Capsules would survive the degradation caused by the passage of time?
There's something funny about an appointment for hundreds of years in the future specifying exactly Noon. 😆
When the cave men open this crypt, and marvel at the artifacts within, they may wonder how such a race could ever have failed. Do you think it will ever cross their minds that we were simply too polite to insist on our own existence?
This reminded me of the storyline in the game Fallout 4, where a prewar time capsule becomes the focus of scavengers some 200 years after nuclear war. They called it the "Treasures of Jamaica Plain" so naturally all these people expected it to be valuable (to them) but in the end it's just junk. Kind of a story about how what the past might find useful or important might be ultimately worthless in the future.
The timing is amazing. I wonder what evidence included signals the discovery of the atom bomb, which was just around the corner?
I restored a home with my children and my BFFs kids helping me out. I told them we were putting a time capsule between the floors of the house (itself from the early 1800s.) I allowed them to place anything they felt valuable to people of the future in the container. Hence? A hall pass for the local high school, a favorite book, a plastic collectable critter, and many other interesting (to them) items, along with short pencil scribed letters on acid free paper! I don't know how long before the cache is found. We did good work on the flooring (oak) so, I figure at least 100 years!
Volume of “square feet”? Love the video... but had to point that out.
Lol an area to measure volume.
He is still adjusting to life outside flatland
Well, cave-man units are easily got wrong...even by the Americans who still obstinately use them.
I think it's good that we preserve things for future generations, though I think that the point made about items that are well used telling more of a story is a good point to make.
I collect historical artifacts, especially ones with military significance, and I've seen sterling examples of pieces in pristine condition from long ago. But for the most part, I don't find them interesting at all. What I usually spring for are pieces with a more checkered past, the well-used and obscure that tell a story of the people who made the artifact, held it and used it through the decades, albeit often a vague tale full of unknowns. It invokes a sense of curiosity and mystery about the piece that draws one in.
I understand the want to preserve a record full of the truly known for a time capsule. The preservation of core ideas, important events of our day, and the like has its place, but the preservation of the everyday is something that shouldn't just be sealed away, it should be used to teach history to the living, rather than being buried with the dead.
Hey this is my university! So cool to see Simon talk about it
In the late 60's my brother and I buried a time capsule in our back yard. It's still there but the house and land has passed on through a few different families. I've often thought about going there ti see if they would let my dig it up but I expect that unless they are receptive to the idea, they'll think I'm crazy and just say no. I'd need to rent a metal detector but that isn't that difficult I imagine.
Times only passing before it’s forgotten forever, the only ones who know it’s there is you two. I suggest you give it a shot
Are there any scifi novels about civilizations in the distant future opening any of these time capsules? I would very much like to read something like that.
6:24 The Obfuscated Metric System at it again, using square feet to measure volume
@John Barber Pointing out errors is not whining.
I'm waiting for Simon to tell us the distance to the moon in cubic millimetres
Not even that, it is cave-man units being used by Americans being misused by Americans. Can't blame the metric system.
So did they actually find that copper box with the epic of Gilgamesh in it? that sounds awesome.
5:50 wait... what Pharos was that?
toot-AHN ka-MOON? XD I'm dying. Ka'moon, Simon, now you're just doing it on purpose.
The trees that will become books remind me of that Doctor Who episode in library when they realize that the books were once trees.... 'hey, who turned out the lights?'
Oh, I wasn't expecting "Miss Belvedere" to appear in this video. Good catch, team!
I graduated from Oglethorpe in 1979, couldn’t even get to see the secure door.
It was fun place to go to school.
Does sound like just the right kind of interesting.
When I was there, it was next to the bookstore, so I passed that door a lot.
I went to both New York Worlds Fairs, in 1940 as a little kid with my parents, and in 1966 when I was working for a New York radio station and had a season pass and went many times---Don't remember any talk either time of a time capsule. In the first all attention was on the Trilon and Perisphere and the rides in the moving cars in Ford and GM pavilions. In the second the Belgian Village (which introduced Belgian waffles but was risibly late in construction.)
A nearby town, during a civil war re-enactment event, decided to open a time capsule they had buried. Cool, I thought, until I learned it had been buried less than 30 years ago. Yeah, that sounds exciting.😉
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
It's just gonna be forgotten and probably covered within that time.
They put a Key -symbol on their sign. A type of key that was already outdated when they made it. That's just dumb, who in 50 years would recognize that key? In 150? 1000? Nobody!? The Key-Symbol as a clue might be around now but it's not gonna survive forever!
If they put a similar looking key next to it with a look i would guess anyone could figure that hint out easily
I was thinking of how mysterious our electronics are recently. And decided to go see how these microchips are created. And while all the documentation is probably available, if the world were to lose a major number of humans and civilization had to be rebuilt, would it be able to have enough knowledgeable, capable people to understand and restore the computer industry, after it spent the first 40 years, or so, rebuilding agriculture and society in general?
That's the thing, we've crossed a technological threshold where information itself is now nigh indestructible. It will take a planet-wide calamity to undo progress. Take it from me, I study computer science in university. It's not that hard. The physical technology of the silicon industry may be hard to recreate but the door has already been opened. There are endless intelligent people with endless drives for creation.
@@goodiesohhi You know it's not that hard. I know it's not that hard. But for the person who is not logically wired, it is extremely difficult.
@@Machtyn Well that's what I said, there's always going to be people who can figure it out unless we literally get sent back to before math.
Forgot to mention the 1997 Plymouth prowler time capsule
Dental floss will be fascinating? My, our future descendants will be seriously bored with life. "Look! What's this? Waxed and flavored string?! How fascinating." and then he keels over dead from over excitement.
People will be smart enough to recognize that any curated artifacts will necessarily reflect the ideals of the individuals who created the time capsules.
With the occurrence of banking systems around the world trying to raise inflation, i know where to go for antiques to sell.
Thank you sir Simon whistler
Mr whistler how do you do mate, watching from australia at 1:30 am 😂
I read that as "how do you mate" the first time 🤣🤣🤣
@@spddiesel well im glad im not the only bugger drinking at 2:31 in the mornin lmao
@Eddie Hitler lmfao good on ya bloke i raise my glass to ya mate
@@reesedundee8525 9:30 a.m. here so I'm dry as of yet, but I did partake in the devil's lettuce this morning 😉
@@spddiesel same mate lol
very interesting thought provoking video.
Yeah, ain't nothing lasting to the year 8,000. Cool idea, though.
Aren't there some radioactive materials that last that long?
It will last if you believe it will last. Promise me you will believe.
Well some of the Egyptian stuff is half that age, 4K year more would not had an significant impact.
You want an dry place however. Freezing it or remove oxygen is better but harder to pull off.
G'day,
Rio Tinto Mining Pty Ltd dynamited a pair of 46,000 year-old Dwelling Caves, in northern Western Australia, only last year...; before blowing up the whole Cliff to sell the Dirt to China (Iron Ore) for $130 million, they conducted an Archaeological Dig in the Cave Floors - recovering a Belt, woven of Human Hair.
Things which People made, used to last, once upon a time...; before Industrial Atmospheric Fossil Carbon Emission, and Anthropogenic Global Warming really got into their stride and started running at an ever accelerating pace.
The liklihood of any underground "Stone Bunker", in Georgia, being left unopened & intact and unmolested or repurposed during the imminently approaching chaotic implosion of the EcoGnomie of the entire Global Vile Age, seems roughly as remote as the chances that - if indeed the Repository does survive Civilisation's downfall..., unopened, then in 8,000 years' time there will be someone near to hand who is able to open a Steel Door which has been welded shut on a Granite Cave for 4 times longer than Humans have been able to smelt Steel, at all..., at this point in time...
It appears vanishingly unlikely that the Crypt of Civilisation will ever fulfil ANY of the grandiose Plans it was hubristically intended to realise.
What an arrogant waste of Lifetime, and Resources....; a true Fool's Errand of a thing.
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
@@WarblesOnALot Well if they open it in a thousand years it'll still be a big deal.
Commenting for the algorithm. Thanks for another informative video!
Record scratch. Today literally right now is the first time I've ever heard of this thing good job.
It seems likely that before 6,000 years have passed, someone will decide to use that space for some other construction.
I like the message of Hope included in the smaller one
Too tank a moon is probably the best pronunciation ive heard on this channel lol.
Two Tank A Moon????? haha well said
Ironically, it turns out there may be a good chance that UA-cam and its parent company Google will prove to be the greatest Time Capsule of all.
No, copyright claims will get too much deleted. Lots of videos get taken down by copyright trolls, including huge companies who unfairly claim videos from smaller creators. Then records of who owns what will be lost before copyright expires.
Good video 👍
When the Crypt of Civilization opens, GTA 6 still hasn't come out yet.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will hurt forever.”
I hope that that Rosetta's Stone thing has the means for them to interpret the date on the admission tickets, because they might not use our dating system anymore by that time.
14:03 and as someone with Hispanic blood here’s a question, what’s wrong with that?
If it’s such a big issue just make your own because they are already including a little bit of other cultures and it’s their own project.
That's where I went to school. Always thought that thing was so cool.
After watching business blaze, I can never look at this simon the same again.
I have just watched the latest BB. It's hard to see him so serious 😇
Voyager records: Do you want Battlefield Earth? Because That's How you Get Battlefield Earth.