Comments on: The Crypt of Civilization https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Thu, 25 May 2023 22:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: experiment626 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-74136 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:57:24 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-74136 https://archive.org/details/1930-1937RadioNews/1937-04-18+CBS+We+The+People+Dinosaur+Tracks.mp3

At approximately 22:00 minutes they talk about this time capsule and they recorded the making of it. That’s how I found this site. If your curious.

]]> By: Andy https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-73783 Tue, 11 May 2021 14:05:47 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-73783 Concerning the Emerson radio stored in the crypt..they should have made recordings of everyday radio broadcasts..to give the inhabitants 8113 the flavour of what 1930s radio was like and meant to the people then

]]> By: Mous https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-73345 Tue, 26 May 2020 07:38:17 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-73345 this reminds me, I need to back up my hard drive. Will this be necessary in the future? either there will be no hard drives or they’ll be be advanced enough that all info storage can be repaired with string & glue.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-73344 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:39:39 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-73344 I am back again.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-73343 Sun, 24 May 2020 03:04:50 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-73343 Back again.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-73153 Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:08:19 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-73153 I am returned.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-72468 Sat, 26 May 2018 02:34:16 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-72468 I have thought for quite a few years that the real purpose of the pyramids and hieroglyphics was to be time capsules with messages that didn’t depend upon a written language.

]]> By: GinRicky https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-72151 Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:39:19 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-72151 Thought they’d been rather thoughtful and scientific about the whole endeavor until that final sentence, “…until the year 8113, at which time we direct that it shall be opened by authorities representing the above governmental agencies and the administration of Oglethorpe University.”.

Authorities representing DeKalb county and the future dean of Oglethorpe U, I suppose, will dutifully be on hand for the ceremony in the year 8113 AD. Lol.

]]> By: Deej https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-72123 Wed, 31 May 2017 23:40:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-72123 Wish I could be there when the frog comes out singing ♫♫ Hello mah honey, hello mah baby….. ♫♫

]]> By: Jack https://www.damninteresting.com/the-crypt-of-civilization/#comment-71823 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:20:24 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=414#comment-71823 This is an odd assertion:

a new medium known as “microfilm.”

Microfilm wasn’t new in 1940 – microfilmed messages were carried by spies during the US Civil War (1861-65).

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