A Moment in Time: Time capsule found during construction at MIT 

+King Duck - Or keep it in a safer place and try to make as sure as possible the cylinder will survive after 50 generations. Btw, that does sound surprisingly few for a thousand years, doesn't it?

+King Duck More than likely it'll go in a safe and not be opened till it's time. They needed to build there.

+ITR/InsidetheRedstone On RU-vid just stick a penny in a time capsule, wait 1000 years, ???, profit!

yup! LOL

+King Duck You're a Business student aren't you? lol

+FunOrange right because doing that will ensure it doesn't disappear forever right genius lol

What I find most intriguing is they design a fancy glass container to protect the contents because steel will rust & wood will rot ... and then they use electrical tape to strap a PAPER LABEL on the outside to tell everyone not to open it for a thousand years.

+Jasondacoolio - Yes, and then every time, human kind is caught to not be capable of respecting the request, add another one, and another one. In 1000 years there would be 20 capsules buried together for every 50 years they are 'discovered'.

+Galaxia you meant 20

+Jasondacoolio Yep, let's create a time capsule each year. if you think of the volume of this thing, a thousand of those wouldn't take much space. And then we could build a kind of a library with very well controlled conditions to make sure that these capsules are not forgotten and are well-preserved.

+Timofey Danshin I love how your argument was well-addressed to my counter argument about volume, lol (I applaud it! Seriously!). I wanted to say, in a thousand year's time, it would be a yearly tradition to open a time capsule...! But hm, I don't think much would change in a year. How about 5?

+Timofey Danshin That sounds like something we are using right now. The Internet.

+DerZocker2000000 - Exactly what I was thinking!

50 years is still history. shit happens, culture changes. it's still interesting.

+Lucien Grondin That's GENUIS! Then in 50 years, it will get rediscovered, then put in a bigger box detailing their discovery and so on! By the year 2957, it's gonna be one fucking huge box!

+King Duck THEN NO ONE WILL FORGET TO OPEN IT! YES!

This comment might be cliche, but hopefully not like in Idiocracy.

+TestrisMan Yeah. Fallout 4 is the best fallout yet! I say that with a lot of bias though as I live in boston.

Amazing game. Funny how on almost every video I go to now there is another FallOutFanLolYouKnowWhatImSayingProbablyNotCuzUIsDumb

Hank Hill Hey hank

I know , right!

That looks like electrical tape.

+bahadır Durmaz *thing

+SameBasicRiff I don't think they did...

+SameBasicRiff if you paid attention, they showed a COPY of the original letter, they did not open the capsule

Sweggler looks like the photos they had laying on the table came from inside the capsule, like they just opened the top up and took everything out.

They didn't open it. They have pictures, video, and copies from when it was first buried. They reburied it with a new time capsule beside it. www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/18/time-capsule-meant-last-years-found-mit/sX1Jg9Q186RIRELevewASP/story.html

500 potatoes

they still keep it safe place.... private.

It said 2057 AD

+Krypton Games No it said 2957 AD.

Yeah. why would they open it? Oh I know... THEY DIDN'T, YOU TURKEY FUCKING MORON.

+Detschizm nope, the letter they showed is a copy of the original letter kept from the burial

I actually got an idea how to make 1... Gotta make it...

u play too much fallout 4

+Jose Bautista I wish, my pc cant run it haha

+Kouji Chan I didn't see anywhere in the video that they opened it.

fucking idiot.

They didn't open it.

How have they tampered with it? They moved the capsule because they had to put up a building, but they didn't "tamper" with it. They're obviously treating it like the historical item that it is. They couldn't read the note on the capsule without taking it out of the ground, after all.

+MrxAskar "It’s not supposed to be opened until the year 2957, and thankfully MIT is honoring that wish." Source: paleofuture.gizmodo.com/time-capsule-for-the-year-2957-discovered-at-mit-1743378944

+JcGross agreed but these retards could've let it stay longer then 58 years with a thousand year goal

+Krypton Games keeping it real dog straight up

east side rules.

+Creep Show East side rules everywhere

+Angel Joyce Pasion - Dude, watch the video or read the article before commenting. They DIDN'T open it. The letter they showed was a copy from the MIT archives.

There are people who major in stupid shit like that. You can take classes to learn ancient languages like Greek or Latin. Wouldn't recommend them though.

are you dumb? no, let's answer that for you. That's the most stupid thing I heard today, and my friend said she would use lipstick as a substitute for eyeshadow. Latin literature and its studies (classics, ancient history) are very well known, we have documents from letters sent by writers and scholars in Rome. In some cases entire books (the Illiad and the Odyssey) are preserved as part of literature. Modern philosophy and physics builds on the foundation of texts written over 2000 years ago. You might have an IQ of 60 but quite a few others don't; even if the language changes dramatically, language analysis and notes on literature from our time would be able to make sense of pretty much everything, especially since printed books and the internet came into play.

+Jon Lynx so what do you major in? being an ignorant unappreciative human?

+ Tristán Hermkens pero debe haber una infromacion muy importante no crees, que no desconocemos

+Martin Jorge What? You can probably read English but you are to lazy or can't type English.. Weird.. Dus ik kan ook gewoon Nederlands tegen je gaan praten terwijl jij er gewoon niks van snapt?

+Tristan Hermkens the video doesn't mention anything about opening the capsule... neither does it mention burying it again though, which made me kind of sad

***** èstoy aprendiendo ingles recien simplemente somos telones de fondo

in the video, if you listen, they say that what they showed is a COPY of the original letter, they didnt open the capsule

It might be considered ancient, but with all the clues we left and will leave in the future, I am certain that the English of today will be able to be reconstructed and translated to whatever it is we speak by then. Consider this, though: The written English is changing slower than the spoken English. They might have the same words as we do now, but they might also pronounce them differently. I'm confident, they will receive and understand.

+Spartn M clearly sarcasm lol

***** but mine was. mankind at war since the beginning of recorded human existence and you think its silly to think we will be our own ending? as well as the proven facts of what will happen if the population increase continues at current pace? hope you're right my friend.