I’ve got an opportunity to put a small time capsule under some cement in my yard. I realize the chances of anyone finding it in the future are next to null but just for fun what would be something you would put in it if you had the chance?
One of those cans of nuts that’s really a spring-loaded snake toy thing.
It will almost certainly be found, and probably sooner than you expect. That’s my guess.
Nothing digital, you can’t know what tech will be available. Pictures and stories of your every day life with plenty of detail, plus what you think the future will be like, again with plenty of detail–everyone likes to laugh at how wrong we get this, and the occasional thing we get right. Handwritten would be best. The further back in the past, the fewer details we have of everyday life. Only the official records survive long term, and that is “written by the victors”, so to speak. One of the most interesting things we have from the past is the complaint about a copper shipment. It’s interesting because we can all relate to that.
For some reason this read in Baz Luhrmann’s Everybody’s Free voice and it was really nice
Wgrite an incredibly cryptic note explaining that the following pages are a coded manifesto pointed towards something valuable. Fill the next 4 pages with heavily encrypted text of something really dumb and pointless.
We’re still trying to figure out a ton of cryptic stuff, it’d be funny to have one just be a straight up hoax and still get taken seriously.
The Lemmy Capsule™
- Beans
- Gurken
- Some thirsty furry memes
- Lots of kobolds
- Femcel memes
- Das Kapital and the Red book
- A guide to self-hosting
kobolds I had to look those up, never heard of them before.
a journal
Get a 50+ year old shoe box
Buy a bunch of fake historic coins on the internet.
Find and print a historic news article about some sort of treasure find from around the same time as the shoe box. Bonus points if on actual newsprint.
Wrap coins in printed news article, place in box, seal box under cement.




