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The space container idea could make for a really interesting book plot. It starts in modern day where they send the capsule up. Then skips forward several hundr
by GoldenRacer 4y ago
The space container idea could make for a really interesting book plot. It starts in modern day where they send the capsule up. Then skips forward several hundred years to society collapsing. Then skip forward a few hundred more to see how the myth of knowledge falling from the sky is being passed down. Then it keeps skipping ahead to see how the myth evolves. By the end you just have some super cryptic prophecy like "god will descend from the heavens to bring about heaven on earth" and then it actually happens.
- chihuahua 4y agoThey open the capsule, and find that it contains nothing but a complete transcript of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial.
- zyx321 4y agoYou say that as a joke, but it would say a lot about contemporary American culture. Just think about the gender roles on display, a women attacks her husband and gloats that society will side with her. Not to mention the meta-layer, the celebrity worship that would compel someone to preserve this particular document of all things.
- jhbadger 4y agoThat's a joke, but real time capsules often aren't as interesting as they could be because the makers of them put things that they think are important (like a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt if he was President of the US at the time) rather than details of what their daily lives were like which they didn't think of including.
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- hrayn3 4y agoHighly recommend reading A Canticle for Leibowitz - it's a masterpiece that deals with exactly this over (can't exactly remember) 2 thousand years
- GoldenRacer 4y agoAppreciate the recommendation. I'll check it out