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I always enjoy thinking about what modern artifact might make a similar journey into the future and be discovered under equally serendipitous circumstance.

zvr 3y ago
You should read about Nacirema (no spoilers). The original is at https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/bodyrit.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet... and it has been transcribed at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirema https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...
bongodongobob 3y ago
One of my favorite things is thinking about the life of discarded objects. I'll be walking through the woods and find a Mountain Dew can from the 80s. Who left it here 40 years ago? What store did he buy it from? Who stocked it on the shelf? Who was the person who packaged it after it came off the production line? Who was the truck driver that dropped off the aluminum? Who was the miner that pulled the ore from the ground? What star did the elements come from?
- curtis3389 3y ago
  Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    You reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days. Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
    - arrowsmith 3y ago
      Check out the YouTube channel "Ghost Town Living". Some guy bought an entire abandoned mining town in California and has been living in it for the last few years while slowly making the whole town liveable for guests and tourists. One of the coolest personal projects I've seen in a long time.
      - pjmlp 3y ago
        Thanks for the tip.
slimsag 3y ago
cheetos probably
imoverclocked 3y ago
Styrofoam packing nuts. They will likely fall out of use, then people will forget about them. Finally, as they reappear centuries later, people will start collecting them until they find a completely intact Amazon package of seeds from an extinct plant… and packing nuts. Then, the mystery will be solved; The ancients must have believed that these packing nuts could preserve objects since the styrofoam itself would last forever.
detourdog 3y ago
Egyptian artifacts have made it to Manhattan think of that puzzle left for the future. My guess is that it will look like Egyptian dynasty may look like it lasted much longer to the future.

zvr 3y ago

You should read about Nacirema (no spoilers). The original is at https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/bodyrit.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet... and it has been transcribed at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirema https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...

bongodongobob 3y ago

One of my favorite things is thinking about the life of discarded objects. I'll be walking through the woods and find a Mountain Dew can from the 80s. Who left it here 40 years ago? What store did he buy it from? Who stocked it on the shelf? Who was the person who packaged it after it came off the production line? Who was the truck driver that dropped off the aluminum? Who was the miner that pulled the ore from the ground? What star did the elements come from?

curtis3389 3y ago
Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?
- pjmlp 3y ago
  You reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days. Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
  - arrowsmith 3y ago
    Check out the YouTube channel "Ghost Town Living". Some guy bought an entire abandoned mining town in California and has been living in it for the last few years while slowly making the whole town liveable for guests and tourists. One of the coolest personal projects I've seen in a long time.
    - pjmlp 3y ago
      Thanks for the tip.

slimsag 3y ago

cheetos probably

imoverclocked 3y ago

Styrofoam packing nuts. They will likely fall out of use, then people will forget about them. Finally, as they reappear centuries later, people will start collecting them until they find a completely intact Amazon package of seeds from an extinct plant… and packing nuts. Then, the mystery will be solved; The ancients must have believed that these packing nuts could preserve objects since the styrofoam itself would last forever.

detourdog 3y ago

Egyptian artifacts have made it to Manhattan think of that puzzle left for the future. My guess is that it will look like Egyptian dynasty may look like it lasted much longer to the future.