Yahoo Digital Time Capsule
Yahoo is building what is hoped to be the largest time capsule ever, but its going to be digital. They will project photo submissions of the time capsule onto the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico, and then beam the images via a powerful laser into Outer Space. I guess they want to share Earthling pictures with space aliens, either as a warning to stay away or an invitation to come down and invade this planet.
I already submitted my recipe for Beef Stew!
The Time Capsule site is here.
The news from a press release is here:
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct 10, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO, Trade) today announced the launch of what is expected to be the world’s largest time capsule in history. Starting today, Yahoo! is encouraging people from around the world to contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, home movies and art to this first-ever electronic anthropology project designed to document life in 2006. In celebration of the project, Yahoo! will illuminate one of the most well-preserved sites from ancient times by projecting selected time capsule submissions onto The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico from October 25-27, 2006, as well as beaming the material into space. Submissions for the Yahoo! Time Capsule can be made at timecapsule.yahoo.com or by searching for “Yahoo! Time Capsule” on Yahoo!.
In addition, Yahoo! will send the content into space through a digitized laser light beam from the historic monument — bringing together the past and the present with the universe’s potential future by sharing today’s culture on Earth with other life that may exist light years away.
Following the screening, time capsule content will be saved onto a digital archive and sealed, to be opened at Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. on the company’s 25th anniversary in the year 2020. In addition, copies of this content will be presented to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings archives in Washington, DC as well as to The National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City to be preserved, studied and shared with future generations.
