It can be personal item.
It can be an everyday object.
Put a CD-ROM to tell us more about this object.
Bury it somewhere for the next 50 years.
Let someone find it.
I will find a group of endangered plants and store them in a secret garden. These endangered plants aren't just plants. They hold the cure for different diseases and illness.
So right now i will plant the seeds of these selected plants and 50 years later they will grow into a large amount, like a secret garden.
And as for my time capsule, i will store a key inside to open the secret garden. Apart from the key, there will be a CD-ROM that explain my idea and the location of the Secret garden.
However i encounter a few problems.
1. After 50 years, who and how am i gonna inform that someone or a group of people or an organization to look for my time capsule?
2. I need a stronger reason why i need to wait until 50 years later for it to be found?
3. How can i make the CD-ROM more interactive?
Answers:
Are you doing this just for yourself? Or do you have to plan it out for a school project or something?
Well it says above to "let" someone find it... So I would assume that you would just leave it up to chance that someone will find it on their own by accident someday.
So.
1. You wouldn't inform anyone, they are supposed to just come across it on their own.
2. 50 years is a good period of time to wait for things in the world to actually change. If you only wait 5 or 10 years, not much will change, but if you wait 100 years, then CD-ROMs will probably be extinct and no one will know what to do with a CD. Who knows, the world might not even be here.
3. You can make it more interactive by using PowerPoint maybe. Set it up with timers and stuff so it will play on it's own and they can watch it like a movie or click buttons and stuff. Maybe make riddles.
4. Location can probably be anywhere you want, but I guess it should be somewhere where it would not get paved over with a new road or get a building built on top of it (like in a national park or something).
5. If you died before 50 years, then you'd just hope someone would find it on their own. Or maybe include some kind of treasure map in your Will.
6. Shouldn't the CD be in the same location as the garden you're talking about? You'd need to put it somewhere else, and then hope that people find the CD before the garden, or they'll be really confused (unless you put CDs all over the place including in the garden).
PS: I have a couple questions about your plan that you might want to iron out...
1. How can you create a secret garden of things that will cure diseases and illness if you don't know what plants will cure them? I don't think there are many endangered plants because there is no problem reproducing them. But not all endangered plants would have such abilities... if any...
2. You might end up collecting a whole bunch of plants that actually CAUSE diseases or something and we'd figure that out years AFTER you plant them, so your hope of curing illnesses would be kind of null and void...
3. How would you make them wait 50 years to grow? Plants grow when they're ready, usually within a couple months... And they need plenty of sun and water, so they'd need to be outside or something... Therefore, also making them vulnerable to bad weather, pollution, etc.
4. How would you build this garden to require a key? Anybody could come along and break in somehow or another. Especially since it would need to be outdoor or have a glass greenhouse roof... And even with plexiglass windows, I'm sure the locks won't be entirely break-proof.
Good luck with your project though...
That's not a bad project--at least it's a good intellectual exercise. Notice that you've come up against man's principal enemy: time and the fragility of life. We spend an awful lot of time battling these, with granite monuments, scholarships named for us, museums, movies, recordings, and your time capsule. Nothing is foolproof: time capsules that are widely publicized when installed are lost forever when someone re-paves a parking lot twenty years later. Someone decides to move her office into an elaborately-dedicated space in a college building and plasters over all of the murals and inscriptions. Museums lose things, or sell things. Happens all the time, in every culture.
One way to ensure that someone will look after your secret garden and time capsule is to attach some money to it. Write a bequest to, oh, a university's medical school. Put several thousand bucks in an investment account in some old bank so it'll gather interest, and tell everyone it'll be redeemable in fifty years: they can get the money if they located, care for, and otherwise deal with the secret garden. People have a tendency to keep an eye on things that might yield them money.
Note how this strategy explains a lot of goofy wills and bequests that you read about.
For further research, you might wish to ask a lawyer or someone who works in the trust department of a big bank. They'll probably be glad to help.
Good luck with the format of the CD-ROM, though. We never know how media will age: not too many years ago, we had 8-track tapes and after that eight-inch floppy disks. Both are difficult to play now because all the hardware is antique.
Like I said, it's a good project.
1. Make a will and leave a sealed envelope with directions to look for your time capsule to one of the members who is on the City Council of your city or town in 50 years.
2. The endangered plants could be extinct in 50 years; that's a good enough reason.
3. The member of the city council has who opens the envelope has to be the first one who finds out the name of the band that plays a song you sing on the CD-ROM
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