[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
A documented history of our advances in medicine, and a twinkie to see how long they REALLY last. [/quote]
Reality check…if they are more advanced, our “advances in medicine” would come across like we think about leeches and covering your mouth when you yawn so demons don’t get in.[/quote]
Medieval Medicine
For toothache:
Take a candle and burn it close to the tooth. The worms that are gnawing the tooth will fall out into a cup of water held by the mouth.
For evil spirits in the head:
For this, surgeons used trepanning. This was where a surgeon cut a hole into the skull to release evil spirits trapped in the brain. The operation might also include cutting out the part of the brain that had been â??infectedâ?? with these evil spirits. Incredibly, people are known to have survived operations such as these as skulls have been found which show bone growth around the hole cut by a surgeon â?? a sign that someone did survive such an operation if only for awhile.
I wouldnt put an ipod in, I think you’d actually be better off with a record, something with physical moving parts - just seems they might have an easier time figuring that out than an mp3
I’d put in the Mona Lisa, or Michelangelo’s David (it would have to be a big VW bug, but I’m assuming we’re talking about the volume, and not the exact dimensions.
Whoever said Principae Mathematica, that was a good idea.
Any written material should be written in a variety of different languages and scripts. Kind of like a Rosetta Stone for the future.
Religion would be good, but based on the number of adherents you’re probably better off putting a Koran in there than a Bible.
Photographs - of all sorts of things. Different people, different cultures, buildings, cities, etc
[quote]K-Man32 wrote:
Religion would be a bad one too, because if we did kill off our society that would have something to do with it. IMO[/quote]
Maybe, but IMO we have moved past this. Most of the super powers are not based on religion. OIL and MONEY are what will kill man. [/quote]
I don’t think we have, tell it to all the fanatics out there.
Include the bible et al, they would need to learn about our “modern day” mytholigies too.
The reality is - think about it for a second; we WILL eventually all die off as a race and years down the line either another species will spawn or visit the planet if it’s not completely wrecked.
And there is a good chance they will research us just like we’ve done to past civilizations and dinosaurs - because it’s in our nature to learn new things, to adapt and evolve.[/quote]
Yes but the fanatics are not going to end the human race. In grand scheme they are small fries. What will end the human race is biological, ecological or war. But war on a large scale. Correct about research but we still cannot agree on what caused the end of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs had no written language. We do and while I am a christian and I have faith I am saved. A million years in the future this would read like a fiction novel and would be the lighting rod for blame of our extinction.
I’d put concentrically smaller capsules inside the capsule (like those Russian nesting dolls).
They’d get smaller and smaller until the inner-most capsule would be the size of a vitamin pill and filled with Iron Dwarf’s “DNA”.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I’d put concentrically smaller capsules inside the capsule (like those Russian nesting dolls).
They’d get smaller and smaller until the inner-most capsule would be the size of a vitamin pill and filled with Iron Dwarf’s “DNA”.
lol[/quote]
LMAO! Needs a hand-written note informing any extra-terrestrial trailblazers that you “come in peace”…For that personal touch.
In the case of the squat rack and barbells they may think it’s for doing curls. And with the porn they might think it’s documenting the act of reproduction instead of fuel for the 5 knuckle shuffle.