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Human beings are obsessed with leaving a record of ourselves so that future generations have some idea of what we were like. |
Human beings are obsessed with leaving a record of ourselves so that future generations have some idea of what we were like. |
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Enter the Time Capsule, an object specifically designed to withstand the elements and hopefully will be dug up and opened some number of years after its burial. "Specifically designed" is the keyword here; anything from the past is obviously going to be of interest to an archeologist, but it only counts as a time capsule if the one burying it intended it to be as such. |
Enter the '''Time Capsule''', an object specifically designed to withstand the elements and hopefully will be dug up and opened some number of years after its burial. "Specifically designed" is the keyword here; anything from the past is obviously going to be of interest to an archeologist, but it only counts as a time capsule if the one burying it intended it to be as such. |
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Compare [[Write Back to the Future]], which is essentially this trope [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Stable Time Loop]]. See also [[Dead Man Writing]], [[Video Wills]]. |
Compare [[Write Back to the Future]], which is essentially this trope [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Stable Time Loop]]. See also [[Dead Man Writing]], [[Video Wills]]. |
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