Competition Entry 1- Rox

The history of burying stuff for the future is ancient, and nowadays maybe tens of thousands of

them lie secreted or buried, filled mostly with the unimaginative stuff of everyday life: newspapers,

magazines, letters, coins, and knickknacks.

If you ask me, I would place in a time capsule an encyclopedia of the endangered species still

existing these days, both animals and plants, since we all know that they hold medicinal,

agricultural, ecological, commercial and recreational value. This would be of great help for our

descendants, because if we knew something for sure about dinosaurs for example, which is quite

impossible, we wouldn't be in such a haze now, without so many theories and suppositions based on

a bunch of bones. I think that our duty is to protect and save these species, so that future generations

can experience their presence and value.

Another thing would be the Guiness Book of World Records, which can be seen as a challenge

thrown down by us to our successors, to stretch themselves to the limits, and, who knows, maybe go

beyond.

However, an item that simply cannot be missed from any time capsule would be, from my point of

view, a kind of compemdium entitled "Things to be done", where I would include, among other

issues, the matter of global warming, of cloning (especially the geniuses, for e.g Einstein, Leonardo

Da Vinci, Jules Verne, Beethoven, and so forth), of the present state of the atomic bomb and of

avoiding W.W III etc.

To conclude, regardless of its contents, a time capsule offers us a way to send a message to the

future, a kind of letter-in-a-bottle on the seas of time, although, honestly, it will remain a mystery

for us, if it will be open at the time set by its creator.