1957 Plymouth to Emerge from Tulsa Time Capsule

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If you happen find yourself in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 15, bring a shovel. Buried beneath the dirt of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn, about 100 feet north of the intersection of Sixth Street and Denver Avenue, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe has been hidden underground for half a century. Swaddled in rust-resistant preservatives and gently placed inside a giant concrete sarcophagus, the tailfinned Plymouth was interred on June 15, 1957 as the centerpiece of a time capsule created for the 21st century citizens of Tulsa 2007.

They probably expected we would re-open the time capsule with hover-shovels -- unless, of course, we'd already perfected our atomic de-materializers. Regardless, in 1957 Tulsa's civic leaders hoped to dazzle their future descendants with the scope of their own technological prowess. So in addition to burying a brand-new Plymouth, they also packed the car with a variety of advanced products and wares -- including a case of Schlitz beer and the complete contents of a woman's purse. This explains why, when today's auto-archaeologists open the glove box of the buried Belvedere, inside they will find fourteen bobby pins, a ladies compact plastic rain cap, several combs, a tube of lipstick, a pack of gum, a wad of Kleenex, $2.73 in bills and coins, a pack of cigarettes with matches, an unpaid parking ticket, and a bottle of tranquilizers.
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This was just a small piece of the article so make sure to read the rest...

Side note:
So, Tulsa isn't really east or west coast but I guess it will be a bit too far from locations the concept art hints on. It would be a pretty neat way to find a/the car though.. or just an easter egg (rusty car filled with ladies articles and tranquillizers). Pretty original.
 
Oh, that is positively cool.

I'm amazed to see that anyone went through all of that effort to bury a fricken car...

Let's see if their anti-rust materials really did the trick or not, shall we? :D
 
i doubt that'd help if the sarcofagus leaked.

but if intact, the anti-rust crap should be enough to keep it from rusting.
 
heh ---

this could actually be a very good quest in fallout 3, I think. Your mission is to find a time capsule and get some info/documents in a buried time capsule that contains a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport...

But then again, maybe --- not...
 
Definitely not.

I find the concept of time capsules rather fascinating, and treasure hunting is always interesting, so it would be nice to see someone find this thing relatively intact.
 
Wooz said:
... in which people expected to be nuked any second.
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And a time when leaders of the free people were being axed right and left. I really hate what happened to the country in the 60's, well its bitter sweet really but I have quite a bit of rage and frustration over what happened in those times...

So, all derailing aside a cool car for the city of Tulsa... Christine?!
 
aries369 said:
heh ---

this could actually be a very good quest in fallout 3, I think. Your mission is to find a time capsule and get some info/documents in a buried time capsule that contains a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport...

But then again, maybe --- not...
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I like where that was going, but the premise behind it needs to be cornier. Let's say you meet a ghoul at some point who offers you a quest to find his 'buried treasure.' After accepting (as opposed to a dialog option saying, "I've heard this one before, first you'll need a bottle of rotgut, a porno magazine and a blowup doll, then you'll send me on a wild goose chase for ten thousand freakin' bottle caps. I'm outta here!") you're taken to a location that turns out to be where the ghoul lived before the war. After a good deal of digging you unearth a car he buried under his garage so he'd have something to cruise around the wasteland with. Unfortunately he's a ghoul now and his feet fell off, rendering him unable reach the pedals, so he let's you have it.

And/or just for laughs it could be just a pile of rust when you find it, and you go back and tell him his antirust treatment didn't work.
 
Pft... we had a thing like this happening in Ghent, actually.
Some retards from 1907 or 1957 buried a wine bottle and planted a tree on top of it. They excavated the tree a couple of months ago and it contained... garbage. Some lousy documents with lousy details about stuff no-one is interested in.

Time capsules seem like fun, but they always are opened way too soon. What's 50 years? What's a 100 years? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. They'll dig up some rusty stuff that looks... retarded. Old.
What's the point? Time capsules should be monuments like the pyramids (?). Friggin' big contraptions full of traps and mysteries that'll haunt our children for years to come.

The Egyptians knew how to fuck up our minds. How did they build that? What was it meant to do?

Our time capsules are utter crap.

Nothing to be gained from them, except nostalgia. Sad nostalgia.
 
alec said:
Time capsules seem like fun, but they always are opened way too soon. What's 50 years? What's a 100 years? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. They'll dig up some rusty stuff that looks... retarded. Old.
What's the point? Time capsules should be monuments like the pyramids (?). Friggin' big contraptions full of traps and mysteries that'll haunt our children for years to come.

The Egyptians knew how to fuck up our minds. How did they build that? What was it meant to do?

Our time capsules are utter crap.

Nothing to be gained from them, except nostalgia. Sad nostalgia.
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Humans are impatient. Given our short lives, it's not surprising.
what the Egyptians did was massive by our standards, but geologically insignificant. And no Egyptian from then is around now to giggle at the dumbasses who think the pyramids were built by aliens/Atlanteans/super monkey men/goa'uld. Which is a shame, because it is rather funny.

That said, if the car were left preserved for say, 4000 years you just know some twat in the future is going to dig it up and think it's a spaceship from Zeta Reticuli or something.
 
Actually, you only hear about the short-term time capsules because they are the ones being opened today. Certainly more common because there is a greater chance that they will be remembered when the time comes to open them, and they are relatively easy to put together. There are other, long-term capsules around, specially built for preservation. You simply don't hear about them because nothing is going on with them, don't make the mistake of thinking that they don't exist.

For example, you have the 5,000 year Westinghouse Time Capsule I from 1939, the 6,177 year Crypt of Civilization from 1940, and the future 50,000 year KEO satellite planned for 2009/2010.
 
Don't forget the greatest modern "time capsule" of all...it's inherently Fallouty. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). They are supposed to develop a system of communicating to people millennia in the future the danger of buried waste entirely without written language.

Author/physicist Gregory Benford wrote:

One of the chores of physics professors everywhere is fielding telephone calls which come into one's department. Sometimes they are from obvious cranks, the sort who earnestly implore you to look over their new theory of the cosmos, or their device for harnessing magnetism as a cure to the world's energy needs. These one must accord a firm diplomacy. Any polite pivot that gets one off the line is quite all right. One of the few governing rules is that one may not deflect the call to another professor.

In 1989 I got a call which at first seemed normal, from a fellow who said he was from Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then I sniffed a definite, classic odor of ripe crank.

"Did I hear correctly?" I asked. "The House of Representatives has handed down a requirement on the Department of Energy. They want a panel of experts to consider a nuclear waste repository, and then numerically assess, with probabilities, the risks that somebody might accidentally intrude on it for..."

"That's right, for ten thousand years."

I paused. He sounded solid, without the edgy fervor of the garden variety crank. Still...

"That's impossible, of course."

"Sure," he said. "I know that. But this is Congress."

We both laughed and I knew he was okay.
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More of Benford's description here:
http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/benford.html

Lots of info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPP
 
To be fair, the politics of nuclear waste disposal (or really anything nuclear at all) in the United States are simply insane. Take a look at the cluster of issues surrounding the Yucca Mountain project, most which have nothing but irrational fear of nuclear technology driving them. It is a sad, stupid state of affairs; driven by an ignorant and fearful voting puplic.
 
Okay, back on topic, the car was removed and unveiled today.

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