[HN Gopher] The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (1...
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       The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (1939)
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-06-10 02:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | xeromal wrote:
       | I love the intro to this.
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       | "For there is no way to read the future of the world: peoples,
       | nations, and cultures move onward into inscrutable time. In our
       | day it is difficult to conceive of a future less happy, less
       | civilized than our own. Yet history teaches us that every culture
       | passes through definite cycles of development, climax, and decay.
       | And so, we must recognize, ultimately may ours."
        
         | kingcharles wrote:
         | Written moments before the worst war in history that involved
         | the explosion of two nuclear weapons. Which itself turned into
         | almost 70 years of relative global peace.
        
       | twic wrote:
       | > Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which
       | could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas
       | by power and utilize power also in order to relieve humanity from
       | all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able
       | to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire
       | world through electric waves.
       | 
       | > However, the production and distribution of commodities is
       | entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being
       | eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the
       | want of everything. Furthermore, people living in different
       | countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that
       | also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must
       | live in fear and terror.
       | 
       | So far so good.
       | 
       | > This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of
       | the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and
       | character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the
       | community.
       | 
       | !
        
       | convolvatron wrote:
       | there is so much that is strange about this. why such an extreme
       | aspect ratio? why assemble the tube as a series of segments
       | rather than forming or casting a single cylinder? why, to tackle
       | the impermanence of paper, did they turn to acetate?
        
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