I wonder what an archaeologist would make of a DVD player in a thousand years. A mysterious calculating device perhaps? 🧪
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Ooh! A motorized cup holder!
jul 4, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Too bad it will never last AS long AS stone inscriptions.
jul 4, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
it will depend on the stat of preservation. if the electronic art looks ok, then they can use it for judging or technology level. if not, it can be just a metallic box of silicium and copper things.
jul 4, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
You don’t have to go back that far. Just put a slide rule in front of a kid and ask them to multiply two numbers together :-)
jul 4, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I've never used a slide rule. Not something we were taught here back in the 70s and 80s.
jul 4, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I used my dad’s once. It was pretty cool :-)
jul 4, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Check out “Motel of the Mysteries” by David Macaulay. It’s about exactly this. Hilarious and gorgeously illustrated. Technically a kids book but worth a quick flip through at the local library.
jul 4, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
They would nerd a working dvd. Mine start to get faulty aftrr about 20+ years.
jul 4, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Good one! 😂
jul 4, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m going to start leaving issues of Sci Am, Architectural Digest & Vogue strewn about the house, so that I will appear eclectic, erudite & stylish, albeit slovenly — to said future archeologist.
jul 4, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably best to seal them in an airtight container.
jul 4, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Imagine too, what they’ll think of burping the Tupperware.
jul 4, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Tupperware?
jul 4, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Taking notes as we speak.
jul 4, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
8 track tapes are going make us appear especially questionable.
jul 4, 2025, 1:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Be fascinated what they think of electric toothbrushes.
jul 4, 2025, 1:44 pm • 2 0 • view
😬
jul 4, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Or a hula hoop
jul 4, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Clearly a cult implement! The mirror surface invites the viewer to consider their own connectedness with the universe, while the central hole points to the fact that every individual is, of necessity, incomplete!
jul 4, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes if there's a DVD in the player.
jul 4, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view