Why the future will suck

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There's no treasure left to be unburied!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

For serious: for the rest of my life I will bury a box of money a day. Our culture is so fucked up! We only bury dead people! What will future adventurists do with nothing to dig for?!?!?!?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure why I chose to classify this thread under urine.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

our junk yards = future civilizations' goldmines. and yes, i am being serious.

(doesn't answer why you created this thread under "urine," though)

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

You've just made me realize the positive side of terrorists blowing buildings to smithereens: undoubtedly there will be buried treasure for whatever future beings survive.

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link

but.. but.. but.. the future means more robots!!

http://www.robopolis.com/images_produit/cache_200_gad046.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

maybe there will even be a robots vs. pirates movie.

http://www.robopolis.com/images/LHpleinpied.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

If the far future = digging up buried robots then I will take off the noose.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

at the risk of being tendentious, i say "our junk yards = future civilizations' goldmines" because archaeological finds are largely from the junk yards of past civilizations. that's why they find things like broken vases, discarded writing tablets and manuscripts, and various other tschotsches of ancient greece/egypt/rome/china/medieval whatever.

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

The other day I came up with this theory that in the future, people will do archaeological digs and all they'll find is loads and loads of those little square plastic discs that you use to tie bread bags closed with. And they'll decide this was the currency we used.

I mean, money's paper, so it'll probably disintegrate. Plastoc bread-tie currency all the way, baby!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

Plastoc? Plastic. Ach my typing.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

but what abt the NAZI GOLD???

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

WMDs

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

Or the Merovingian trasure in Nova Scotia! I went to the beach with this guy who was telling me all about it, he said Franklin Roosevelt was trying to dig it up but there was some elaborate flooding system that kicked in at the last second. He said people died.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 August 2003 03:54 (twenty years ago) link

interesting theory. sounds a lot like the treasure burial from _Cryptonomicon_

also, money isn't paper--it's cloth. Or, at least, US currently has been printed on such for a while now...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 1 August 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

You talking about Oak Island, Tracer?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 1 August 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

also, money isn't paper--it's cloth.

In what sense? High-quality paper has always been made from 'cloth' fibres rather than wood pulp.

(and there's no evidence that Merovingians ever reached the Americas, is there?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

No, but it would make for a Clive Cussler plot easy. Hasn't half the ancient world been found in America?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

The future will suck because we won't be there.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

In Clive Cussler novels, yes.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:39 (twenty years ago) link

P. Diddy invented the future.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link

In the future there'll be space drinks!

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder whatever happened to the '50s view of "the future" where we're all supposedly wearing skintight silver spandex?

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

the absence of evidence that the merovingians reached nova scotia = proof that the conspiracy is TREMENDOUSLY WIDESPREAD

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder whatever happened to the '50s view of "the future" where we're all supposedly wearing skintight silver spandex?

Somebody obviously hasn't been to Regina lately.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

How could the Merovingians have not reached the Americas?

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/images/pit.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

OAK ISLAND TREASURE

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link

In the future there'll be space drinks!

I so wish I'd said that.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 25 October 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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