Dorothy J Heydt <
djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Earlier news stories mentioned concerns that water may have gotten
into the capsule and damaged the contents. Was there an update
on that?
Yes, there were several books inside, severely water-damaged.
A second capsule was found later, damp but "not soup."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59814162
I was speaking only of the second, much larger, box. It was the
official and authorized one. The first box seems to have been snuck
in by the builders.
Still no photograph of Lincoln in his coffin.
There was a woodcut showing Lincoln's closed coffin, a clipping from
Harper's magazine (which is still being published).
Interestingly, there was an advertising flyer with a telephone number.
No website, though.
1887 wasn't really all that long ago. I've met people who were alive
then. I've been alive for almost half the time since then. My
wrongful conviction is almost a third of the way back to then.
How can water be kept out of a time capsule? (Other than burying
it in a desert or launching it into space.)
A guy in the local ham radio club claims that he's a retired CIA
agent, and that he recently dug up a spy radio that had been buried in
East Germany more than 70 years ago in a plastic Halliburton box, and
that the radio worked perfectly right out of the box.
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