ID Chronicles

Unique, and somewhat poetic time capsules generations the oppurtunity to encompass their society in the hopes that they can be remembered forever. Each of the time capsules represents different ways in which people from different times dealt with preserving the present for the future.
The first capsule represented, is a true time capsule the way we often think of them. The Westinghouse Capsules, buried at the Chicago World's Fair were long cylidrical capsules that were buried in the ground, the same way human bodies have been buried for as long as history can recall. But what is especially intriguing about the collective burying of multiple objects, is its relationship with ancient burials. Egyptians, along with many other ancient societies would often bury objects with the dead, from elaborate tombs for kings filled with jewels, to a few gems left in a small sarcophagus. So in this way a time capsule is like the mummification, or a snap shot of an entire culture, the same way it was hundreds of years ago.
The second example, is more like a mauseoleum. It was simple a room that had a window at the door, where people could glance it. It was a standing monument to the past.
The third, was something different. It's a graphic representation of humankind shot into space meant to harken aliens. Similar to when people are cremated and loved one throw their ashes into the air, or sprinkle them somewhere. It is meant for some unknown greater purpose, to mark those spots as being important to that sole, like the capsule that is meant to tell of earth.
The fourth a record, with music and images from nearly every point of the earth, like an autobiography of the world, our signature, was shot into space, for no other reason then to hopefully be heard. Bodies have taken the same journey, people can now pay to have their bodies sent to space, to travel in orbit around the earth.
The fifth, is and entire satellite that will be launched in 2010, and is scheduled to return in 52,000 years. It too is like a sarcophagus full of amazing treasures, one that will go up instead of down.