Time capsule thoughts

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

And David, now your suggestion does have merit without all the fuss of building stuff, so it seems the cave dwellers were up there with brain power.

Now where do I find a good cave.

Leon

Houghy's Dog House Leon.
You can hieroglyph the observatory walls.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Originally Posted by leon

The best printed photos have archival lifetimes estimated between 100-200 years for monochrome prints with Epson ultrachrome pigmented inks on archival papers or Giclee prints, nowhere near a million years.

That is true Joe, but if photos were never exposed to light and keep at a constant temp of some 3-4 meters underground surly we could expect a much longer period before any degrading.
I know a million is a fair stretch, so maybe half million.

Leon

Leon,
Light makes the dyes fade. You also need an oxygen free atmosphere to stop the oxidation of the paper base. Exposure to air will turn most paper brown over a period of hundreds of years.

Joe

[leon]

Yea I know Joe my time capsule treasures are getting fewer and fewer, the way things are going i might have to reduce the time frame from one million to about 101 years.

Leon

[Steffen]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Just a thought, while discussing your issue with a colleague he did point out that if you do a caveman drawing Leon, they last a million years !

Too soon to tell, I reckon. The oldest ones found are a mere 50,000 years or so.

[leon]

I am not really progressing here, am I

Leon

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Have a photo of you and Alice engraved into a titanium plate.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Originally Posted by Steffen

Too soon to tell, I reckon. The oldest ones found are a mere 50,000 years or so.

And here in Australia, successive generations give the ancient art repeated do overs.

[leon]

Hmmm, things are looking grim.

Leon

[TrevorW]

put in some coins

[Buck]

Hi Leon,

This may be appropriate, considering some of the references in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yDLvp9le0

Paul

P.S. About time that you came to another Vic-South - they've even got a swimming pool now!

[leon]

I Did think Coins would be a good first choice Trevor, however I also need something which would identify Alice and I, thanks for all the great suggestions guys.

Thanks Paul, Vic South you say, I have actually considered that a while ago, not sure how long it has been since I was there.

Leon

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

You could commission a sculpture of yourself and Alice…that would be pretty cool or a laser etching on a metal plate…