Topic: Our Future Friends (Read 4522 times)

David_Dovey · « **on:** 06 Apr 2011, 16:14 »

Today's comic from qwantz goes like this:

What would you leave in the ground to awe and/or fuck with people? Is there some little piece of knowledge or art that you'd like to make sure people in the future don't forget? Something about the time we are living in right now that is quite impressive? Alternately, something that'd be guaranteed to confuse the shit out of future people?

celticgeek · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 16:22 »

This, perhaps.

squawk · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 16:47 »

a bong

Jimor · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 17:03 »

Somewhat related, a friend of mine scandalized her anthropology professor after a lecture on the religious and cultural significance of fertility figurines with the wide hips and large breasts, etc. "Oh, it's obviously caveman porn."

For the OP question, if there were a way of making it survive hundreds or thousands of years, clearly the cultural artifact that would screw with future anthropologists the most would be reels and reels of reality TV.

Tom · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 21:16 »

Shopping channel exercise equipment and shoe horns.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 21:44 »

Coat a human skeleton in titanium. Give it additional titanium claws.

Using advanced taxidermy techniques, create vast skeleton armies of human/animal hybrids. Bury as per ancient battleground conventions.

FIXDIX · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 Apr 2011, 23:57 »

Hentai.

Jace · « **Reply #7 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 00:12 »

The Twitter

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #8 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 00:24 »

i would create as much evidence as possible for an all powerful church that worships platypuses

people would spend decades trying to figure out why we thought they were so great. And they'd never figure it out! future suckers

Inlander · « **Reply #9 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 00:56 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 07 Apr 2011, 00:24

people would spend decades trying to figure out why we thought they were so great.

Dude, I think it'd take them all of five minutes. Fuckers are poisonous amphibious egg-laying electricity-sensing mammals. Beats the hell out of any big man in the sky. Especially seeing as how they'd almost certainly be extinct by then due to water pollution. Future dudes would be all like "No way!" and "For real?" and be all writing peer-reviewed scientific papers with titles like "Holy shit, check out this freaky-deeky shit, guys!"

calenlass · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 02:30 »

"freeky-deeky" is future-speak for "awesome" or "made-up"

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 02:46 »

My submisions to the timecapsule.

1) Airline food with appropriate hazmet warnings.
2) Duct tape
3) A bicycle
4) A copy of the bible in a mock up binding titled Grimm's Fairie Tales Vol. 2
5) Some digital deathcore albums marked Easy Listening
6) The still beating heart of Glenn Beck
7) An Edward Hopper painting
8) A recipie for pizza
9) A Rubik's Cube

valley_parade · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 05:48 »

Quote from: scientists 100 years after Tommy's death

Christ, didn't he listen to anything besides Silkworm?

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 06:22 »

the time cube

michaelicious · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 09:33 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 07 Apr 2011, 02:53

My iPod. I like the idea of people having all this music in the future, especially the more obscure stuff which will probably be long forgotten. I'd be curious to see how it is regarded in say, one hundred years. Especially out of context.

People will finally get Caroliner.

nufan · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 09:43 »

A print out of this thread.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 16:53 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 07 Apr 2011, 02:46

1) Airline food with appropriate hazmet warnings.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #17 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 23:28 »

I conceed that I don't get the Jerry Seinfeld reference.

Inlander · « **Reply #18 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 23:48 »

It's not so much a reference to a particular Jerry Seinfeld bit as it is a running joke of long standing on this forum (and elsewhere online, presumably) about the staleness of Seinfeld-esque observational humour such as "What's the deal with airline food?"

Incidentally, I was watching an episode of Seinfeld the other day (because let's be honest, it's still one of the funniest shows ever made) and there was a scene in which Jerry was doing a standup show and decided to take a dive, deliberately bombing on stage. One of the first jokes of the set was about airline food.

tania · « **Reply #19 on:** 07 Apr 2011, 23:51 »

probably just an apology letter on behalf of our generation for fucking everything up for everyone

Inlander · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 00:02 »

I was going to suggest just a polaroid of somebody giving them the finger, but I guess that'd probably be redundant.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 07:07 »

Just dig like, hundreds of pits. Fill some of them with nuclear waste and neutron bombs, fill some with gold and jewels. It's like real-life minesweeper.

Inlander · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 07:29 »

Guys if you really want to fuck with the future then everything you need is just a Pokemon name and a Google image search away.

JD · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 09:49 »

Maybe the recipe for a scone.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 11:00 »

my giant, petrified penis

imagist42 · « **Reply #25 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 11:05 »

on that note, a vibrator

tania · « **Reply #26 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 11:06 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 08 Apr 2011, 11:00

my giant, petrified penis

removed before or after your death?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #27 on:** 08 Apr 2011, 11:14 »

I'm still deciding.

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