What would you place in a time capsule to be opened 50 years from now?

A copy of the “Bill of Rights”. Boy would they get a laugh out of that.

A smartphone. So that when, in 50 years from now when we live on harsh, unforgiving wastelands filled with no trees and toxic waste that has turned into sentient lava…when we’ll be deciding who has the biggest penis through rudimentary bladed weapon combat in arenas filled with mechanical guillotines and hungry polar pigs…someone can find the smartphone while digging graves for the thousands who have been bested…and then they can worship it as a god, then eventually study it and use its technology to bring man back to an age of prosperity and intelligentnesseses, that which SHALL BE GREATER THAN NOW.

THAT WAY I WILL BE THE ANGEL WHO FROM THE DUST, RISES MANKIND TO SALVATION, AWAY FROM ITS BRUTAL STAGNATION AND LACK OF EMPATHY. But fuck that, it would be pretty cool if we just acted like Vikings all the time.

Anyways that wouldn’t work out, because in such a post apocalyptic scenario that I think came from Heavy Metal, people wouldn’t bury their dead. They’d either fuck them, eat them, impale them on pikes or all three. Most likely, all three.

But yeah, to answer the question, a smartphone. And possibly, some Harry Potter books. In ebook form, f’course.

My trusty ghetto cellphone that survives me when so many haven’t. A copy of the endless phone numbers business, casual meets I never followed up with, people I don’t see any more, co workers that will never be friends and a few friends and family thrown in.

A cap I wore forever before I shaved my hair and most of the time I had my hair shaved and on the occasional bad hair day.

A set of the endless supply of skullz earbuds that I hate and love and break and lose repeatedly.

A sachet of yogi egyptian licorice tea.

Rockinwellness bumpersticker which I have a ton of sit and in haphazard stack that gets shifted around the apartment as I can never decide what to do with them.

A nongmo project shirt and maybe a few select random writings maybe the prophet because its wisdom and simpleness transcends time and offers good advice on almost all aspects of life.

Suffused with lavender.

Stephen Hawking, I think in 50 yrs the world will be ready for a zombie in a motorised wheelchair…embrace the future, for it is nice & shiny.

We can’t predict whether the future civilization will be further advanced or living in the stone age so leave things that might have interest to each. The advanced society will think they are quaint, the stone age society will find them useful.

A cell phone,
A book: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, or Mark’s Handbook for Mechanical Engineers.
Seed packets.
A small vial of outside air.
A vial of sea water or the nearest body of water.
Several archival quality photographs of the area.
Coins, stamps
Pencil, pen, and paper.
A bank check.
Fishing line and hooks.

That would keep them wondering.

Mrs. Field’s chocolate chip cookie recipe. Her greatness will be known far into the future.

Some prehistoric arrows, and a note that says “you lucky bastards and your modern supermarkets, in my day I had to hunt t-rex if I wanted to eat.”

@LuckyGuy I’d add in a copy of Grey’s Anatomy, and a sky atlas.

One of the better newspapers, with a story on the war on drugs, events in the Middle East, etc. A Glock with an oversized magazine and a box of rounds, and TV Guide and a Justin Bieber CD. The last two just to screw with them.

@LuckyGuy, GA.

A DVD (assuming it was still playable) of “Planet of the Apes.”

The entire present US Congress.

Perhaps, a Drone. And I tend to agree with @rojo about Congress, except for the presence of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, & Alan Grayson (and a handful of similar minded members). I would also like to see several CEOs included in a time capsule (because it would remove them from the ‘now’ & possibly the money saved could be reinvested in the workers who actually do the work).

Ricardo Montalbán’s Ashes.