Shadow Master
Banned
I was reading PM's excellent ATL, and one of the user posts contained a link to this site, and this concept began bouncing around inside my empty head until it collided with two other, disparate, unconnected thoughts/memories. There are tv shows that feature folks bidding, sight unseen/almost unseen, for the contents of storage lockers. Here is a link to a wiki about one called Storage Wars. There is also a collectable trading card game, called Magic: the Gathering, where folks buy/collect cards, but where the cards are parts of a playable game.
So what did my evil brain come up with now? Looking back on the history of time capsules, how could these three ideas lead to an ATL, where they all come together?
Using the examples above, what if:
Folks back in the day had begun laying down (building secret underground vaults), where things of historical interest were to be stored, not to be opened until 20/50/100 years later? Could collectable baseball cards have been a huge draw, for when folks are bidding on a time capsule, being sold to the highest bidder in a well publicized public auction? Could the space pens have been put into storage, and folks now a days being able to buy a mint condition, authentic first addition pen? What kinds of other items, could have been made, back in the day, specifically for being placed into long term storage lockers/time capsules?
And what kind of items, producible today, could be sequestered for tomorrow's collectors?
So basically, what kinds of ideas would our communities members think might be of interest/value in the future? Any thoughts?
So what did my evil brain come up with now? Looking back on the history of time capsules, how could these three ideas lead to an ATL, where they all come together?
Using the examples above, what if:
Folks back in the day had begun laying down (building secret underground vaults), where things of historical interest were to be stored, not to be opened until 20/50/100 years later? Could collectable baseball cards have been a huge draw, for when folks are bidding on a time capsule, being sold to the highest bidder in a well publicized public auction? Could the space pens have been put into storage, and folks now a days being able to buy a mint condition, authentic first addition pen? What kinds of other items, could have been made, back in the day, specifically for being placed into long term storage lockers/time capsules?
And what kind of items, producible today, could be sequestered for tomorrow's collectors?
So basically, what kinds of ideas would our communities members think might be of interest/value in the future? Any thoughts?