QI - The First Time Capsule

The first time capsule. http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/

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[foxofthenight]

which episode is this from ?

[deltaquadboi]

@foxofthenight Series F Episode 9 XL

[GUAlliance]

bucket water lol

[crapola67876578]

never challenge fry to a verbal joust! he always wins!

[ryder187mac]

@RachelHurdWood4ever2 And if they remember they'll know what's inside anyway.

[RachelHurdWood4ever2]

After watching this I went to read about it on Wikipedia and I think it is a bit silly to wait until 8113 to open it, they would have probably forgotten it's there by then lol

[ewebb16]

well it kind of looks like a dick 8 1 1 3~

[leoliu08]

Stephen Fry is wrong, i worked out the math. the time capsule was made in 1936. Here's why, from 4241BC to 1936AD, 6177 years have passed, if you add that number to 1936 AD you'll get the 8113 AD opening time. Where as if you use 1940, the difference would be 6181 and if you add that number to 1940, that'll be 8121AD.

[Tjune84]

@jacksawild Those weren't supposed to be time capsules, certanly the tombes weren't. They were just graves, they were never ment to be opened by graverobbers nore archeologists to find out what happened some I don't know how many years ago. I was talking about a deliberate burried time capsule, with the purpose of reopening it in the future.

[jacksawild]

@Tjune84 How about the nag hammad library, or an egyptian tomb?

[Tjune84]

a 1834 time capsule was discovered in madrid in 2009 (this episode wasn't aired yet)

[FantasmaBAnco]

Rob's right! The Pittsburgh time capsule was interred in 1908.

[Xanatos712]

@MiFFiL Ah, thanks for clearing that up.

[MiFFiL]

@Xanatos712 No I believe they mean 8113 CE(Common Era). Not BCE (Before Common Era)