I'm surprised that they are not waiting till 2028 to open it. Would be and great PR.
I wonder if the inconclusive X-rays indicated underwhelming contents.
A difficult to x-ray lead box sounds like the ideal use case for neutron imaging.
A difficult to x-ray lead box sounds like the ideal use case for neutron imaging.
Remember Al Capone’s Vault (1986)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_V...
Finding a time capsule and then opening it at 195 years rather than 200 years seems very much like you just don’t want someone five years from now to get to do it instead of you.
Will another ~2.5% of elapsed time really make much of a difference?
Also, why shouldn't the people who discovered it get to open it at this point?
People bury time capsules in the hopes that it is unearthed 50 or 100 or 200 or 1000 years
You'll notice that most time capsules are buried with the expectation that it is unearthed on non-arbitrary dates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_capsules
> Also, why shouldn't the people who discovered it get to open it at this point?
The people who created the time capsules, if given the choice, would probably want it opened in 2028 rather than 2023.