[Eric]

Yahoo plans on beaming a digital Time Capsule into space.

Yahoo and Yahoo Telemundo are creating a digitized time capsule that will beam onto an ancient pyramid in Mexico and into space.

Yahoo began accepting submissions of photos, video, sounds files, video and text Tuesday and announced that it would send the content into space and project it onto the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, near Mexico City.

The company said in a prepared statement that the purpose was to join the "past and present with the universe's potential future by sharing today's culture on Earth with other life that may exist light years away."

It's nice that Yahoo is spending time and money on this kind of thing... but Earth to Yahoo... Google is kicking your ass!

[mann3r]

i wonder yahoo will launch also a software like google earth, hope it is more updated than google. lol

[Eric]

Originally Posted by mann3r

i wonder yahoo will launch also a software like google earth, hope it is more updated than google. lol

Right now Google is leaving Yahoo in the dust. I hope the time capsule has info on Yahoo as an independent company because when they open it Yahoo will probably be owned by someone else.

[Dana]

ROFL, Eric.
It all sounds very star trek'ish. but old star trek'ish (kinda cheesy) rather than Next Generation slick, lol..

[Tucker]

How do they retrieve this time capsule? It isn't much of a time capsule unless it can be retrieved. And, if it's digital, won't we just have an available copy here on earth?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Tucker

How do they retrieve this time capsule? It isn't much of a time capsule unless it can be retrieved. And, if it's digital, won't we just have an available copy here on earth?

I think the whole capsule thing is a way to generate a buzz. It worked. :)