What do you think in 150 yrs.....?

[Holly_squirrel]

It's hard to imagine in a 150 years somebody could find a button off my jeans ... Rusted like a lump and excitably share it ... Like we do here... Or find a broken blade from my mower and spend the time to painstakingly clean it.
It's easy to understand the excitement About some thing like gold or silver that is worth money.... But it's the worthless treasures that we find and are excited about that mean alot to us... That I wonder about 150-200 years from now
Does it get to a point that technology has advanced so much that history of " things" will lose it's charm? 200 years ago for us, was a totally differnt world... No cars, electric, ect. I know things will advance far beyond our imaginations in tbe future.. But how far can it possibly go. And I'm sure glad I wasn't born 200 years from now... I think I was already born 100 years to late as is.
And one more tbing... Lol. Will we leave behind less you think, even though the population has exploded? Due to everything being plastic now? And today's houses are a joke.. Built worse than a shed from 100 years ago... Thoughts?

 

[hvacker]

I believe in less than fifty years there will be companies mining our landfills for obvious stuff and other stuff we haven't thought valuable yet. I also believe there is no such thing as garbage just our unwillingness to invest the energy to find uses for our trash.
Future people will probably write books guessing how we lived and what we valued based on our garbage, Where I live a person can get a PHD in studying stuff discarded by ancient cultures like Chaco.
In truth I don't think people change from who we were, just the technology changes. One thing I liked about the film Alien was the crew on the space ship were the same motley crew we'd expect today. People don't change.
I think there will always be treasure hunters. And often hunting for things that just spark the imagination. Like a button.
I just remembered my "Box O Stuff" I had as a kid. Nothing of earthly value except a gold tooth. Maybe finding stuff is kind of like that.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

Wise insight. You are right... The core of what makes us human dies not change.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Great thread Holly. I would like to believe that 150 years from now the common everyday items that we use will still hold that wonder for those that find them. I can imagine someone finding an old buried tool from my garden and wondering who used it and when.There was a old dairy farm on the property where I live and when we had to replant a tree I was in awe of something so simple as a cattle tag that I dug up.

 

[GMD52]

The year-2063......Posted on Tnet, "what is it" Found this yesterday while detecting with my new virtual,Goggle Earth, satellite imagry, remote sensing eyepiece on my glasses, It's what appears to be made of solid, heated silica sand, and has a label....Budwieser.....HELP

 

[Holly_squirrel]

The year-2063......Posted on Tnet, "what is it" Found this yesterday while detecting with my new virtual,Goggle Earth, satellite imagry, remote sensing eyepiece on my glasses, It's what appears to be made of solid, heated silica sand, and has a label....Budwieser.....HELP

Lol.. Also found with it, whAt appears to be very thick glass material , perhaps lenses from eyewear or goggles. A very large junk of regret and a strip of what appears to be badly damaged dignity . Lol

 

[Holly_squirrel]

Great thread Holly. I would like to believe that 150 years from now the common everyday items that we use will still hold that wonder for those that find them. I can imagine someone finding an old buried tool from my garden and wondering who used it and when.There was a old dairy farm on the property where I live and when we had to replant a tree I was in awe of something so simple as a cattle tag that I dug up.

Ya know by the time we are gone that long metal detecting will be xray vision

 

[Peyton Manning]

The year-2063......Posted on Tnet, "what is it" Found this yesterday while detecting with my new virtual,Goggle Earth, satellite imagry, remote sensing eyepiece on my glasses, It's what appears to be made of solid, heated silica sand, and has a label....Budwieser.....HELP

if it's not empty send it over, iced down of course

 

[Peyton Manning]

It's hard to imagine in a 150 years somebody could find a button off my jeans ... Rusted like a lump and excitably share it ... Like we do here... Or find a broken blade from my mower and spend the time to painstakingly clean it.
It's easy to understand the excitement About some thing like gold or silver that is worth money.... But it's the worthless treasures that we find and are excited about that mean alot to us... That I wonder about 150-200 years from now
Does it get to a point that technology has advanced so much that history of " things" will lose it's charm? 200 years ago for us, was a totally differnt world... No cars, electric, ect. I know things will advance far beyond our imaginations in tbe future.. But how far can it possibly go. And I'm sure glad I wasn't born 200 years from now... I think I was already born 100 years to late as is.
And one more tbing... Lol. Will we leave behind less you think, even though the population has exploded? Due to everything being plastic now? And today's houses are a joke.. Built worse than a shed from 100 years ago... Thoughts?

so let me get this straight, if you were born 100 years ago YOU would be the one burying the iron you are finding now! So ask yourself where the good stuff is.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

However I wasn't born 100 years ago...

 

[onfire]

150 years from now people( if medal detectors are still legal won't be finding zinczloids) As for the metal they will find in the molten silica may have a plate that say's Made In Iran. Or North Korea. On the lighter side they could all have grown Gills because the Global Warming crowd was right.

 

[Peyton Manning]

nothing like positive thinking

 

[onfire]

nothing like positive thinking

What fun would it be if we all started thinking

 

[Gold Maven]

When I remodeled the 1880's farm house/log cabin I live in, I was sure I would find some treasure, but just an old bottle and a clay pipe.

So I stashed small bags of coins (very small) in the walls, and any place I figured they would be safe till the next renovation, my version of Forrest Fenn.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

When I remodeled the 1880's farm house/log cabin I live in, I was sure I would find some treasure, but just an old bottle and a clay pipe.

So I stashed small bags of coins (very small) in the walls, and any place I figured they would be safe till the next renovation, my version of Forrest Fenn.

I'd do the same. A friend of a friend ripped out a fireplace ( why you'd do that I don't know) in their house and in it they found tons of stuff. The oddest to me being photos ... Lots of em... People didnt have cameras back then obviously... So pictures were rare... This was back in the day when they would photograph dead relatives in lifelike poses.... Sometimes the only pic the people ever had taken of them . Creepy as all hell. So anyhow to Put pics behind a fireplace , where you would not be able to retrieve them surprised me.

 

[hvacker]

150 years from now people( if medal detectors are still legal won't be finding zinczloids) As for the metal they will find in the molten silica may have a plate that say's Made In Iran. Or North Korea. On the lighter side they could all have grown Gills because the Global Warming crowd was right.

Are you saying you don't have gills?

 

[worldtalker]

With the way humanity is headed I don't hold out much hope of anyone being here 150 years from now!! GodBless Chris

 

[BryanM362]

One difference to consider about 200 years ago, versus 200 years in the future, is the way everything is recorded today. We have no sounds recorded from 200 years ago, no videos, and only a few pictures. No one alive today, has ever heard what Lincoln really sounded like!

Historians studying today, 200 years in the future, will have tons of pictures, books, videos, and audio recording to better understand us from. I do think coins will always become collectible. They just naturally become more rare as time passes.

Gold Maven, I hide stuff some times too, wondering who will find it in the future. I have taken new McDonald's kids toys and thrown them up in my attic, so someone will find it in the future!

 

[onfire]

Drill a hole on top of your door and drop a few coins in there. I have always detected the doors of older farm homes. Found a few years ago.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

One difference to consider about 200 years ago, versus 200 years in the future, is the way everything is recorded today. We have no sounds recorded from 200 years ago, no videos, and only a few pictures. No one alive today, has ever heard what Lincoln really sounded like!

Historians studying today, 200 years in the future, will have tons of pictures, books, videos, and audio recording to better understand us from. I do think coins will always become collectible. They just naturally become more rare as time passes.

Gold Maven, I hide stuff some times too, wondering who will find it in the future. I have taken new McDonald's kids toys and thrown them up in my attic, so someone will find it in the future!

Wow yeah, your right. Didn't quite think of that... I was tbinking in broader terms... I knew it wouldn't be the same .. As it is for us( looking back), but I knew it just wouldn't be as mysterious as the past was to us