Penn State Opens Time Capsule From 1956

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

It sounds like the university forgot it was there!

You have to wonder who buried it originally, and whether things like that are kept on record.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

You have to wonder who buried it originally, and whether things like that are kept on record.

Granted it's not as critical as the forgotten 1950s smallpox samples that were just found in that NIH storage room, but it does seem like the kind of thing someone should keep track of! Unless they wanted it to be an accidental discovery, which is kind of neat.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Granted it's not as critical as the forgotten 1950s smallpox samples that were just found in that NIH storage room, but it does seem like the kind of thing someone should keep track of! Unless they wanted it to be an accidental discovery, which is kind of neat.

It was buried far enough back that they could have put Smallpox samples in the time capsule.