In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old! Should I survive that long, I hope to be there. Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?
78...I doubt I make it. The men in my family don't live much past 70
I'll be in my 80's can we change the subject?[;)]
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Originally posted by Steve
In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old! Should I survive that long, I hope to be there. Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?
I'll turn 72 that year. I remember reading about the 1957 Belvedere when I was around 10 years old, and thinking how far off that sounded. And that was just a 2o year wait...that Prowler isn't coming up for 41 more years?? Who knows if I'll live here/remember/be alive at that point? [:D]
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Originally posted by Steve
In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old! Should I survive that long, I hope to be there. Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?
In 1957, they thought that petroleum powered cars may be obsolete in 2007, that's why they put gasoline (I am sure it was hi-test Ethyl, no it was hi-test DX Boron!) in the trunk of the car. They thought we may all be flying around in nuclear-powered flying cars by 2007. Not really too outlandish in retrospect; as a kid watching the "Jetsons" cartoon in the early 1960s, I thought the same thing! Since 1957 we have seen men land and walk on the moon, which in my opinion is the greatest scientific and exploritory achievement of the human race to date. We have also made great strides in the treatment of disease and extension of the human life span.
Who in 1957 would have imagined home computers, digital technology, and the internet? Much of our daily lives today in 2007 is the same as 1957. We drive gasoline cars, heat and cool our homes with natural gas and electricity, etc. The computer revolution has been the really big change in daily life, in my opinion.
What will we see by 2048? Anyone care to venture a guess?
I am only 50 today, but I clearly remember the days when the biggest high-tech gadget in the office was a 10-key adding machine or a Comptometer! (If any of you old timers still remember the Comptometers, kudos.) If your company had a mainframe, IBM 360 system or such, you were on the cutting edge of tech. When I graduated college in 1979, many company records were still kept on manual ledger sheets by hand. We have come a long way in data gathering and retention since then, but has it really been a good thing? The promises of the earlier computer age were that computers would take over mundane daily tasks, and give us all so much free time that work would be obsolete. I think the exact opposite has happened. Computers and technology have actually made our lives more complicated and placed such a huge demand on worker productivity, that no one has much free time anymore!
73. I can do iiiit!.
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I will be 63. As farfetched as it sounds, I hope they have flying cars by then. It may be wishful thinking but I want to see a flying car before the end of my lifetime.
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Age: 72
Wishes for those in 2048: Get off mah lawn yah rascals!
I'd be 102 and I didn't pick parents with long life spans. My parents went 6' under in their 70's. My odds are not too good. I don't smoke and I do take vitimans that may help.[?]
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I won't be as old as dirt, but as old as topsoil.
I'll likely be compost...
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Originally posted by sauerkraut
I'd be 102 and I didn't pick parents with long life spans. My parents went 6' under in their 70's. My odds are not too good. I don't smoke and I do take vitimans that may help.[?]
Well, let's see. I live something of a hedonistic (though not totally dissolute) lifestyle, I do smoke, and also imbibe a few fermented libations daily and even eat foods of a high caloric and cholesterol level. I'm as fearless now as I was at 14 (witness my standing outdoors as Hurricane Katrina made landfall). But I'm still around to tell the tale and it hasn't really aged me, so I must be doing something right.
I'll be twice as old as I am now. Yikes.
I'll be 84. Hope to live that long to see it.
Wow, at 63 years old in 2048, I will probably be the youngest one from this forum, lol.
I didn't see it go into the ground.
Did they do a better job of sealing the vault this time around you think? Or perhaps the Prowler will be destroyed as well by 2048?
What are the chances the vault's already been flooded now?
People on Fark are going bananas over this. They continually point out that cars are best preserved in above ground garages, not underground vaults, which is why no one else has burried one.
Saddam Hussien burried some jet fighters in the desert, and Rumsfeld had a field day with that one, I do recall.
I'll be 91. And plan to play 18 holes on my birthday that year too. Ah....I'll finally be able to shoot my age.
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Originally posted by Hawkins
I didn't see it go into the ground.
Did they do a better job of sealing the vault this time around you think? Or perhaps the Prowler will be destroyed as well by 2048?
What are the chances the vault's already been flooded now?
People on Fark are going bananas over this. They continually point out that cars are best preserved in above ground garages, not underground vaults, which is why no one else has burried one.
Saddam Hussien burried some jet fighters in the desert, and Rumsfeld had a field day with that one, I do recall.
It should be just fine:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070616_1_A8_hOffi67475
Encased in modern plastics and stored in a vault above ground, a 1998 Plymouth Prowler stands a good chance of emerging from its time capsule in better shape than the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, officials said Friday.
Just for everyone's information...here's a video of it going into the capsule.
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1K_wB3bUg
32 I will be 32 years old in 2048. I decided to quit doing the "aging thing" quite a few years back, it's just not cool.
As for predictions... (barring we blow ourselves up or something to that affect) I predict that a single home computer of that time will have the computing power of every human mind on earth... combined (moores law) That old prediction of walking, talking, humanoid robots will finally become reality. There will not be colonies on Mars, will perhaps be a scientific base on the south pole of the moon, but will likely have at least one touristy, outpost/hotel in orbit around the earth. Cancer will be cured along with most other diseases, aging will be dramatically slowed, some effects of aging reversed. Other worlds will be found around stars able to harbor life and we will have telescopes able to see continents and detect atmospheric compositions on those planets. Chinas economy will roar ahead (its roaring 20s) then collapse (its 1930s great depression) but then rise to become the main superpower (the US in the 50s). The US will be something akin to what the UK is now in world power and influence. (lots of chances for warring and fighting all along in there though) Oh, and turning our food supply into a fuel source, not a good idea IMO.
I would be surprised if this world lasted that long with so much global tension.
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Originally posted by TurismoDreamin
Just for everyone's information...here's a video of it going into the capsule.
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1K_wB3bUg
Heh. When they are interviewing a brunette woman, Sharon King Davis steps into the background on the video.
According to currents plans, I would expect to be 99 years old.
We'll see.
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Originally posted by TurismoDreamin
Just for everyone's information...here's a video of it going into the capsule.
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1K_wB3bUg
The videos were great. The Red Plymouth is really super. It Prowler it looked like they drove it into the vault and left it. I hope they drained all the fluids from the car before they sealed it up.
Sadly I don't think I'll be around in 2048 or 2057 when they open the time capsules unless they make some real advances in medical science. No one in my family lived to be over 100.