"It's going to be better than Geraldo."
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Scientists open 195-year-old time capsule at West Point and find nothing inside | Stars and Stripes
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195 years ago: 'we should put a lead-lined box in here with nothing in it to fuck with people in the future'
Some guy wanted to put something valuable in it and was unwittingly robbed. Simplest explanation.
At least they had the right idea about who deserved far worse than this prank even in 1828 (the year the infamous Andrew Jackson would be elected)
To be honest, nothing is about the best you can get in a time capsule from the 19th-century United States. I was fearing it would be a Sioux skull or the flayed and stripped skin of a disobedient slave, or perhaps some kind of forgotten zoonotic disease. It was not a nice time
WTF, you doomed us all! They played a prank on the military by concocting a biological weapon!
Hey, Geraldo found nothing; at least this guy got a puddle of mud.
This sounds like peak trolling by very disappointed someone of polish descent, since the Kościuszko Insurrection could be easily viewed (especially in 1828 USA) as this vault, the only thing left from it is peasant fetish of large part of polish inteligentsia.