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Blue Peter - Time capsule

Greenwich, 30 March 1998

presenters.gif (8507 bytes)The Millennium Dome in Greenwich will be the home for the ideas of two thousand children who are to be selected in a competition that starts on 30 March 1998 on the long running UK TV programme on .

The is to fill a Time Capsule that will be buried in the centre of the Dome later this year and will stay there until 2050. Children will be asked to submit poems, stories and pictures that will provide a snapshot of their lives as we enter the new millennium.

Using new technology, the work of the children will be scanned into a digital form so that it could be viewed inside the Dome in 2000. It will then not be seen again until the Time Capsule is unearthed 50 years later.

The stainless steel Time Capsule will weigh in at 50 kilos and be buried at a depth of 5 m under the central piazza of the Dome. Another Time Capsule buried at BBC Television Centre in 1971 by the Blue Peter Team is to be dug up sometime in the year 2000.

 

 

 
 

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