Yahoo still plans to beam a digitized time capsule into space, but the content will not be sent to or from an ancient Mexican site. The company had planned to stage an event at the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, but preservationists will not allow lasers to be beamed onto the ancient archeological site. Yahoo announced its plans Tuesday to with a digital collage of users' pictures, text and sounds representing a snapshot of life in 2006.
The company planned to beam the collage onto the pyramid and into space simultaneously, while allowing users to watch via Web cast. Yahoo is collecting contents now and hopes to create the largest ever. By Friday morning, people had contributed 13,000 images, writings and audio files.
The submissions can be viewed . Yahoo plans to seal and the final product at its California headquarters and file a copy with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings after projecting it into space. The company plans to open the capsule on its 25th anniversary in 2020.
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