Similarly, bloggers and people with smart phones and YouTube accounts turned their personal networks into mini documentaries and time capsules.

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Time capsules are usually designed to be buried or sequestered away until some specific point in time (usually anywhere between 20 and 100 years on).

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But since the early 20th century, a slew of previously untouched shipwrecks have been discovered, uncovering veritable underwater time capsules and breathtaking views of ocean-floor wreckage.

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Burma became one of the world's great time capsules.

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Comets can act as "time capsules" delivered not only from great distances but also from times long past, as top astronomers revealed in a recent broadcast of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.

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Whereas the orbiter could carry seven people at a time into orbit, the Russian Soyuz capsules being used at the moment will only ferry three individuals per flight.

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Baber admits she has not started taking the fish oil capsules, which her doctor recommended, because she has a hard time swallowing them.

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It is the third time in the space station's history that a crew has had to take shelter in escape capsules because of the possibility of being hit by orbital debris.

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