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a tiny vessel that can survive reentry, deliver medicine, or hold the future hostage
means A small container or compartment, often sealed, that encloses something — whether a dose of medicine, a spacecraft's crew, or a collection of items meant to be opened later.
from From Latin 'capsula,' a 'little box,' the diminutive of 'capsa,' meaning 'box' or 'case' — the same 'capsa' that gives us 'case' itself. So a capsule is, quite literally, a tiny case, and its modern lives — pill, spacecraft module, time capsule — all keep faith with that original idea of something small that holds and protects.
- time machine
- buried time capsules routinely outlive memory of their location
- space ride
- Apollo capsules hit 25,000 mph during atmospheric reentry
- dissolving act
- gelatin capsules melt in stomach acid within minutes
- seed survivor
- plant seed capsules can stay viable for centuries
- escape pod
- Chilean miners rode a 28-inch capsule up half a mile
time capsule at oakridge — buried at oak ridge national laboratory in 1945, sealed for 50 years with uranium samples and letters
spacex crew dragon — reusable spacecraft capsule that has carried astronauts to the iss since 2020
apollo 11 command module — columbia capsule that returned neil armstrong and buzz aldrin from the moon in 1969