Tonight sees the return of the excitable Tim Saylor and George Wyant for a new season of Diggers and tonight they are looking to dig up “the greatest find of our lives.” These guys have never met a hyperbole they did not want to go over the top on. This greatest find they speak of is actually a mouse. Of course this is not just any mouse; it is the mouse from Steve Jobs’ first mass marketed Lisa computer.
Back in 1983, Jobs gave a speech at the now-defunct International Design Conference in Aspen and was asked to include a personal item for a time capsule that would also include Mad Magazine, a Rubik Cube, and beer for those who opened the time capsule. Sure the beer sounds silly and insignificant, but since the actual time capsule is plastic, the aluminum can will help metal detectors find it.
There is one small problem, no one remembers where the buried, the three people who were there had three different locations in mind for the time capsule, which was supposed to be open in 2000, but gained renewed interest with Jobs’ passing. And that is where Saylor and Wyant come in and they have to bring out the big guns to find it: Deep Seekers 10 feet which can find items as deep as ten feet. And the length of the thirteen foot long time capsule will make it the biggest dig of their careers. Also this season, the boys dig up bayonets and rare bullets, rare buttons to Colonial cannonballs, historical coins, and even a piece of gangster history..
Diggers airs Tuesdays at 10:00 on National Geographic Channel. You can also download Diggers on iTunes.
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