The word 'capsule' is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could write: "The astronaut took a capsule into outer space to explore the moons of Mars." You could use the word 'capsule' to refer to a spacecraft, a pill, a sum up of a piece of writing, etc.
This approach continued unabated on Question Time, with the two main party leaders – and, adorably, Nick Clegg – kept as far apart as possible; each appearing in their own hermetic little 28-minute capsule, surrounded by an audience whipped into a state of apoplexy by its own self-righteousness.
It became a time capsule for fans who refused to let the band's legacy die.
Speaking of which … Possibly fed up with people thinking he was spending his time writing 160-word capsule reviews of Lost Natives records, in 2002 the former Rolling Stone embarked on an audacious mission to sue someone for having the same name as him.
Baumgartner will go up in a specially designed capsule wearing a spacesuit.
As the moment comes to open the door, the pressure in the capsule will be switched off, and the spacesuit's own system will take over – a moment, the Austrian has said, "when you can feel your body just does not want to be there".
But after his 33rd minute injury – which was caused in a collision with Hamburg's Rafael van der Vaart – he faces a substantial period out of action after suffering a total dislocation of his knee in which the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and meniscus were all torn away from the articular capsule.
For an hourly fee you can hire a private cubicle containing a TV, a BluRay player, a computer, a games console, a stereo … everything you'd find in a techno-savvy twentysomething's home den, right down to the bed (increasing numbers of people sleep in these bedrooms-for-hire overnight: they're open 24 hours and are considerably cheaper than a capsule hotel).
According to the German magazine Stern, the value chain of every Nespresso capsule allows for enormous profits for Nestle after marketing costs are deducted.
During the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Paul Bulcke, Nestlé's chief executive bragged before the TV cameras about how Nestlé believed in "shared value", but refused to answer my direct question about how many cents of every Nespresso capsule are shared with coffee farmers.
It may wind up dating as badly as Sidney Lumet's celebrated but superficial Network, but it's already a valuable time capsule of TMZ culture.
If the wind blowing across the New Mexico desert drops, a 43-year-old Austrian man will step out of a small silver capsule on Tuesday and attempt to make history.
