[decimon]

Caption: The Voynich manuscript's unintelligible writings and strange illustrations have defied every attempt at understanding their meaning.

Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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[decimon]

Doodle do ping.

[Tea Party Reveler]

TO SERVE MAN——IT’S A COOKBOOK!

[Fantasywriter]

Well those drawings are clearly crop circles, so the book must have been written by aliens. [Just kidding.]

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

[Temple Owl]

ping

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting scribbles of a schizotypal medieval monk not unlike Ted Kaczynski. Don't mean nothin'.

[lunarville]

It’s the map from Zork I.

[CedarDave]

BREAKING: Coded words read “Together We Thrive.”

[Christian Engineer Mass]

I’m not kidding - you can’t trust C14 dating. I don’t care if it’s creation related or not. They will have looked at other factors - the kind of paper, the kind of ink, where it was found, done their C14 hocus pocus, then give you an answer based on those other assumptions. C14 could have given them a 500 year window.

If you can trick a C14 dater into dating a dinosaur bone, it will show up as ~10000 years old. But he won’t do it if you tell him what it is.

[OldDeckHand]

Clearly a map that shows where the Stargate is burried.

[Average Al]

It looks like an embroidery sample book...;-)

[max americana]

Hand in to Nancy Pelosi.

In order to understand the book, you have to pass it.

[Tread EZ]

He cut four samples from four pages, each measuring about 1 by 6 millimeters (ca. 1/16 by 1 inch)

I can't trust a source that can't do metric conversions.

[mad_as_he$$]

For Pete's sake it is Goa’uld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa’uld_characters_in_Stargate

[I still care]

Well, we know how to drive them absolutely crazy in the future. Write a book filled with gibberish and bury it for 600 years.

Actually, the pictures look like microorganisms or botanical magnifications to me. Maybe some past scientist, making copies of crude magnifications, and trying to keep his notes secret, like Leonardo?

[PhiloBedo]

I’d never heard of this book before now.

Deciphering the text would be a perfect job for a supercomputer, or maybe one of those projects that link all the PCs in a network to decode small pieces. I think they did something like that for the Genome Project.

[RC one]

any tome dealing with alchemy/magic written in the 15 century would have meant a gruesome death for anyone found guilty of having penned it or even possessing it. As such, it seems entirely possible that the text is actually encrypted.

[bannie]

I think I’ll get a journal and create some undecipherable “script”...adding some odd doodling, alongside. Then I’ll find out how best to preserve it and safely secret it away. Maybe I can throw some future society for a loop. (:-D

[Free Vulcan]

Dude obviously had the Spirograph Professional Edition Deluxe set.

[ROTB]