Posted on 06/27/2004 6:33:08 PM PDT by blam
The only other undeciphered script is that of the Indus river civilization, I believe...Mohenjo-Daro and whatnot. I forget what it's called.
We can read Etruscan in terms of speaking it, but we don't know what the words mean, I think.
btt
Cool link...thanks,
gdc314
"Eat More Chicken"
Voynich Manuscript, SAN 1/1d4, Cthulhu Mythos, 2% Spell Multiplier x2.
You're welcome.
Pictures of the manuscript. (Some links from Google have been hijacked.)
The statistics of the Voynich manuscript do not match any known language or language type. There is the possiblity that a grill (such as described in the SA article) is the key in another way. One could construct such a manuscript (containing actual information) by filling in a grill with text and then adding junk around it. The junk would wipe out all the statistics normally associated with text.
Excellent pictures, thanks.
You are really reaching,
WAY out.
Preconceptions can be a bitch.
They make it easy to ignore new stuff...
Try just to just consider what's presented.
We make progress by continuously asking questions,
this entire article is a question leading to ONE possible conclusion out of many.
Be thankful for the effort and watch for any results.
It's at Yale. You dummies never heard of Skull And Bones?? DUH! Some initiate probably left his copy at the library and some professor found it.
The notion that complexity equates to intelligence is ridiculous. As I say, it's creationist (wishful) thinking.
My first reaction was "(BS)(BS) equals BS Squared.
Which would fit nicely only if "BS" equaled "squared".
So much for great minds....
My truck usually goes "tickety tickety ping tickity, followed by a brief silence and repeat up to about 50, then it settles into a bone jarring resonance that totally disables cell-phones and most dental amalgam.
I'm on record as wanting to give the author a chance to prove his case. Heck, I'm still waiting for a reasonable explanation for Waco, or why anyone capable of mastering shoelace 101 would vote for a Kennedy; A hoax seems most likely (darn it) and someone is trying to narrow the alternatives - more power to him.
Its possible, but considering how expensive it was to manufacture a book at that time, a hoaxer would not have made much profit. If this was profitable, why not write a sequel?
No, I found that in 1959 in the shadow of Weaver's Needle at 4:00 PM on December 15. However, I lost may way on my way out of the Superstitions and, suffering from thirst induced amnesia, forgot its location.
The true story of the founding of the Silver King mine is a good one. It seems that a man named Sullivan was in the Army, working on building a road up the "Stoneman Grade" near the site of the to be discovered Silver King. Seeing some caeyotes, he picked up a rock to throw. However, the rock was very heavy and powdery black. Sullivan put it in his pocket instead of throwing it.
Sometime later in Florence, he showed the rock to to an assayer who said it was worthless but asked where it had been found. Sullivan told him. As a result, a group from Florence found the Silver King -- after some trouble with Apaches. Sullivan, after getting out of the Army, ended up working as a day's pay miner in the Silver King -- the mine he discovered.
Interesting story, thanks.
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