132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
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132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
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#2In case you couldn't get through because of the HN hug of death here's another link to the same story: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/oldest-known-messag...
Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
#3I'm surprised it didn't say "Dilly Dilly!" but it is cool what the original paper was about.
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#4This story should remind us all how much of our consumer focused life is discarded on a everyday basis and what we will leave behind for future generations.
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#5Out of booze! Send more!
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#6I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time. Ah right; ingress of moisture began just days or weeks before discovery. Very likely!
Hoax/fake, I think.
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#7I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time. Ah right; ingress of moisture began just days or weeks before discovery. Very likely! Hoax/fake, I think.
Did you read the article? The details of the bottle lines up with the ship captain's logs. It would have been quite elaborate hoax to correctly reference the logs, find a vintage bottle, paper and printing press and forge the handwriting... not saying it isn't possible but the museum staff seemed skeptical and were convinced by the evidence.
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#8What time is it. Where am I. What is my name. Where am I from. Who is my captain. Where have I come from. Where am I going to.
This note in a bottle knows more about itself than I do.
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#9I am really amazed that a ships log from 132 years ago was retained and is still available. Is this a common thing?
Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
#10I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time. Ah right; ingress of moisture began just days or weeks before discovery. Very likely! Hoax/fake, I think.
Did you read the article? The details of the bottle lines up with the ship captain's logs. It would have been quite elaborate hoax to correctly reference the logs, find a vintage bottle, paper and printing press and forge the handwriting... not saying it isn't possible but the museum staff seemed skeptical and were convinced by the evidence.
That's assuming the bottle, paper, and museum staff even exist. From where I'm sitting, this is just pixels and text.
> It would have been quite elaborate hoax to correctly reference the logs, find a vintage bottle, paper and printing press and forge the handwriting.
Ah, from that point of view it seems like a lot of effort. But suppose someone already happens to have the vintage bottle in their possession, from a long time ago. Then they happen to learn about this ship and its logs. "Hey, I have a bottle from around that time, ...".
All sorts of situations and combinations occur in the world without a lot of effort, due to things just falling in place. Then they look like they would require effort if viewed from the point of view of having been contrived.
It's similar reasoning to the greater ease of finding two documents with a colliding message digest hash, compared to finding a colliding document for a given document.
Sure, the given situation is hard to contrive, but it's one of an infinity of possible hoaxes, and there are many people in the world with many experiences and ideas and things in their possession and so on.