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132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by kyle-rb »

kazinator wrote: post #10
s0rce wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

Yeah. Has anyone really ever seen this "Australia" in person?

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by gpvos »

kazinator wrote: post #10
s0rce wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

This is the kind of nihilistic thinking that has given rise to the likes of Trump et al. But anyway, here's the press release from today's continuation of the Deutsche Seewarte: http://www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/Pressemitte... .

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by gpvos »

>>Between 1864 until 1933, thousands of bottles were thrown overboard from German ships, each containing a form on which the captain would write the date, the ship's coordinates and details about its route.

It was part of an experiment by the German Naval Observatory to better understand global ocean currents.

Now I wonder: did that actually work to get a better understanding of these currents?

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by gpvos »

JohnDeHope wrote: post #8

What 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.

Well, it knows where it wants to go to. Arrival is not guaranteed. This may still be more than you and I know about ourselves, though.

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by a_t48 »

kazinator wrote: post #10
s0rce wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

Are you real or just a chatbot?

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by [deleted] »

gpvos wrote: post #13
kazinator wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

This is the kind of nihilistic thinking that has given rise to the likes of Trump et al. But anyway, here's the press release from today's continuation of the Deutsche Seewarte: http://www.bsh.de/de/Das_BSH/Presse/Pressearchiv/Pressemitte... .

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Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by kazinator »

kyle-rb wrote: post #11
kazinator wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

Yeah. Has anyone really ever seen this "Australia" in person?

So, connect the dots for me: everything reported against Australia is necessarily as real as Australia itself? Or where are you headed with this?

Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach

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Post by ihsw2 »

a_t48 wrote: post #16
kazinator wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 lo…

Are you real or just a chatbot?

How can one truly be sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

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