Message in a bottle has a really shitty bitrate.
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
#42If it weren't from gov.au I'd say the story of trying to decipher a message in a bottle in anticipation of sunken treasuries only to find out it was part of hygrographic studies is sure a classic canard - it's even a classic Uncle Scrooge plot.
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#43That message lasted longer than any URL on the web will.
yeah, but the indexing's a bitch
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#44I am really amazed that a ships log from 132 years ago was retained and is still available. Is this a common thing?
Archives of the Royal Navy officers logs seems to date back the 1660s. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/r...
This is interesting too. A less detailed class of records, but older.
Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
#45Message in a bottle has a really shitty bitrate.
The latency is the insurmountable problem. The bandwidth could be immense with modern storage tech.
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#46Re: 132 year old message in a bottle found on West Australian beach
#47That message lasted longer than any URL on the web will.
yeah, but the indexing's a bitch
Well, the captain should have consulted with an SEO expert and used a robots.txt.
ship ships bottle bottles message messages ocean oceans sea seafaring currents ocean-currents weather nautical captain vessel
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, connect the dots for me: everything reported against Australia is necessarily as real as Australia itself? Or where are you headed with this?
Well, I'm not opposed to the idea of Australia in general. It's really just some of the fantastical-sounding stuff you hear. Like do you really believe that there exists an island nation founded by British convicts which once lost a war against emus and is home to egg-laying mammals?
I've personally not been there, so I remain skeptical. And if I did go to "Australia" who's to say the plane wouldn't just fly in loops for 6 hours and land outside Las Vegas in an elaborately constructed set made to look like this fabled land of giant spiders and marsupials?
Seems the people who believe in Australia are the same ones who would blindly accept that the earth is round...
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#49>>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?
Quite possibly. The Tokio Express[0] Lego spill[1] has provided some data on ocean currents. There was also a spill of yellow bath ducks that turn up on beaches around the world. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_Express#Accident [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28582621 Yaarr!!
The thing that sticks out to me is that they expect lego pieces to hit washington state 23 years after the spill without biodegrading.
I hope we're able to fix that someday.
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#50They didn't return it to the German Naval Observatory! The instructions were quite clear. I would have instantly mailed it in.