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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 toomanybeersies »

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?

You have me questioning my reality now.

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

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Post by zimbu668 »

digi_owl wrote: post #35
LolWolf wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe; I mean, see [0] where an accidental experiment was made when a container with >28k rubber ducks and other floating toys, tipped. New evidence for some models was discovered using roughly the same idea—by tracking the floting toys to their final locations. —— [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees

I seem to recall reading about a similar event involving a container of shoes that went overboard in the pacific, that allowed some scientists to test a computer model by predicting where the shoes would end up.

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

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

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Post by stephengillie »

PoachedSausage wrote: post #33
gpvos wrote: post #14

>>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!!

Map of the yellow ducks: https://i.imgur.com/CrJbTo9.jpg

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

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Post by mkj »

foxfired wrote: post #51

Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it. 130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. Boy they are gonna have a hard time reading that note you left. This is when we get to appreciate a medium such as text. Our information is becoming more and more complicated to the point that it might become impossib…

LTO or 3592 tapes might survive?

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

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Post by sundvor »

n0tme wrote: post #40

Did they use these historical artifacts for a photo shoot in the sand?

The text of the ABC article linked above states that the bottle was found sticking out of the sand, looked like a nice old one for the shelves to the finder - and letter was discovered when the bottle was emptied of sand.

Given that most late model portable pocket sized computers have very decent camera sensors in them these days, chances are it was taken on the spot there and then.

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

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Post by TechnoCurious »

Does anybody know what material the bottle cap was made of? Since this was 1886 it couldn't have been plastic. Also I don't think any kind of metal (which most probably would have been non-stainless steel, copper or brass) would have survived the ocean and beach environments for that long.

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

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Post by masonic »

sevensor wrote: post #46
theoh wrote: post #45

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The latency is the insurmountable problem. The bandwidth could be immense with modern storage tech.

You could also use more bottles. Perhaps a hundred million would do?

If there's fishing in the area, it could be throttled by net neutrality compliance.

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Post by KC8ZKF »

TechnoCurious wrote: post #66

Does anybody know what material the bottle cap was made of? Since this was 1886 it couldn't have been plastic. Also I don't think any kind of metal (which most probably would have been non-stainless steel, copper or brass) would have survived the ocean and beach environments for that long.

I assume the bottle was corked.

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

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Post by s0rce »

orthecreedence wrote: post #48
kyle-rb wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You'd also have to fake the stars in the night sky and trick everyone to not notice the timezone didn't change. Probably easier to fake a moon landing.
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