[Fai Mao]

You can visit this ship in Stockholm. It's impressive.

[Moonman62]

The boat’s exterior would be a palpable rainbow (gilded in gold leaf for extra measure). “The hundreds of sculptures clinging and clambering about the Vasa were an orgy of pink naked flesh, of steel-blue armor, of sanguine reds, poisonous greens, and marine blues,” writes Erling Matz in The Vasa Catalog. As Lars-Åke Kvarning writes in Scientific American, these ornaments had many purposes: “To encourage friends, intimidate enemies, assert claims, and impress the world with this picture of power and glory.”

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Too bad they can’t or won’t restore the colors and gilding.

[grey_whiskers]

But we already KNOW where the Biden campaign is...

[ETCM]

The Quest to Find—and Save— the World’s Sweden's Most Famous Shipwreck

Globally, it might make the top 10, or not.

Pretty amazing effort to recover, save and restore the ship.

[Nateman]

I remember reading about this ship as a kid. At the time they were talking years before they could put it on open display. Even now they have discovered acids are forming inside the wood at a constant rate from all the minerals absorbed into the wood over the years. Somebody is bound to figure out a way to counter that.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[mabarker1]

Petunia says "I KNOW ! I KNOW ! PICK ME ! PICK ME !!!"