Caption: The Voynich manuscript's unintelligible writings and strange illustrations have defied every attempt at understanding their meaning.
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1 posted on
02/10/2011 5:02:39 PM PST by
decimon
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To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
02/10/2011 5:03:45 PM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
TO SERVE MAN——IT’S A COOKBOOK!
To: decimon
Well those drawings are clearly crop circles, so the book must have been written by aliens. [Just kidding.]
To: decimon
To: Tribune7
7 posted on
02/10/2011 5:06:47 PM PST by
Temple Owl
(Excelsior! Onward and upward.)
To: decimon
Interesting scribbles of a schizotypal medieval monk not unlike Ted Kaczynski. Don't mean nothin'.
To: decimon
It’s the map from Zork I.
9 posted on
02/10/2011 5:10:17 PM PST by
lunarville
(Common sense ain't so common anymore...)
To: decimon
BREAKING: Coded words read “Together We Thrive.”
10 posted on
02/10/2011 5:10:55 PM PST by
CedarDave
(What is DADT? Obama's response when inquiries are made about his birth certificate.)
To: decimon
I’m not kidding - you can’t trust C14 dating. I don’t care if it’s creation related or not. They will have looked at other factors - the kind of paper, the kind of ink, where it was found, done their C14 hocus pocus, then give you an answer based on those other assumptions. C14 could have given them a 500 year window.
If you can trick a C14 dater into dating a dinosaur bone, it will show up as ~10000 years old. But he won’t do it if you tell him what it is.
11 posted on
02/10/2011 5:11:16 PM PST by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
To: decimon
Clearly a map that shows where the Stargate is burried.
To: decimon
It looks like an embroidery sample book...;-)
To: decimon
Hand in to Nancy Pelosi.
In order to understand the book, you have to pass it.
To: decimon
He cut four samples from four pages, each measuring about 1 by 6 millimeters (ca. 1/16 by 1 inch)I can't trust a source that can't do metric conversions.
16 posted on
02/10/2011 5:17:17 PM PST by
Tread EZ
(God bless you and yours)
To: decimon
17 posted on
02/10/2011 5:19:45 PM PST by
mad_as_he$$
( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
To: decimon
Well, we know how to drive them absolutely crazy in the future. Write a book filled with gibberish and bury it for 600 years.
Actually, the pictures look like microorganisms or botanical magnifications to me. Maybe some past scientist, making copies of crude magnifications, and trying to keep his notes secret, like Leonardo?
25 posted on
02/10/2011 5:37:10 PM PST by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: decimon
I’d never heard of this book before now.
Deciphering the text would be a perfect job for a supercomputer, or maybe one of those projects that link all the PCs in a network to decode small pieces. I think they did something like that for the Genome Project.
27 posted on
02/10/2011 5:37:36 PM PST by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: decimon
any tome dealing with alchemy/magic written in the 15 century would have meant a gruesome death for anyone found guilty of having penned it or even possessing it. As such, it seems entirely possible that the text is actually encrypted.
28 posted on
02/10/2011 5:38:56 PM PST by
RC one
To: decimon
I think I’ll get a journal and create some undecipherable “script”...adding some odd doodling, alongside. Then I’ll find out how best to preserve it and safely secret it away. Maybe I can throw some future society for a loop. (:-D
35 posted on
02/10/2011 5:51:57 PM PST by
bannie
(( ))
To: decimon
Dude obviously had the Spirograph Professional Edition Deluxe set.
36 posted on
02/10/2011 5:57:03 PM PST by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: decimon
42 posted on
02/10/2011 6:12:23 PM PST by
ROTB
(Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
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