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Linguistically updating the instructions every 25 years seems a little unnecessary. We have plenty of documents from 1500 that scholars have little problem pars
by tw1010 8y ago
Linguistically updating the instructions every 25 years seems a little unnecessary. We have plenty of documents from 1500 that scholars have little problem parsing.
- dmurray 8y agoIdeally you would want to reproduce the experiment without needing to involve a language scholar. And even if unnecessary for linguistics, it may be useful for the other reasons mentioned in the article (new scientific methods, new forms of writing and archival).
- benj111 8y agoMaybe its just to keep it in peoples minds. 100+ years means several generations have passed through without interacting with the experiment, so it just gets filed away, and forgotten. 25 years you're likely to have at least 1 old timer (when was Logan's Run set?) that was around the last time a vial was opened.