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Mysterious Voynich manuscript has 'genuine message'
- charlieflowers 13y agoIt has pictures of naked women bathing. So the words probably don't mean anything. I mean, who subscribes to Playboy for the articles?
- coolsunglasses 13y agoYou jest but Playboy used to have some of the best interviews ever conducted.
- charlieflowers 13y agoIt would be very interesting indeed if that holds true for the Voynich manuscript :)
- abstrakraft 13y agoJust another article about another inconclusive statistical analysis on the Voynich text, with no technical details. Move along, nothing to see here.
- fierycatnet 13y agoI was excited to see that maybe something new was discovered but this article is just useless, just filler words.
- raverbashing 13y agoHumm so the article is a long text with language structure but without a message... humm....
- kencausey 13y agohttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066344 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
- bby 13y agoWhere can I find specifics on the actual methods they are using to research the manuscript?
- swatkat 13y agoThis page has some info: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066344 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
- draq 13y agoI think it's alien.
- oofabz 13y agoIs there anyplace I can buy a print of the Voynich manuscript? I have long been fascinated by it but I've never seen it for sale. Amazon has some books about it, but not the manuscript itself.
- eksith 13y agoI don't know if there are reproductions, but meanwhile, you can get page-by-page scans of it here : http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_manuscrito07a.htm http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_manusc... Edit: Better source at the Yale library you can download the whole thing as one PDF : http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519597 http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519597
- 97-109-107 13y agoThis is a very similiar article theme-wise, but not as sparse on details http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/al...
- diminish 13y agoCryptographers; isn't Voynich manuscript a proof that security by obscurity works? (only confidentiality)
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- ewoodrich 13y agoNo, it's proof that properly executed steganography works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
- lolcraft 13y agoNo, it's proof that no one can crack what's just random shit pasted together. No message, no decoding. Why would you assume there's a message behind the Voynich?
- nknighthb 13y agoI think it's proof that given sufficient decorative fluff, people will spend a great deal of time attempting to make sense of nonsense. Same basic principle as snake oil.
- Luyt 13y agoThere exists a Skeptoid article about the Voynich manuscript: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252 http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252 The conclusion: "So let's wrap this up with my favorite theory, and the one that is perhaps best supported by all that's known. In the early 1400s, some professional, perhaps a physician or astrologer or alchemist, wanted to create some marketing material that demonstrated he had rare knowledge from the East. He engaged a monk or other scribe to produce a book filled with wondrous and curious illustrations from multiple sciences, and a text that nobody could read, which he could tell his customers was the source of whatever great Eastern wisdom he wanted. The monk had a colleague assist, and the two devised an alphabet and used their own multilingual familiarity with written language to devise a convincing nonsense text. It was well done enough that its owner could even use it to impress his colleagues. Thus, this anonymous professional ended up with impressive marketing collateral that's conceptually identical to the labcoat worn by a naturopath, the energy diagram on the wall of a yoga guru, and the purchased-online title of "doctor" sported by alternative practitioners of every variety."
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- TeMPOraL 13y agoI think I'll go with Randall Munroe on this one. http://xkcd.com/593/ http://xkcd.com/593/
- jvdh 13y agoThere's also a very interesting novel where the Voynich manuscript plays a central role: PopCo by Scarlett Thomas [0] Another central theme that will probably appeal to this audience is underground resistance against global commercialisation. [0]: http://www.amazon.com/PopCo-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/B000I2J20E/ref=la_B000APSRUK_1_3 http://www.amazon.com/PopCo-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/B000I2J20E/re...