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At this point it's hard for me to consider another one of these attempts worth reading Then your commentary on the subject is utterly worthless.
by lotsofmangos 13y ago
At this point it's hard for me to consider another one of these attempts worth reading
Then your commentary on the subject is utterly worthless.
- bronson 13y agoHow many papers on perpetual motion machines have you wanted to read in the last year? Does that make any commentary that you might make on the subject utterly worthless?
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoPerpetual motion machines are known to be metaphysically impossible. Decoding this is not.
- akiselev 13y agoTo dismiss a paper on perpetual motion machines you just need to know the implications of the first or second law of thermodynamics, about which there is, for all intents and purposes, unanimous consensus. To dismiss attempted translations of the Voynich manuscript, you'd need to read the attempted translation because there is no consensus whatsoever about the manufascript, except for the fact that it is untranslated.
- bronson 13y agoThat would only be true if every attempted translation were unique. In other words, once you've dismissed one paper barking up the wrong tree you can confidently dismiss all the others that appear to be barking up the same tree.
- coldtea 13y agoBecause interpreting an unknown language equals describing how you made something physically impossible, right?
- shibbowhat 13y agoOuch.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoI probably shouldn't post when I'm feeling ill and grumpy.