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Oh boy, this comes up every few years. I guess the words "unsolved mystery" must excite some specific neural pattern in our brains. It's far from the last grea
by Jun8 12y ago
Oh boy, this comes up every few years. I guess the words "unsolved mystery" must excite some specific neural pattern in our brains.
It's far from the last great unsolved mystery, though, as claimed in the title: I would definitely put (i) deciphering the last part of Kryptos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos), (ii) deciphering the Voynich Manuscript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript), and, if you insist on adding treasure to the equation (iii) the Beale Ciphers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers) on any list of unsolved mysteries that fuel the imagination.
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- jonny_eh 12y agoThere's also deciphering the ancient Greek written language "Linear A" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A It was recently added to unicode, and we don't even know what the characters mean.
- thirdtruck 12y agoSounds like a good way to accidentally summon an elder god via emoticon. Now I have a new novel plot...
- pavel_lishin 12y agoMaybe cstross will feature it in his next Laundry novel.
- mindcrime 12y agoRemember, demonology is just a branch of applied mathematics!
- thirdtruck 12y agoAnd if you want to co-author a story with my idea, give me a shout. :)
- parennoob 12y ago..Or the Indus Valley civilization script. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script Quite tantalizing to have a ton of artifacts belonging to that civilization, along with seals having specific imagery (like a bull); and then not being able to decipher the what the symbols next to the script mean.
- dkfmn 12y agoWell, if we're doing treasure we shouldn't forget about the Lost Dutchman's Mine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine)
- freditup 12y agoPerhaps not as much of a mystery, but I do think the D. B. Cooper case is fascinating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper). The Wikipedia article reads like a popular adventure novel.
- sp332 12y agoDon't forget the most recent theory: http://xkcd.com/1400/ http://xkcd.com/1400/
- Mithaldu 12y agoI don't think Kryptos counts as a mystery. It is a riddle for sure, which isn't entirely solved yet, but it is as much a mystery as the final puzzle of Fez: We know exactly who made it, for what purpose, what it contains conceptually, and that the creator is even still alive. Voynich and the Money Pit are mysteries where none of these are true and many questions besides the solving procedure are still open. (Though, to be honest, i strongly suspect that Voynich is the same thing as Kryptos and the last Fez puzzle: An artifact straddling a weird line between riddle and troll.)
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- BuildTheRobots 12y agoThanks -after loosing Friday to reading about the Money Pit, I've now lost today reading about Voynich... Feel someone should mention the Taman Shud Case [1] as another one of those preplexing mysteries. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case