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  Sometimes I think it is necessary to start researching the VMS as if it were the first time we see it, from scratch.
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I stopped assuming it was letters, and stopped assuming it was natural language, a few days after I first saw it. I thought it was at first, but that impression ended very quickly.

It might be, but it might not. The challenge is to try to describe what it is, and while I have some sympathy for the idea of a symbolic language (I have several ideas of how this might work), I'm not sure someone would fill up 200 pages of nymphs and plants and pools and biological-looking parts with astronomical coordinates.