29-09-2019, 04:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-09-2019, 11:24 PM by DonaldFisk.)
(26-09-2019, 07:29 PM)Common_Man wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I sometimes feel the saying "the journey is the destination" applies very well to mysteries like the VMS. Because honestly, think what benefit would the content of the VMS give us? Maybe close to nothing, since the level of knowledge a medieval astrologer/medicine man/botanist/medicinal bath enthusiast(?! for the lack of a better word)/relegious teacher would've had in the 15th century would just be a fraction of what current day experts would have in these fields..
The payoff when/if the VMS would be decoded would mostly be the fact we've witnessed the journey, since other than the contrieved way in which the text has been encoded (may even turn out to be a natural language with a wierd set of linguistic phenomena going on under the hood) or the way in which the diagrams were concieved and drawn, I dont expect much data to be in there..
Let's see..
The content might be of limited value, but if it transpires it's in a natural language and we can read it, then we'd have discovered a language like no other. And if it's encrypted (or a conlang) and we can decrypt it, we'd have discovered an encryption technique which has baffled cryptographers for a century, and learned that someone in the early 15th century was ahead of their time.