Solve the Voynich to save the world

[MichelleL11]

What do you do? 
Who do you contact? What kind of people do you look for and which assignments do you give them?

My first reaction was extremely self-serving -- we could get everyone that is active on the board and their families together into some sort of "Manhattan Project" type living arrangement in a place with good weather, good food, and everyone vaccinated with an effective COVID-19 vaccine.  They'd have to agree to bring all their Voynich resources with them and open minds.  It could be fun.  Messy, but fun.  

We'd have an unlimited consultant budget, a couple of really talented Project Managers (I know a few I'd hire) in an attempt to corral the cats, and the best high speed internet connection money can buy.  I also agree that a number of big money throws to the best collections of manuscripts (and significant selective money for individually identified manuscripts) surrounding the carbon dating for high quality scanning would be essential.

[One scary thing about this scenario is that it reads more like the start of a murder mystery than I'm comfortable with -- and I realized I'd be in a prime spot to be either the murderer or a murderee -- but, whatever.]

Then I realized that if I was going full bore on this hypothetical arrangement, I'd want to time travel the 1951 Brigadier John Tiltman to the group.  I recently read his analysis and I was amazed at what he saw without the heavy duty computer work that has been done more recently.  I think he would be an extremely valuable add.

Of course, all of this "degrees of freedom" could devolve into merely time-traveling various author contenders to the group for the real scoop, although if the reason the Voynich is enscripted is fear of mortal reprisal, we may not get a straight answer!

In any case, it was fun to think about -- but I'm afraid we're stuck doing all this for no free housing, no free food, no elimination of other responsibilities, no boon to the digitization process, and no John Tiltman to contribute to the conversation.  Reality can be . . . tough.