[Article] Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

[pjburkshire]

Around here, the name Elephant's Foot means You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., popular in landscaping.

Yes, it goes both ways.  Not only does one plant have multiple names, the same name can be used for more than one plant.  Hopefully the creators of the Voynich Manuscript did not use the same name for multiple plants in their collection but they may have used names that are not used by people now.

[pjburkshire]

Around here, the name Elephant's Foot means You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., popular in landscaping.

Yes, it goes both ways.  Not only does one plant have multiple names, the same name can be used for more than one plant.  Hopefully the creators of the Voynich Manuscript did not use the same name for multiple plants in their collection but they may have used names that are not used by people now.

[Ruby Novacna]

I built the website (Voynich archive) to help the community search for prior art. That is and remains its number 1 purposes..

That must be a good idea; unfortunately, I can't open either of the two links.

[R. Sale]

Hiding encrypted vords on a page might be overkill. How about hiding long segments of text in the circular bands in the zodiac, rosette, and astronomical sections and having them identified by patterned markers? Breaking a text into several marked segments would compound the security, particularly if the markers could be disguised. It would be a useful technique, particularly if the author knew that his encryption *was* weak. The VMs artist put the markers in place.

[Bluetoes101]

I will from now on, on a completely personal and subjective basis, refuse to interact with articles like these in any positive way. It is not the reader's task to find any value in your wall of maybe-slop-maybe-not. That is your job as the author. Tell us what you researched, how you did it and what you learned, in a way people can understand. 

This is much better than I would have explained, well put. 

It's one thing to be a dumbass and not explain things properly, or just get them wrong because you knew less than you thought - Using myself as an example here. It's another to knock on the door, flash your "Harvard physicist's" badge and dump a load of AI barnacles on someone door step. I suspect Lisa's front doorstep is entirely barnacles by this point..

[LisaFaginDavis]

Nothing but barnacles from floor to ceiling! lol