Starship Asterisk*

Davefragoso wrote:I found in http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100131.html this links, but the link for Yale's University libary is broken.
Can you send me the New Link???

rupifragum1 wrote:
This is a "Fertility Codex" wrote by an Alquimist [sic] in 1433 . The book has four parts. firstable [sic], describes the medical plants that believe has some aphrodisiatic propertys [sic], secondly, the astronomy part where shows the dates that are more most porpice [sic] for the fertility and pregnancy will be possible. Thirdly, it´s show how to use the medical mixes in a different types of bath and how it influence in the body. An last one, it´s a medical receiptary [sic] where it shows the storage bottles of the mixes and it gives you instructions how to mix the plants and the proportion of them to mix. Because the book it´s property of an alquimist [sic] and he was very gelous [sic] about his work; he encode the book in an doble encrypte languge [sic]. He mix latin and his originally language.

owlice wrote:Art, that's unbecoming of you.

Beyond wrote:

owlice wrote:Art, that's unbecoming of you.

Actually, owlice, it may be becoming of him. After all, he is inscrutable, even to himself... most of the time. So he himself may not even know what he means by what he does. For all we know, he may have just liked what what said and is just quoting it, to see if anyone comments that he quoted it, with out saying anything himself. That's neufer :!: Sort of, anyway. :mrgreen:

owlice wrote:
Art, that's unbecoming of you.

geckzilla wrote:Good old Voynich thread. I used to get annoyed each time this thread was dug up but now it's like an old undead friend.

neufer wrote:So tell us about Paree.

owlice wrote:
Ah, a song from your youth; thanks for sharing!!

I lost my head over Paris.

owlice wrote:
I'm listening.... but all I hear is my tinnitus
and a train way off in the distance... !

• Ah, a song from my youth.

neufer wrote:

• Ah, a song from my youth.

owlice wrote:

neufer wrote:
Ah, a song from my youth.

Ah, a song in my range; thanks!

neufer wrote:"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm" was out of your range

Latvala provided the following translation of plant 16152, which he said can be found today in Ethiopia:

"The name of the flower is Heart of Fire.
It makes the skin beautiful when made as an ointment.
The oil is pressed from the buds.
This ointment is used for the wrinkles.
Is suitable for the kidneys and the head,
as the flower prevents inflammations, is antibiotic.
Plant is 10 centimeters by its height.
It grows on hot and dry slants.
The plant is bright green by its color."

New Scientist wrote:A mysterious and beautiful 15th-century text that some researchers have recently deemed to be gibberish may not be a hoax after all. A new study suggests the text shares quantifiable features with genuine language, and so may contain a coded message.

That verdict emerges from a statistical technique that puts a figure on the information content of elements in a text or code, even if their meaning is unknown. The technique could also be used to determine whether there is meaning in genomes, possible messages from aliens or even the signals between neurons in the brain.

BMAONE23 wrote:
This just in From New Scientist

New Scientist wrote:
A mysterious and beautiful 15th-century text that some researchers have recently deemed to be gibberish may not be a hoax after all. A new study suggests the text shares quantifiable features with genuine language, and so may contain a coded message.

That verdict emerges from a statistical technique that puts a figure on the information content of elements in a text or code, even if their meaning is unknown. The technique could also be used to determine whether there is meaning in genomes, possible messages from aliens or even the signals between neurons in the brain.

The technique could also be used to determine whether there is meaning in genomes, possible messages from aliens or even the signals between neurons in the brain.