Making The Case That Voynich Is A Hoax

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2003 @07:23PM from the exercise-for-the-reader dept.

DeadVulcan writes "The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book of uncertain age, is widely believed to be written either in an unknown language or a long-lost encryption scheme. Nature reports that computer scientist Gordon Rugg has demonstrated that it's possible to generate a text like the Voynich manuscript -- containing language-like regularities, despite being potentially meaningless -- using cryptographic techniques of the time. This lends some support to those who claim that the book is a hoax."

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Or this one. by AltGrendel · 2003-12-30 20:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

Here

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The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
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Re:Not the only book of this kind by erinacht · 2003-12-31 00:24 · Score: 1, Redundant

Another Example
This one is slightly different because different people take different meanings from it, but they all tend to be rather weird.