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Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland
An anonymous reader writes "A drift bottle released in June 1914 by Captain CH Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation has been found. Part of a project to help map currents, 1,890 scientific research bottles were released around Scotland. Only 315 of them were ever recovered. From the article: 'Mr Leaper, 43, who found the bottle east of Shetland, explained: "As we hauled in the nets I spotted the bottle neck sticking out and I quickly grabbed it before it fell back in the sea. It was very exciting to find the bottle and I couldn't wait to open it."'"
"But 1 L(1914) would buy you far more than 1 L(2005), so in that sense it is worth more."
Think about that for a minute.
1 in 1914 = 76 loaves of bread (just a number for example)
1 in 2005 = 1 loaf of bread
In absolutely no sense is it worth more now. It is very simple. If it were truly worth more now, in any way shape or form, you would be getting more than 76 loaves of bread for it.
"Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world." - Alan Greenspan, 1999
Remember the story on this site about creating a time capsule to be opened in the future? And everyone was going on about various seals, gas interactions, acid free paper, etc.
Seems like a piece of paper stuck inside a bottle can last a hundred years.
Depends on what you are going to buy with it. Inflation isn't totally uniform. - How much did radios and other consumer electronics cost back then?
I think the average ping time is shorter (from the 314 recovered bottles), just the max value being 3Ts.
It wouldn't be very useful. The air in the bottle would be representative of only that particular day, in that particular place. For example, if it were bottled by a wood fire stove, it would have much higher concentrations of CO2 than the average mass of air
All your 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 are belong to us