Comments on: Oldest recorded message in a bottle http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 04:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538709 Dlo Burns Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538709 I want to set a bottle message in the Great Salt Lake but I doubt someone is going to march through 20 yards of brine shrimp corpse to retrieve it. I want to set a bottle message in the Great Salt Lake but I doubt someone is going to march through 20 yards of brine shrimp corpse to retrieve it.

]]> By: Mark Dow http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538367 Mark Dow Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538367 I assume the Copious is a time travelling machine and will claim an even older bottle sooner or later. I assume the Copious is a time travelling machine and will claim an even older bottle sooner or later.

]]> By: Robert Baruch http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538327 Robert Baruch Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538327 If they filled it out and dropped it off at the post office, we'd get a BoingBoing article out of it in 2109:  <blockquote>In 2012, pre-Singularity, a biological ur-sapiens named One-Who-Jumps-Off-Things filled out a form and submitted it to a local messaging service on the pre-computronium Earth. The form was "specially weighted to bob along the bottoms of various mail baskets", hopefully to be delivered to its destination, a school for the teaching of maps related to the placename of "Glasgow".  That journey took 97 annual cycles, a record packet delay, and was finally delivered to entity Glazgus Kulovnav E'gashn 7315. Oddly, that entity's co-prime key holder, Awbr Nwash E'nton 706, held the previous record for packet-delayed messages, receiving a round hydrocarbon bubble with helium inside from an ur-sapiens named Kind-of-Flying-Organism-Which-Talks. "It was an amazing coincidence," E'gashn said, "It was like finding two archived personalities with the same improbability hash."</blockquote> If they filled it out and dropped it off at the post office, we’d get a BoingBoing article out of it in 2109: 

In 2012, pre-Singularity, a biological ur-sapiens named One-Who-Jumps-Off-Things filled out a form and submitted it to a local messaging service on the pre-computronium Earth. The form was “specially weighted to bob along the bottoms of various mail baskets”, hopefully to be delivered to its destination, a school for the teaching of maps related to the placename of “Glasgow”. 

That journey took 97 annual cycles, a record packet delay, and was finally delivered to entity Glazgus Kulovnav E’gashn 7315. Oddly, that entity’s co-prime key holder, Awbr Nwash E’nton 706, held the previous record for packet-delayed messages, receiving a round hydrocarbon bubble with helium inside from an ur-sapiens named Kind-of-Flying-Organism-Which-Talks. “It was an amazing coincidence,” E’gashn said, “It was like finding two archived personalities with the same improbability hash.”

]]> By: robdobbs http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538303 robdobbs Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538303 I'm a little concerned the fellow didn't fill in the data as requested. This would be an even better story if it showed up in the mail room of the Glasgow School of Navigation filled out. I’m a little concerned the fellow didn’t fill in the data as requested. This would be an even better story if it showed up in the mail room of the Glasgow School of Navigation filled out.

]]> By: Finnagain http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538244 Finnagain Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538244  Oh, that was yours? I found that in 1988. Do you want it back?  Oh, that was yours? I found that in 1988. Do you want it back?

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538220 Christopher Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538220 Meanwhile a bottle I set adrift near St. Petersburg, Florida--because I thought it would be cool to see where it ended up--approximately three decades ago has apparently never been recovered, and probably sank to the bottom of the ocean.  Meanwhile a bottle I set adrift near St. Petersburg, Florida–because I thought it would be cool to see where it ended up–approximately three decades ago has apparently never been recovered, and probably sank to the bottom of the ocean. 

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538217 Christopher Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538217 And a warning not to break the chain. Mr. Wilber Jentsen of Muncie, Indiana, broke the chain and was run over by a streetcar the very next day. And a warning not to break the chain. Mr. Wilber Jentsen of Muncie, Indiana, broke the chain and was run over by a streetcar the very next day.

]]> By: ChicagoD http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538207 ChicagoD Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538207 It was found nine miles from where it was released, but had those old-fashioned stickers on it indicating it had been around the world 18 times. It was found nine miles from where it was released, but had those old-fashioned stickers on it indicating it had been around the world 18 times.

]]> By: kmoser http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/oldest-recorded-message-in-a-b.html#comment-1538206 kmoser Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=182519#comment-1538206 I might just make a message in a bottle and date it, say, 2078, so if somebody finds it before then they'll assume it was set adrift by a future time traveler. I might just make a message in a bottle and date it, say, 2078, so if somebody finds it before then they’ll assume it was set adrift by a future time traveler.

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