Astro Hacker News - Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

jl6 |next [-]

Amazing work. Makes you wonder what else is out there holding a record of the past, with us too primitive to read it.

baoooooooooooo |next |previous [-]

I love the human sense (or vision) that we could find these in the 1750s as carbonized logs and know that we should keep and protect them - that we miiiiight be able to read them someday.

jiehong |root |parent [-]

Actually, quite a few got partially destroyed while humans tried to physically unroll them.

I suppose they must have left the worse one to hope and to us

runeb |root |parent [-]

An unknown number of them were also allegedly burned for heat as they were mistaken for wood logs during early excavations

ldite |next |previous [-]

"Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)

embedding-shape |root |parent [-]

I wonder how many many "experts" fell into the trap of calling the reading of those scrolls "impossible" through the years? ("When a distinguished but elderly scientist states [...] that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong")

v3ss0n |next |previous [-]

Pherc 306B A12B when?

efitz |previous [-]

It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.