Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/students-discover-french-archaeologists-200-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-just-in-time-on-an-eroding-coast-180985129/
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Neon@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y
Wow, they were really ahead of their time.
Petition to move the EU institutions there?
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 1y
The tragic part is that the EU is called the "UE" in French...
DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Luckily French isn't a real language.
Neon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I know, I know, I had french classes as well. (Still seeing my therapist because of that :P)
But I still found it funny :)
Fermion@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 1y
Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.
wieson@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y
It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.
Fermion@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y
It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Every time I read news of people finding old messages in bottles I find it fascinating.
But then at the same time I wonder how many people it prompts to dump their own bottles into the sea (i.e. littering) anytime one of these headlines blow up
E: sorry I'm apprehensive about dumping plastic in our oceans. Damn. Didn't realise this was a pro-pollution community...
Elchi@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y
Glasbottles are fine and just fancy rocks.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Well yeah, I'd hope the people who do this use glass bottles, but let's be real, they'll use whatever easily-sealable bottle is most convenient. So plastic bottles.
match@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y
but if i write my message on plastic it'll last forever
Elchi@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y
the plastic will last "forever" but your message will quickly crumble away like
dustplastic in the windMr_Peartree@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I'll send an S.O.S to the world