Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World

bmearns writes "The Voynich Manuscript is most geeks' favorite 'indecipherable' illuminated manuscript. Its bizarre depictions of strange plants and animals, astrological diagrams, and hordes of tiny naked women bathing in a system of interconnected tubs (which bear an uneasy resemblance to the human digestive system), have inspired numerous essays and doctoral theses', plus one XKCD comic. Now a team of botanists (yes, botanists) may have uncovered an important clue as to its origin and content by identifying several of the plants and animals depicted, and linking them to the Spanish territories in Central America."

I deciphered it last month.

[Anonymous Coward]

It was easy, common ciphertext.

Re:I deciphered it last month.

[femtobyte]

translated: d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-x-o-c-o-l-a-t-l

Botanists did a thing

[immaterial]

I don't believe this. Botanists, really? And here I thought they were only good for fertilizing my plants. I'll have to stop composting them when I catch them prowling outside.

If we find out they can do other sapient stuff, like make fire and use Facebook, I may start feeling guilty about the whole composting thing.

Predicts the internet

[Toe, The]

A series of tubes? With naked women in it?

How could that be anything but the net?

Re:I deciphered it last month.

[SQLGuru]

So you're saying that it's the original Loren ipsum with illustrations?

Re:I deciphered it last month.

[ceoyoyo]

Wait, you're saying that because it has an entropy similar to a book of the bible it's not gibberish?

Re:I deciphered it last month.

[TheloniousToady]

Judging by the technology and the timeline, it can only be the work of Dr. Who.

Re:Clearly obvious...

[VortexCortex]

Textbooks in Academia are very often subject to the now normalized purposeful practice of being embiggened with useless redundancy and other such non essential and pointless filler to give them a high "thud factor" [wordspy.com], id est, a physical quality exhibited by a bound set of printed manuscript as its conversion of potential to kinetic energy -- most commonly expressed as free-fall -- ends abruptly upon colliding with the approximately parallel planar surface of a coffee table, desk or other such platform, such that the humanoid observer will cromulently valuate the manuscript as having a higher value due to this property being associated with other well respected volumes of physical information conveyance.

Yes, this from your 'best and brightest'. Your race is doomed.