Messages and bottles
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shewhomustToday's 'message in a bottle' story brought to you by the BBC, with the help of the Shetland Janotial (shet_janitorial) twitter stream.
It begins with Emmanuel Goldstein, crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II in December 2018, putting a message into an empty bottle and tossing it overboard. The BBC describes Mr Goldstein as the publisher of "a technology security magazine called 2600," - that'd be 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, which makes me suspect that he had taken that bottle of Club-Mate on board with him for that very purpose, but never mind ...
The message said that magazine staff would be "astounded" if anyone found it in their lifetime. I don't know whether this was because of any calculation, or just from a general feeling that the Atlantic is a big place. Either way, it was only 14 months before Henry Anderton picked it up on a beach in Shetland: specifically at Littleure (it has a camping bod!) near Walls, where the bakery is. Mr Anderton was less astounded, as he'd picked up messages in bottles before -
- but the surprise this time was that the sender of the message replied, and there was a reward of a thousand dollars. What would you do if you won a thousand dollars? Mr Anderton is putting it to the appeal to renovate the Lera Voe phone box. He has already bought the phone box (it cost him a pound) but he has great plans for it. First, though, he has to find a door ...
The story at 2600.com (includes pictures, plus audio which I haven't listened to).
shet_janitorial) twitter stream.It begins with Emmanuel Goldstein, crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II in December 2018, putting a message into an empty bottle and tossing it overboard. The BBC describes Mr Goldstein as the publisher of "a technology security magazine called 2600," - that'd be 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, which makes me suspect that he had taken that bottle of Club-Mate on board with him for that very purpose, but never mind ...
The message said that magazine staff would be "astounded" if anyone found it in their lifetime. I don't know whether this was because of any calculation, or just from a general feeling that the Atlantic is a big place. Either way, it was only 14 months before Henry Anderton picked it up on a beach in Shetland: specifically at Littleure (it has a camping bod!) near Walls, where the bakery is. Mr Anderton was less astounded, as he'd picked up messages in bottles before -
- but the surprise this time was that the sender of the message replied, and there was a reward of a thousand dollars. What would you do if you won a thousand dollars? Mr Anderton is putting it to the appeal to renovate the Lera Voe phone box. He has already bought the phone box (it cost him a pound) but he has great plans for it. First, though, he has to find a door ...
The story at 2600.com (includes pictures, plus audio which I haven't listened to).
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Date: 2020-03-05 11:20 am (UTC)