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tal@lemmy.today to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 8 months ago

Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago

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Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago

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tal@lemmy.today to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 8 months ago
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The mysterious missive was written by P.J. Féret, who conducted an archaeological dig at the same site in northern France in 1825
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  • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.world
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    in the french town of Eu

    Wow, they were really ahead of their time.

    Petition to move the EU institutions there?

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      The tragic part is that the EU is called the “UE” in French…

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        Luckily French isn’t a real language.

      • Neon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.world
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        I know, I know, I had french classes as well. (Still seeing my therapist because of that :P)

        But I still found it funny :)

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    Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.

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      It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.

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        It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.

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    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…

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      Glasbottles are fine and just fancy rocks.

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        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.

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        but if i write my message on plastic it’ll last forever

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          the plastic will last “forever” but your message will quickly crumble away like dust plastic in the wind

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    I’ll send an S.O.S to the world

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