[HN Gopher] News from Scroll 5
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       News from Scroll 5
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2025-02-05 21:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | qingcharles wrote:
       | Every time I read about this project it blows my mind that this
       | is even remotely possible to do.
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       | "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
       | magic" -- Arthur C. Clarke
        
       | countrymile wrote:
       | I do hope they find something that isn't philodemus at some
       | point!
        
         | metalman wrote:
         | there a hundred or more scrolls, so it would be tragic if the
         | whole library was the product of a very specialized philosoher
         | with money and ocd....obsesive collectors dissorder. The
         | ancients had a penchant for burnung each others citys , we can
         | hope for other librarys to have been carbonised.There are still
         | much more unexcavated space in herculium and pompei. And fire
         | is what baked the tablets that have given us what we know of
         | mesopotamia. Our present era will be different in that almost
         | nothing will be readable over the same time span, in complete
         | dissregard for its vollume and the value we place on it, and
         | the "protections" we give it, the scrolls were on an open
         | shelf, likely in a room with no door, and yet here they are.
        
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