Starship Asterisk*

The Voynich Manuscript's vellum has been closely examined for any signs of scraping, but there were none to be seen - hence there is no evidence that any of its vellum was reused, it all appears to have been fresh vellum used for the first time. Also, the unusual format of many of the bifolios (hexf...

I agree that all these inspired efforts to intuit the meaning of a 240-page document based on a single page do have _some_ value - I just happen to think that whatever this value happens to be, it is swamped by the tens of thousands of other near-identical Voynich femto-theories proposed daily on bl...

Taking any Voynich Manuscript image in blissful isolation is a wonderfully effective way of spawning a hundred femto-theories, each the marginal intersection between a thoroughly confusing artefact and a thoroughly confused pipe-dream. Hence, having page f67r1 as the APOD for the third time makes my...