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Friday, 11 November 2005
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Mark Frauenfelder:
Ian Wallace says: "Oak Island, part of Nova Scotia, is home to the
legendary 'Money Pit,' a pit supposed to contain buried treasure but
also ingeniously booby-trapped to flood with sea water. The Money Pit
site and history are famous amongst treasure buffs and cryptology buffs
alike, because the site was famously discovered after some encoded maps
and documents were deciphered. Lots of info out there, of course, but
the new detail is that the current treasure hunters who own the site
are selling it off."
I've been fascinated by the story of the money pit on Oak Island for years. There's no real
evidence of treasure (apart from a few coins), but the mystery of the
vertical shaft with false bottoms and the booby trap that let in the
sea to prevent investigation suggests someone invested a lot of time
and effort in concealing something many years ago.
Link (Good site about Oak Island here. Great article and Map by Boing Boing pal Joe Nickell here.) (thanks, Ian!) [Boing Boing]
9:01:01 AM 
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The ozone hole over Antarctica is the fourth largest on record, but scientists are encouraged that it is no longer growing.
It shits me that this thing ever
became the problem that it did. While authorities argued for years that
there was no problem, and it was finally decided about 15 (?) years ago
that there was, I remembered reading about the proposition and
discussing it with friends in high school in 1971 and 1972! Adopting a
conservative/conservationist line then (fluorocarbons, hydrocarbons and
chlorofluorocarbons were already implicated) would have begun the
slowdown immediately, and the reversal trend not too long later.
[ABC News: Science and Technology]
12:07:14 AM
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