Zodiac Killer Cipher supremo Dave Oranchak very kindly bounced this nicety my way: a tiny cipher sneaked into her High School yearbook by geeky/naughty Jessica Lee, that even managed to make it onto MSN:
“Fluorine uranium carbon
potassium bismuth technetium
helium sulfur germanium thulium
oxygen neon yttrium.“
If you’re already familiar with Notorious B.I.G.’s lyrical output, you’ll have a reasonable idea of what to expect. If not… well, decipher it at your peril. 🙂
I should also mention the Reddit commenter who thinks Lee should have done “More research, girl!“, and replaced “thulium oxygen neon yttrium” with “tritium molybdenum neon yttrium“, to preserve all the word breaks. But perhaps that would have looked too obvious and have been caught before going to press. So, my scoring of the duel is: Jessica Lee 1, Reddit Commenters 0. 😉
PS: here’s the cipher key you’ll need, courtesy of this useful website. Don’t say I don’t spoil you. Because I do.
Ac Actinium
Al Aluminium
Am Americium
Sb Antimony
Ar Argon
As Arsenic
At Astatine
Ba Barium
Bk Berkelium
Be Beryllium
Bi Bismuth
Bh Bohrium
B Boron
Br Bromine
Cd Cadmium
Cs Caesium
Ca Calcium
Cf Californium
C Carbon
Ce Cerium
Cl Chlorine
Cr Chromium
Co Cobalt
Cn Copernicium
Cu Copper
Cm Curium
Ds Darmstadtium
Db Dubnium
Dy Dysprosium
Es Einsteinium
Er Erbium
Eu Europium
Fm Fermium
F Fluorine
Fr Francium
Gd Gadolinium
Ga Gallium
Ge Germanium
Au Gold
Hf Hafnium
Hs Hassium
He Helium
Ho Holmium
H Hydrogen
In Indium
I Iodine
Ir Iridium
Fe Iron
Kr Krypton
La Lanthanum
Lr Lawrencium
Pb Lead
Li Lithium
Lu Lutetium
Mg Magnesium
Mn Manganese
Mt Meitnerium
Md Mendelevium
Hg Mercury
Mo Molybdenum
Nd Neodymium
Ne Neon
Np Neptunium
Ni Nickel
Nb Niobium
N Nitrogen
No Nobelium
Os Osmium
O Oxygen
Pd Palladium
P Phosphorus
Pt Platinum
Pu Plutonium
Po Polonium
K Potassium
Pr Praseodymium
Pm Promethium
Pa Protactinium
Ra Radium
Rn Radon
Re Rhenium
Rh Rhodium
Rg Roentgenium
Rb Rubidium
Ru Ruthenium
Rf Rutherfordium
Sm Samarium
Sc Scandium
Sg Seaborgium
Se Selenium
Si Silicon
Ag Silver
Na Sodium
Sr Strontium
S Sulfur
Ta Tantalum
Tc Technetium
Te Tellurium
Tb Terbium
Tl Thallium
Th Thorium
Tm Thulium
Sn Tin
Ti Titanium
W Tungsten
U Uranium
V Vanadium
Xe Xenon
Yb Ytterbium
Y Yttrium
Zn Zinc
Zr Zirconium
PPS: isn’t there a nerdy joke about IUPAC Shakur in there somewhere? Errrm…. maybe not. 🙂
Maybe how Tu Pac Shakur ?
I’ve just had a moment of inspiration.
In a science-fiction world, Research into the Voynich manuscript would be undertaken as a 5-yr contract, with funds to permit flying to libraries, and commissioning tests.
At the end of that five years, the person gets to publish any new data they uncovered, tables and stats they compiled from newly-developed data and (finally, and shortly) a summary essay that includes their own opinion.
Looking back over the past century, and present company always excepted, the pattern seems to be that by the end of 3-4 years if not sooner, people have become so attached to *a* theory that given new relevant information, they cease to absorb it and change their angle of approach. Instead, one of three stratagems are applied:
(i) the new information is wangled and edited so that it appears not to conflict with the individual’s well-frozen hypothesis.
(ii) the information is ‘disbelieved’ for no reaon; is passed over in total silence, or waved away with faint praise. (the very small letters in f.9v have had that treatment from many).
(iii) if neither of the above techniques is possible, a really low and lazy method is simply to by-pass the whole factual-counterfactual stage and just spread the skinny that so-and-so’s work should be ignored because they themselves are flawed, Byronic, childish, moronic etc.
If, after five years’ work, each person’s original contributions were passed to a new person or generation, then the solid info could be considered on its own terms before this lot, in the usual way, create and then freeze an hypothesis.
Think it might work?
Downside is that by that criterion Nick would be retired, and poor Rene would be in his third tour of duty, while in six months, I’d be gone… so rather a so-so plan.
Rakita. Deidra stacy will Andre yolonda David
Big Mack
Mark
What happens if we mix potassium, phospharus, sulphur, carbon, radium and ytterium to gether anybody please answer soon very urgent
what would happen if Bismuth and Radon were combined?
How bout Iron Titanium Sulfur Hydrogen
Aluminium, Cobalt, Holmium, Lithium, Samarium
Ur nan: …Tungsten Rhenium Carbon Potassium Sulphur Fluorine Americium Iodine Lithium Einsteinium.
TNSLPPTSO