10mo ago

Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago

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in the french town of Eu
Wow, they were really ahead of their time.
Petition to move the EU institutions there?
- The tragic part is that the EU is called the "UE" in French...
  
  Luckily French isn't a real language.
  
  I know, I know, I had french classes as well. (Still seeing my therapist because of that :P)
  But I still found it funny :)
Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.
- It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.
  
  It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.
Every time I read news of people finding old messages in bottles I find it fascinating.
But then at the same time I wonder how many people it prompts to dump their own bottles into the sea (i.e. littering) anytime one of these headlines blow up
E: sorry I'm apprehensive about dumping plastic in our oceans. Damn. Didn't realise this was a pro-pollution community...
- Glasbottles are fine and just fancy rocks.
  
  Well yeah, I'd hope the people who do this use glass bottles, but let's be real, they'll use whatever easily-sealable bottle is most convenient. So plastic bottles.
  
  but if i write my message on plastic it'll last forever
I'll send an S.O.S to the world

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