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RE: Sanborn's Antipodes Sculpture
by Dr. Nanochick at 12:24 am EDT, Aug 28, 2003

Elonka wrote:
] Update: Various photographers (some who wish to remain
] anonymous) have been sending me pictures of the Antipodes
] sculpture at the Hirshhorn.
]
] For those who have been following the story in my blog, this
] sculpture was particularly intriguing because it appeared to
] have the complete text of the Kryptos sculpture upon it, *and*
] the complete text of the Cyrillic Projector, and an additional
] 20% or so of other ciphertext in both languages.
]
] It was my hope that perhaps there was extra text on the
] English side which would shed a clue towards cracking Kryptos.
] As it turned out, there *is* some additional ciphertext on
] the Cyrillic side, which does not appear anywhere on the
] Cyrillic Projector. On the English side though, it is just a
] mix and repeat of the code sections that are already on the
] Kryptos sculpture.
]
] It's still useful though, because it is reassuring to see that
] Part IV is exactly the same length on Antipodes, as it is on
] Kryptos. There'd been some speculation that Kryptos part IV
] might only be the first part of a lengthier code, with the
] rest of the ciphertext "sucked into the whirlpool", but
] Antipodes seems to show that this is not the case.
]
] Pics are now online, along with some additional info about the
] sculpture. Big hugs and thanks to all you anonymous
] photographers out there! :)

This is really neat stuff, Elonka:) - Nano

RE: Sanborn's Antipodes Sculpture


 
 
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