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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by Eikon on Sunday October 03, 2021 @07:16AM (#28736248)
What is not interesting to you may be interesting to others. Someone "wasting" time on something you don't think useful doesn't prevent others working on something else.

It's not like society is bound to work on one thing at a time...

Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by boomboomsubban on Sunday October 03, 2021 @07:51AM (#28736447)
The resources available for this kind of work are limited, this is a new kind of x-ray that presumably has limited machines available and a high operating cost.

And I didn't say uninteresting. The authour of the letters purposefully removed the lines from the historical record for modesty's sake. It's similar to digging through a celebrity's trash to find salacious gossip.

Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by Eikon on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:02AM (#28736866)
> The authour of the letters purposefully removed the lines from the historical record for modesty's sake

How to know before finding out?

Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by boomboomsubban on Sunday October 03, 2021 @10:24AM (#28737387)
From the context of the letters, the rest of the words and where they were found. He seems to have only edited a few lines throughout letters. At most, checking one of the letters would have been enough.
Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by CyanBird on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:07PM (#28739164)
Well, now they have used a new novel system to bypass the censorship

If you fail to see the value of how this novel way can be used for other letters beyond this initial test case, then there's not much else to say I feel

Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by boomboomsubban on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:31PM (#28739387)
>If you fail to see the value of how this novel way can be used for other letters beyond this initial test case

This initial test case based on a technique already in practice on other sources of writing? None of my posts have dismissed the technology, just it's use in this case.