Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet 324
mernil writes to mention that the Dead Sea Scrolls are headed for the internet. The Israel Antiquities Authority, custodians of the scrolls, plan on digitizing the 900 fragments to make them available to the public via the internet. Unfortunately they are claiming the project will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to complete.
2 years is too long (Score:5, Funny)
Patience (Score:3, Funny)
You've waited this long ... what's another two years?
What we need is for Google to develop an actual, physical spider that goes out and searches hard copies of documents for indexing.
Confucius say (Score:2, Funny)
Confucius say "Now we can find out if the People's Front of Judea are a bunch of splitters."
front page? (Score:2, Funny)
you know, the bit that goes "to my darking Wendy, all names and places in this book are entirely fictitious and any resemblance to real.."
Re:Edifying (Score:5, Funny)
I came across photograph copies in my College Library the other day
Did you wipe them off and apologize to the librarian?
Re:2 years is too long (Score:4, Funny)
Clearly if it's going to be 50% faster in a mere 492 years, our best bet is to wait until then to transcribe them rather than wasting our precious time now.
Re:Edifying (Score:1, Funny)
Ass.
The abridged Dead Sea Scrolls (Score:5, Funny)
'The Romans are bad'
'So are any Jews who don't do what we do'
'We don't like women'
'Why is is so hard to get a damn bath around here'
Re:2 years is too long (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Edifying (Score:1, Funny)
Military intelligence is working on it.
Re:They aren't paper (Score:3, Funny)