looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
apparently in 1857 “I have been informed by a European acquaintance” was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)
somewhat relatedly, it’s 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: scientificamerican.com/…/that-giant-sucking-sound…
i wonder why this screenshot (and OP’s text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it’s actually from 1857 🤔
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Victorian ‘peer review’
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He was a gentleman of good standing!
Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you to imply you doubt the word of a gentleman?