(Q - Tina: I would like to come back to the discussions you had this week with researchers, regarding, possibly you would have invalidated Niepce's lead on photography?)
MB : no, so, I think it's good that you're talking about that because I don't have...you have to understand that I don't know all the avenues and all the theories that have been put forward and more or less retained and commonly accepted from the beginning, for the simple reason that I have only been aware of the solutions for a very short time, and that prior to this knowledge of the solutions, I had never considered on the details of hunting, I was a little interested at times but without delving into the details.
So I am absolutely not invalidating any theory, what I see is that there are among the... what I can read, because once again I receive a lot of messages in private and in everything that I can read, it is obvious that there are people who have found things, no one has found everything by definition, since otherwise the countermark would have been found.
But I'm not in a position to invalidate...when you tell me the Niepce track, it doesn't mean anything to me, well I don't understand where I'm going...if someone explains it to me maybe I can answer but when someone tells me just that, I don't see how I would have invalidated it?
(Q - Tina: I don't know, maybe it was Gregg who said that earlier, someone can...)
(Q - Immortal tofu: Gregg asked you a question about is knowledge of film photography, I believe, necessary and you told him no, so he deduced that perhaps it is an invalidation of Nicéphore Niepce's hypothesis?)
MB : but I don't know what the Nicéphore Niepce hypothesis is, I don't know what it corresponds to! If it's a question of knowing how many...I've done film photography, I've made my photo prints in my darkroom,...if it's a question of knowing the nature of the baths , the time during which we leave a photo and then all the little manipulations that we can do to make film, I say that it is of no use in the game.
After the Niepce track it doesn't speak to me.
(Q - Tina: it's a 500 decryption it seems to me...)
MB : yes but a decryption which leads to a place? Well, from what I understood, the decryptions don't lead so much to characters, they lead more to places, right? Isn’t that it?
(Q - Tina: I don't know if a researcher can validate, explain the Niepce trail, but it seems to me that it's another decryption of Carignan...not at all...ah of the 600...)
(Q - ??: it's the Perched Black Ship...)
MB : so it leads to a place, do we agree?
(Q - ??: well let's say that the decryption gives Niepce but after what we do with it...)
MB : ah okay, ok, ok...the Nicéphore Niepce track, I don't know it's Chalon sur Saône, I don't know what, well, I didn't invalidate that, nothing said about that, I don't asks me questions about photography knowledge, it's useless. After knowledge of history, it was not in photography at that time, it was knowledge in history, that Nicéphore Niepce discovered, where did he live, does that imply a place, well that's it I have no answer for that.
The problem is that the questions I receive most of the time are full of big tricks...if I tell you a flower pot in which a plant grows that leans to the west, does that remind you something like this, it's such a convoluted question that I see that my answers are dissected in the same way, whereas I give much more direct answers.
Knowledge of photography, no there is no need, that's it, finally Nicéphore Niepce is not knowledge of photography for me.
(Q - ??: to clarify Michel, the Niepce track, what we can find for example with that is that in the first photo that he took it was to use the Bitumen of Judea and it could go with Noah's Ark which was covered with bitumen of Judea and which could correspond to the Perched Black Ship, that's if you didn't know this track?)
MB : no I didn't know it, I used the bitumen of Judea to skate a certain number of wooden things, including the articulated character that I used to do anatomy studies but that's all. No, for me all this has no resonance, so I hear clearly, when someone explains to me the link between the asphalt of Judea and Noah's Ark, I understand the link, I have no idea everything invalidated that, I didn't go that far.
When someone asks me a question like that, I can't go that far, that would mean and I want to be very clear on this, that would mean that I would have the knowledge that Max had of all the questions and answers that he was able to do, in fact he himself made mistakes from time to time by saying I don't remember,... oh well did I say that? I don't remember...
But then I, less than him, do not have this knowledge of all the questions/answers and everything that could have generated as an idea, as a lead, as a hypothesis, so if questions must be asked of me, I must whether they relate to what I am supposed to know or what I am supposed to respond to.
After all the niceties of the hunt, my intention is not to go into it, I don't want to take Max's place, I said it, I wrote it, and I don't want to take over from Max doesn't either, so I can't get into this kind of debate, because I don't have the skills, I don't have the history, and I don't have the will, once again, to take the following.
MB : no, so, I think it's good that you're talking about that because I don't have...you have to understand that I don't know all the avenues and all the theories that have been put forward and more or less retained and commonly accepted from the beginning, for the simple reason that I have only been aware of the solutions for a very short time, and that prior to this knowledge of the solutions, I had never considered on the details of hunting, I was a little interested at times but without delving into the details.
So I am absolutely not invalidating any theory, what I see is that there are among the... what I can read, because once again I receive a lot of messages in private and in everything that I can read, it is obvious that there are people who have found things, no one has found everything by definition, since otherwise the countermark would have been found.
But I'm not in a position to invalidate...when you tell me the Niepce track, it doesn't mean anything to me, well I don't understand where I'm going...if someone explains it to me maybe I can answer but when someone tells me just that, I don't see how I would have invalidated it?
(Q - Tina: I don't know, maybe it was Gregg who said that earlier, someone can...)
(Q - Immortal tofu: Gregg asked you a question about is knowledge of film photography, I believe, necessary and you told him no, so he deduced that perhaps it is an invalidation of Nicéphore Niepce's hypothesis?)
MB : but I don't know what the Nicéphore Niepce hypothesis is, I don't know what it corresponds to! If it's a question of knowing how many...I've done film photography, I've made my photo prints in my darkroom,...if it's a question of knowing the nature of the baths , the time during which we leave a photo and then all the little manipulations that we can do to make film, I say that it is of no use in the game.
After the Niepce track it doesn't speak to me.
(Q - Tina: it's a 500 decryption it seems to me...)
MB : yes but a decryption which leads to a place? Well, from what I understood, the decryptions don't lead so much to characters, they lead more to places, right? Isn’t that it?
(Q - Tina: I don't know if a researcher can validate, explain the Niepce trail, but it seems to me that it's another decryption of Carignan...not at all...ah of the 600...)
(Q - ??: it's the Perched Black Ship...)
MB : so it leads to a place, do we agree?
(Q - ??: well let's say that the decryption gives Niepce but after what we do with it...)
MB : ah okay, ok, ok...the Nicéphore Niepce track, I don't know it's Chalon sur Saône, I don't know what, well, I didn't invalidate that, nothing said about that, I don't asks me questions about photography knowledge, it's useless. After knowledge of history, it was not in photography at that time, it was knowledge in history, that Nicéphore Niepce discovered, where did he live, does that imply a place, well that's it I have no answer for that.
The problem is that the questions I receive most of the time are full of big tricks...if I tell you a flower pot in which a plant grows that leans to the west, does that remind you something like this, it's such a convoluted question that I see that my answers are dissected in the same way, whereas I give much more direct answers.
Knowledge of photography, no there is no need, that's it, finally Nicéphore Niepce is not knowledge of photography for me.
(Q - ??: to clarify Michel, the Niepce track, what we can find for example with that is that in the first photo that he took it was to use the Bitumen of Judea and it could go with Noah's Ark which was covered with bitumen of Judea and which could correspond to the Perched Black Ship, that's if you didn't know this track?)
MB : no I didn't know it, I used the bitumen of Judea to skate a certain number of wooden things, including the articulated character that I used to do anatomy studies but that's all. No, for me all this has no resonance, so I hear clearly, when someone explains to me the link between the asphalt of Judea and Noah's Ark, I understand the link, I have no idea everything invalidated that, I didn't go that far.
When someone asks me a question like that, I can't go that far, that would mean and I want to be very clear on this, that would mean that I would have the knowledge that Max had of all the questions and answers that he was able to do, in fact he himself made mistakes from time to time by saying I don't remember,... oh well did I say that? I don't remember...
But then I, less than him, do not have this knowledge of all the questions/answers and everything that could have generated as an idea, as a lead, as a hypothesis, so if questions must be asked of me, I must whether they relate to what I am supposed to know or what I am supposed to respond to.
After all the niceties of the hunt, my intention is not to go into it, I don't want to take Max's place, I said it, I wrote it, and I don't want to take over from Max doesn't either, so I can't get into this kind of debate, because I don't have the skills, I don't have the history, and I don't have the will, once again, to take the following.