It looks like they already have two plaintext samples, would they be able to try Vignere keys that result in both plain texts simultaneously? Every other panel was solved with Vignere
That’s only outside their native range. In Mexico, where they’re from, they’re pollinated by the Melipona bee. Mexico is currently 3rd place in vanilla production at 6.5%, so you’re not wrong to say the majority of vanilla plants are pollinated by hand, but they do have a natural pollinator. In theory, you could introduce the Melipona bee to areas where Vanilla has been imported to cut down the labor time/costs.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page and I think it’s fine. They’ve cited some sources which detail the debate about which pollinators actually pollinate the plant. Compared to someone who’s got a degree studying plants, I know basically nothing. I’m just repeating what I’ve heard. If they’ve got a list of pollinators and are trying to narrow down the right one, then they’re closer to the truth than I am.
That’s why “Madagascar vanilla” is such a funny marketing term. It’s trying to make it sound exotic, but it’s the biggest source of vanilla. Vanilla pretty much has to come from a super impoverished country to be able to be cultivated with hand pollination. They grow vanilla on hawaii, and a single bean costs $20. It might taste better than $1 madagascan beans, but probably not 20 times better.
For sure. There will also be a shit ton of other one-hundred-year old short films that were available, but you never watched that you also won’t give a shit about.
Well if you’re born in 1877 in a world of telegraphs and steam engines and got to live a hundred years and see Star Wars I in the cinema I think you’d have a bit of an epiphany about how much the ability to fantasize about the future has grown over your lifetime.
Like Dolly Parton’s “My Place in History,” locked away in a Dollywood time capsule to celebrate the 31st year of the park opening and her to be 100th birthday.
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