Comments on: Sunday Fun: Oldest Message in a Bottle http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/10/14/sunday-fun-oldest-message-in-a-bottle/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: prtsimmons http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/10/14/sunday-fun-oldest-message-in-a-bottle/comment-page-1/#comment-562750 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:56:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=51465#comment-562750 I am a physical oceanography graduate school dropout, and I can assure you that oceanographers still used this method. It might have a fancier name in the grant proposal, but oceanographers still bottles (or plastic containers) with notes on them asking people to report where they found them. Our research methods have come a long, long way but some of the old ones still work.

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Willard:
They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.

Kurtz:
Are my methods unsound?

Willard:
I don’t see any method at all, sir.

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