Thanks guys, been looking at the picture of the bill/brick on and off throughout the day. The bottom edge of the bill under the serial number is clearly defined and can observe a jagged edge with some flaps and even a notch, but the top of the brick is harder to make out.  Not sure if it has something to do with the black and white nature of the picture, but it does almost look like possible blunt force impact on the top, the word trauma comes to mind...but definitely untrained eye observations.

So I started to look up money damage, and I came across the Mutilated Currency Division.  You probably know of this agency already, but their job is to take damaged money, identify it and reimburse people if certain criteria are met.  Anyway, they discuss different types of damage.

Here are two quick video links:

1)

The most interesting part of this short video starts at the one minute mark where the employee discusses the most difficult cases which he says are when "when money gets wet and sits for a while.....the money becomes petrified".  So not necessarily earth shattering, but to hear the word petrified hit home based on the conversations we have been having about whether the bundolas could make it through the dredge or not intact etc.

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This second video is a cbs news story on basically the same Mutilated Currency Division.  At the 2 minute mark, there is an example of brick of money that got wet and sat for a while.  For me, this was helpful to see it kind of sealed/bonded together.  Now this example was apparently in a jar that was buried and the jar became compromised and bills got wet...and sat for a while.  They don't say how long however.  But the edges or form, if you will, are still kind of largely in tact as a rectangle.  Contrasting with Coop's money, we have that rounding, the bricks almost look like the shape of an oval or cucumber or hot dog bun.  So we have an example in the video of a congealed/petrified brick of money, we have Coop's money petrified, perhaps similarly...but the difference is the integrity of the original shape.  The brick in the video was inside a jar...where was or what happened to Coops brick to cause the cucumber shape ?  Maybe it was the dredge forces...I know TK did work where he indicated bacteria may be responsible for some of the holes in top of the bills, I don't think he talked much about or linked the bacterial colony to the deterioration of the edges or shape of the brick...but I will go back and reread his work now.

Anyway, if your bored and haven't seen the above links before, have a look...

A thought experiment

Everyone who says "going through dredge" is too destructive, too violent.

Think about this:

Money going down a stream in flood conditions, is pretty damn turbulent? And for a longer time than dredge passage.

So if people thought that was fine, why would going thru a dredge be not fine?
Surely a dredge is less violent?

well, the idea of where cooper jumped isn't really a 'fact'
it's a prediction based on connecting together some other indirect info, and some experiments.

A photo and timestamp of Cooper jumping would be a fact.
all we have is a prediction.

Something could be wrong with that prediction.

I think it's also possible that that "prediction" was based on incorrect "facts" such as confusing "oscillations" with "pressure bump".

Also, this case lacks any semblance of precision. The flight path has an 8 mile margin of error, the jump time has a certiain margin of error, etc. It's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle applied to a criminal case.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Isn't that the quantum physics theory that says you can't determine the position and movement of a sub-atomic particle at the same time? I like it as a metaphor for DBC. We kinda know the movement of Flight 305 - Fly Me to Mexico! - but position/location is tricky.

BTW: Victor-23 is 8 nautical miles wide, which is 9.2 statute miles, or in lay-person speak: "regular miles."

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“oscillations" and "pressure bumps" are two separate things and easily identifiable as such

Yes, Bob. That is what I said.

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“oscillations" and "pressure bumps" are two separate things and easily identifiable as such

Yes, Bob. That is what I said.

And what I said is that no one is going to confuse a pressure bump with an oscillation.