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Originally posted by MisterBurns
Thing is though, why the hell would he pick that location if he was faking, there isnt actually anything there as far as we know so as far as he knows becuase Hy Brasil is a myth or folklore.
Originally posted by XPLodER
(HI)PIE + 1=O
Originally posted by Tholidor
To put this new binary information in context we need to keep in mind that although today computer knowledge is almost universal, in 1980 the number of people who understood the binary nature of computer architecture was extremely limited.
Originally posted by XPLodER
(HI)PIE + 1=O
Originally posted by nvprose1
reply to post by XPLodER
only left side from bottom to top:
00101001 01100010 0111101 00110000
01100101 01011110 0010100 0 1010000
01101001 00101001 01110000 01101001
result: )1=0e^(Ði)pi
Originally posted by Byrd
"Intergalactic aliens" who come from zillions of miles away -- and they use ASCII code????
en.wikipedia.org...
And they speak English????
ASCII is just a way of representing letters to a system. It uses a string of 1's and 0's to represent letters in the English alphabet (UF was developed to handle other language symbols). We use many other types of character "codes" including ANSI, Unicode, and a lot of others.
But we are expected to believe that these star-traveling voyagers have somehow showed up, found our Macintoshes so appealing that they promptly went out and bought one to learn how we wrote our alphabets... and then started using English to talk to each other.
This is about as likely as my handing you the full ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic set (over 250 different signs) and having you start communicating to me in that language -- by typing your words to me in that language.
Originally posted by GoldenChild
Originally posted by Jademonkey2k
The small segment of text that was produced from his code that he wrote is monumental. You would have more chance of assembaling a fully functioning F17 from a tornado passing through a junk yard then writing that from memory.
Its a statistical impossibility that someone today could have memorised that entire sequence, and even less likely that they could have simply guess it.
Not to take away from the rest of your post, or even to suggest that the guy was a savant, but it's certainly not an impossibility that the sequence could be memorised - many people possess the memory skills to do such a thing, and it's apparently a lot easier to remember binary than denary. The world record for memorising a binary sequence is over 4,000 digits, albeit with an unspecified number of errors: link. According to the same website, the record for recalling Pi is almost 68,000 digits: link
I'll bet you an F17 (or equivalent cash alternative) that I could memorise the 12 pages of binaryedit on 1/1/2011 by GoldenChild because: none