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Code in a classic Scifi story
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Jonny10
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 		Code in a classic Scifi story
About a year and a half ago I bought Harlan Ellison's classic tale "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" from Fictionwise.com. This is what the site stated about the ebook:
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Probably Ellison's most well-known story. The tyrannical computer AM has taken over the world and now a few humans trapped inside it fight for survival. (Note: Palm versions of this story contain a character representation of a punch card graphic that the original story was published with. To view the original graphic see any of the other formats. The punch card graphic and the Palm character representation of it were approved by Mr. Ellison, and he tells us that both contain a message that few people have ever decoded.)


If you want to read the story, or look at the card graphic go here.

The character representation of the punch card graphic in my ebook read thusly:
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0000000100100011010000010101
0110001000011010011110001001


Who can resist a challenge like that? I have almost gone crazy trying to solve it, so I thought I would enlist my new genius friends here. If it is really easy I am going to be embarrassed.

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urthstripe
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 		Oh man, nice story. But I have no idea about the code.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:05 am
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drizjr
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 		A baudot code : compared to the card graphic says...

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I THINK, THEREFORE I AM

Thanks, Jonny10. Smile

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urthstripe
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 		Hahahaha. If that doesn't make you think you're stupid, I don't know what.

Geeeez. If you ever have an unsolvable problem, bring it to the hive mind.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:18 am
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Jonny10
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 		Thank You drizjr! 1.5 years of frustration and it only took you an hour and a half to find my post and solve it. Worshippy

A year and a half looking at the binary Dunce and it was the punchcard I should have focused on! Embarassed

Thanks for the satisfaction drizjr.

And thanks for pointing out how stupid I should feel urthstripe! Smile

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urthstripe
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 		Oh don't worry, I feel pretty stupid too. But I blame it on you, cause I kept looking at the binary. :-p. But I liked it just for reading the story, it was pretty freaky.
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drizjr
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 		truly my pleasure
All my gratitude goes to the ARG community, because *everything* I know about codes, I learned here. (It's really amazing the amount of knowledge one picks up along the way.)
The baudot code has been used on other ARGs; I was just lucky I recognized it.
Btw, I still can't make head nor tail of the binary. Confused Smile

PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:39 am
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Jonny10
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 		Thanks for the lesson drizjr.

I went back to the punchcard graphic with my newfound skillz and got
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Letters:COGITO_ERGO_SUM
Latin for I think, therefore I am. As you already said.


That solution ties in nicely with the name of the supercomputer and the rage of stifled creativity.

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drizjr
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 		Kudos
Ah. Good going!
Now that's real satisfaction. Smile

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xar
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 		hmm
Contemno Ergo Sum. Twisted Evil

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