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[Nightmare Tony]

[SPEC] Reason for the 3-4 minute delay between locations

[SixByNine]

I think the difference in time is to accomidate the 12 hour thing. I.e. to do the number of locations they want in exactly 12 hours means a gap of somewhere between 3 and 4 mins, therfore make some 3 and some 4.

in terms of meta maybe, but the 4 minute ones are at the begining and end of the set where there is less of the US covered (meta again, presumably due to time differences accross the US), therefore it makes sense to have more points towards the middle of the day, i.e the shorter 3 minute gaps.

[bosshogg]

isn't 4 minutes the time it takes for the earth to rotate by 1 degree?

[usernameguy]

360 degree/1 day * 1 day/24 hours * 1 hour/60 minutes = 6/24 degrees/minute = 1/4 a degree per minute.

So, yes. :^>

[GunsmithCat]

Yeah, if the pay phone spec pans out, this would be my assumption as well. Or that it's like a :30 message that will repeat (to accomodate other people)

Or that it's more of a deadline, if these calls are interactive (people who are on the call can't expect it to last more than a couple of minutes)

[Nightmare Tony]

with 309 seconds, you cazn fit in many more locations. with a message of 3 or 4 minutes, it makes sense, also not how the intervals are 3 or 4 minutes, which I think blows the earth rotation out. To me, spec, it emans there are 2 mesdsages we will get, depending on location...

[Viirden]

Is it possible to set an autodialer on a computer?
If so, couldn't you record 110 twenty second little snidbits, save them in
your computer and have the PC dial, send, and repeat each phrase only
twice?

Or 76 snidbits and have each one repeated 3 times?
How about 55 snidbits with each one going to 4 payphones?

I think that if the payphone idea is correct that we will be recieving
multiple phrases that fit together just like the text found on ILB.

[Nightmare Tony]

could be. The times are either 3 or 4 minute sapart, but how many messages in that space is only up to them. Guess itsa message time for tuesday!

[k]

I thought the gap between the coordinates might be to do with morse code- the three minute gaps correspond to a dot, and the four minute gaps correspond to a dash. Not sure how you'd seperate letters, though.

[SixByNine]

Please remeber people that the times are all 4 mins, then all 3 mins then, all 4 mins (with a little glitch, unless that has been changed, I haven't checked).

This means that there is very unlikely to be codes directly in the times (e.g the morse code, it would be a lot of Os Ms or Ts followed by a lot of Ss, Is and Es), nor does it seem that likely that there is a range of messages (you would expect places right next to each other to get both, not the same one again).

[Viirden]

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