G9PoABBBBBBABABABABABABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBoP9G Strange, very strange ... '9' is a x x x x x x - x x x - x x - x x x x - x x x x - x x - x x x - x x x x x x (huh? what's that?) GQCQ9QCQ^0^QCQ9QCQG TCans contain two '9' (eyes?) One has to be attentive to the fact here, that both of the medium sized planets contain a '9' in their name "797" and "898". This /may/ be unrelated, but then again... Why do they explicitly state the number of "9" in this message? In message 8 they have already stated 9^0^9 - why didn't they include the count there? Or Is this David Levine supplying more information because we went so wrong with "9"?? G GA%AG Block Time "0" ("in the beginning"??) I agree with Michael Neylon, that the usage of the Block here probably has to be interpreted as all of this taking place at the same time. I.e. the following sentences have to be interpreted as statements that have been true at time 0 (whenever this may have been), but may not be true anymore. G3-m-2im-m-3G (TCE and 'm') -m- 3 Long shot: We speculate 'm' to be "infinity" or "the universe". There has been speculation, that "-m-" could be "to exist". Since both "m" and "-m-" are part of "3", I'll tentatively assume, that "3" is meant to be some God or something similar. In this case the previous sentence could read: TCEarth and [the universe(?)] [existed??] [under God???] [God created the Heaven and the earth???] (Where the number of question marks is supposed to represent the vagueness of my feelings about this interpretation). GA^2^AG There was nothing on TCE So far, this sounds awfully like our good old genesis - and why shouldn't the TCans believe in some kind of god? A huge number of people on Earth does so ... (and at some earlier point D.L. pointed out "advanced? Who said the TCans are advanced?") G3-$-3G If I stick with "God" for "3" and -$- is the verb related to "speed", this could be "and God moved"?? Maybe more in the Sense of "and God acted [in some way]"?? In the sense of "did something"? G 3 H ?B? ?BCB? ?B? i 3 H -$- G Is our interpretation of "H" correct? "God and the moving created water"?? (in terms of "Gods move created Water etc."?) But why this strange double structure with the "3 H"es? shouldn't the second one be just a "H"?? Or maybe it's a "3H" as a new thing?? Or is it really "God (or whatever "3" may be) and the movement resulted in God /and/ Water? In the sense, that "3" was part of that creation (as a part of that "addition" "H") but wasn't consumed in it (as would happen, when you add things?). God as a catalytic converter?? Which makes Water out of movement?? Water??? Strictly speaking, "?B? ?BCB? ?B?" is only HO, not H2O due to the symmetrical interpretation of the syntax (just as we interpret "BCB" not as "121", but only as "12"). G3 -*- 2i?B??BCB??B? -*- 3G If "-$-" is "to move", what is "-*-"?? If I interpret "-$-" more loosely as "to act", "-*-" would be something like a "strongest" or "highest" or "most powerful" act. In this sense, I'd interpret the previous as "And through this divine act, TCans and Water were created" GxG "...and there was light..." G End Block Strange, strange ....