From: Kelly Sigethy (oil@cadvision.com)
Date: 20-Jun-95 (15:18:58 GMT)
Subj: The Ultimate Answer

Ok.. a coupla quick comments.  To the guy that asked if this
was real.  Of course the TEST is real, but I am sure if you
read the documents in the previous menus, you would have
noticed that are host mentioned this is just a test.  Also
if scientists did discover an alien transmission, they
aren't going to release it to the general public to solve!

Anyways, the very last message was a direction set to
dissolve this test.  I don't think that was the main
purpose of our host in creating this site.  He is trying
to teach us how hard it would be to take a different
transmission and try to interpret what is being said
when your sender is of some other origin.  very complex

Also, I think the teacher intended for us to have an open
discussion on ways of trying to solve this dilemma.

So I will offer all my thoughts:

The code is here below...

GBGGBBGGBBBGGBBBBGGBBBBBGGBBBBBBGGBHBBHBGGBBHBBBHBGG
BHBBBHBBGGBHBHGGHBHBGGBBHBBBBHBBGGBBIBIBGGBIBIBBGGBB

JKBKJBGGBJKBKJBBGGBBBBJKBBBKJBGGBBBBIBBBIBGGBLBLBGGB
BLBBBBBBLBBBGGBLBBLBBGGBBBBBBMBBMBBBGGBBMBBBMBBBBBBG
GBBBBMBBMBBGGBBMBBMBBBBGGBBBBBBNOBBONBBBGGOBBOLOBBBB
OLOBBOGGBPBPBGGBBPBBPBBGGBBBPBBBPBBBGGPQAQPGGBPQBQPB
GGBBPQCQPBBGGBBBPQDQPBBBGGBBBBPQEQPBBBBGGBBBBBPQFQPB
BBBBGGBBBBBBPQBABQPBBBBBBGGBBBBBBBPQBBBQPBBBBBBBGGBB
BBBBBBPQBCBQPBBBBBBBBGGBBBBBBBBBPQBDBQPBBBBBBBBBGGBB
BBBBBBBBBBPQCACQPBBBBBBBBBBBBGGQBQHQDQHQCQGGRQBQHQCQ
HQBQRGGSQBQHQDQHQBQSGGRQCQIQBQIQBQRGGSQCQIQCQIQBQSG


lets just take the first two lines...

What do we see.  Cant be a musical octave.  There r more
than 8 notes  --- what about I & H?

Can we spot a pattern?  sure it looks like it
it goes "g" then "b" [could be a binary set] though
obviously not.  Then two "BB" and two "GG"
This is where pattern breaks...  should be three "BBB"
and three "GGG" but its not.

Its two "GG" so the G's never go over two
This is the pattern...

   G's  |   B's
----------------
   1    |   1
   2    |   2
   2	|   3
   2    |   4
   2    |   5
   2    |   6
   
This is where the pattern breaks again.  Now are teacher
introduces a new character in the code... so we rule out
binary... but not entirely... 

   G's   |  B's   |  H's    |  I's
------------------------------------
   2     |  4     |  2	    |	
   2     |  6     |  2	    |
   2     |  6     |  2      |          The same as above
   2     |  2     |  2	    | 
   2     |  2     |  2      |          The same as above
   2     |  8     |  2 	    |			
------------------------------------				
   2     |  4     |         |  2
   2     |  4     |         |  2       The same as above 

It looks like the pattern is starting all over again but
with I's.

I will have to think about this


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