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Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

Posted by kdawson on from the finding-patterns-where-none-may-exist dept.

atrocious cowpat passes along a call for help from symmetry magazine, the joint publication of Fermilab and SLAC, noting: "Could be just plain gibberish, it could be something like those wonderfully weird letters to the Mount Wilson observatory, or it could be a message from aliens who just happened to have gotten their hands (tentacles/exoskeleton) on a fax machine." "A little over a year ago, the Fermilab Office of Public Affairs received a curious letter in code (4.4-MB image here). It has been sitting in our files all that time and we haven't had much of a chance to look into breaking the code, nor are we particularly expert at this!"

2 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Well, obvious stuff: by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror here. I think Google's servers can probably handle the traffic. ;)

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  2. Mirrored Copy by LaptopZZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I mirrored it on my server as well as made a scaled down version which is just as readable as the original (unless you're making a poster).

    http://www.pixabug.com/aliens/fnalcodeletter.jpg

    http://www.pixabug.com/aliens/fnalcodeletter_sanesize.jpg

    Happy Cracking

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