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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!"

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  1. Hi HAL.... by Knuks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems to start "...All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. ...." then tails off...

  2. Be sure! 'Be sure' to what?! by MattGWU · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

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    "These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re: