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First Contact
« on: September 05, 2012, 05:18:33 PM »
some wacky roleplay thing where extraterrestrial civilization visits earth.



An object is detected at a distance of 30 AU, just beyond pluto, but traveling at a speed of 1000 km/s towards the inner solar system. (130 times the speed of a shuttle). Size is about 1800 meters in diameter.

Oh, and then you receive the message
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00110011 00101110 00110001 00110100 00110001 00110101 00111001 00110110 00110101 00110011 00110101 00111000 00111001 00110111 00111001 00110011 00110010 00110011 00111000 00110100 00110110 00110010 00110110 00110100 00110011 00110011 00111000 00110011 00110010 00110111 00111001 00110101 00110000 00110010 00111000 00111000 00110100 00110001 00111001 00110111 00110001 00110110 00111001 00110011 00111001 00111001 00110011 00110111 00110101 00110001 00110000 00110101 00111000 00110010 00110000 00111001 00110111 00110100 00111001 00110100 00110100 00110101 00111001 00110010 00110011 00110000 00110111 00111000 00110001 00110110 00110100 00110000 00110110 00110010 00111000 00110110
in the direction of the object

(post your 'what to dooooo', below.)
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Re: First Contact
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2012, 07:16:06 PM »
send a ship to rendezvous it around Jupiter distance

and name it Rama

after discovering it has a rotation period of a few minutes

and send back:

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2012, 07:17:36 PM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2012, 07:42:04 PM »
I send 1 pulse.
Then 1 pulse again.
Then 2 pulse, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 pulses.

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2012, 02:59:46 AM »
The binary numbers = 3.14159653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 = Pi
Why Pi?
Think about it.

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« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2012, 03:42:15 AM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2012, 04:45:40 AM »
It's math, the universal language you dummy.
I know.
But aliens don't use math.
And binaries.

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2012, 05:21:08 AM »
make giant welcome sign :D

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2012, 07:30:55 AM »
It's math, the universal language you dummy.
But aliens don't use math.
And binaries.

then how the pony did they know how to get here

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2012, 01:11:13 PM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2012, 01:40:01 PM »
send a ship to rendezvous it around Jupiter distance

and name it Rama

after discovering it has a rotation period of a few minutes

and send back:

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I send a series of pulses.

Two pulses, then three pulses, then five pulses, then 7 pulses, then 11 pulses, then 13 pulses, then 17 pulses, then 19 pulses, and then 23 pulses.



I send 1 pulse.
Then 1 pulse again.
Then 2 pulse, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 pulses.

after pointing the hubble and keck telescopes at Rama, it is observed that 8 smaller (100m) segments have seperated off the main ship, one headed in the general direction of each gas giant. a satellite is quickly built and launched into orbit around Jupiter where it contacts signals the object with both prime numbers and the fibonnaci sequence. In response, Rama emits temporary beacon of light. when analyzed with a spectrograph, is shown, the spectrum corresponds to Gliese 581. In addition, after monitoring radio transmissions of earth, Rama transmits the message, "Hello world", to the satellite around Jupiter in numerous earth languages.

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« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2012, 01:49:34 PM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2012, 02:03:22 PM »
you wouldn't be able to approach it unless it decelerates greatly.

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2012, 02:26:06 PM »
what about my welcome sign?


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Re: First Contact
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2012, 09:54:34 AM »
It's math, the universal language you dummy.
But aliens don't use math.
And binaries.

then how the pony did they know how to get here
Idk.
Humans use math, aliens use (?).
Aliens never will be like us.
Ma engrish iz pérfekt tudai.

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« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2012, 12:04:44 PM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2012, 12:11:53 PM »
But they use binaries? Okay.
Okay with pi too.
And speed of light? in kilometers/second or things like this? They can have different ways of measuring time and space. And numbers. We use 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. And if they use 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,0,X,Y,Z? The number pi would be represented differently.

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« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2012, 12:18:28 PM »

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Re: First Contact
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2012, 12:20:35 PM »
I am a curious kid. I need of answers =P