< 1044587098 0 :SamB!~naesten@64.3.60.115 JOIN :#esoteric < 1044589402 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :welcome! < 1044591043 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :are you going to spout something esoteric for me? < 1044591083 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes < 1044592479 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :when? < 1044592598 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :When you reach level OT III < 1044592606 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric ::) < 1044592745 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :OT III? is that scientologist or something? < 1044592777 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :That depends. < 1044592798 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :on what? < 1044592811 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :On how much you're willing to pay. < 1044592831 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :hehehhe < 1044593068 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # ## # ## ##### # < 1044593068 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # ## # # ## # # ##### < 1044593068 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # # # # # ## ## # ## < 1044593068 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # ## # # ## # # # # ## ## ### # < 1044593068 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # #### # #### # # # # ###### ## ## # < 1044593069 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ## # # # ##### ## # < 1044593077 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # # # # ### ## # < 1044593077 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # ## # # # ####### < 1044593077 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # # ## # # # ### ## # < 1044593077 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ##### # ## # ## # # # # # < 1044593079 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :#### # # # ## # # # # # # ## # # < 1044593081 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : #### ############ ### ######## ## # # < 1044593083 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :## # ## # # # ##### ## # #### # ###### # ## # ## < 1044593085 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ## # ## ######## ## # # < 1044593087 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :# ## # ## ### # # # # ## # # < 1044593089 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # ## # # # # # # # # ## < 1044593091 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :# # # # # # # # # # # ## # < 1044593093 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # # ####### < 1044593095 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ### # ## # ## # # # # ### ## # < 1044593097 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ## # # ## # # # # # # ### ## # < 1044593099 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # # # # # # # # # #### # ### ### ## # < 1044593101 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : # ## # # ## # ## ### # < 1044593103 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric : ## #### # #### # # < 1044593125 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :is that life? < 1044593136 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :In what sense? < 1044593151 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :is that weird? < 1044593153 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :game-of-life < 1044593184 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :it sure looks funny < 1044593185 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament, in what sense? < 1044593191 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :SamB, no. < 1044593192 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ACTION knows what lament means < 1044593249 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ACTION wonders if dbc will stop asking "in what sense" soon < 1044593249 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ACTION thought lament might mean "is that written in Wierd", but thought he would ask < 1044593292 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :no, it was a rhetorical question < 1044593346 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ACTION wants an `esoterica' task in debian < 1044593364 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :If you can't figure this out, the aliens haven't a prayer of doing so :/ < 1044593412 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :oooooh, its part of the message to the aliens? < 1044593433 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :or is that the *whole thing*?!!! < 1044593468 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we should send them rosetta disks instead < 1044593474 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :haha < 1044593491 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :better yet, the easter island statues < 1044593508 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :dbc: can you translate that? < 1044593519 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we couldn't get those off the ground... < 1044593547 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Sort of. at left we have binary numbers up to ten. < 1044593575 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :being written in binary, its practically illegible < 1044593587 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Then a list of the atomic numbers of those elements involved in DNA... < 1044593651 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :then a little chunk of DNA, with sugar-phosphate backbone at top and bottom, and base pairs in the middle. < 1044593713 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(not the structure, of course...just an inventory of atoms, counts in positions that match the list to the left.) < 1044593778 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :we should really send them some mostly analog info... < 1044593817 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Then a rough image of the helical shape of DNA, combined with (I think) the length of a human's DNA...let me check. < 1044593851 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Male or female, I wonder? < 1044593852 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :and then theres the little man... < 1044593898 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :undifferentiated due to miniscule size, I think < 1044593920 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Right. A little man between the human population of the Earth, and the height of a human in radio wavelengths. < 1044593937 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I mean is the count of DNA length for male or female. The female one is longer, right? < 1044593966 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I feel really dumb. I don't even see the binary numbers. < 1044593980 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :X is much bigger then Y < 1044594003 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Then we have a very crude depiction of the solar system, and a picture of the Arecibo dish with a number specifying its diameter. < 1044594008 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :the numbers are horizontal in this view? < 1044594014 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :(in radio wavelengths, again.) < 1044594044 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :how do we know where the numbers start and stop? < 1044594048 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Yes. And are terminated with 1 digits. < 1044594053 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :## = 1 < 1044594058 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :# # = 2 < 1044594069 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :## # = 6 < 1044594121 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :how would you know that ## # was 6 and not, for example, 1 followed by 0? < 1044594177 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, they usually put one number per line. Though they may go to the next line if they run out of space... < 1044594262 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :It's not the clearest imaginable system... < 1044594268 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :its indecipherable, I tell you < 1044594283 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :unless you already know the data, of course < 1044594351 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :right. < 1044594357 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Yes and no. I think it's decipherable by some people who've never seen it but have a good knowledge of biology. Not by people who don't. < 1044594360 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :"height in wavelengths"? What the fuck. < 1044594372 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :wavelengths of the radio wave used to send the message. < 1044594387 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :I suppose that's the measurement of length they thought would be clearest :/ < 1044594399 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :thats what I meant by "know the data" < 1044594487 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Why is our height even important to aliens? < 1044594492 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Clear enough. < 1044594503 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament it probably isn't :/ < 1044594611 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :or the length of our DNA - that's not even important to humans. < 1044594628 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :IIRC the length of the dna is absolutely meaningless < 1044594641 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :lament right. < 1044594690 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :brb. < 1044594692 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Did you know that God's name is ERIS, and that He is a girl?" < 1044594701 0 :dbc!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :Besides, they just zapped this off once. You'd need steady transmission to have a hope of having it received. The thing was really just proof-of-concept... < 1044599659 0 :exarkun!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :not -absolutely-, but it is only weakly correlated with organism complexity < 1044599740 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :they would probably have more luck with TV signals! < 1044599760 0 :exarkun!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :tv signals are pretty straightforward < 1044599795 0 :exarkun!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :any alien life that can pick up em radiation in the same spectrum as us (not necessarily without mechanical aid) could probably decipher them pretty quickly < 1044599799 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :right back now == be back in a nour and a half or more? < 1044599826 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yeah, much easier then binary nonsense like that, eh? < 1044599840 0 :exarkun!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :yea.. analog is too easy :) < 1044600453 0 :deltab_!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :leguin.freenode.net irc.freenode.net < 1044600540 0 :deltab_!~deltab@pc-62-30-196-158-sm.blueyonder.co.uk JOIN :#esoteric < 1044600576 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :deltab_: what is meaning of "deltab"? < 1044601138 0 :lament!~lament@h24-78-145-92.vc.shawcable.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1044602523 0 :deltab_!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :good question < 1044602708 0 :SamB!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 60 (Operation timed out) < 1044602757 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :ACTION reads the logs < 1044602758 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :haha. < 1044602765 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :11:35:04 esoteric programming languages < 1044602765 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :11:42:24 does that generally mean languages like brainf*ck or the likes of oz, ocaml, etc? < 1044603018 0 :deltab_!unknown@unknown.invalid PRIVMSG #esoteric :both, I'd say < 1044604799 0 :clog!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :ended < 1044604800 0 :clog!unknown@unknown.invalid JOIN :#esoteric < 1044607085 0 :lament!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :"Did you know that God's name is ERIS, and that He is a girl?" < 1044645814 0 :Aardappel!wvo96r@p508C7FA6.dip.t-dialin.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1044655799 0 :Taaus!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Connection timed out < 1044657704 0 :Aardappel!unknown@unknown.invalid QUIT :Read error: 60 (Operation timed out) < 1044658901 0 :Taaus!~T@cpe.atm0-0-0-196156.0x3ef21ebe.boanxx5.customer.tele.dk JOIN :#esoteric