I was thinking about how to try the famous Houdini experiment, of trying to signal back after death. At first I thought of trying to make cats dance or something, but realized that something like cats, would be hard to control. Then I thought "toothpicks". Toss a toothpick a few times, and if it lands on a negative angle, it's a 0....a positive angle, it's a 1, and 0 angle is undef. Then look for a morse code Z or something in the binary sequence. A Z is "dash dash dot dot"...so 1100110011001100 may be a sign from ME.. :-)

maybe I will make the Swiss super-collider blink a Z on it's sensors. :-)

Now... where does Perl come into this? :-) Ok, if you guys out there see a 2-on, 2-off pattern in some debugging output, it's ME. :-) Now, the only problem, is how do you know the difference between 2 dashs from 1 long dash? A timing sync will occur every so often, like 11111111111111111111111010101010101010101010100000000000000000000000000000 will occaisionally be sent, so you can get the 1, 0 timing.

Would anyone care to collaborate on a Houdini module? :-)

In more serious terms, :-), what would be the best way to initiate binary communication with an unknown world/entity? Is sending a morse Z the best way? Maybe SOS is better...bwaha ha ) :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness

In reply to Somewhat OT: Designing the Houdini After-death communication experiment. by zentara

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