What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
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Selection of close combat weapons (kitchen knives)
Cencer and meditatition equipments (ashtray and playing cards)
Items of unknown purpose (pack of condoms)
Labels and manuals (wc, high voltage, etc)
Cencer and meditatition equipments (ashtray and playing cards)
Items of unknown purpose (pack of condoms)
Labels and manuals (wc, high voltage, etc)
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Re: What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
Not really - language should generally be obvious even when encoded into the proprietary formats. You will often be able to tell that something is language.fredgiblet wrote:IMO The Hobbit is significantly better than LoTR. Strangely enough I'm expecting to reverse that for the movies.Michael wrote:Having never actually read the whole of the lord of the rings (I get about half way and find I've forgotten what happened 3-4 pages ago) I put it down very quickly after only the first few pages, and this is someone who at the time had already read The Hobbit at age twelve
It'll probably take a long time, months or possibly years, then once they's accessed it they'll have to figure out which ones are relevant, which means knowing English (or possibly Chinese).junk wrote:Of course it might take a while to decypher the contents.
As you will generally get certain repeating patterns. Admittedly you will only have bit values as opposed to actual symbols or letters.
I'd say we can pretty safely assume that small scale computer devices like an ebook reader and similar would still work in a binary format and generally store stuff in binary formats in part because they are by far the easiest way of storing digital information we have.
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Trantor wrote:*snicker* so this is how it´s called then...Solemn wrote:...
Sixty three large black packages labeled "SPACE COFFEE."
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Loroi Experimental Logs wrote: Item: Contents of package labeled "SPACE COFFEE"
Procedure: Test subject was fed contents of package
Result: [DATA EXPUNGED]. "SPACE COFFEE" is presumed to be an aphrodisiac. Further study is recommended.
Notes: Ensign Beryl is no longer allowed to conduct experimentation on human subjects. -Tempo
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Directly demoted from Lieutenant?ed_montague wrote:Notes: Ensign Beryl is no longer allowed to conduct experimentation on human subjects. -Tempo
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That's a lot better than "I misremembered her rank," so let's just stick with that.Trantor wrote:Directly demoted from Lieutenant?ed_montague wrote:Notes: Ensign Beryl is no longer allowed to conduct experimentation on human subjects. -Tempo
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@Michael:
Dirty minded? I had the exact same "problem" reading that post again. So put me on that list too.
Posting shortly after work is not always the best idea...I'm sorry, I sopped reading after "Well, I bed" and only started again when I saw "Loroi", dirty minded I know but.....SCIENCE!!
Dirty minded? I had the exact same "problem" reading that post again. So put me on that list too.
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Re: What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
Most likely all of the devices will have full-disk encryption (every military device should even now), that alone will be months optimistically. They will not have access to our cryptographic standards, so they won't have any idea of how to even start breaking it, their best hope is that there is a hardware decryption device (like the AES instructions on some Intel chips) that they can find and reverse-engineer, without that they're looking at brute-forcing an unknown system.junk wrote:Not really - language should generally be obvious even when encoded into the proprietary formats. You will often be able to tell that something is language.
As you will generally get certain repeating patterns. Admittedly you will only have bit values as opposed to actual symbols or letters.
I'd say we can pretty safely assume that small scale computer devices like an ebook reader and similar would still work in a binary format and generally store stuff in binary formats in part because they are by far the easiest way of storing digital information we have.
Once they figure out the encryption they then have to figure out the file formats, modern file formats are very complex, don't believe me, I just created a Word document containing a single letter a, it's 13kb. All the extra stuff is coding describing how the file works to the software, the Loroi would need to figure that out from scratch. Only plaintext documents would be easy, videos would be virtually impossible until they located and reverse-engineered the codecs, same with music, for documents they'd have to sift through the container to find the content, for pictures they would be facing the same challenge as video and audio unless it's a minimally encoded system like uncompressed bitmaps.
tl;dr, it's going to be a nightmare for whatever Loroi NSA agents get the job of digging through the files
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<link relevant>fredgiblet wrote: tl;dr, it's going to be a nightmare for whatever Loroi NSA agents get the job of digging through the files
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YES!fredgiblet wrote:Most likely all of the devices will have full-disk encryption (every military device should even now), that alone will be months optimistically. They will not have access to our cryptographic standards, so they won't have any idea of how to even start breaking it, their best hope is that there is a hardware decryption device (like the AES instructions on some Intel chips) that they can find and reverse-engineer, without that they're looking at brute-forcing an unknown system.junk wrote:Not really - language should generally be obvious even when encoded into the proprietary formats. You will often be able to tell that something is language.
As you will generally get certain repeating patterns. Admittedly you will only have bit values as opposed to actual symbols or letters.
I'd say we can pretty safely assume that small scale computer devices like an ebook reader and similar would still work in a binary format and generally store stuff in binary formats in part because they are by far the easiest way of storing digital information we have.
Once they figure out the encryption they then have to figure out the file formats, modern file formats are very complex, don't believe me, I just created a Word document containing a single letter a, it's 13kb. All the extra stuff is coding describing how the file works to the software, the Loroi would need to figure that out from scratch. Only plaintext documents would be easy, videos would be virtually impossible until they located and reverse-engineered the codecs, same with music, for documents they'd have to sift through the container to find the content, for pictures they would be facing the same challenge as video and audio unless it's a minimally encoded system like uncompressed bitmaps.
tl;dr, it's going to be a nightmare for whatever Loroi NSA agents get the job of digging through the files
File formats are non-trivial constructs, and encryption is just pure math. Trying to brute-force a current 512 bit key, even with Loroi computational power, will still take until the heat death of the universe to crack. Or at least long enough that it just won't matter anymore.
Re: What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
Something put this on scale.
Antikythera mechanism has only 30 gears and we knew the culture, which had it builded, but it still took years to decode its function.
And it was only mechanical.
In some day Loroi researscher makes remarkable found.
"I'll be damned!"
"What?" Asks her collega.
"Those primitives still use magnetic memory!"
"You don't say?"
"Yes. We accidentally wiped them clean when we make deepscan."
"Oh no."
"Also. I suggest that when we find more of their artifacts, that they are picked up by hand instead of normal policy."
"But that endanger us to booby traps."
"We need to take that risk, if we wan't to know more of them."
Antikythera mechanism has only 30 gears and we knew the culture, which had it builded, but it still took years to decode its function.
And it was only mechanical.
In some day Loroi researscher makes remarkable found.
"I'll be damned!"
"What?" Asks her collega.
"Those primitives still use magnetic memory!"
"You don't say?"
"Yes. We accidentally wiped them clean when we make deepscan."
"Oh no."
"Also. I suggest that when we find more of their artifacts, that they are picked up by hand instead of normal policy."
"But that endanger us to booby traps."
"We need to take that risk, if we wan't to know more of them."
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You bitch, you just destroyed classic Doctor Who!bunnyboy wrote:"I'll be damned!"
"What?" Asks her colleague.
"Those primitives still use magnetic memory!"
"You don't say?"
"Yes. We accidentally wiped them clean when we performed a deep scan."
"Oh no."
"Also, I suggest that, when we find more of their artifacts, they are picked up by hand instead of the normal policy."
"But that endangers us to booby traps."
"We need to take that risk if we want to know more of them."
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Re: What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
What? How? I have seen only couple of episodes so I have no idea what you are talking about.
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I can also see the look on their faces when they finally decrip some of the files.
Lieutenant Crying Storm.
Log report 1
Upon successfully decrepting the humanity's files, grudgingly with the aid of the historian emissary. Upon opening the first file, we were hit by a barrage or horrid noise. When looking up the translations Listel Beryl gave us, we found the translation: One Wing Angel, Nobu.
Apparently this was "music" to our guest's species. I wonder if it can be weaponized?
Log Report 2.
I am unsure if the technicians are doing the work they claim to be doing, or if they are goofing off and playing what apears to be a digital game. We have recreated an appropriate inpute device, and it appears they have spent 20 hours of "examining it." I have yet to determine if the main antagonist of that story is male of female.
Log Report 3.
I have put another team in charge of going through this, and now they are going through some of the videos. Judging from the special effects, this species is clearly archaic (I can see the peep hole in the monster suit).
Log Report 4. It's been three standard days and the original team has changed games, now something with less monsters and more projectile firearms. Primitives indeed.
Log Report 5. On fifth viewing of Hetalia, file report latter.
Lieutenant Crying Storm.
Log report 1
Upon successfully decrepting the humanity's files, grudgingly with the aid of the historian emissary. Upon opening the first file, we were hit by a barrage or horrid noise. When looking up the translations Listel Beryl gave us, we found the translation: One Wing Angel, Nobu.
Apparently this was "music" to our guest's species. I wonder if it can be weaponized?
Log Report 2.
I am unsure if the technicians are doing the work they claim to be doing, or if they are goofing off and playing what apears to be a digital game. We have recreated an appropriate inpute device, and it appears they have spent 20 hours of "examining it." I have yet to determine if the main antagonist of that story is male of female.
Log Report 3.
I have put another team in charge of going through this, and now they are going through some of the videos. Judging from the special effects, this species is clearly archaic (I can see the peep hole in the monster suit).
Log Report 4. It's been three standard days and the original team has changed games, now something with less monsters and more projectile firearms. Primitives indeed.
Log Report 5. On fifth viewing of Hetalia, file report latter.
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bunnyboy wrote:What? How? I have seen only couple of episodes so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Many of the episodes of the first and second doctors' runs are believed to be permanently lost. Way back when the show started they only kept the original prints around for a little while before destroying them. Others were later found to have been improperly stored and damaged by the elements. It is considered a Big Deal whenever someone recovers a "Lost Episode".
So basically he's saying some Loroi are working for the BBC.
Edit: Oh and Tempo mentioned that they had recovered many bodies. I'm betting they focused on recovering war dead and small samples of tech. Gives them a good outline of what we're capable of as a species.
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I know the movie is more on the so bad it's good list, but what about a DNA scanner like what was used in the Lost in Space movie?
Could the Loroli have something like that that could simulate what the strengths and limitations of the human body?
Could the Loroli have something like that that could simulate what the strengths and limitations of the human body?
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Probably. Though that assumes that their system is compatible with our genetics, which isn't guaranteed. Even if the chemistry is identical, which isn't 100% assured itself, such equipment might be sensitive to chromsome count changes or our genetics might use different coding. If our STOP codons are different from theirs then they might read the whole thing as one giant string, I don't know enough about genetics to know if that's a serious concern though.
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Hate to perv it up, but I'm betting that when the Loroi discover a "personal back massager" in the wreckage they'll know exactly what it's for.
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And start reverse engineering the thingdfacto wrote:Hate to perv it up, but I'm betting that when the Loroi discover a "personal back massager" in the wreckage they'll know exactly what it's for.
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Heh. Had to look this one up.dfacto wrote:Hate to perv it up, but I'm betting that when the Loroi discover a "personal back massager" in the wreckage they'll know exactly what it's for.
sapere aude.
Re: What was recovered from the wreck of the Bellarmine
Arioch cleared it up for the most part with this:
Very few personal items. Probably mostly clothes, uniforms. Most entertainment would be electronic to save space and most importantly in a space craft, weight. The devices would be all military made and owned, so no kindles or any such privately made things like that. I imagine that everything was screened, check, checked and checked again before being loaded on the ship. On a mission this important, the military and government would not want to screw this up by someone smuggling aboard a personal stash of sex toys or porn.
Arioch wrote:I don't expect that there would be much printed material lying around the Bellarmine. I would guess that society in 2160 is pretty close to paperless, and especially on a deep-space starship, you'd want to keep the amount of required consumable supplies to an absolute minimum; prinouts would be an unnecessary luxury. Printed books still exist, but mostly as antiques, curios or collectibles; I'd think mass-market paperbacks will have been replaced by digital editions.
A crew on a deep-space first contact mission would be allowed to bring only the absolute minimum in terms of physical personal belongings, which would be carefully inspected and vetted prior to boarding. Crewmembers would be allowed a generous amount of personal data (music, images, books, software, etc.), but this would all be stored in encrypted ship systems; crew would have access to portable data appliances, but these would be "company" issued devices and not the crewmembers' personal devices, which would not be allowed on board.
Very few personal items. Probably mostly clothes, uniforms. Most entertainment would be electronic to save space and most importantly in a space craft, weight. The devices would be all military made and owned, so no kindles or any such privately made things like that. I imagine that everything was screened, check, checked and checked again before being loaded on the ship. On a mission this important, the military and government would not want to screw this up by someone smuggling aboard a personal stash of sex toys or porn.