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Is the anomaly
Illustrated:
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I'm happy bringing:
Each person is bringing something which
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I'm thinking that it's due to that the earth is not only making rotation but also revolution.
In short, in a year, the earth is making "an extra rotation" due to Coin Rotation Paradox. Therefore it adds $24/365$ hours which is roughly $4$ minutes so that the midnight is still midnight~
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Solution
Gliese 785
Right ascension 20 15 17
Declination -27 01 58
Alien Message Translation
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Explanation
Page 1
The purpose of this page is to teach us the alien number system. They use a base 3 number system that we call balanced ternary with the '+' symbol defined as +1, the '-' symbol as 0, and the 'x' symbol as -1. In addition they ...
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Update:
The aliens are using a rather nifty number system that is similar to base 3, but with digits corresponding to zero and ±1. Here's a bit of Python that will convert them to decimal form:
def a3(s):
r,p,dp = 0,0,0
for c in s:
if c not in 'x-+>o':
raise LookupError("Illegal symbol ('" + c + "')")
if c in 'x-+':
...
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What a lovely thing to receive in the post :) It's a friendly message saying:
How do I know? We need to note that there are several different interpretations that can be ascribed to each symbol here...
The message can then be parsed as follows...
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Extracting the superfluous characters from each verse results in:
Each of these lines represent:
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You are:
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The irony is that an American uncle has wrecked cars (7)
Limit citation to 80% with a resolution (5)
Baby has misshapen appendage and skin discoloration (6)
This evening, the baby eats, almost (7)
The idea is that it's not a big, headless cat (6)
Bar in Game of Thrones, initially (5)
Dime is tight, he thayth with a lithp (5)
Make morning ...
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The word is:
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How I got it:
And as to how I figured that out, here's the classic that came to mind
As for why the 'worldplay' tag:
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The answer is:
The nine cities are:
Holy Faith = Santa Fe, New Mexico
Village of Jack's Progeny = Jacksonville, Florida
Country of the Dove = Columbia, South Carolina
Ford of Frank = Frankfort, Kentucky
White Oak = Albuquerque, New Mexico
City of Red People = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Emperor Aurelius' New City = New ...
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Reason
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This is a great example of classic "lateral thinking" puzzle misdirection, sending everyone into more and more convoluted spacetime-based answers, when the true answer is actually much simpler, if you just stop and read the puzzle carefully.
Highlighting the important words from the puzzle:
Therefore:
QED.
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This is only the first step.
The top row ...
The next block ...
The stuff to the right ...
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It's
It shows
It is
An appropriate response might be either
or perhaps
Since the questioner asks: I read all the hints (I always do), though I've no idea what a question less than half an hour old is doing with four hints already. I don't think I'd have needed them, though #4 saved a minute or two dragging the right-hand edge of a text-editor window ...
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Initially, it seems that the face-value interpretation of the question can have no answer. The history tag, though, poses a definite problem, which enables us to think about the problem slightly more in depth. My first thought was as follows:
However, an even bleaker prospect opens up for fblthp if we step back even further historically:
As a more general ...
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I notice that the word “about” is used a couple of times in the question,
so I assume that we’re allowed to use some approximations in our answers.
And, of course, the conventional answer is that the circumference
(the length of the orbit) is $2 \pi r$.
For $r=250,000$, this formula gives us a circumference
of $2 \times \pi \times 250000 = 1570796 \text{ ...
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Partial answer: first four sections
00 is
01 is
02 is
03-13 are
14-23 are
24 is
Patterns are:
25-31 seem to be
Patterns are:
32-37 are
38-43 are
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The students have produced strange results because
Topic 1:
Topic 2:
Topic 3:
Topic 4:
Topic 5:
Topic 6:
Topic 7:
Topic 8:
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The message as an image, based on M Oehm's answer:
My interpretation:
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On January 21, 2019,
On May 7, 2020,
On March 1, 2018,
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Is it perhaps
Reasoning
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This is also very much a work in progress, but ...
Do these figures make any sense to you?
.
.
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Partial Answer
Going off of OP's newest hint:
The second-to-last 'page' seems to contain two nonsensical equations:
= (1) (1.45e53)
= (1) (4.88e16)
The first one corresponds to the mass of the universe in kg
The second when googled (4.88e16), find very few results, the only coherent one (aside from this post) being this link, a ...
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Work in progress.
Based off the work of Quark:
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