scans_daily: One page from New Mutants 32 - It's as easy as 01, 10, 11

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@ 2011-11-02 07:04 pm UTC

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One page from New Mutants 32 - It's as easy as 01, 10, 11

The various members of the team discuss what to do in the wake of Regenesis

I love these two, and that smug little smile of Doug's in that last panel (Though one has to wonder what he was saying in the second one)

	Hey, he didn't say anything! bestiasono 2011-11-02 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Bah, such a small number of 1s and 0s wouldn't convey any useful information. Should have been far more of them, in smaller text, with a ... at the end to indicate there were many more being said. Silly non computer people. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

	Only if you rule out... icon_uk 2011-11-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Only if you exclude the likelihood of one HELL of a compression algorithm, which in their case (these guys have shared genetic code so know each others ins and outs (or 1's and 0's)) seems quite likely. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	Re: Only if you rule out... outlawpoet 2011-11-02 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	yeah, or worse, they could have pre-generated "vocabulary" with phrases and concepts uniquely referenced. So they're not talking in binary so much as reciting binary tags to stuff they've already shared, like a monster version of shrinking strings using base256. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	Re: Only if you rule out... icon_uk 2011-11-02 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	The text IS the metatext! :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	Re: Only if you rule out... newnumber6 2011-11-02 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	Or the old joke about the scientists who know all their favorite jokes and so number them and when they want to tell one of them, they just yell out the number. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	Re: Only if you rule out... outlawpoet 2011-11-02 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	"it ain't corny, it's compression!" (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	Re: Only if you rule out... icon_uk 2011-11-03 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	Or it could even be tonal. Since we can't hear them, they might be 0-ing and 1-ing in different pitches (Think the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" communication with the mothership sequence) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)