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

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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)
 

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Only if you rule out...

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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.

Re: Only if you rule out...

[outlawpoet]

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.

Re: Only if you rule out...

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The text IS the metatext! :)

Re: Only if you rule out...

[newnumber6]

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.

Re: Only if you rule out...

[outlawpoet]

"it ain't corny, it's compression!"

Re: Only if you rule out...

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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)