Monday 7 March 2022

Word Soup

The broadcast was strong enough to be detectable, but weak enough to not be intelligible, beyond the fact that it was a message, in an unknown language, repeated on a loop.


The computer worked for days to try and piece together the rare moments of stronger signal, building a best estimate of the message, eventually getting something, which it then began to decode, producing a template where you could enter guesses of certain words, and build a translation.


It then became a game, to find the most interesting version, then the funniest, then the crudest.


The actual meaning was underwhelming.

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