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Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum?

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 21:50

I have noticed that in long
posts, suddenly there appears a rogue space.

Is this a secret door into the wonderful world of MNHQ, or something more mundane to do with the arcane world of coding?

Look:

[b iscuit]

[bi scuit]

[bis cuit]

[bisc uit]

Hoping it's worked ....

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Deadworm · 05/11/2009 23:00

It is seriously freaky though. I think we should all wrap our heads in tinfoil and throw salt over our left shoulder to be on the safe side.

Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:58

Hello thready!

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:57
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Deadworm · 05/11/2009 22:57

\ /
( )( )( )( )( )( )( )

Ah you discovered my wormholes. How did you think I got about the place?

EinsteinBentLight · 05/11/2009 22:56

Right here goes. In the first pattern (guyfaulkes) the space moved one across each time
The second one (guyfaulkes) it was 4 characters space 4x 2 characters, then 4x3 etc and the next time (hulla) it was 8 space 8x2 space then 8 x3 repeated.

if its any help.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:49

See - it's not fixed!

Still every 9th line ...

And there are spaces in each word.

It's getting worse. It's unravelling I tell you!

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HeSaysSheSays · 05/11/2009 22:49

Told you - tech is being norty

RustyBear · 05/11/2009 22:49

There is actually still a space every 100 characters, you just can't see it because it coincides with the end of the line - presumably the text wraps at 100 characters
If you view the source code, you can see the spaces.

Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:48

[ biscuit]

[b iscuit]

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CaptainNancy · 05/11/2009 22:46

This is a little fraeky- I have noticed the gap in emoticon thing before, but thought it was just me mis-copying somewhere.

VulpusinaWilfsuit · 05/11/2009 22:45

I have reported your post BIWI . But only in the interests of scientific explanation

HeSaysSheSays · 05/11/2009 22:45

Hehe

Tech has fixed it behind your back to freak you out!

Bet he breaks it again in a minute to really mess with you!

Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:44

Nor here.

Perhaps they're on to us ...

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:43

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:42

Weird - nothing!

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Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:42

OK. Here's a test:

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:39

A question for Big Tech, surely!

Who's going to volunteer to go and knock on the shed door?

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VulpusinaWilfsuit · 05/11/2009 22:35

...but whyyyyyy?

HeSaysSheSays · 05/11/2009 22:33

because letters are not standard width but numbers are - count the letters and you will see a pattern

Prosecco · 05/11/2009 22:31

Every 100 characters??????

GuyFawkesIsMyLoveSlave · 05/11/2009 22:30

VIAWS, there's a beautiful line and a pattern, but it's not the same pattern that BIWI had in her first post. That gave a space at position 3 on line 9 and at position 4 on line 18, but in my experiment the spaces come in different places. So a pattern in mine, and a pattern in hers, but not obviously the same pattern.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:23

Hmm. No pattern there ...

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Hulababy · 05/11/2009 22:23

Why did it leave the massive gap at the start of the message? I didn't put it there.

Hulababy · 05/11/2009 22:22

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 22:22

There's a pattern that's for sure. But don't you see - it makes a passage way.

There's something escaping from our posts to somewhere.

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