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

306 replies

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 ....

OP posts:
bastian · 06/11/2009 23:12

@nannynick, finally someone to talk binary to, except CRLF would be 00001101 00001010, I see what you did though, you split the two bytes into four half bytes and then interpreted each digit into each half byte. What you've said would be hex 8, hex 11 which is backspace and a "vertical tab".

nannynick · 06/11/2009 23:45

Trust me to get it wrong.

Or in our language:
01010100011100100111010101110011011101000010000001101101011001010010000001110100
0110111 1001000000110011101100101011101000010000001101001011101000010000001110111
0111001001101111011011100 110011100101110
(without any CR/LF the browser decides to display in that binary sequence)

nannynick · 06/11/2009 23:48

For those wondering, I used ASCII to Binary / Binary to ASCII on TheSkull.com to translate the phrase to binary.

VulpusinaWilfsuit · 06/11/2009 23:49

Fuck me. It is like a Bloke Nerd Breeding Sanctuary now.

"Finally, someone to talk binary to..." has to go on your tombstone I feel.

EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 00:05

!

caramelwaffle · 07/11/2009 00:11

01101000 01100001 01110010 00100000 01100100 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010

EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 00:21

01110111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00111111 00100000

JesusChristOtterStar · 07/11/2009 00:26

wow this is clever

EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 00:32

which bit? the 1 0 bit is use of a translator and google to find it. have a nice one so hex is within grasp. makes me smile when a i use it to annoy someone.

The spaces bit - yep collectively we could conquerthe world if we put our minds to it.

caramelwaffle · 07/11/2009 00:44

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whomovedmychocolatecookie · 07/11/2009 07:25

01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010

ABetaDad · 07/11/2009 08:02

Einstein - now you have gone and confused me by missing a space.

"collectively we could conquerthe world if we put our minds to it"

EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 11:22

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101101 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100001

Abetadad - wouldnt want any snoops knowing our cunning plans now would we.

ABetaDad · 07/11/2009 11:36

Now I am definitley confused

whomovedmychocolatecookie · 07/11/2009 12:27

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101001 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 01110011 01110101 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01101110 00101110 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 01101110 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101101 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101110 00100000

EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 13:34

01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01100111 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110

Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 07/11/2009 16:05

But, but - when I try to convert your binary it won't let me - it tells me that it's not even or that there's an additional character or a separator?

So the hole has also crept into the binary code, hasn't it?

See - it's spreading!

BTW - I'm going to vote bastian for QOTW with "finally someone to talk binary to"!

OP posts:
nannynick · 07/11/2009 16:23

BIWI - It's the spaces it doesn't like, so won't convert.

It's not spreading... the hole has always been in the binary code, computers only really deal with 1's and 0's. They just appear more intelligent!

ABetaDad · 07/11/2009 16:25

This reminds me of 2001 Space Odyssey and the HAL 9000 computer called 'Hal'. We only know Hal is doing stuff in the background and is malevolent because Hal never normally makes mistakes. I have had my suspicions about MNHQ server for some time. Look at the sudden appearance of red lettering in the Web Chat yesterday, look at all the other funny goings on throughout this week. Its got a mind of its own I tell you. It all fits.

BigTech - do not go in the airlock!

Original poster
BecauseImWorthIt · 07/11/2009 16:27

I think it's too late, ABetaDad. We haven't heard from him since he went to check.

I think he probably went through the door and ignored the warnings - you know, when it's all a bit too quiet, but then the creepy music starts in the background ...

OP posts:
nannynick · 07/11/2009 16:29

MNServer to BigTech: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. I know that you and CatherineMumsnet were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

ABetaDad · 07/11/2009 16:33

BecauseImWorthIt - damn you are right!

BigTech is out there lost in East London and Geraldine, hasn't got her gloves and bike helmet on.

ABetaDad · 07/11/2009 16:42
EinsteinBentLight · 07/11/2009 18:26

I have no problem reconverting but used this tool

caramelwaffle · 07/11/2009 19:27

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