hey uh quick question I get the feeling that this place's literature selection isn't gonna have books on secret codes for insurance reasons and for some reason you strike me as the kinda girl that would know some secret codes off the top of your head
[ Look he can already confirm that there will be no Morse code in the Ambidex Edition and there never will be! This exercise has a much more nefarious purpose. ]
so that's SOS... I thought that was just the universal noise for it...
[Second Nonary Game > Ambidex Edition. Obviously.]
You weren't completely wrong. The signal was originally just associated with a distress signal, but the letters SOS were quickly adopted to describe it. You could also write the same signal with other letter combinations, for example VTB or IJS. With normal Morse transmissions, you leave a space between each letter, but SOS is transmitted as a continuous sequence.
Did you know SOS wasn't the first distress signal used in radio transmissions? The original one was CQD, though it wasn't adopted for international use and fell out of fashion after SOS was invented. When the Titanic sank, they actually alternated between the two when calling for help.
Don't be silly, I just know some bits of trivia! It's really nothing special.
[Sorry Sigma this is your life now.]
Save our Ship/Souls/etc is actually a backronym, SOS didn't originally stand for anything! But CQD comes from the French sécu (as in sécurité) = CQ, and D was added to it since it was already a commonly used signifier for distress.
well I was gonna say hindsight is 20/20 but getting CQD out of that is a stretch and a half... by that logic it could just as well mean See Cuties. that's the kinda message the people want to see.
you'd think society woulda gotten better at abbreviations way before the cellphone if sending text messages was that tedious
especially in emergencies. boosts morale, you know?
[ so you know thanks for kidnapping Alice and Clover and Phi too ]
but it didn't originally stand for anything! like just repeating A over and over would make just as much sense. it's catchy, it spells out screaming. and hey it sounds kinda like a heartbeat, so when it cuts out that's even more distress
I guess that could be true depending on how cute they are...
[but phi is your daughter u creepo]
Just repeating a single letter over and over wasn't very useful for that type of communication. A distinct code with a specific length and pattern would have been easier to distinguish.
yeah come on, don't tell me you've never peeped a total hottie and gotten a second wind. I'm pretty sure the TA was the only reason I passed my first year of ochem...
[ LOOK HE DOESN'T KNOW... she must live on in fond hotness in his current memory............. ]
I guess... alright my boy morse wins, I'll stop arguing. I don't need SOS or CQD for what I'm doing anyway
Oh. You know, Morse isn't really the most effective code for that kind of usage.
[She's... not sure if she disapproves or not. She kind of feels like she ought to, but she did just admit to peeping hotties so maybe she doesn't have the high ground here.]
well it was supposed to be for if I got thrown in solitary next to her so it was gonna be through the walls... I'm gonna try to avoid that as long as I can but I got a joke to keep up now you understand
so what IS the funnest sexiest code you can think of? ;)
Oh I understand... please try not to get thrown in solitary though, I don't think it would be worth getting to send coded messages.
I don't know if there are any codes that would be considered inherently sexy. For some reason that doesn't seem to have been a priority for most cryptographers. Playfair is a pretty fun code, though.
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text. sometime in prison.
I get the feeling that this place's literature selection isn't gonna have books on secret codes for insurance reasons
and for some reason you strike me as the kinda girl that would know some secret codes off the top of your head
... do you know morse code it's important
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yeah if you could, I'd really appreciate it
[ Questionable acquaintance. Invaluable ally... And dumb fact-sharing is certainly one form an olive branch can take. ]
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[She fucking loves teaching people things. Especially things that might be useful for a future as a murdergame-running shithead.
So let's just handwave her explaining the basics of Morse to him because I'm not going to type that shit out.]
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so that's SOS... I thought that was just the universal noise for it...
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You weren't completely wrong. The signal was originally just associated with a distress signal, but the letters SOS were quickly adopted to describe it. You could also write the same signal with other letter combinations, for example VTB or IJS. With normal Morse transmissions, you leave a space between each letter, but SOS is transmitted as a continuous sequence.
Did you know SOS wasn't the first distress signal used in radio transmissions? The original one was CQD, though it wasn't adopted for international use and fell out of fashion after SOS was invented. When the Titanic sank, they actually alternated between the two when calling for help.
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ok when you said you knew morse code I didn't realize you meant you did your senior dissertation on morse code
[ He doesn't know what he expected... Unfortunately, he suffers from Protagonist Curiosity. ]
so wait if SOS is Save Our Ship or whatever, what the hell is CQD supposed to stand for? Can't Quite Do-it?
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[Sorry Sigma this is your life now.]
Save our Ship/Souls/etc is actually a backronym, SOS didn't originally stand for anything! But CQD comes from the French sécu (as in sécurité) = CQ, and D was added to it since it was already a commonly used signifier for distress.
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well I was gonna say hindsight is 20/20 but getting CQD out of that is a stretch and a half... by that logic it could just as well mean See Cuties. that's the kinda message the people want to see.
you'd think society woulda gotten better at abbreviations way before the cellphone if sending text messages was that tedious
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But really, I imagine the unwieldiness of CQD was one of the reasons it was replaced. SOS is much catchier and easier to remember.
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[ so you know thanks for kidnapping Alice and Clover and Phi too ]
but it didn't originally stand for anything! like just repeating A over and over would make just as much sense. it's catchy, it spells out screaming. and hey it sounds kinda like a heartbeat, so when it cuts out that's even more distress
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[but phi is your daughter u creepo]
Just repeating a single letter over and over wasn't very useful for that type of communication. A distinct code with a specific length and pattern would have been easier to distinguish.
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[ LOOK HE DOESN'T KNOW... she must live on in fond hotness in his current memory............. ]
I guess... alright my boy morse wins, I'll stop arguing. I don't need SOS or CQD for what I'm doing anyway
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[Finally they have found some common ground..........]
What ARE you doing anyway? Why did you want to learn this?
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well you never know when it could be useful, being able to send messages without using words...
... tbh I'm gonna send ramir dirty talk until she figures it out
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Oh. You know, Morse isn't really the most effective code for that kind of usage.
[She's... not sure if she disapproves or not. She kind of feels like she ought to, but she did just admit to peeping hotties so maybe she doesn't have the high ground here.]
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well it was supposed to be for if I got thrown in solitary next to her so it was gonna be through the walls... I'm gonna try to avoid that as long as I can but I got a joke to keep up now you understand
so what IS the funnest sexiest code you can think of? ;)
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I don't know if there are any codes that would be considered inherently sexy. For some reason that doesn't seem to have been a priority for most cryptographers. Playfair is a pretty fun code, though.