Chapter 92: Deciphering

This is the Noah, the astronomical observatory.

Strings after strings of information codes appeared on the big screen, and everyone stared at the screen dumbfounded, coincidentally choosing to stare motionlessly, even their breathing was stilled ...

About a quarter of an hour passed before the beating on the screen gradually stopped.

These information codes are radio waves sent from alien civilizations, and if written on human a4 paper, it would be four hundred and seventeen pages long!

"Report, our ... side is not under attack!"

"Repeat, we are not under attack!"

At the first moment, Oliver received the message from the security department, and the heart hanging in his heart immediately dropped.

The security department is not only some soldiers, but also a large number of weapons experts, scouts, etc. They are always paying attention to the surrounding situation.

The terror of the light speed strike lies in this, it can not be detected in advance, once seen ... means that it has been attacked. This makes both sides very suspicious, unless there is something faster than light to observe the "light" in advance.

"Parse this airwave immediately! And ... allow you access to the central supercomputer! Now, immediately!" Oliver yelled, his reaction time extremely fast, jumping straight up from his position.

But the presence of the airwaves meant that the probability of war was drastically reduced. His mood was actually much lighter, even as all the scientists relaxed, one by one they hugged and celebrated with each other.

War? No one wants a war, especially when humanity is still in the midst of a swollen face ...

People did not suffer an attack, but received a string of radio waves, which means that the other side wants to communicate peacefully is very likely!

On the other hand, the human camouflage plan has been a success so far. The dark forest of the universe does not necessarily hold, and, there is a high probability that the other side is intimidated!

Oliver exhaled gently, the first hurdle had been overcome, and the subsequent difficulties were still to follow. The other side did not leave, this scene will continue to play ...

He clearly knows that humans still can not slacken, can not let the other side have any suspicion of the opportunity. After all ... humans can't afford to be tempted! They play but a real powerful civilization, every detail needs to be very realistic, must be able to withstand any nudge from the other side to do.

At the moment people are off to what can only be described as a pretty good start.

But now a big problem lies ahead, and that is - parsing this piece of information code!

If it takes weeks or even months for humans to parse a radio wave, it's hard not to be suspicious!

"... must be as soon as possible! As soon as possible!" Oliver kept urging, although he knew this kind of urging didn't have much effect, but he really couldn't help it, he didn't want to be exposed because of such details.

After only a few short minutes, a cryptographer jumped up in surprise: "Mr. Yu, the first part may be a complete dictionary sequence, and the latter part ... is a short text, a short paragraph!"

"You mean, they didn't encrypt it?"

"Yes, no deliberate encryption, just a simple message encoding that they should want to communicate with us. But ... it's a whole language, there are 10,000 words alone, and all kinds of different usages."

"The first few hundred pages are all dictionaries, and the last page at the back is the main text!"

The expert said very anxiously, "What I'm trying to say is that ... our computers will probably not be able to translate this dictionary very well after they decipher it!"

Oliver's brow furrowed as if that was indeed the case ...

Their human translation tools are very low level and can also be said to be very garbage, like what Inge translation, WuDao dictionary, QianDu translation, etc., the level is at a relatively low state.

With these translation tools, even if you translate Chinese into English, or English into Chinese, it can be a mess, and sometimes even bullshit.

Even the human race's own internal language is not translated well, let alone the alien language.

This is entirely the relationship of the artificial intelligence system is not qualified ... If there is a truly perfect translation system, the human translator profession will be eliminated.

Oliver scratched his hair, now what? Forced machine flip?

Faced with the alien language that has never been touched, can only use the computer to quickly decipher, it is impossible for humans to learn slowly for months or even a year!

"You just need to decipher it as quickly as possible, the time must be fast. We ... just need to see a general meaning!"

"Just the general meaning, it should be fine, right?"

"This ... we try to. But there should be no problem with the speed."

The cryptographer immediately packed his bags and said, "We have been deciphering for most of the time since we received the first alien radio, and have accumulated a lot of experience. Now with the complete dictionary sequence, I think that the supercomputer can decipher this short text within an hour!"

This expert was right, it took about forty-five minutes for the alien translation to come out, and a large number of people stood around in front of the screen in a hurry.

This is not a translation, it's a bunch of gibberish!

"... green light civilization ... stellar ... energy ... war ... peace ... destruction ..."

What a god damn translation, the first glimpse of it, Oliver's heart cursed more than.

The middle is a large paragraph of unknown messy text, even the logic is not smooth at all. However, according to the other party's dictionary sequence, the translation came out like this.

Perhaps there are no prepositions or other things in the other side's language, and the language structure is different from that of humans. One can only get a rough idea through these few key terms. It's okay to want a more accurate translation, but it would have to take weeks or even months of research, and people can't wait that long!

Oliver frowned and said, "Guys, we have to respond to each other as soon as possible! Otherwise our camouflage operation may be broken. Tell us, everyone, what does this text really mean?"

In this situation, he had to gather the wisdom of all the people before he could make a decision.

Dr. Rimbaud pondered for a while and took the lead, "The first three key words, I don't think there is much controversy. This civilization calls itself the Green Light Civilization, and their purpose, is to come to the solar system to replenish the energy of their spaceship. This is not too different from our guesses."

Everyone nodded, even Oliver himself thought so.

But the last three key words, "war", "peace" and "destruction", could lead to so many ambiguities!

One argument: they are not here to war, but to live together in peace ... so plead with humans not to destroy them.

Or another statement: even if there is a war, they still want to enter the solar system, peace and destruction for mankind to choose for themselves!

These two statements are completely two different results. The crowd let go of their minds and venture to guess that these three key words could make up at least a few dozen different outcomes!

Well, with all the different statements, maybe only one is correct, but people don't know which one it is ...

Oliver instant headache, a large number of ambiguities bring several different possibilities, so he has no way to know the attitude of this "green light civilization" in the end, there is no way to make targeted decisions.

He was really angry, really hated this garbage machine flip!

Almost all linguists, informaticists and cryptographers are concentrating on the language difficulties. But he did not think that a few hours of time would bear any fruit.

This alien language is completely different from any language on Earth, the human brain compared to the super calculator machine turning quality, although high, but the efficiency is much worse, no weeks or even months to take down.

Instead, they need to reply to each other within a few hours, time is of course the faster the better. The faster the speed, on the other hand, to confirm that human civilization is strong, their "camouflage" effect is also better.

In fact, it is also considered that the human race is quite lucky, in advance of the alien civilization's radio wave research for a few weeks, otherwise, deciphering these key words may take a long time ...

How to do it?