On Nov 27, 3:07 pm, Gregor Fabritius <grego...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I gave the number in the movie a little thinking. I can't imagine the
> makers of the film chose this sequence for random.
>
> My analysis so far:
>
> row bin dec hex
> 1 001100 12 0x0C
> 2 010010 18 0x12
> 3 011110 30 0x1E
> 4 100001 33 0x21
> 5 101101 45 0x2D
> 6 110011 51 0x33
>
> This is a 6x6 matrix, so there are 36 bits. 36 isn't divsible by 8, so I
> don't think it's plain ASCII. It also may not be a simple number,
> because of the leading zeros, which wouldn't be neccessary.
>
> Nevertheless, in decimal this number means 13194894195 and in hex it's
> 0x3127A1B73.
>
> Notice that rows 4, 5 and 6 are the inverted rows 3, 2 and 1. The rows
> itself have a vertical symmetry axis.
>
> If you cut the rows in half on the middle you get on the left
>
> 001
> 010
> 011
> 100
> 101
> 110
>
> and that is simply 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Could it be so simple? Counting to
> 6 and then mirroring it to the right?
>
> I'd like to think that there is something else behind these bits. Ideas,
> anyone?
>
> so long,
>
> Gregor
The first draft of the script included on the DVD features a subplot,
wherein the numbers are actually winning lottery numbers that Bender
grafts onto the ORIGINAL frozen Fry's ass while he is waiting for
future-Fry to arrive in the cryogenics lab. This nicely avoids the
circular logic of the tattoo's origin in the finished film, but more
interestingly, it is revealed that the numbers are: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23,
46. Anyone who watches LOST on a regular basis will recognize that
sequence is the same as Hurley's winning lotto numbers, except that on
LOST the last number is 42. Those six numbers on LOST seem to hold
some dark secret about Life, the Universe and Everything. There IS a
fragment of this LOST reference left in the finished film: the whaling
captain mentions that they have caught and thrown back "108 narwhals."
108 is the sum of the six LOST numbers, and is significant because
Locke has to "push the button" every 108 minutes. Whether any of this
was meant to ever be more than a little wink to the audience is
anyone's guess.
Incidentally, the "mirror-image one through six" they ended up with is
basically a binary version of Lisa's puzzle in "Lisa the Simpson."
Craig
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