Posted on 08/19/2019 1:17:27 AM PDT by nikos1121
Today’s Cryptogram
RLK UNR RN DFTNEF V EVU NB MHTTFMM DHR LVRWFL RN DFTNEF V EVU NB YVJHF. ---VJDFLR FAUMRFAU
You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications.
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles as puzzle solvers love to hear how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram.
If you need a little help you can copy the cryptogram and paste it to Hal’s Helper below:
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper.
Solution to our last puzzle:
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ---Bruce Lee
Ok, had a little trouble sleeping last night, and I wasn't able to go back to sleep, so posting this little gem early.
I know a few of you get frustrated with these. I can tell you, from my own experience, sometimes the puzzle opens up quickly, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't you walk away and come back to it. And if that doesn't work...wake up "Hal".
However, I ran across this little video the other day. It's a bit long, so I'd recommend watching the first 5 minutes, then fast forward it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0mQOmohHw
This will surely boost your ego, as this fella, agonizes over this cryptogram, I suspect his very first. He's so green, he can't even see the ABCA sequence right in front of his face. He messes up on the "A" doubting himself, as he goes back to "I" ("I" is less likely going to be in the middle of a sentence.)
Anyway, grab a cup a coffee, and see how far you can get watching this poor chap, before you start screaming at him.
You all have a great day, and please keep the comments coming for all to see, on how you solved Today's Cryptogram!
3 min. Most common letter, the 1-letter word, words 2 and 3...
3 min. Got the 1 word, then recognized pattern in eighth word which led to finish.
Got it. Took a relatively long time.
Bump for later
On the third attempt, I finally made some right guesses and got through.
That word with 2 double letters is now my open door. It’s one of those words I recognize right away now, thanks to this daily exercise!
This is just BS extracted from the mind of nully, but, suppose there really is aether?
The only “proof” we have that there isn’t is the Michelson–Morley experiment, an experiment that has only been done on the surface of the Earth. Suppose the aether swirls like the eddies around an oar or water flowing down a drain?
Stuff accumulates in these eddies/vortexes, every planet, every star and every galactic feature is defined by these eddies. If you look at an eddies in the 2 dimensional water model you can see striations on the walls, these correspond to the 3 dimensional arms in galaxies.
Back to Michelson–Morley experiment, done on the surface of the Earth only. The mass accumulation and the rotational velocity mirror the rotation of the aether vortex. The revolution of the Earth around the Sun tracks the swirl of the aether spinning around the Sun. After billions of years the interaction of aether and matter more or less reach an equilibrium. Surface velocity on a massive object is more or less zero, exactly as Michelson and Morley found. In effect, the were attempting to measure the velocity of the wind from a balloon floating freely in and with the breeze.
Why do some galaxies show anomalous rotation? The centers of most galaxies have a black hole where space-time spirals in. Does the fabric of space-time have a yield strength?
If so, as the black hole continues to gain mass, the very fabric of space-time stretches as the gravity well gets deeper and deeper. If at any point the strain exceeds the yield stress of space-time the funnel tears in two at that depth. Everything below that tear falls off into a separate universe.
Everything above? It rebounds. More space pours out of the old event horizon, as the mass that was holding it in place has budded off and as far as this universe can tell, simply ceased to exist. All the matter on the sidewalls above the new event horizon barfs out along with the space and forms the central bar seen on so many galaxies. For a time the bottom of the gravity well looks flat, and this flat gravitational gradient allows the matter to rotate around the core at the same rate rather than faster towards the center (which no longer has a steeper slope) than the edge.
You see a similar effect if you abruptly close a drain valve.
However, astronomers have recently discovered galaxies which appear to have no dark matter.
Their center black hole simply hasn’t developed a steep enough stress gradient to bud off. Yet.
2:38. Relatively simple pattern, and the name helped.
Rather easy for me; which seems to be the only times I post. I successfully got one of the larger words, which gave me the author. Letters came to mind as a fast as light or warp speed after that.
I haven't had nearly enough coffee this morning to digest that.
-PJ
About 3-4 minutes for me today. I picked it up quickly once I got the eighth word as well.
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