>From that description it should be completely obvious to you (even if you didn't see the movie) that Dr. Mann is a liar
It wasn't for me.
>That much I can bye
"buy", I guess.
>In Morse code. Erm... isn't ASCII better for that?
Depends on receiver. He sent coordinates to the past himself in binary, but his daughter at that time was into Morse code, so he used this encoding to talk to her.
>And, I don't know how much data he was sending, but I'm pretty certain that it was several megabytes at least. So... how long did his daughter stay there, writing down his messages?
She didn't need to stay there. She took the watch (that became a communicating device) to her office and continued writing down there. As long as she needed to.
>Erm... why didn't you do the same thing an hour ago?
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Date: 2014-11-16 08:12 am (UTC)It wasn't for me.
>That much I can bye
"buy", I guess.
>In Morse code. Erm... isn't ASCII better for that?
Depends on receiver. He sent coordinates to the past himself in binary, but his daughter at that time was into Morse code, so he used this encoding to talk to her.
>And, I don't know how much data he was sending, but I'm pretty certain that it was several megabytes at least. So... how long did his daughter stay there, writing down his messages?
She didn't need to stay there. She took the watch (that became a communicating device) to her office and continued writing down there. As long as she needed to.
>Erm... why didn't you do the same thing an hour ago?
Erm, too much water and too few oxygen?