From: Michael Neylon (mneylon@engin.umich.edu)
Date: 15-Mar-95 (1:56:8 GMT)
Subj: Message 8

How come it seems that I always end up first to see these
new messages? :-)

Anyway, here's the patented line by line translation of Message 8.
Again, there may be a mistake in the numbers, so be gentle.

'9' is part of '0'
(number) Y units of X are equal to Y units of X
[the counting numbers (without the Q delimiter) are the same
as normal, rational numbers (with the Q delimiter)]
TCEarth is

  x x x
 x . . x
x . x . x
 x . . x
  x x x

The temperature of the inner thing is 4156 TCtemp units (~-21 deg C)
The temperature of the outer thing is 4618 TCtemp units (~7 deg C)
[Interesting...we've sorted stated that the surface temperature is 
~-21 deg C..is that outer ring a moon?]

life is a part of TCEarth
life is a part of '797'
TCians are a part of TCEarth
TCians are not a part of '797'
[This is strong evidence for 'w' = life or living.  Also,
we also know that '797' is life supporting, but not 
habited by the TCians]

1 electron is part of hydrogen
2 electrons are part of helium
3 electrons are part of beryllium (Atomic Number 3)
[Verifcation of ? being an atomic number delimiter]

The temperature of solid iron is 1413 deg C
The temperature of liquid iron is 1413 deg C
The temperature of liquid iron is 2838 deg C
The temperature of gaseous iron is 2838 deg C
[This is iron.  Furthermore, the numbers, although not an
exact match, are close to the mp and bp of iron (1535 deg C
and 2750 deg C respectively.  Also, remember that TCEarth may
not be at the same atmospheric pressure as Earth, so the 
bp and mp will be different.  This also gives '.' = solid,
'/' = liquid, and '\' = gas]

Liquid is a fluid
Gas is a fluid
Liquids are not gases
Fluids are not solids
[A good definition of 'z' being fluid]

It is true that gases are a part of 'zyz'
It is true that liquids are a part of 'zyz'
It is not true that solids are a part of 'zyz'
It is true that gases are a part of 'wyw'
It is true that liquids are a part of 'wyw'
It is not true that solids are a part of 'wyw'
['zyz' and 'wyw' are gas giants.]

[Now it gets *weird*]
TCEarth '-' TCEarth TCians
'-' of infinity is "0 + X = X'
'-' of infinity is part of '3'


For that last part, the only thing that I can get out of it
is that '-' represents 'an element of', or 'all elements of'.
This is really confusing.  Oh well.


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