Fortunately, stubbornness is part of Kyoto's job description. At age 10, Kate planned to build a nuclear reactor in her parents' basement in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Then, by entering an encrypted code, Ket presses certain Enigma buttons, which move the rotors like the inner workings of a watch; The lantern illuminates the corresponding letter in plain text. - This is an invention - he said calmly. "Imagine," he said after a while, "they had to do this every day. »
Kreutzler, Westrick and several newcomers gather around Cote and his car. The message has 100 characters and none of them make sense yet
"Something's wrong," they say in unison. There is a joke that the secret message is "drink more Avaltin."
Ket dictates a set of instructions. "Basically, you write the first set of characters and they have to match the characters in the second set. Which they don't.
The room is full and Kate proposes to Michelle by writing "Will you marry me" on her lap. ("He always wanted to propose one like Thomas Edison") seems stuck.
Coyote: "There was an Enigma school at the time."
Kreutzler: "Then there was nicotine."
The team eventually decided to review the methods again, making sure they were accurately interpreting the Army's basic daily parameters. As in the last row of an optician's eye chart, there may be a letter "R". Or it could be "P". This point of friction, this ambiguous letter.
"The Germans won't do it to us? Koeth cracked.
After all, even codebreakers have to eat something. Michelle Cat calls dinner and the group gathers in the kitchen to prepare sandwiches and microwave delicacies. As the sun sets, the group, which includes an excited Kyoto student, curious neighbors, a couple of high school teachers, an awkward leftover salesman and a retired FBI agent, kicks into high gear for the demonstration.
At this year's 25th annual conference, someone will shoot a metal ring through the center of a pulsating magnetic coil, sending it over the horizon and back to Earth, narrowly missing Raven, Kate's standard poodle. Another will use a Styrofoam cup to recreate the pressure felt by the submarine during the Titanic's tragic voyage. (The cup is miniature, not flat.) The grand finale revolves in front of the Tesla coil.
Early the next morning, Master Decoder arrives at Coyette's graduate student Noah Hopis. This is the first day he has been allowed out of the Covid quarantine. He will understand the ambiguous letter as 'I'. Kevin McGrath would later send a blank recording of the message to Kyoto. He and Hoppies would work late into the night and at 1:04 a.m. Monday they successfully deciphered the message:
Outdoor bathing dance
Recommended at home during an attack X. Deep charge X
Last Enemy Location Theta Today Nine Eight Six Three X
i am x
Instead of saving the world, they are certified by the Marine Radio Historical Society. And congratulations on a job well done. "I was obsessed," says Kate before going to bed.