You’ve got sweet mail.

Some times on some days I feel like I am exchanging messages with aliens. It is all very amusing how it unfolds. I am sure there is nothing to it. At least I hope there is nothing to it because the implications of “there is something to it” are probably so extraordinary that …. and words peter out there judged wholly insufficient. The question revolves around should I believe scientists quoted in a New York Times article. Corporate media doesn’t have the greatest track record, neither do scientists. A sudden cure for the Feynman sprinter problem is the latest of jokes from academia that have been sent my way.

Now an article claims that sugar have been found in the outer reaches of space. Dr. Jiménez-Serra and her collaborators used two radio telescopes to peer deep into the center of the Milky Way, collecting data on the radio frequencies the interstellar medium emitted. As molecules in space spin and move, they produce different frequencies. By comparing the patterns of frequencies they found in space to the patterns that molecules produced in labs, the researchers could see what molecules were out there.

At last, they found the sweet spot. One of the patterns from a nebula near the center of the Milky Way matched up with that of a sugar called erythrulose. Erythrulose is made of four carbon atoms, eight hydrogen atoms and four oxygen atoms. It’s found on Earth in raspberries.

I don’t know what they’ve done to my brain but I look at the word erythrulose and it immediately says “code”. ERY THRU LOSE
What does that mean? Verythru with you loser? A galactic breakup sign maybe?
Illogical. Why code it in “sugar?”
They listen to Maroon 5 out there.
Also somewhat possible yet illogical.
Very fit thru lose sugar addiction?
Nah…. although sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet.
So I decided to use some cryptographic techniques that I seem to suddenly learn without anyone ever officially teaching me.

ERY… what words have ERY in them. It’s easy to find out at the Merriam-Webster website for “words containing”
The most interesting word that has ERY that I could find was AFTERYEARS
It could also be a reference to life after death. In the Merriam-Webster time traveler section 1625 was listed as the first year when the word was used. 1625 = PY in simple cipher. Py could be short for Pyre, Python, Pi or even Pura (Pure or Whole depending on the language)…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordfinder/classic/contains/all/-1/ery/1

THRU is probably exactly what it means: the American version of “throughput” or “through”. It could also mean “The Russian”.

LOSE. Could be a reference to Beck’s song Loser. Beck is a German beer, I wrote about Budweiser recently. Lacinulose makes an appearance… something about the small branches in leaves.

Ultimately I gave up trying to make sense of the word. Instead I figured it was simply a reference to Dave Matthews and “Crash Into Me” “sweet like candy…for your soul… sweet you rock, sweet you roll…”
The doghouse meteorite… Had crashed into the dog house very close to a dog named Roky. And the meteorite was shaped like a German Shepherd. Had been traveling billions of years.

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