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|image=[[File:Time code.jpg|225px]]
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|inventor=Probably the [[Galactic Entity]]
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|usage=Summoning the [[Time Sphere]]
|use=Causes release of [[Time Sphere]]
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|status=Probably lost forever
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The '''Machine language time code''' or simply the '''time code''' is a code appearing in a tattoo on [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s butt.


== The code ==
The '''machine language time code''', or simply the '''time code''', is a code appearing in a tattoo on [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]'s butt, that causes release of the [[Time Sphere]] from the [[Galactic Entity]] ([[Bender's Big Score|BBS]]).
The code appearing in the film is as follows;
 
== Form ==
The code appearing in [[Bender's Big Score|the film]] is as follows.
<pre>001100
<pre>001100
010010
010010
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110011</pre>
110011</pre>


As you can tell, it is mirrored over the first three columns over to the last three and inverted over the first three rows to the last three.  If you remove the last three columns, you can tell that the first three columns are actually just the numbers 1 to 6 in binary.
=== Observations ===
As you can tell, it is mirrored over the first three columns over to the last three and inverted over the first three rows to the last three.  If you remove the last three columns, you can see that the first three columns are actually just the numbers 1 to 6 in binary.
 
It is interesting to note that it has yet to be truly explained where the time code comes from or how it ended up on Fry's butt in the first place.  The code was put on the frozen Fry's butt by [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], using a flap of skin from [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]], but it only existed on Lars' butt because he is a paradox time copy of Fry.  This makes it is a paradoxical object known as a paradox-origin.


It's interesting to note that it has yet to be truly explained where the time code comes from or how it ended up on Fry's butt in the first place. (i.e. it was put on the frozen Fry's butt by Bender using a flap of skin from Lars but it only existed on Lars's butt because he is a paradox time copy of Fry.), meaning it is a paradoxical object known as  a paradox-origin. Another example of a paradox-origin is if your future self were to travel back in time and give yourself something, it can be deduced that it is a paradox-origin. However, in the original draft of the script, Bender, while waiting for Fry to come back from the future (this being Bender-2, who gets kicked into the freezer tube), watches the lottery and writes down the winning numbers, converts them to binary and mirrors them, then inscribes them on Fry's butt, hiding them from Bender-1 and planning to return and win the lottery (unaware that he is doomed as a time paradox duplicate).
However, in the original draft of the script, Bender, while waiting for Fry to come back from the future (this being Bender 2, who gets kicked into the freezer tube), watches the lottery and writes down the winning numbers, converts them to binary and mirrors them, then inscribes them on Fry's butt, hiding them from Bender 1 and planning to return and win the lottery (unaware that he is doomed as a [[time paradox duplicate]]).


== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
[[File:time code tat.jpg|thumb|right|Hidden in a smelly mirror]]
[[File:Time code tat.jpg|thumb|right|Hidden in a smelly mirror]]
 
=== Trivia ===
*Another example of a paradox-origin is if your future self were to travel back in time and give yourself something.


=== Appearances ===
=== Appearances ===
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=== See also ===
=== See also ===
*[[Galactic Entity]]
*[[Time Sphere]]
*[[Time Sphere]]
*[[Time paradox duplicate]]
*[[Time paradox duplicate]]
*[[Galactic Entity]]


[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 14:34, 21 January 2011

Machine language time code
Time code.jpg
TypeProgram
InventorProbably the Galactic Entity
UsageSummoning the Time Sphere
First appearanceBender's Big Score
Film
Current statusProbably lost forever

The machine language time code, or simply the time code, is a code appearing in a tattoo on Fry's butt, that causes release of the Time Sphere from the Galactic Entity (BBS).

Form

The code appearing in the film is as follows.

001100
010010
011110
100001
101101
110011

Observations

As you can tell, it is mirrored over the first three columns over to the last three and inverted over the first three rows to the last three. If you remove the last three columns, you can see that the first three columns are actually just the numbers 1 to 6 in binary.

It is interesting to note that it has yet to be truly explained where the time code comes from or how it ended up on Fry's butt in the first place. The code was put on the frozen Fry's butt by Bender, using a flap of skin from Lars, but it only existed on Lars' butt because he is a paradox time copy of Fry. This makes it is a paradoxical object known as a paradox-origin.

However, in the original draft of the script, Bender, while waiting for Fry to come back from the future (this being Bender 2, who gets kicked into the freezer tube), watches the lottery and writes down the winning numbers, converts them to binary and mirrors them, then inscribes them on Fry's butt, hiding them from Bender 1 and planning to return and win the lottery (unaware that he is doomed as a time paradox duplicate).

Additional Info

Hidden in a smelly mirror

Trivia

  • Another example of a paradox-origin is if your future self were to travel back in time and give yourself something.

Appearances

See also