2022-10-30|Sunatori's Metal Bottle Caps versus Bynars

Potential Discovery or Invention

Communicating with loud click sound generated from metal bottle caps resembles communication by the Bynars who were a race of cybernetically enhanced humanoids in Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG).

11001001

SPOCK: What is that high-speed sound you make?
ZERO ONE: That is our
ONE ZERO: primary language.
SPOCK: How can you process information at that speed?
ZERO ONE: We store the information
ONE ZERO: with these buffers. (on their belts)
ZERO ONE: We receive information
ONE ZERO: all the time
ZERO ONE: and save it
ONE ZERO: until we need it.
SPOCK: How did you happen to develop this ability?
ONE ZERO: It happened over
ZERO ONE: a long period of time.
SPOCK: To have a society so intermixed on computers has tremendous advantages.
ONE ZERO: And a few
ZERO ONE: disadvantages.

11001001
SPOCK: What is that high-speed sound you make? ZERO ONE: That is our ONE ZERO: primary language. SPOCK: How can you process information at that speed? ZERO ONE: We store the information ONE ZERO: with these buffers. (on their belts) ZERO ONE: We receive information ONE ZERO: all the time ZERO ONE: and save it ONE ZERO: until we need it. SPOCK: How did you happen to develop this ability? ONE ZERO: It happened over ZERO ONE: a long period of time. SPOCK: To have a society so intermixed on computers has tremendous advantages. ONE ZERO: And a few ZERO ONE: disadvantages.

Potential Discovery or Invention

Clicking sounds are also prominent in this movie.

Mimic (1997)

Wet CLICKING SOUNDS. A BEAM of purplish ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT reveals a mosaic of moving forms... COCKROACHES. They skitter restlessly under the beam's intensity. SERIES OF SHOTS -- the UV Beam passing over various parts of the space. Pipe webs, walls, girders -- all covered with the insects. Thousands of them.

Mimic (1997)
Wet CLICKING SOUNDS. A BEAM of purplish ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT reveals a mosaic of moving forms... COCKROACHES. They skitter restlessly under the beam's intensity. SERIES OF SHOTS -- the UV Beam passing over various parts of the space. Pipe webs, walls, girders -- all covered with the insects. Thousands of them.

Potential Discovery or Invention

Surprisingly, it turned out that loudest sound is produced not by the Twinned Metal Bottle Caps but by untwinned individual caps, either very large (low-pitch sound) or very small (high-pitch sound).