How do i open a black box?

James2314 · 2014-01-08T10:25:58.000Z

I cant open a black box and i dont know what im looking for.

Teddy_Salad · 2014-01-08T10:35:28.000Z

Black boxes can’t be “opened” like cardboard boxes. A black box logs the flight data from aircraft (hence, their prevalence at crash sites).
They can be decoded in science labs, however. Labs have large glass-walled rooms with a couple of desks and a central console. With a computers skill of 3 or so, you can hack the console to decode the black box, giving you a printout of the flight data.

James2314 · 2014-01-08T10:54:27.000Z

Where do i find the lab? Also i dont know how to extinguish a fire.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-01-08T11:01:10.000Z

Fire EXTINGUISHER.

James2314 · 2014-01-08T11:11:06.000Z

Where to find lab?

Dominae · 2014-01-08T17:43:23.000Z

James2314:

Where to find lab?

Run around outside of towns … follow roads to their ends. They’ll semi-often end in Science Labs (it’ll be a blue ‘L’ on the map). You’ll need a science ID card to get inside (from scientist corpses) or some explosives to blow a hole in the outer bunker.

CIB · 2014-01-08T17:54:28.000Z

No offense meant, but the topic of this thread amuses me to the same degree that “Topic: How many minutes in a lightyear?” would. Ah, the beauty of pure text games combined with misleading conceptual terms that can be taken out of context.

en.wikipedia.org

Black box

In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a device, system or object which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings. Its implementation is "opaque" (black). Almost anything might be referred to as a black box: a transistor, an algorithm, or the human brain. To analyse something, as an open system, with a typical "black box approach", only the behavior of the stimulus/response will be accounted for, ...

John_Candlebury · 2014-01-08T18:38:51.000Z

[quote=“CIB, post:7, topic:4718”]No offense meant, but the topic of this thread amuses me to the same degree that “Topic: How many minutes in a lightyear?” would. Ah, the beauty of pure text games combined with misleading conceptual terms that can be taken out of context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box[/quote]

Wait right there.

A light year equals 31 556 926 light seconds. A meter equals the distance light traverses in 1/299,792,458 seconds this means that:

That means that there are 9.4605284 × 10^15 meters in a light year.

assuming earth time, a minute=27900 meters

So there are 339094282171 minutes in a light year.

[spoiler](Somewhere, my physics teacher is crying, actually I think all my teachers are crying right now)

Also its pretty surprising that dividing a light year by the distance a point in the equator travels in one minute gave me whole number someone must have made the estimations coincide on purpose[/spoiler]

Protester · 2014-01-08T19:08:46.000Z

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:8, topic:4718”][quote=“CIB, post:7, topic:4718”]No offense meant, but the topic of this thread amuses me to the same degree that “Topic: How many minutes in a lightyear?” would. Ah, the beauty of pure text games combined with misleading conceptual terms that can be taken out of context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box[/quote]

Wait right there.

A light year equals 31 556 926 light seconds. A meter equals the distance light traverses in 1/299,792,458 seconds this means that:

That means that there are 9.4605284 × 10^15 meters in a light year.

assuming earth time, a minute=27900 meters

So there are 339094282171 minutes in a light year.

[spoiler](Somewhere, my physics teacher is crying, actually I think all my teachers are crying right now)

Also its pretty surprising that dividing a light year by the distance a point in the equator travels in one minute gave me whole number someone must have made the estimations coincide on purpose[/spoiler][/quote]

A simple question has evolved into a deep conversation on metaphysical distances across measurements we cannot even fathom.

Its getting DEEP.

i2amroy · 2014-01-08T22:58:33.000Z

The funny thing is that the type of black box we are referring to (a Flight Recorder) isn’t even black. Usually they are instead bright orange.

Flightrecorder.jpg1502×528

Fish · 2014-01-09T00:10:24.000Z

You can also get into labs with teleporters, certain bionics, cars, explosives and electrohacks (fingerhacks count I think).

Seranikan · 2014-01-09T10:42:42.000Z

Due to rarely playing on the normal mode I have yet to actually open one of these. What does the data mean for the player, revealed map info?

aleksix · 2014-01-09T12:08:57.000Z

Seranikan:

What does the data mean for the player, revealed map info?

I dont quite remember, but this papetr is just an NPC quest item. And a poor, useless reading material. And, of course, fuel for one of the most powerful weapon:FIRE.