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lemmings279 karma

Z340Q3 is im sure a specific section of the Zodiac killer's encoded message. His code as attempting to brute force attack this message in an effort to decode it. A brute force attack is similar to running through the dictionary to find passwords, you just try every single possibility starting at 1 and ending at infinity.

A hit is when the message POSSIBLY seems to have been decoded. For instance if there was a three letter encoded section FGH and one of your brute force attacks returned THE it is possible that whatever deciphering technique was running at that time could decode the rest. It also may have just been a coincidence.

Im not too familiar with the actual zodiac killer's encrpytions, but thats the best layman's terms I got.

lemmings22 karma

I believe there's also some science behind this as well. Sebastian Junger gets into some of the science of combat in his book "War". There's a part in there about males in fighting in combat draws a similar reaction to males in competitive situations. Afterwards their brain releases a large amount of dopamine. This correlates to that relaxed feeling after competition, what most people see as ass slapping and sitting back.

I believe in his book Sebastian mentions this trait does not apply equally to females. This causes them to dwell on impactful situations, generating more "what-if" scenarios etc.

Anyways I'm trying to locate more scientific sources for research of this type, but what I'm trying to assert is that in some cases females may not be able to "let go" as males do after a tragic combat situation.

This also is an assertion on the immediate resolution to a combat situation, and I haven't found anything on how this impacts PTSD.