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| Scribe |
Chat with Eric & Analysis
Eric's back from hols, and had a chat with him last night but didn't have time to post it here. Here it is (sorry, lost the link to the log colourizer thing), with bits I think might be important hints examined beneath:
Important bits?:
Looks like they/Eric were expecting the file to turn up, but something out of their control may have delayed it. Something got lost somewhere along the line perhaps? (Some - including me - have spec'd that we were waiting on another ARG. Currently, I'm ruling that out as an Occam's Razor thing ;)
Assuming "someone" should actually be "somehow"... "final one" is a curious phrase. Maybe it explains the meaning of the numbers though. Curious that it's there "in the beginning" too - this goes with my theory that we've been able to find "whatever" since the game started. But does "beginning" refer to the beginning of the game, or to the beginning of life? ;) Note also that Eric says the message we decoded is not the important bit (kind of obvious, I guess...):
This bit's also a big hint at something:
Also, he gives us a hint as to the 4 items at the bottom:
Hmm. This would be consistent with previous messages (1, 2). Names? Words? Pointers/References to something? Is the fact that there are 4 of them significant? How can the cube root of pi be a "name"? He also points at finding a date, for some reason:
.. but I don't think 118 is necessarily the date he's thinking of. Is there another date lying around in there somehow, maybe one in the future? My thoughts in total so far: A file somewhere gives us meaning to the numbers, and the file is related to DNA. I want to go back over what AA3 said about "intramuscular flash drives", as I think that might tie in - maybe the numbers refer to genes? I really can't figure out what the "names" refer to though, other than Francis = Francis Crick. Time to re-read this whole thread ;)  Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:33 am |
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| Scribe |
Hi all, back, and glad I haven't too much to catch up with.
Nice one on the code everyone - I got the message too, but completely missed the backwards numbers. Will digest it in my dreams. Coming back, I noticed my RSS reader picked up an update to Aulus' Live Spaces page - the background image was apparently updated, but looks the same to me - same circuit diagram thing. However, the feed also included the name of the file, handily. It's called Mig60.jpg. A bit of Google research throws up the Sovtek Mig-60 Guitar Amp, and this page has the original picture (<- links here). Nothing too spectacular, but thought it might be helpful to clear one thing up at least  Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:32 pm |
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| Mason |
Eric is on holiday for 2 weeks (from now, I'm unsure as to how long he's been away).
I expect 118 now also refers to August 11th. There are still puzzles open to exploration. What's Mahasamparka got to do with it? Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:36 pm |
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| DelVillan. |
It might not be dead. We're pretty sure this connects to one or two other ARGs, though we're not sure which ones. So if some of the progress here is relative to another ARG, we might just be waiting on some group of players somewhere to find a particular solution so we can continue.
But, that's being too optimistic for me. Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:36 am |
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| ncfriend |
another dead arg?
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| mortality |
Google seems to think the writing on found.jpg is Tamil.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:29 am |
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| Cowabella |
JUNK DNA
Maybeeee...
Probably way out in left field, but we're dealing with alot of junk DNA at the Genesis Code barn right now... Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:25 pm |
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| DelVillan. |
Something else strange that I noticed, though probably far-fetched, is that the cube root of pi is 1.464591889, rounded. Most of those digits are in the sequence found, with the leftover digits having the ability to neatly make up the five and nine in the center.
But, I don't think that's much of anything. Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:17 pm |
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| tipsila |
My apologies for the double post.
Just wondering here... I noticed some things in common. The numbers (118 76 243 118 42) are similar to the coordinates we have received previously. The St. Thomas location 18 20' 06.15" N, 64 56'34.28" W, and the Detroit location at 42 19' 40.00" N, 83 3' 6.26" W (also the 342/243 in the seconds of the St. Thomas location). What about 76? 76 as a latitude, either north or south, brings us to the poles, although neither are nice places to lay on the beach and drink margaritas - unless one is a penguin
Something else odd, but "op libra" anagrams into BIPOLAR, and the cube root of pi is used for determining the volume of a sphere, if I am not mistaken? Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:37 pm |
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| tipsila |
Thanks. And look at the numbers...
118 76 243 118 42 We haven't seen the 243 or 24 3 or 2 43 yet have we? 118 76 42, yes. Edit: oops, posted at about the same time! Edit 2: Thanks, Catherwood - coming from you, that means a lot!  Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:49 pm |
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| catherwood |
Clever code! and Clever, clever tipsila for cracking this one! I spent too much time looking for extra-long words, never thinking about there being "junk dna" strands embedded in them. Thanks! Now, is there any reason they chose 1187624311842 to put in there? (Possibly reversed as 2481134267811) Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:48 pm |
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| godson2k7 |
yeah i ended up getting the same thing
*ETA holy crap! I didn't notice that the dummies where numbers backwards! That would have made it much easier on my part lol. Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:47 pm |
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| DelVillan. |
Great job, tipsila. That was a pretty naughty trick there.
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:44 pm |
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| tipsila |
I found what it says.
I noticed that there were numbers written backwards in the code. I took them out and completed the substitution.
ETA: there is also a mistake in the code - four is written fuor once Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:42 pm |
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| godson2k7 |
So far I've come up with ENO possibly being a set of dummy letters. If I strike that from the cypher I get:
LCCZLY you could come up with APPEAR. LYZ would be ARE Also now that ENO is gone it allows 6XC 1 GAFYL to be 6OP 1 LIBRA. Following that you have AT L IYXDC. Plugging in from what there is so far would give AT IRODP with _RO_P being known. GROUP can plug in here nicely. So for the first sentence I have 6OP 1 LIBRA AT A GROUP. IS would be the only thing that would fit for AT in what I have come up with. So 6OP 1 LIBRA IS A GROUP. is what I have for a first sentence. I've plugged in everything following this and I think there are probably more dummy letters somewhere...or I am completely off on this 
*I'm also still half asleep Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:06 pm |
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