[THEREALOWINN]

awesome work, looking at morster i just started getting edig6equj5

[antovolk]

WOW, nice job!

[MarshallTeller]

New work desktop background!

Well done folks!

[xinau]

Impressive...

Most impressive.

[blackfeathers]

excellent work guys! this is awesome.

out of curiosity, what settings (wpm) did you use to get the final answer?

[chasrover]

Hmmm: https://www.weylandindustries.com/6EQUJ5

[SevenSonicStructures]

Okay, how did you found EDIR6EQUJ5? I think we've finally hit something! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
I knew I recognized that from somewhere else.

Edit: Okay, someone beat me to it! But yeah, this is an interesting breakthrough.

[matto]

but EDIR6EQUJ5 is not meaningless:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal


he circled alphanumeric code 6EQUJ5 describes the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.000 to 10.000), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope, on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.[1] The intensity in this case is the unitless signal-to-noise ratio, where noise was averaged for that band over the previous few minutes.[2]

[chasrover]

Having spent hours yesterday staring at and deconstructing an flashing dot animated gif, I've decided to hop on here and join the fun.

Like, THEREALOWINN I now know more about morse code than I care to. It does seem like a dead end (especially as morse was used to find the file name). Given it's representing a star, maybe the pattern can be turned into radio waves or something? I'm now learning more about radio transmission protocols than I (or my employer) would like!

[GuestUser17]

THEREALOWINN wrote:

I don't have to tell you guys that whatever the blinking light translates as it should potentially lead somewhere - maybe a url, an inbox or twitter account. I doubt it will be a useless message.

The only message i have figured out so far is EDIR6EQUJ5 - looks useless to me. Let me go try again.

[THEREALOWINN]

I don't have to tell you guys that whatever the blinking light translates as it should potentially lead somewhere - maybe a url, an inbox or twitter account. I doubt it will be a useless message.

[SevenSonicStructures]

Okay, I've decided to follow that Prometheus twitter account, haha.
I'm going to give this another try. I'll just assume every white and mid gray as a dot, and every strict dark gray as a dash, and see what happens after that.
I even started reading about the Doppler effect and redshift, even though I doubt such high level analysis is required for a game like this , but since this is a "star", we may never know.

[GuestUser17]

THEREALOWINN wrote:

Strange, I got Morster to try it out and at first it was inconclusive but after a few adjustments I got the word 'understood' and then a whole sentence 'should we settle on the' and then nothing else :/ possibly a fluke so will try to recreate results - if I have any joy I'll try to film what it comes up with. Eh forget it, it isn't going to work. I'm not the only one seeing the about page background animate (the bubbles moving to the right) am I? I'm just asking as it doesn't seem to do this on my iPad's browser but does on Chrome on my Macbook.

If it helps 'understood' has it's own morse abreviation : SN ... .-

OWINN - You posted as I was typing this!

[THEREALOWINN]

Note the reason Morster was throwing out full sentences is because it was picking up Qcodes... basically a combination of three letters with the first being Q. For example it seemed to give out the letters for code QSC - this code translates as 'Are you a cargo vessel?'

Morse code also contains prosigns such as SOS and SN (understood)

If anything, I'm learning morse code in stupid detail. Shame I can't read the bloody blinking light!

[GuestUser17]

THEREALOWINN wrote:

*takes a bow* now what the heck is it?!!?!?!

I'm not sure why I was mentioned this time. Maybe because when I get to look at it later I'll be like a leach until I find something.