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oh --- doah!!!

thx

[fimacmo]

[Rei]

I think the PM's are so confuzed seeing what we have done, they dont know what to do next!

[KSG]

I think laughing really, really hard would be the first thing they'd consider, followed shortly by closing their browser windows, but what do I know?

[Jay]

Wow...just wow. Maybe even...no, wait, just wow.

[Caterpillar]

I respectfully, wholeheartedly, disagree.....

The fact is, we are missing something. I don't doubt that for a single second, and I don't think the majority feels (with conviction) that we have found and decrypted everything we were meant to on the postcard.

Of course I could be wrong - it certainly wouldn't be a first in my books.



The only way to discover and solve what we are missing, is to posit theories (however inane) and discount them or move forward (through the process of elimination if need be....lol). I've read this thread thru and thru, I don't find any of the posted possibilities that far out, and generally assume that whomever has taken the time to work through something - anything - must have had a reasonable rational for doing so.

I keep digging and pecking at it just to keep myself from going crazy with anticipation and boredom......and one of these days.......lol

[boff]

AADAA

[tanner]

theyre just the places to put your fingers to make chord -- other than that - shrugs

they are not braile i dont think --

i dont think AADAA means anything at all

[Jay]

[Sasuntsi Davit]

[Marrec]

Whew, good to be back... just in time to have to read 30 some odd pages of people slowly going insane. I know what we need, some fresh ideas. Too bad I'm all out.

I've played with the numbers a bit and didn't find anything too striking but there are a few things that stick out at me about the postcard. One is the mirror image theory thing. Something about that jumps out at me... maybe a gut feeling or whatever. We might find something there but since I sadly don't hold one of these cards in my grubby little hands I can't figure it. Also I've been terribly interested in popping your seemingly gibberish solves into a Perplex City URL... yeh, I've been bored.

I think we need to approach the problem more simply then we have been. We've been wrapping our heads around multiple encryptions and semacode and morse code and such when it's likely something stupidly obvious. Easy to say right now yeh... but still. I'm definatly of the opinion that there is something else we are missing on this postcard, be in a cosmetic thing or a gamebreaking thing... hopefully gamebreaking.

[Nik_Doof]

[da5id]

now that i think about it.... as you might remember, the string "AADAA" plays a somewhat prominent role in "cryptonomicon" by neal stephenson.

it is the beginning of a code nobody is able to solve for a long time, until it turns out that it is the result of encoding a certain number series (can't look right now which one it is, but i might do that later) using the word COMSTOCK as the seed.

maybe we could use COMSTOCK and that number series for experiments. i will have a look.

edit: ok, i think it is the riemann zeta funtion: zeta(s)=sum(1/n^s) where s is a complex number.

[Salkunh]

I am now out of bed and posting (yay beds)

AADAA means nothing in coptic and in hieroglyphics.

In hieroglyphics it would be written using the alef bird for a and a hand for d. Alef Alef (or aa) means mound of ruins and the d could be at a push give or place but that would be missing the all important determinatives from both of those words and "mound of ruins give mound of ruins" doesnt make sense.

Hieratic would be the same and Late Egyptian (as the above was middle egyptian) because the language doesnt change that much. Though I pick up my Late Egyptian dictionary from the post office later so i can confirm that for sure. Only actually been doing late egyptian for 3 weeks but up to now all i've seen different from middle egyptian is grammar and the word for palace being used as a word for pharaoh. Nothing as major as making aadaa make sense.

so yeah...hieroglyphic (late and middle), coptic and hieratic it means nothing. Dont do demotic so cant really say but demotic is just another way of writing hieroglyphic instead of writing the picture signs it uses actual letters to represent so going on the basis that its using the same actual language just displayed differently lets go with its nothing in that too.

Now back to this morning coz schoffy rocks

[Caterpillar]

Tell me something I don't know.....

In this pic I've attached, what are the things I've circled? I understand a bit about image artifacts, but are they always so defined? Someone with knowledge please explain....

I colored them red, just to make them easier to see....and there are more than the ones I've circled...