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cearanissa · Boot Joined: 18 May 2010 Posts: 35

Finally caught up

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:28 pm

cboyd0319 · Boot Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

Image Aspect Ratios

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:10 pm

Colt

Re: Image Aspect Ratios

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:05 pm

Yiddleja · Veteran Joined: 07 May 2010 Posts: 79

man oh man...i leave for a few days and this happens!!!

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:46 pm

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And the Lion will come, and his voice will be huge and alive, and he will say: "Ethan Haas was right!"

SeekerX · Decorated Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 184 Location: Germany

I thought, now that we pretty safely can say that we know what the "useful" notes stand for, I'd suggest we take a look at the "not so useful" noise inbetween them.
As far as I can tell this is not White Noise nor Red/Brown Noise, nor is it Hiss- or Hum- effect which would point to a bad/old tape-quality. In other words, I think it was recorded along with the actual notes.
Ok, the reason for this might be a bad recording system. But I doubt that. Even in the 70s they already had pretty good devices such as the system connected to the Braegen14 discs. I haven't actually heard it but from its specs it sounds pretty good to me. It should sound comparable to a modern CD, if not better.
So again why the noise? Bad microphone? Probably not. Our audio here almost contains no frequencies above 10 KHz. The usual human ear can hear frequencies up to 20 KHz and microphones have been built for this purpose for a very long time.
Now, I'm not a broadcasting engineer or a scientist, but my theory is:
This was a transmission that was received and recorded. And the noise is actually cosmic background radiation also known as cosmic background noise.

Attached two pics of analysis just of the noise to prove it's not White, Brown, etc. They show a roughly bell shaped form that peaks at around 5-6 KHz.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:18 am

woojitsu · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

I still hold to my theory that the entire audio file is a conversion to sound of a recording of cosmic radiation. That would make the "hiss" the microwave background and the "notes" a bizarre sequence of spikes in other frequencies. Because of their regularity and the golden ratio pattern, they are almost certainly created by an intelligence.

Alternatively, the file is a direct recording of a radio signal of celestial origin, and the "hiss" is natural radiation (e.g. from the sun) on the same frequency.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:03 pm

SyNeSTro · Veteran Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 98 Location: EP

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:15 pm

SeekerX · Decorated Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 184 Location: Germany

I may be wrong. As an audio engineer I used to always avoid any background noise. But isn't "hiss" a kind of noise with much potency in the upper frequencies? E.g. taking a 44.1 KHz sample, Hiss would potentially occur from 12KHz upwards? We have a 44.1KHz .mp3 here. There is no "energy" in it above 10 KHz. So, no Hiss.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:21 pm

slinkydge · Decorated Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 248 Location: london

I don't know how to do this but what if you sent the sound to a normal radio I guess it would be AM? would that do anything to the sound? or change the waves at all?

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:03 pm

SeekerX · Decorated Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 184 Location: Germany

I tried to find that out but couldn't really find anything serious.
Here is more technical approach to this: http://abelian.org/vlfrx/calib.html
VLF stands for "very low frequency" which is about 300Hz to 30KHz. Thermal Induction made me pop since the CBR is a kind of thermal interferrence as well, although very cold Smile

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**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:13 pm

slinkydge · Decorated Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 248 Location: london

Re: Image Aspect Ratios

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:37 pm

slinkydge · Decorated Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 248 Location: london

can the aspect ratio of the trailer be changed?

here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

goldenratiocalculator.com

The format was briefly revived by Lucasfilm in the 1970s for special effects work that required larger negative size (due to image degradation from the optical printing steps necessary to make multi-layer composites)

help.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:41 pm

Melodyman

The fact that anyone would come in here and leave a note saying we were close implies that whomever it is knows the answers we are after.. and that means they would have to be connected to the PM's somehow..which I do believe is not in the rules.. also, I would expect that any PM or person involved with the creation and execution of this adventure would be educated enough to know that its "you're close".. not "Your close" which is a bit embarrassing..

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:11 pm

slinkydge · Decorated Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 248 Location: london

oh yes I agree with that!! but I do think there's something we're missing with the trailer and with Super8, after all that was actually our first clue, the name of the movie, we knew it before anything else.

Since 8 and 11 are popping up all over the place, how do you get from a Super8 film to the Golden Ratio? what happened in-between that we missed?

**Posted:** Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:13 pm