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The Core
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 		Writing on the Moon
Just got this email:

Quote:
May we have a word?

Don't know what to make of this.

Pressed for time.

Writing On The Moon


01101010011100100110111001100101
01110010011001110110010101101100
01110110011000010111010001100111
01100010011100110111011001100001
01110001011011100111100101100111
01110010011001010110000101101110
01100111011100100111000001110101
01101110011000010110000101110010
01111001011001100110001001110011
01110000011000100111101001111010
01101000011000010111011001110000
01101110011001110111011001100010
01100001011001110111010101110010
01100101011100100111011001100110
01100001011000100110001101111001
01101110011100000111001001111001
01110110011110000111001001110101
01100010011110100111001001100110
01110110011101000110000101110010
01110001011001110111010101110010
01101010011101100110110101101110
0110010101110001


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The code needed to be converted from binary to text, and then ROT-13'ed. It decodes to:

wearetryingtofindalternatechannelsofcommunicationthereisnoplacelikehomesignedthewizard


Game on?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:23 am
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Rich Reder
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 		Oh, hoping so! Another campaign last year (Repomen) used Wizard of Oz themes and codes/puzzles - jolly good fun!

PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:06 am
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Ofiuco
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 		I just got the email, and another one with a video attached. The video contained several photographs of planes, including probably the Wright Brothers' plane, as well as a spiral shell on the beach. It ended with what I suspect is a URL:

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http://writingonthemoon.wordpress.com/


EDIT:

I've been chitchatting with Lane. I threw him the NASA motto (ad astra per aspera) which seemed to get his attention. He made a comment about me being in the wrong time line, which I asked about.

Quote:
V,

I am an American, and familiar with NASA, having studied a great deal of space history. As for time lines, well, it's a bit complicated. There are multiple universes and multiple time lines. They are quite infinite, which makes it difficult when major channels of communication are destroyed. A great deal of noise and interference exists.

I believe we are from different time lines, as we have a much different system for network communication that what I've discovered on this channel, and I from everything I've read, you are only at the beginning stages of what we like to call space exploitation.

Things are more complicated by the fact that we don't really know our real objective, except for mining, and our leaders seem to have disappeared for an indefinite period of time.

-Lane


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snorkle256
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 		Apparently I've received these emails as well, on an email address that shouldn't be getting e-mails for ARGs. As in I haven't given it out much, save for video game stuffs. perhaps this is a viral marketing setup?

Also this file.

-edit- PS just looked through my e-mails. The last time I used that e-mail for something ARGish was for Code of Conviction. (Video game related)
wotm.wmv
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:25 am
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coasterdigi
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 		Well, the images in the video definitely move backward in time.

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The Moon, Apollo Landing, Mercury 7, A WWI bomber (I think it's a DH9 or DH4), and the Wright Brothers' first flight, and then the shell.


Also, has anyone taken a close look at the audio in the clip? I tried running it through a couple of filters, but couldn't find anything interesting. I thought it might be something, though, because it runs for a full 4 seconds after the last image is shown.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:31 am
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the-mental-one
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 		Transmission #2 on the wordpress:

Quote:
01110100 01101000 01100101 01100111 01101111
01100100 01110011 01100001 01110010 01100101
01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000
01101001 01101110 01100111


which translates to
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thegodsarewatching


PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:13 pm
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coasterdigi
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 		I sent an email to Lane pointing out that the first transmission refers to the Wizard of Oz.

My email to him:
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Lane
This is Lane, right?
The binary transmission you've posted translates to a rather odd
message, signed by somebody who calls him or herself "the wizard."
Full text: wearetryingtofindalternatechannelsofcommunicationthereisnoplacelikehomesignedthewizard

Any ideas who this may be? It certainly sounds to be connected to the
story of The Wizard of Oz...not sure if you're familiar with it.
Perhaps you'll be able to find it in your collection of programs on
the central computer.

-J


And his response:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
John,

Thank you for your help with the transmission. N is logging these so I will pass this information along to him. I have no idea what this means. However, I am familiar with the Wizard of Oz. We had to read the book and watch the film as part of the American Studies course we had to take. In fact, our central computer is named Dorothy.

-Lane


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Ofiuco
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 		I sent some binary asking him (or whoever?) if they needed our help, and he/she/it/them responded with 'we're fine for now'. Lane continues to be opaque, but speculates he lives in 2015.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:30 am
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tmsplat
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 		from learning module source
as a newbie - not up on decrypting
ex_go({'crypt':'RDZUTi12JkxTOXZYQ0IuZWlDV09vMkU1JUtLMD05WFhhVXldNl
g5aGMvOEc9UWYvemNXJWtlMTEvQlVOL0R4a2tlSXNwYlNVYmNKTWovaHxQQU
4ubHpYdGRLbTBtXWp+TUdNX0NMaVZ5Kzd0TFdUJlNYUkR4MjFaZjNwfHRyNHVE
ZExDUkIsNy9nPW9EVi8wMmp4TGRdL3ZuYXUrM0t5LlRrMDVRN2l8ODAvWXlBZ
U1hVC1RZStMRTNRPQ=='});
addLoadEvent(function(){linktracker_init('21093124',0);});
</script>




Edit: Added line breaks x4. -SpaceBass

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:50 pm
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tmsplat
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 		Well if we can get pswd to first module
we can start learingn what we need to know

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:56 pm
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tmsplat
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 		sent email to POC for modules
Sent an email to POC for any problems for the learning modules.

me: I forgot my password for the learning module 1, could you reset and send new one to me thanks

rcvd reply from Astronaut T. Lane- Nice Try

PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:38 pm
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reesylou
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 		Re: from learning module source
as a newbie - not up on decrypting
tmsplat wrote:
ex_go({'crypt':'RDZUTi12JkxTOXZYQ0IuZWlDV09vMkU1JUtLMD05WFhhVXldNl
g5aGMvOEc9UWYvemNXJWtlMTEvQlVOL0R4a2tlSXNwYlNVYmNKTWovaHxQQU
4ubHpYdGRLbTBtXWp+TUdNX0NMaVZ5Kzd0TFdUJlNYUkR4MjFaZjNwfHRyNHVE
ZExDUkIsNy9nPW9EVi8wMmp4TGRdL3ZuYXUrM0t5LlRrMDVRN2l8ODAvWXlBZ
U1hVC1RZStMRTNRPQ=='});
addLoadEvent(function(){linktracker_init('21093124',0);});
</script>


I believe this is a standard wordpress plugin for link/click tracking.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:22 am
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reesylou
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the-mental-one wrote:
Transmission #2 on the wordpress:

Quote:
01110100 01101000 01100101 01100111 01101111
01100100 01110011 01100001 01110010 01100101
01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000
01101001 01101110 01100111


which translates to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
thegodsarewatching


This, in combination with the Module 1 title: Apollo vs Apollo makes me wonder whether the first password is to do with the greek god Apollo (or the moon landing as an alternative)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:41 am
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the-mental-one
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 		yeah I've been trying variations on a theme for the Gods angle, haven't tried the NASA angle...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:53 am
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coasterdigi
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reesylou wrote:
the-mental-one wrote:
Transmission #2 on the wordpress:

Quote:
01110100 01101000 01100101 01100111 01101111
01100100 01110011 01100001 01110010 01100101
01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000
01101001 01101110 01100111


which translates to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
thegodsarewatching


This, in combination with the Module 1 title: Apollo vs Apollo makes me wonder whether the first password is to do with the greek god Apollo (or the moon landing as an alternative)


I was thinking something similar. However, I haven't had a ton of time to look at it.

I was also thinking that there may be some sort of tie-in with Apollo and The Wizard of Oz. Given what we have seen, I wouldn't be at all surprised if everything ties back to that story.

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