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Writing on the Moon
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coasterdigi
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New post today

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Learning Games
By writingonthemoon
I've received several requests to spend more time discussing what we are learning. N is our teacher, and says he believes he worked with the module designers to help create our lessons. N also loves philosophy, riddles, and puzzles, so he spends a lot of time making us think about one thing or another.

As for the modules, I would say that the best way to understand them is to work through them yourself. Otherwise, they are pretty hard to explain.

However, I will give you one of the puzzles that N gave us to help get through the first password:

Apollo vs. Apollo

We are born
We have always existed

We are alive
We are immortal

We experience the five senses
We dance in the clouds

We love
We bend time


PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:32 pm
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kebabskal
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New post:
Transmission #3
TNRIIOFHSIGNNYEWSHFTOAERTROU

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It's a columnar cipher. just paste the text into a text editor and play with the width of the window until you have 7 characters on each line. The columns then read.
THEANSWERISRIGHTINFRONTOFYOU


PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:29 pm
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reesylou
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kebabskal wrote:
New post:
Transmission #3
TNRIIOFHSIGNNYEWSHFTOAERTROU

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

It's a columnar cipher. just paste the text into a text editor and play with the width of the window until you have 7 characters on each line. The columns then read.
THEANSWERISRIGHTINFRONTOFYOU


Nice of them to say it that... it seems to be not that obvious since I haven't seen anyone say they have cracked it... and I certainly haven't. Not through lack of trying!!

EDIT:GOT IT!!!!!
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menvsgods


PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:45 am
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Minz
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Did a bit of work on the next puzzle (module 1) :

Looks like (most of?) the text bits are

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Anagrams of astronaut names or greek words for Apollo


Heres a list of what i got so far :

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Segleate -> Aegletes (= Apollo)
Naldri -> Buzz Aldrin
Gortmans -> (Neil Armstrong?? but reads Armstong? OR maybe Angstrom -> crater on the moon + unit of mesurement)
Dresna -> William Anders
Aben -> Alan Bean
Robman -> Broman(Asteroid), B. Roman(astronomer)
Canern -> Eugene Cernan
Liclons -> Michael Collins , Eileen Collins
Dorcan -> Pete Conrad
Changinumn -> Walter Cunningham
Keud -> Charles Moss Duke, Jr
Eeeisl
Sevan
Rondog -> Gordon Cooper ; Richard F. Gordon, Jr
Siahe
Leushi -> (Helius,Helios??)
Nirwi -> (Irwin?)
Veloll -> Jim Lovell
Yelcus -> Lyceus (Statue of apollo)
Tinglymat -> Ken Mattingly
Ticitdvm
Timlechl -> Edgar Mitchell
Shaunaep -> Phanaeus (again redirects to apollo)
Saroo
Arichrs -> Walter Marty Schirra, Jr
Timchst -> Harrison Schmitt?
Kichwartsec -> Russell Louis „Rusty" Schweickart
Cotts -> Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Parshed -> Alan Shepard
Fordfast -> Thomas Patten Stafford
Gitwers
Drewon
Yogun -> John W. Young


Dont know what to make of the numbers yet though. Might be some kind of bookcipher if we get the text right..

PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:24 am
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The other people on the list:

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Eeeisl - Donn F. Eisele
Sevan - Ronald Evans
Siahe - Fred Haise
Ticitdvm - James McDivitt
Saroo - Stuart Allen Roosa
Gitwers - John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr.
Drewon - Alfred Merrill Worden


PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:00 pm
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reesylou
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[quote="Minz"]Did a bit of work on the next puzzle (module 1) :

Looks like (most of?) the text bits are

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Anagrams of astronaut names or greek words for Apollo


Good job, I had the first but not the missing four - I should have guessed!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:50 pm
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bluesylvia
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Looks like the names are supposed to be connected to Apollo astronauts. There were a few names missing from the list, or connected to an astronaut with the same last name but not connected to Apollo.

I think the final name version may be something like this (the number following their name indicates their spaceflight):
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Segleate -> Aegletes (= Apollo)
Naldri -> Buzz Aldrin - 11
Gortmans -> Neil Armstrong* - 11
Dresna -> William Anders - 8
Aben -> Alan Bean - 12
Robman -> Frank Borman - 8
Canern -> Eugene Cernan - 10 & 17
Liclons -> Michael Collins - 11
Dorcan -> Pete Conrad - 12
Changinumn -> Walter Cunningham - 7
Keud -> Charles Moss Duke, Jr - 16
Eeeisl - Donn F. Eisele - 7
Sevan - Ronald Evans - 17
Rondog -> Dick Gordon - 12
Siahe - Fred Haise - 13
Leushi -> (Helius, Helios??)
Nirwi -> James Irwin - 15
Veloll -> Jim Lovell - 8 & 13
Yelcus -> Lyceus (Statue of apollo)
Tinglymat -> Ken Mattingly - 16
Ticitdvm - James McDivitt - 9
Timlechl -> Edgar Mitchell - 14
Shaunaep -> Phanaeus (again redirects to apollo)
Saroo - Stuart Allen Roosa - 14
Arichrs -> Walter Marty Schirra, Jr - 7
Timchst -> Harrison Schmitt - 17
Kichwartsec -> Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart - 9
Cotts -> David Scott - 15
Parshed -> Alan Shepard - 14
Fordfast -> Thomas Patten Stafford - 10
Gitwers - John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr. - 13
Drewon - Alfred Merrill Worden - 15
Yogun -> John W. Young - 10 & 16

*I think the missing R was a typo on PM's part.


In bold are the ones that don't seem to match up to any astronaut. Kind of odd to have them in with a bunch of names, though...

I have no idea about the numbers. At first I thought they could be listing of spaceflights but there is no Apollo 3, and some numbers (7, 16, 27, 11, 24, 17) are listed more than once.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:27 pm
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reesylou
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The numbers seem to represent the dates of the Apollo flights, except for one set of numbers... it seems to tell the flights we are interested in:
(see http://spacecovers.com/misc/ap1-17_mission_info.htm for dates and other info)
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7-19 Apollo 17
16-27 Apollo 16
11-22 Apollo 7
14-24 Apollo 12
3-13 Apollo 9
7-17 the flights from 7 to 17
18-26 Apollo 10
16-24 Apollo 11
21-27 Apollo 8
11-17 Apollo 13
26-7 Apollo 15
31-9 Apollo 14


PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:31 pm
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2011: A Space Oddity?

Hey all. I'm lurking on this one. I just noticed that the list of Apollo (God) epithets/Astronaut names is in alphabetical order (A - Y), but the list of Apollo flights seems almost arbitrary (17, 16, 7, 12, 9, ?, 10, 11, 8, 13, 15, 14). Significant or merely a space oddity?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:48 pm
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Twiler
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July the 17th was the date of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo-Soyuz_Test_Project

The Apollo craft involved with this mission has been referred to as Apollo 18.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:41 am
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Twiler
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I've posted a comment under the first module implicitly asking for help. I hope that provokes a response.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:42 pm
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reesylou
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Twiler wrote:
I've posted a comment under the first module implicitly asking for help. I hope that provokes a response.


After receiving a "contact me when you know the anser" type email the other day, I sent a reply outlining what we had found out, asking for a hint and asking was the answer to this module the password to the second. No response yet.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:10 pm
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Maevrim
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I don't know if this will help, but a friend was able to identify the shell in the video as Argonauta nodosa.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:35 am
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Twiler
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Ah, something new's up:

Quote:


We Few, We Happy Few

We band of brothers…

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

_ _

_ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

=

_ _ _ _ _


The quote is apparently from the Henry the Fifth, the rest must be either a new puzzle or a clue to the last one.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:53 pm
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Buddha1419
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So according to Wikipedia (that place of truthful knowledge) it's part of St. Crispin's Speech, the back half of it. The rest is, "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother." The first half of it is, "And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the end of the world, But we in it shall be remembered..." Never saw or read Henry V so not sure how it ties into Apollo and astronauts. But that's my two cents from a lurker.

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