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[mrsE]

Library of Babel - Flying

[inatimate]

Hmmm, this is an interesting one, the letters "M" and "E" are in bold, and I am just about to take a screenshot of the swirling "sentance" towards the end of the video, which is "in the distance", I think there will be one more then that will be it, we can solve the riddle, incidently when you see this, I think the last bit at the end has something to do with a compass, as the words go round, and finally stop at South, that's my guess anyway, lets crack this puzzle

A couple of other things I have noticed

[Sophiecat]

Transcript follows:

[mrsE]

Babel

[rainbowtrout]

Re: Babel

[mrsE]

mod

[mrsE]

clock

[Mikeyj]

This seems to be a lesson in how to present information in as many eye-watering ways as possible! My neck hurts.

Some random musings, the first section uses a caesar shift to display the message, cycling between each section. I can't work out whether it might be vigenere...from the position of the wheel each time it should be possible to reverse it in order to find the key shouldn't it? Is that what's referred to by "mod"?

The second stage with the frankly annoying helix reminds me of another encryption method with message in a strip wrapped around a cylinder, but I think that's just me being hypnotised. The words are written in triplets of characters, adding to the fun of reading, and I think that you get three sets of three in each full rotation.

I may be jumping the gun but does "in a distant place" finally put down the ideas of New York, or anywhere else with yellow taxis?

Who are these guys that he's meeting? There're plenty of them.

No need to spoiler mrsE...it's something that didn't require any solving that wouldn't ruin things for somebody if they wanted to try the puzzle for themselves.

[mrsE]

distant place

[rainbowtrout]

[mrsE]

helix

[rainbowtrout]

helix

[inatimate]

Ive just checked each of the 3 letter/symbols which appear on the helix against those on the Amino Acid Abbreviations, hoping to get some sort of match, but none of the 3 letter combinations link with those shown on the page mrsE put up.

Im thinking that "M" and "E" being highlighted in the first part could be linked possibly, their ammino acid codes are:

Methionine - Met - M
Glutamic Acid - Glu - E

Nothing for "O" or "D" however

[mrsE]

clock

[Mikeyj]

With the helix part of my post I only meant to describe it (mainly for those poor linux users who can't see CT's sites of whom I'm normally one).

A helix does immediately bring to mind DNA, but I'm not sure how useful it is in this case. The triplets I mentioned above include punctuation, which makes them tricky in respect of DNA or AA code

Nothing in the helical portion is highlighted as being different from any other part of the message, but the bold M and E in the first section and the orientation of the words in the final section might be easier to get our teeth into.