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[Bender6]

Anyone working on this today? I've made a couple more half-hearted attempts, but I am running out of ideas.

[Kaltern]

I'm still battling on, just can't think of much else just now.

[SamuelofR247]

[Kaltern]

Ok, I've been working on this for a few hours, and I can only conclude the following:

Starting from the top...

They used the earths magnetic field, x the information was gathered and transmitted.

Keywords: Kryptos, Abscissa - polyalphabetic substitution?

MOD (4 tones) - 10 21 26 1 26 19 / 25 16 22 2 20 1 21 23 16 26 22 19 3

JUZAZSYPVBTAUWPZVSC

This is the main problem we have right now. Decoding this is most likely related to everything that follows.

Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie

MOD 100
(series of frequencies)

2,8,18,32,21,9,2 = U - Uranium - Element 92
2,8,18,32,24,8,2 = Pu - Plutonium - Element 94

Outside of consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things.
-Hertz

I think that the two quotes above are simply linked to getting those two elements. I don't see them having any other relevance.

MOD-
(hidden spetrascope image)-

5+5=10
FREEDOM=7
5+5=10

Kenneth, what's the frequency? - REM? Rather?

Linear, not algorithmic

It's this last bit. It's possible that both quotes are simply pointing to the spectroscope picture, frequencies and linear to give direction on how to see them, but it may be something more.

Either way, all the resulting decrypted information must be linked to the first cipher.

[Nighthawk]

In thinking of it, and maybe this has mentioned before...

If you take the line "FREEDOM=7", the "7" being the number of letters in the word "FREEDOM" ... When I look at "5+5=10", it makes me think that we may be looking for two five-letter words.

[Kaltern]

[Bender6]

[Doomofman]

I assume we've concluded that it's not encoded using any of the methods used in the Kryptos (or at least not with it's key words)?

And I'd imagine the Spectrum hint has to be more than a date... Even if it was the 5/5/10 thing that people are speculating that still leaves us with Freedom = 7....

Almost 3am here.... Many people still working at this?

[Bender6]

[Doomofman]

[Bender6]

[SamuelofR247]

[Bender6]

Samuel,

Last night I wasn't sure about your columnar Transposition theory. In a less sleep deprived state, it makes a lot more sense. There is a question about this idea that is bothering me.

I did some quick reading on the Kryptos Wiki about the K3 solution. When discussion the solution, it was said that a transposition system was used, but the exact nature of the system is unknown, although there are several common theories about the exact transposition system used. This leads me to my concern. In the past, the clue gave us the EXACT cipher system to be used. If we use K3 as the model for this cipher, then we have a puzzle that is far more vague. The counter-point to this is that this puzzle is more complex then the others, so forcing us to do serious work for a solution is not impossible to imagine.

[SamuelofR247]

Well, and keep in mind that I obviously haven't solved anything with the K3 "Columnar" Transposition Cipher 'cause I'd have posted it here immediately lol....

It's more of a suggestion that just kinda comes on the heels of "They used the earths magnetic field x....." and where it could lead us. I don't wanna be responsible for anyone's brain frying other than mine! Which, coincidentally... happened already a while back....

[degravedi]

Again, I leave only a few meager tidbits before bed.

The Marie Curie quote comes from Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde.
Searching for it in google books gave me this page.
If you look at page 329 it defines:
curie (obviously named after the scientist) as a unit of radioactivity.
and rem* an acronym for "roentgen equivalent man ", a unit of of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation that accounts for biological effectiveness. Or from Wiki: The röntgen (roentgen) equivalent in man or rem is a traditional historical unit of radiation dose equivalent.

*What's the frequency, Kenneth? is a song by the band R.E.M.

I don't know where that gets us, but I thought it should at least be noted along with all this other information going around.