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[UPDATE] Braegen14
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cody2198
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I was wondering the Breagen 14 are disk drives, could the sound that we are hearing is the braegen 14 trying to connect to say a Soundstream Digital Tape Recorder. It be like the same sound an old 56k modem made when it tried to connect to the internet.

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jiblington
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surely it would be too much of a coincidence that the sound of it connecting would play a tune that matches the golden ratio

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severrin
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I feel like they're still waiting on us.... like we need to figure out what device they're asking for...

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comadarkvale
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What comes in mail is next step I believe.The sound file could just be something to play with till coupon returns something.
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severrin
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I probably wont register here for a while, I want to see how in depth it gets. I got dragged into that ethan haas stuff when cloverfield hit. lol I wanna make sure i stay on the right page.

I haven't sent it off yet, snail mail or email? I'm trying to get up to speed but there are so many threads i'm getting lost. lol

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severrin
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I just did a search on poppeteers, and I found a site that had the 1st page inverted and super imposed onto the 2nd page, all the markings on the ad page has landed on certain words on the second, however i can't get a clear view of the words.

Trout me if you will but has anyone else tried this yet?

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severrin
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alright i gave in, and I was able to get the images layed over each other. these are the words i found and worked out. "No certainty if a live may be after us We go underground."

I take no credit because the site I found did it first.

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comadarkvale
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severrin wrote:
I probably wont register here for a while, I want to see how in depth it gets. I got dragged into that ethan haas stuff when cloverfield hit. lol I wanna make sure i stay on the right page.

I haven't sent it off yet, snail mail or email? I'm trying to get up to speed but there are so many threads i'm getting lost. lol
send snail mail include completed maze and send asap
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comadarkvale
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Something fishy this way comes Smile
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severrin
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oh yea definitely.... I'm eager to crack this thing open.

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RasGold
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Viral is as Viral Does ....

severrin wrote:
oh yea definitely.... I'm eager to crack this thing open.

The Phrase Finder wrote:
Round and 'round she goes ... and where she stops nobody knows ...


OT: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/47/messages/150.html


An ARG usually follows not much in the way of the reality surrounding a conceptual piece of work; it is a form of distraction ... A way to gather user information/interest in a particular event and distract the "followers" from what is really in the works.

Don't get me wrong. Alternate Reality Gaming is (and has been) a very entertaining way to pass the time until the final product is revealed to its audience.

This new viral is very ingenuous as to what we already know about "Internet Viral."

The Super 8 trailer is obviously geared to tween-somethings who are familiar with both Spielberg's and Abrams' works, as well as those who feel they are "in-the-know" when it comes to cracking mysterious codes etc ...

We were promised "something new" and this is what we have been given.

Even I have made mistakes on this one ...

Give it time.

Remember the first clue: Stop posting publicly. I can answer your questions. I have proof. >>>>

Umm ... It looks like a LOT of folks have been posting publicly. And we are all being watched/followed/whatever.
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jiblington
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im not sure how this helps but ive been trying to play around with the audio file and im sure youve all noticed theres a fair amount of static/white noise in the background but on the very last sound it cuts out half way through the noise, ive tried cancelling out the white noise on the rest of it but as i suspected no difference but a clearer sound. sorry if this has been covered before

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SeekerX
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jiblington wrote:
im not sure how this helps but ive been trying to play around with the audio file and im sure youve all noticed theres a fair amount of static/white noise in the background but on the very last sound it cuts out half way through the noise, ive tried cancelling out the white noise on the rest of it but as i suspected no difference but a clearer sound. sorry if this has been covered before

The nature of the noise is strange. It is static, yes. But it is not white noise, nor is it any other "common" noise or tape- or record-noise. I posted about that on page 25 of this thread along with a pic of a frequency analysis of the noise. I tried to find graphs that roughly look the same but couldn't really find any. The nearest hit was "thermal-induced" noise but I can't tell for sure.
The ending of the soundfile is strange, too. It almost sounds like an analog tape that would be stopped not aprubtly but in kind of slow-mo (sorry, bad english here, don't really know how to express myself on this). But that is not what is really going on here in my opinion, as it does not really sound that way. I learned audio engineering and worked in that branch for about 5 years, so I do have a little experience with analog as well as digital sound recording equipement. To me it rather sounds like there's something wrong on the digital side of this recording. But I couldn't tell what exactly caused this weird ending.
gefenm11 already pointed out (on page 30) that there are slight differences in the "note-portion" so this file really was a stereo recording and not a mono recording blown up to stereo. Recording something like this signal in stereo also seems strange to me. Mono would have done the job from an audio engineers point of view (I'll have a look at the SETI site to see if I can find some info on how they make their recordings). gefenm11 also pointed out that the noise-portion of the soundfile however is exactly the same on both channels. And that is "really exactly". OK, maybe I am nitpicking here but that is extraordinary in my opinion.
If you make your usual stereo recording you take two microphones of the same brand and model. They are almost exactly the same but only almost. It's not possible to build two mics that have the exact same frequency accuracy. Again, I would like to find out who made this recording and in what way. I just wouldn't know where to start looking for a clue though. The Wiki about the recording system attached to Braegen14 drives is not really of help on this issue.
In short: I think it's a recording of a broadcasted or otherwise transmitted signal. If the noise was part of the actual signal or if it is due to bad recording equipement is stil open, although I highly doubt the latter. But altogether I think the noise-portion is very important as it makes up almost 50% of this "message".

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Tracker_56
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I don't want this to seem an attempt to "outsmart" Seeker, but in the recording of stereo audio, environment also contributes to different tonal qualities between channels. The fact that the noise at the end of the file is so much more precise between channels makes me think the "noise" might be digital corruption as well.



EDIT: I tried opening the file up in a word processor and used a few different types of encoding to see if anything unusual came up. No dice. I thought I would bring it up thought just in case it sparks an idea for someone else that I hadn't thought of.


Is there a way to force an imaging program (i.e. Photoshop) to read the file and interpret it? I tried with no luck.

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SeekerX
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You're right Tracker. Room- acoustics would also alter the signal from channel to channel.
I'm sorry, I don't really get your second sentence, "The fact that the noise at the end of the file is so much more precise between channels makes me think the "noise" might be digital corruption as well." Would you explain that a little more?
And just to clarify: with "noise" I was talking about the generell noise between the notes.

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