If we can't find a separator, it's rather pointless to decode as Morse. If it was a short repeating message it could be done, but this one does not seem to repeat in a long time.
Fact of the matter is that a repeating pattern should emerge if nothing in the environment changes. If the 5hr audio cut does not have a repeating pattern then I'd have to conclude that the tones are either randomly generated or that the barnacle is communicating a ens novel (or some other overly long duration message).
All the known digits of Pi. That wouldn't repeat.
Well it would, but it would take 421,740 years to record it then another 21,087 years to listen back at x20 speed. =p
Really any transcendental number would work.Well it would, but it would take 421,740 years to record it then another 21,087 years to listen back at x20 speed. =p
Then the question would be "Why would the dev's waste their time implementing a puzzle that noone would solve?" And I doubt the dev's would throw away their time like that.Really any transcendental number would work.
Ahh the good ol' ''MB Is and/or is not here. It MEANS something!''![]()
Really any transcendental number would work.
Well with the barnacle sounds there's no obvious separator at x20.
But at normal speed there seems to be loads of different sounds in there, perhaps some things are lost when sped up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISGI7VcIjc
Part of me can't help but wonder that MB chiming in to announce he won't say anything is a kind of tacit confirmation there is something to this.
The problem with binary is that even if we get the 1s and 0s what then? If it is a number that's ok. We can probably decipher the number. But if it is symbols... what table should we use? ASCII? UTF-8/16/32? Unicode?Or it could be a tacit confirmation that the people pointing out that it is likely nothing have already figured that out.
Or it could be a hint that while it isn't morse code we have found SOME sort of binary signal
Speaking of which, has anyone tried converting the dots and dashes into zeroes and ones and then into binary bytes? Tricky, because we wouldn't know where the start of the byte is... but at least there'd only be 8 different possible start points to try. Might be able to do this a bit later.
I have regenerated and have thought about this whole message stuff in the morse...
It is very problematic to find fitting words in that whole morse nonsense along with the trillions of possible combinations.
Could be intentional in the sound generation, or it could be dependent on the recording location. Perhaps some of the sounds are emanating from the spires, not the central structure. In that case the L/R channels could indicate direction, and would change based on your position. Would be pretty awesome if the L/R channel sound changed when one of the meta-alloys was harvested.Just a thought regarding the Barnacle sounds, but perhaps it has been mentioned before - I noticed that there are differences and coincidences in the L and R channel sounds (hope that the cmdr who recorded the file wasn't moving). This has to mean something, or not?
Problematic how? I think this just seems to add credence to the idea that patterns are being found in what is either noise, or another type of non-morse signal, and that while the signal might be of interest, morse is a red herring here.
We still haven't found anything longer than the initial fragment, and my red herring senses are tingling hard.