Ua: Solved it! :)

[scorpyon]

Ua: (Thought I) Solved it!

This is NOT a hoax (from my part) - this is seriously what I just discovered, from studying the sound byte sped up at 200%...

Studying just the note pitches from the sped up version (Which seems to repeat a phrase), you get the following :

.-.-..- .
.--.-..
.--..-.
-..--.


Morse code...
If you separate these out into letters, in the following pattern, you get:

. -. - . .-.
.- -. -..
.-- .. -.
- .. -- .



Which spells:

ENTER
AND
WIN
TIME

Probably way off here, but I thought that was kinda cool!

EDIT: Seems like this may have been a false alarm, due to the audio record I used from PC Gamer being a bit faulty or something. But, the hunt continues...

 

[EAGLE 5]

A DAMN ALIEN TIMESHARE PRESENTATION!??

you've got to be kidding me!?>

 

[Skuli]

Studying just the note pitches from the sped up version (Which seems to repeat a phrase), you get the following :

.-.-..- .
.--.-..
.--..-.
-..--.



If you separate these out into letters, in the following pattern, you get:

. -.-. .- .
.- -. -..
.-- .. -.
- .. -- .



Which spells:

ENTER
AND
WIN
TIME

Probably way off here, but I thought that was kinda cool!

There's been so much craziness surrounding the UA that I can't decide if this is a hoax or not.

 

[scorpyon]

Lol, I know, right?
But that's seriously what it spells out following the long "horn" as signifying "spaces" between the words...

I promise this is not a hoax from my part.
I used the sound byte from here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-community-analyses-mysterious-unknown-artefact/

- - - Updated - - -

I took the individual words, using the "Horn" as a separator.
Then played around with the high / low dots and dashes, experimenting with how they fit the translated lettering, etc.
This is what came from that.

 

[Raf von Thorn]

Lol, if in the end some minor faction company admits that it was all a commercial advertisement, we are going to wage war against it in every system they own, i swear!

 

[Ancipital]

A DAMN ALIEN TIMESHARE PRESENTATION!??

you've got to be kidding me!?>

Zombie Charles Stross approves

 

[Ulysses_W]

-.-- --- ..- / .... .- -.. / -- . / --. --- .. -. --. / - .... . .-. . / ..-. --- .-. / .- / ... . -.-. --- -. -..

:d

 

[scorpyon]

-.-- --- ..- / .... .- -.. / -- . / --. --- .. -. --. / - .... . .-. . / ..-. --- .-. / .- / ... . -.-. --- -. -..

:d

It is what it is.
It's funny how people think I'm hoaxing, though! Heh!
I wonder if this is how scientists feel when nobody believes them!

 

[Extreme_One]

Pretty sure someone has previously said that the audio file used in the PCGamer article was incomplete, so, if there is a morse message in there, there's still more to it ...

 

[scorpyon]

Hmm - where can I get a full sound byte from?
Anyone?

 

[Ipecac]

A DAMN ALIEN TIMESHARE PRESENTATION!??

you've got to be kidding me!?>

HAHA! Well done sir.

 

[Extreme_One]

Hmm - where can I get a full sound byte from?
Anyone?

Lot's of audio files here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=142912

 

[Eloy]

Hey guys, do you know what that could mean? ENTER AND WIN TIME. Maybe some interstellar teleporting stuff !?!?

 

[brumster]

Why on earth would an Alien race use morse code?!

 

[Midian27]

They wouldn't. People are really over thinking this whole thing.

 

[TruffleSnout]

Why on earth would an Alien race use morse code?!

Because Aliens didn't write the game. Frontier did. And they wanted players to have a chance of actually figuring it out with out the use of spectrum analyzers and PHd's in Computer Science.

 

[QBiG1970]

Why on earth would an Alien race use morse code?!

Because they already know we humans understand Morse-code... in their own language it will be too difficult, I think.

 

[Iori]

Maybe the message is FOR us.

 

[SteveLaw]

Because they already know we humans understand Morse-code... in their own language it will be too difficult, I think.

So they translated into English and THEN into Morse Code instead of just using English.

 

[glynie]

Problem is, where do you decide to put the spaces? Change the position of the spaces and you change the letters. You might be onto something though - the binary could be morse code...but without knowing where there is and isn't a space it's extremely difficult to tell.

I'd still say our best bet is to find repeating patterns first and stitch it all together like a jigsaw. Then we can decide if it's morse or binary or whatever.