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  • Final Transmission

    04/29/2014 at 19:08 • 15 comments


     You found me!

  • Transmission #03

    04/15/2014 at 07:00 • 28 comments

     Confirm launch site.

  • Transmission #02

    04/08/2014 at 07:00 • 74 comments

     Confirm receipt of transmission. Over.

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Kernelpanic wrote 04/23/2014 at 03:25 • point
so far I have enjoyed these puzzles, but I don't have mincraft. I am not happy that I need MC to solve the rest of the puzzles. I don't have MC.

From the image for Transmission 4 we have an ip and port number: 50.112.128.47 25565 which is a minecraft server. no surprise given the minecraft skin found in transmission 3.

From inside the game Major Tom sends some diary mesages (I guess). Someone helpfully posted these. One is: "ex appiars i hazi s{exchih xdi xderh anh joyrxd hexa leni" I solved it as a cryptoquote (simple substituion cipher) but it can also be solved by swapping two of the bits in each ascii letter.

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Sy Bernot wrote 04/23/2014 at 04:58 • point
Ditto here. I saw a spreadsheet of resistor values and locations and that really got my imagination going....you know what they say about Violet :)
Sounds like its probably a big schematic.
Pics?

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Kernelpanic wrote 04/23/2014 at 05:27 • point
@Sy Bernot: perhaps a schematic of Bob Widlar's u709? as referenced in one of Major Tom's diary/journal entries.

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Hackaday wrote 04/23/2014 at 05:41 • point
We might be able to help with getting access to the MC. Just send an email to projects-contact@hackaday.com.

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Kernelpanic wrote 05/01/2014 at 00:19 • point
Once I had access to MC all was forgiven. It was pretty impressive.

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mikeneiderhauser wrote 04/23/2014 at 02:55 • point
We found you!

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gamaral wrote 04/19/2014 at 05:34 • point
text binary to hex with vim, hex to raw binary using xxd, raw binary to qr code using the gimp.

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fl@C@ wrote 04/19/2014 at 03:54 • point
text to ascii to qr and scanned with phone.. :)

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cbaket wrote 04/09/2014 at 07:55 • point
1- hex to ascii
2- simple notepad++ edit to get the qr

1- I'm floating in a most peculiar way
2- Planet earth is blue and there's nothing i can do

?¿?

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cbaket wrote 04/09/2014 at 08:02 • point
David Bowie Space oddity

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Kristopher Marciniak wrote 04/08/2014 at 21:50 • point

http://imgur.com/a/Bxvhr

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scott wrote 04/08/2014 at 10:20 • point
What the original image above is supposed to look like
http://www.absurda.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/destaque-400x416.jpg

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Blue Ice wrote 04/07/2014 at 05:02 • point
Does anyone here have a pair of Red/Blue 3D glasses?

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x41 wrote 04/08/2014 at 12:06 • point
i do and i checked. nothing suspicious

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Blue Ice wrote 04/07/2014 at 05:00 • point
Noticed it was a QR code after a simple highlight in Leafpad. Replaced all 0s with box characters, removed spaces, replaced all 1s with spaces. Scaled image to be square, put in online QR code tester. Nice little puzzle :)

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Deviza wrote 04/06/2014 at 23:13 • point
Spotted the QR fairly fast (been looking at alot of ASCII art lately). Using VIM removed spaces, turned '0' into 2 spaces and '1' into 2 U+2588 characters. Scanned with QR reader.

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Firefly wrote 04/05/2014 at 00:39 • point
This puzzle has been driving me CRAZY!
Excel Conditional Formatting to QR Reader

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kline wrote 04/03/2014 at 10:13 • point
##hackaday @ chat.freenode.net :6667

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kline wrote 04/03/2014 at 08:04 • point
I'm mostly scared that there's a 01 on the badge

surely not >9 transmissions to come!

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tfx2 wrote 04/03/2014 at 09:04 • point
I'm thinking that the 01 on the badge is linked to the '1.' hidden in the profile picture. I think this is supposed to be a clue / way to verify that we discovered the answer to the current transmission.

Given the number of days before the deadline, and that a new transmission is expected only six days before, we're probably not going to get into the double digits.

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sriram wrote 04/03/2014 at 05:51 • point
The Javascript file contains the vector 3D animation code from http://threejs.org/

Documentation:
http://threejs.org/docs/
https://threejsdoc.appspot.com/doc/index.html

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Servo wrote 04/03/2014 at 05:48 • point
so HAD is launching

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sriram wrote 04/03/2014 at 04:27 • point
Possible keys:
1. I'm floating around here in a most peculiar way
2. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Question: Which algorithm to use?

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richardginus wrote 04/02/2014 at 20:02 • point
This is a better formatted version of the javascript file:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9941966

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Mathieu Stephan wrote 04/02/2014 at 19:47 • point
qrcode for the win!

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andyhull wrote 04/02/2014 at 19:43 • point
Is there some sort of Red Shift - Blue Shift reference going on here... we have stars shifted by different amounts in the different colour channels, the amount varies across the image...

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sriram wrote 04/03/2014 at 04:20 • point
I am sure that there is some information hidden (Steganography) in those pixels. But, a PNG file should not show such shifts. I have seen color degradation in BMP images though.

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kline wrote 04/03/2014 at 08:07 • point
sriram: I don't think the degradation is degradation per se. I think it's both on purpose and the method behind the data encoded in it.

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tfx2 wrote 04/02/2014 at 10:07 • point
Interesting coincidence, though I don't believe it's related to the ARG. http://russianspacenews.com/kosmos-1242-satellite-to-enter-the-atmosphere-on-april-28-2014/

More information on the Tselina-D ELINT satellites: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/tselinad.htm

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