First off, I am new to the investigation and this community.
First off, I am new to the investigation and this community. I have a lot of catching up to do. If my posting about things that are old news to the rest of your are inappropriate clutter, let me know and I will refrain. But I'm curious how some of the early puzzles were solved so that if I run into those encoding techniques again, I'll have an idea of what to try.
Trying to catch up on my investigation, I ran into an old aerial photo of El Cosmico, a lodging area with trailers, tents and teepees in Marfa, TX, with a QR code on it, which my trusty Barcado app decoded.
Did anyone go to El Cosmico in Marfa? Was anything found at that location?
The QR code itself was just a series of numbers 124 characters long:
7353028343028343027353029343022313130263730243830283430263031331303620343820383420373620313132203439203537203438203438203537
I experimented with breaking this into two digit sequences to see if an obvious code pattern would emerge (why? 2 and 4 factor into 124, 3 doesn't, and I'm used to using two digits (ASCII) and 4 (Unicode) to represent other characters), and one of the things that jumped out at me was the sequence is a palindrome - the same backwards and forwards.
The second half looked promising. I've done work in digital publishing, so I know that 20 is the ASCII code for a space and that the digits start with a 3, so this looks like another series of numbers:
31 30 36 20 34 38 20 38 34 20 37 36 20 31 31 32 20 34 39 20 35 37 20 34 38 20 34 38 20 35 37
Reduces to 106 48 84 76 112 49 57 48 48 57.
Assuming these want to be (ASCII) letters, I converted from decimal to hexadecimal and looked up the values in the Windows character map:
6A 30 54 4C 70 31 39 30 30 39
ASCII:
j0TLp19009
gibberish. OK, but we started with a palindrome, so what if we flip it?
90091pLT0j
gibberish.
So questions are: 1) What am I missing? And, 2) Was anything found at Marfa?
Trying to catch up on my investigation, I ran into an old aerial photo of El Cosmico, a lodging area with trailers, tents and teepees in Marfa, TX, with a QR code on it, which my trusty Barcado app decoded.
Did anyone go to El Cosmico in Marfa? Was anything found at that location?
The QR code itself was just a series of numbers 124 characters long:
7353028343028343027353029343022313130263730243830283430263031331303620343820383420373620313132203439203537203438203438203537
I experimented with breaking this into two digit sequences to see if an obvious code pattern would emerge (why? 2 and 4 factor into 124, 3 doesn't, and I'm used to using two digits (ASCII) and 4 (Unicode) to represent other characters), and one of the things that jumped out at me was the sequence is a palindrome - the same backwards and forwards.
The second half looked promising. I've done work in digital publishing, so I know that 20 is the ASCII code for a space and that the digits start with a 3, so this looks like another series of numbers:
31 30 36 20 34 38 20 38 34 20 37 36 20 31 31 32 20 34 39 20 35 37 20 34 38 20 34 38 20 35 37
Reduces to 106 48 84 76 112 49 57 48 48 57.
Assuming these want to be (ASCII) letters, I converted from decimal to hexadecimal and looked up the values in the Windows character map:
6A 30 54 4C 70 31 39 30 30 39
ASCII:
j0TLp19009
gibberish. OK, but we started with a palindrome, so what if we flip it?
90091pLT0j
gibberish.
So questions are: 1) What am I missing? And, 2) Was anything found at Marfa?
Marfa is linked to Misty Hannah and potentially others - not sure about the decoding break down you shared (meaning if others did that) - this page needs to be updated - https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:marfa_tx?s[]=marfa but I know there has been discussion about the Marfa Lights and a few other discussions -
ReplyDeleteMisty mentions N'Zeer and Marfa in this post - https://plus.google.com/u/0/104253779462149704457/posts/TnsC9ion8vc
Here is some backinfo on where the Marfa items began to be known - https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:timeline:11_2012#nov_9_2012
there is a bit more about Marfa here - https://niantic.schlarp.com/documents:3anomalies
and some info on the QR code here - https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:qr_codes
JoJo Stratton thanks for the Marfa links, I'll read those tonight. Still working through vol. 1 of the Ingress Files, so some of that may be beyond me.
ReplyDeleteThat last link you sent had the missing pieces of my attempt to decode the message. 90091 was supposed to look like googl (my brain is perhaps too literal to have made that jump!) and apparently goo.gl is a URL abbreviator (which I guess I've seen before but never thought about it). The URL links to an audio file.
goo.gl/pLT0j
Yup, you got it. Here's a link the the wiki's QR page in case you haven't seen it yet. Also, welcome! https://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:qr_codes?s[]=qr&s[]=code
ReplyDeleteIf you have any specific questions pertaining to Marfa or the QR Code let me know. I'm very familiar and have had lots of hands on experience with both ;)
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