Just chiming in to say I’ve been watching this madness unfold since last night and this morning, first time this season I’ve been around for things happening.
Was out at friends so couldn’t join in officially but just wanted to thank you all again for your hard work, link sharing, image posting, brainstorming, theorising and all round problem solving, I can’t do most if any of what you guys do on my phone.
I’m torn, I want to play NMS right now but I’m afraid to take my eyes away from this forum!
You’re honestly the best online community I’ve been a part of since maybe 2003 (the year that, noticeably, the rest of the humans got online access and things started pandering to them), it’s a form of online community I thought had been made extinct with algorithms and social media and the perpetual hate machine that is the innernettes.
I know it’s been said before a million times here but it’s so nice to find a nice collective on the Internet
Okay enough brown nosing, my popcorn is ready, keep those posts coming, Citizen Scientists!
Simple time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other:
The lower numeral indicates the note value that represents one beat (the beat unit). This number is typically a power of 2.
The upper numeral indicates how many such beats constitute a bar.
For instance, 2
4 means two quarter-note (crotchet) beats per bar, while 3
8 means three eighth-note (quaver) beats per bar. The most common simple time signatures are 2
4, 3
4, and 4
4.
I sadly have to go out. Follow all your amazing puzzling later. Good luck! I think we are after an address or cipher… Gee could still be anything. Good luck I think you’re very close.
So we have 2 repeating files. Do they both have 7 beats or does one have 4 beats? And does anyone know the time signature of the video at the top of the thread? Is it 7/4?
I am starting to wonder if the file names have relevance. It seems each new pass brings another long string. We now have 16. If we get any more I will begin to doubt the file names being useful.
Having serious issues with internet. Trying to upload the list of 16 files
Everyone, we have made a discovery regarding the last six messages posted by atlas-loop16 over on Reddit.
At first, all six messages posted by atlas-loop16 showing the same 4 lines of lyrics from Tonite by LCD Soundsystem look all identical but upon copy/pasting these messages to different programs (eg = notepad, notepad++, Photoshop, etc) the messages change in weird ways.
Things like the font changes sizes in different places, weird fullstops and dashes inbetween words, even characters that can’t be produced by normal/common fonts.
Those messages have been deliberately altered to “look” normal in a browser but there are characters not shown/supported by them.
There appear to be two sound/video files, one with four obvious beats, and one with seven. I say obvious, because the seven beat file actually has more - some of the beats overlap each other, so it’s hard to tell exactly how many there are.
Some of the file drops A&S have done in the past have had randomly generated file names - i.e. the file name is different each time you access it. I don’t think that’s the case here, because the old files remain accessible. If the system were constantly generating new names for the same files, and not get rid of the old ones, it would eventually get full.
There may be an order in which the files are being released - but unless we track the satellite round the world continuously, and meticulously record every change, we’ll never know. If it releases a new file over the Antarctic, how could we tell?
The files I have downloaded are binary identical except for 1 character. I use the linux ‘cmp -b’ command. I don’t think there is any significance between the 4 I have downloaded, but I could be wrong.
