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Just an observation on the satellite tracking sites.
The n2yo.com shows the satellite in the middle of the south Pacific, but the Myriad Dash Board show it in south eastern Australia. 
I think it’s just matter of how quickly the site updates the coordinates.
N2yo.com has always worked form me.
I have it just passing the Australian coast, heading North.
Just passing Papua New Guinea now.
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Just checked, shows the same thing
An interesting read, looking at radiowave sounds and cepheid variable stars
As a byproduct of its extraordinarily successful hunt for exoplanets, NASA’s Kepler space telescope also precisely tracked the brightness of 150,000 stars nearly continuously for four years. These include two kinds of variable stars known as Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars. These stars regularly brighten and dim when they swell and shrink in size, depending on the way heat and pressure rise and fall within them.
“Cepheids tend to be big and very much brighter than the sun, while RR Lyrae stars tend to be a bit smaller than the sun but still brighter,” said study co-author John Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
A few years ago, Learned and his colleagues began investigating Cepheids for an unusual reason — to see if aliens might use them to send messages in what they called a “galactic Internet.” Firing high-energy particle beams at a Cepheid variable could heat its core and make it brighten early in a way the researchers suggested could be used to encode data.
“In the course of this cuckoo study, we found stars that behaved in funny ways,” Learned said.
Most variable stars appear to brighten and dim following just one frequency, such as every two hours or every three days. However, Learned said that up to about 10 percent of Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars pulsate according to two different frequencies, much like a drummer tapping two different beats.
Now, surprisingly, scientists have found that the ratio between these double beats in many of these variable stars is strangely near the golden ratio, a number that Renaissance artists such as Leonardo da Vinci often thought embodied ideal beauty.
“This is a nice example of science in action — in looking for something wild like extraterrestrial communication, we found something nobody anticipated in these stars,” Learned said. “Where this will lead we do not know, but it’s not a boring result.” [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
The golden ratio is a number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. Specifically, the golden ratio is equal to about 1.618, although like pi, its digits go on and on, theoretically into infinity.
The ancient Greeks knew about the golden ratio, which is also called the golden mean and the divine proportion. In art, the golden ratio has arguably been found in monuments such as the Great Pyramid of Giza. For instance, the ratio of the length of each of its base’s sides to its height is about 1.5717, close to the golden ratio. The golden ratio can also be found throughout nature — in the way nautilus shells curve, and how seeds pack onto strawberries, and the shapes of hurricanes and spiral galaxies.
Like pi, the golden ratio is irrational. This does not mean these numbers do not listen to reason — in mathematics, an irrational number is one that cannot be written as a ratio of whole numbers such as 1 or 2 or 3. The golden ratio is actually the most irrational number, as it is the least able to be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers.
The scientists focused on the RR Lyrae star KIC 5520878, a blue-white star about 16,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. They found it pulsed in brightness in two frequencies, one 4.05 hours long and the other 6.38 hours long. The ratio between these frequencies is nearly the golden ratio.
So far, the researchers have discovered a few dozen variable stars that also follow this unusual pattern, which they dub “golden stars.” The patterns that emerge from these pulsations have what are known as strange attractors, meaning they have a fractal geometry — never-ending patterns that look the same at every scale, from the smallest to the largest. For instance, natural phenomena such as coastlines, mountains, clouds, broccoli, lungs and galaxies may look random in structure but in fact are fractal.
Systems with strange attractors are often chaotic in nature, meaning the way they evolve is very sensitive to their initial conditions. Over time, it becomes virtually impossible to predict how chaotic systems like the weather will evolve, a phenomenon that has been termed the “butterfly effect” (because a butterfly beating its fragile wings in the rainforest could theoretically set a storm in motion thousands of miles away).
However, these variable stars appear to be nonchaotic strange attractors, whose behavior lies somewhere between consistently repeating patterns and chaos. Strange nonchaotic attractors have never before been seen in nature, only in lab experiments involving
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Thank you! I’m about 3 days trying to find this.
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OK, I messed up. I was tracking the other SJ16 satellite. 
Sorry for the confusion.
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Passing Barrow, Alaska now. One of our members - @zsigmond, lives there.
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It’s going to miss Europe completely this pass. That takes some doing. Europe’s a big place.
Now here’s a thought I need help on. I have been looking closely at the sound files and noticed that five of them have clear breaks or clip edits at certain times. This could be important I don’t know.
Below are the five audio files.mp4 in a stack.
The breaks are indicated in seconds for the numbered files out of the 27 we have received.
- 6qhs4a3jiqzso8zipy3822n7412xyv.mp4 (24secs)
- npifvp8doon3dc9h8zqoppk2hqnqqm.mp4 (22Secs)
- kwxovao9r9rk2ng4ecs5ta6u90ufzp.mp4 (10 Secs)
- 2chnxeok8csnc6kikg8zgod8t2zsyc.mp4 (6 Secs)
- 5x3rhk01khsl1b93vkjnc1vpbx2lfk.mp4 (5 Secs)
However in circling the edits visually I then thought the layout reminded me of a musical staff. This got me thinking what if we are trying to get a password that is the name of a tune… And somehow the positioning of beats or edits or connections between the final Fibonacci beat sequence indicates some musical note positions?
This led me to discover something call the Parsons Code Wikipedia explains:
The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons code for melodic contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion — movements of the pitch up and down.
Parsons Code example:
Beethoven’s 8th Symphony,
Each pair of consecutive notes is coded as “U” (“up”) if the second note is higher than the first note, “R” (“repeat”) if the pitches are equal, and “D” (“down”) otherwise. Rhythm is completely ignored. Thus, the first theme from Beethoven’s 8th symphony that is shown above would be coded DUUDDDURDRUUUU. Note that the first note of any tune is used only as a reference point and does not show up explicitly in the Parsons code. You can enter an asterisk (*) in the Parsons code field for the first note.
In his “Directory of Classical Themes” (Spencer Brown, 1975), D. Parsons showed that this simple encoding of tunes, which ignores most of the information in the musical signal, can still provide enough information for distinguishing between a large number of tunes.
Now I am wondering if someone cleverer than me can find a number pattern from what clues we have to maybe find a binary pattern perhaps? Or something that places beats into a Parson’s Code to give us perhaps a tune, or a name of a composer for a password?
Also remember the melody/tune from the Spielberg Film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
I hope this helps and if anyone has better musical ability or software that can adapt binary to music or a midi thing maybe we have another idea here to solve this?
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It’s the countdown bar.
As the videos were released, each one had a little gap in the audio. As successive tracks became available, the gap moved one second nearer to the start of the file. When it got to the end, the sequence stopped, and we got the file with the Fibonacci numbers.
The gaps were a kind of countdown.
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Hmmn. The breaks above though are visually (and importantly audibly) clear in Audacity I couldn’t see any other obvious breaks/ edits in any other file. Not without as you say found with Spectroography software (or whatever it’s called.) Puzzling.
I did note that 1-1-2-3-5-8 or 112358 as a number in binary is 11011011011100110
and wondered if that could hint at a Parsons code tune?
Maybe I am clutching at straws here. Maybe it could turn out to be the tune “I Lost My Heart To a Starship Trooper” by Hot Gossip & Sarah Brightman. eek.
I’m pretty sure the “breaks” you are talking about is what everyone else has been referring to as “blips” The first file has a blip at 25 seconds, the second file’s blip at 24 seconds, and so on. In Audacity, if you click on the track name to the left of the graph area, you can select spectogram. You can see the blip represented as a small rectangle at the bottom
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ooh never knew that could be done! 
I’m not saying you’re wrong. At the moment, I have no idea what the answer is. But I do know that there was a small gap in each of the original files. It started out in the far right of the spectrograph, and moved one second to the left with each successive file that was released.
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Ooh Lol! I’m saying I can’t work it out lol and hoping you can do all the work for me and come to the rescue haha!!
I’m convinced you and several others have brains the size of planets. Mine is more of a grain of sand lost in space.
Actually mine is more of the size of a potato, now I am thinking of Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind sculpting his potato on a plate. Gee the things an ARG leads to late at night…
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The answer of course @Polyphemus as we all know is (drum roll) 42!
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Well, on that note, I will take my leave for today. It’s 12.45, and time I was in bed.
Goodnight, everybody.
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