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Post by agnesdei on Oct 29, 2021 9:18:43 GMT -5
I am throwing in the towel on this one. I spent far too many months hoping for a breakthrough that never came. I thought I could handle something as basic as a book cipher, but alas, my ironic username mocks me once again. I imagine I tried the correct text but was unable to figure out how to use it properly.
Niamo Speck = I'm on a Speck - This is a reference to the Voyager 1 'pale blue dot' photo. Carl Sagan's commentary on the photo included the line, "our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark".
Image #1: It includes an "A" for Apollo with 11 lines around it. There is also a waxing crescent moon, which was its state when Apollo 11 landed. I don't have a certain answer for what is possibly a cross or perhaps a lone 1/I intersecting the A.
Image #2: The exhaust fire and smoke from a rocket launch.
Image #3: The two eyes are craters. Rotate 90 degrees clockwise, the nose is the command module. Rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise, the teeth are the American flag that was planted on the moon.
Image #4: Rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise for a space helmet.
I'm not sure if the opals are meant to represent the Earth or mean something else. Note that Michael Collins was born in October (birthstone of October is Opals). Collins shot his own iconic photo of the Earth with the moon lander in the foreground.
My speculation is the prize could be a moon rock. I live in the southwest if it is located out this way.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Oct 29, 2021 19:24:01 GMT -5
Hi agnesdei: there are many potential anagrams of Niamo Speck, including one that you might argue had an Apollo connection -- "SMOKE PANIC." Or, it could just be an anagram of the puzzlemaker's true name (e.g. Mike Capson). With too many options, it can't be confidently solved in isolation. For all we know, it might not be an anagram at all.
As cool a prize as a Moon rock might be, I can confidently rule that out. Individuals don't "own" Apollo Moon rocks (they belong to the American people), so they can't be legally sold or given as a prize. But there is an exception: lunar meteorites. These *can* be bought, owned, sold and/or given away, and they can be quite expensive for larger specimens.
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Post by agnesdei on Oct 29, 2021 20:35:15 GMT -5
Agreed on your first point.
Lunar meteorites aren't moon rocks?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Oct 30, 2021 14:19:21 GMT -5
Agreed on your first point. Lunar meteorites aren't moon rocks? When you mentioned moon rocks in conjunction with Apollo, I figured you were referring to moon rocks brought back by the astronauts. A lot of people (most?) aren't familiar with lunar meteorites, but yes -- they are certainly moon rocks, just as Mars meteorites are Mars rocks. I have a few of each in my collection. |
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Post by tab on Nov 12, 2021 21:29:29 GMT -5
Hi
If you google opals and Apollo 11, here is what you find on the nasa page:
OPALS had its first success on June 5, a night pass lasting 148 seconds. It sent a copy of the same video (with the message, "Hello, World!") every 3.5 seconds. With traditional downlink methods, the 175-megabit video would take 10 minutes to transmit.
OPALS has also downlinked text. Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was transmitted multiple times from the payload to the ground in June.
In July, OPALS sent a high-definition video of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, honoring the 45th anniversary of that historic event. This was the first video uploaded from the ground to OPALS after launch.
"It took 12 hours to uplink the video using existing infrastructure, and OPALS downlinked it in just seven seconds," Abrahamson said.
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Post by agnesdei on Nov 12, 2021 21:34:02 GMT -5
The images are found in the numbers 6696. Reversed you get 69 (the Apollo 11 landing) and 66 (1866 is the first edition of Alice's Adventures). This could hint that the final message needs to be reversed or you have to work backwards.
There are 73 numbers in the cipher. Chapter 11 (Apollo 11) of Alice's Adventures contains 73 paragraphs.
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Post by agnesdei on Nov 12, 2021 21:40:11 GMT -5
Hopefully, one of you cipher-savants can put a bow on this one.
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Post by astree on Nov 13, 2021 8:06:08 GMT -5
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under the phrase word “the” is O(pal). THEO.. god, Apollo was a god
If you anagram OPAL OPAL (from the plaintext line) you get
APOLLO, PA which is in Armstrong County.
If I rcall, the northern most street is 11.
the video background beat is 11 11
There is a code that specifically mentions step, and Armstrong famous words were about the small step and giant leap
the video music is peaceful, and Apollo 11 landed in Sea of Tranqulity.
One of the 6 has square-triangle-square, STS (space shuttle).
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Post by agnesdei on Nov 13, 2021 17:37:04 GMT -5
. under the phrase word “the” is O(pal). THEO.. god, Apollo was a god If you anagram OPAL OPAL (from the plaintext line) you get APOLLO, PA which is in Armstrong County. If I rcall, the northern most street is 11. the video background beat is 11 11 There is a code that specifically mentions step, and Armstrong famous words were about the small step and giant leap the video music is peaceful, and Apollo 11 landed in Sea of Tranqulity. One of the 6 has square-triangle-square, STS (space shuttle). I have seen your posts around. You have an unrivaled ability to generate ideas and find possible connections. |
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Post by tab on Nov 14, 2021 8:06:38 GMT -5
The 11 connection is very interesting and thought provoking.
Just a quick reminder, Jenny quoted the creator as saying Southern States.
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Post by astree on Nov 14, 2021 14:21:53 GMT -5
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Thanks. The Apollo, PA connection is interesting (there is also a route 64 across the river, and the 64 is specially marked in the code). I'm not sure what is happening with all the possible Apollo 11 connections. A skip 11 I have on the source I am using gives letters for ASCENT (or A SCENT, as OPAL is a SCENT).
The state I have for this is a Southern state, as well as the directly coded town in that state. It is a ghost town, as it turns out. That was either a freaky coincidence, or intended. Not sure at this point.
The first 4 letters picked from the source i am using are NASA, not necessarily in that order.
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Post by liezel on Oct 26, 2022 8:06:44 GMT -5
I am also a big fan of the Apollo project NASA theory...
The scrabble value af the words lead me to 1969
A = 1
Piece = 9
New = 6
World = 9
of = 5
the = 6
of+the (5+6)= 11
so therefor 11/1969
Also when you turn the 64 with the star sideways it looks like the nasa logo. And the 9 that looks like a pirate , there is a photo from the Apollo 15 with those 3 identical dots. I had some other theories but I didn't write them all down (newbie mistake). Wondering if people are still looking...
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Post by agnesdei on Oct 30, 2022 11:24:34 GMT -5
I am also a big fan of the Apollo project NASA theory... The scrabble value af the words lead me to 1969 A = 1 Piece = 9 New = 6 World = 9 of = 5 the = 6 of+the (5+6)= 11 so therefor 11/1969 Also when you turn the 64 with the star sideways it looks like the nasa logo. And the 9 that looks like a pirate , there is a photo from the Apollo 15 with those 3 identical dots. I had some other theories but I didn't write them all down (newbie mistake). Wondering if people are still looking... Nice find! - Apollo (11) in 1969.
- (6/5) OPALS went live.
- Chapter (11) of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland contains the same number of paragraphs as there are numbers in the cipher.
Did you try using Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as your source text? I haven't returned to this hunt as I'm not a cipher guy. This appears to be a non-standard book cipher which likely makes it too difficult for me. |
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Post by agnesdei on Dec 2, 2022 22:30:03 GMT -5
A few more thoughts...
- If you assign number equivalents to the letters in the title and sum, you get 207. 7/20 was the date of the moon landing.
- If we take the third opal as an O, there are 7 words and 20 letters in the title.
- 7 is one of two single digit numbers not used in the cipher.
- 20 is one of two numbers in the 20s not used in the cipher.
- 11 is not used in the cipher
- 42 is not used in the cipher.
- The music in the video lasts for 42 seconds.
- Lewis Carroll frequently explored the number 42. The 1866 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland contains 42 illustrations, 42 lines in the preface poem (Chapter O?), Rule 42, and more.
- If we take the opal in "Of" and the third opal to be capitalized O's, we can arrive at two abbreviations using capital letters: WON=Wonderland and APO=Apollo
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Post by agnesdei on Dec 21, 2022 15:05:28 GMT -5
Niamo Speck's Youtube account is @niamospeck4476.
4476 = DDGF = "Re Re Sol Fa" in musical notes = Sun Rays Father
Sol merged into Apollo in later Roman mythology.
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