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Notes before you start speculating/reading:

THE BABEL SITE IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SOURCE, DON'T REFER TO IT. It is fan made


aperturescience.com HASN'T BEEN UPDATED SINCE '07, STOP USING IT!


Do not call the BBS numbers. All your doing is slowing the people who can actually connect to it down. So stop it.

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Okay so as we know or should know today valve released a sneaky update that added radio transmissions to the original Portal radios. The radios only appear after you've completed the campaign and have the heartbreaker achievement.

You can see it here :



Well there are 26 total radio transmissions codenamed "Dinosaur"

FP has been at work decoding these sounds as much as they could. We've learned that you must decode them using SSTV, a program used to turn sounds into images.

So far we have these :

ThisIsPain has translated the morse codes from Dinosaur 1, 5, 12, and 17.

Images converted from sound by using SSTV Updated As Of 3/2/10 at 9:31 PM EST for reason : Higher Quality

dinosaur2


dinosaur3


dinosaur4


dinosaur6


dinosaur7


dinosaur8


dinosaur9


dinosaur10


dinosaur11


dinosaur13


dinosaur14


dinosaur15


dinosaur16


dinosaur18


dinosaur19


dinosaur20


dinosaur21


dinosaur22


dinosaur23


dinosaur24


dinosaur25


dinosaur26


On number 3 and 10 is a string of numbers, a BBS code. Or a phone number. Here, our fellow FP'er lilcheeselad has searched the phone number decoded by ZPR23 from steam forums


I'll update the OP when something new is discovered
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Update: 3/2/10 9:22 PM EST

The BBS was updated as it went back up today. We managed to snag a few images. See them below :


Update: 3/2/10 6:27 PM EST

shakadamus has found a nice colored version of the picture below. For comparison purposes both will be kept in the OP. You can see it here (Note : Updated old image) :



Update: 3/2/10 4:08 PM EST

Hooded sniper has cleaned up the infamous sound clip retrieved from calling the BBS code.

Update : 3/2/10 2:00 PM EST

People have been connecting to the phone number above with a modem and received results, here are the images compiled together:



Update: 3/1/10

ThisIsPain has translated the morse codes from Dinosaur 1, 5, 12, and 17.

http://wtfcountry.com/download/file.php?id=284

This is starting to get interesting, hopefully it relates to Episode 3 or Portal 2

The area code 485 is in Seattle, which is where valve HQ is located

Edited:

Don't know if that's been mentioned yet

Info Dump

Fizzle reversed, barely make out what seems to sound like, "we need him alive" or "still alive"

Creepy shit

Also, some of my findings got into a megathread

Do you want the image for the series of 32 images in order?

Should we keep our main discussion in the other thread?

ThisIsPain has translated the morse codes, update the op.

Morse codes:

Dinosaur1: INTERIOR TRANSMISSION ACTIVE EXTERNAL DATA LINE ACTIVE MESSAGE DIGEST ACTIVE


Dinosaur5: 9E107D9D372BB6826BD81D3542A419D6


Dinosaur12: SYSTEM DATA DUMP ACTIVE USER BACKUP ACTIVE PASSWORD BACKUP ACTIVE



Dinosaur17: BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEEEP BEEP BEEP
Becomes .-.. --- .-.. Or...."LOL"

I bet valve is laughing their asses off about this whole thing

I swear to god.

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=tyY8RzwP7Uk

In the reversed version, you can hear "YOU ARE NEXT"

Makol says it's a math problem.
A BIG MATH PROBLEM.

Should put the morse codes before the images.

Here's someone dialing up the BBS number from the Steam forums: http://www.supload.com/listen?s=tyXqpe

Dinosaur5 is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Valve is trolling us.

They "HAVE" been trolling us.

Noted, gonna fix now.

Am I the only one seeing what seems to be the pose stricken by the two figures in the "A Trusted Friend in Science" poster in the upper right corner?

You missed the 4 transmission that were morse code.... riiiiight back at the start :P I know they were looking like nothing, but if it's a complete first post you were doing :P

EDIT: Nevermind, Ninja'd

I can't remember what exactly it is, but it's some sort of game developer's code that includes every letter of the alphabet in a single sentence.

It is a keyboarding class drill.

No... it's just an old sentence with them all, nothing to do with developers. It's used to test typewriters and fonts because it's easy to remember and it has all letters.

I just added them

We need an IRC channel, stat.

I'm going to try to get through to the phone number on HyperTerminal, though the only PC I have set up to do that atm sucks and has a battery life of ~20min.

no we dont

Better yet a steam group chat.

No AC Adapter?

I could swear when I heard that clip played backwards it said "eli is alive."


This was all planned from the start and when Glados sings Still Alive she is really talking about Eli.

On it for the steam group. I don't know what to make the image

I have a ventrilo if you guys want to use it

the portal logo but with a big ? over it

I have no idea where people keep hearing Eli from?

I have reversed it and i hear "we need him still alive."

Sweet, I haven't done something like this since Xi.

Right, name of the group ? I can't think of anything catchy.

All I heard was *maybe* "still alive," but I know how listening to things like this will make you hear things that you want to hear, and not what's actually there.

Seriously my 125 slot vent is empty if you guys want the info feel free to ask