[Janus Vesta]

HoodedSniper posted:

Much higher quality of the infamous clip with Thats Amazing in it, also listen around at 18 to the end, either alyx or judith is talking.

I still can't make out the words. :eng99:

[Snake31]

seano12 posted:

Can't believe you guys are still making breakthroughs 24 hours later.

It's actually been pretty stagnant ever since we got the ASCII images from the BBS number.

[Suttles]

any good finds?

[Stizzles]

is there an actual password for aperturescience.com? sorry if it's something everyone should know, but i don't.

[Flip pl]

seano12 posted:

Can't believe you guys are still making breakthroughs 24 hours later.

To have everything solved in one day we would have to obtain the mentioned CSI tools.

Plus I'm sure Valve will send more stuff through BBS.

[bettylovesbombs]

Killerhurtz posted:

Well guys, I proceeded to separate all three colors of dino18. I found something that may, or may not, be of interest:



Click for larger picture.

Notice how green seems to have less interference than red and blue? I'm thinking perhaps it has something to do with our case.

What do you think? Is it worth investigating?

Has anyone run the SSTV images through steganographic detection software? Considering the images themselves were already hidden it wouldn't be a stretch for valve to hide stuff in their hidden stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegano..._steganography

[stepat201]

I don't think we're going to learn anything until Valve reveals what this is. Probably at GDC.

[HoodedSniper]

Janus Vesta posted:

I still can't make out the words. :eng99:

Yeah but you can hear one of their voices. We need a FBI agent in here to like own these sound files.

[solid_jake]

solid_jake posted:

Has someone tried SSTVing that radio thing?

Stupid, I know, but who knows..

Repost.

Also updated the OP with the radio sound

[mike55]

What was discovered when i was gone?

[solid_jake]

bettylovesbombs posted:

Has anyone run the SSTV images through steganographic detection software? Considering the images themselves were already hidden it wouldn't be a stretch for valve to hide stuff in their hidden stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegano..._steganography

This.

[Wonky]

Right now about 40 valve employees are gathered around a computer screen laughing their asses off.

[Fippe]

solid_jake posted:

Has someone tried SSTVing that radio thing?

Stupid, I know, but who knows..

Which radio thing? If you mean the HL2 "Gman Radio noise" which sounds kind of creepy, no, it did not have SSTV info. At least when I checked it.

Edited:

I talked to a radio amateur in arts school I went to 3 hours ago, he said that SSTV information is usually between 12000-14000 hertz area in sound signals.

[Ghost_Zero]

I'm not done filtering it, but I wanted to remove some noise from the noise someone uploaded earlier. You can't make out much without turning your volume up, but Kleiner is definitely in there at 0:15.

[lafingman0]

bettylovesbombs posted:

Has anyone run the SSTV images through steganographic detection software? Considering the images themselves were already hidden it wouldn't be a stretch for valve to hide stuff in their hidden stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegano..._steganography

I tried running a few through a 3-bit color and a 1-bit black and white filter - didn't find anything... but it was just a paint.net plugin :P

[-TRASE-]

Flip pl posted:

Plus I'm sure Valve will send more stuff through BBS.

Yeah, EP3 for example.

[Mexican]

The ASCII are security cameras in the destroyed test chambers.

[Doug52392]

-TRASE- posted:

Yeah, EP3 for example.

We'll be able to download Episode 3 on a 9600bps dial-up modem quicker than its release.

[thisisnotanaccount]

Ghost_Zero posted:

I'm not done filtering it, but I wanted to remove some noise from the noise someone uploaded earlier. You can't make out much without turning your volume up, but Kleiner is definitely in there at 0:15.

All I could understand was "This is amazing!".

[Lord Ned]

-TRASE- posted:

Yeah, EP3 for example.

If you get the right username/password you get access to Ep3, TF3, L4D3, Duke Nukem Forever, CSS 2, etc.

The only catch is you have to download at 300 baud.

[Akasolidus]

I am late i am sorry :frown:.

[rundevil]

thisisnotanaccount posted:

All I could understand was "This is amazing!".

this. and i could hear it better in the original.

[Shugo]

Akasolidus posted:

Haven't seen this posted yet.

Been posted many times.

[Tk1138]

Akasolidus posted:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/120/memorandumscjohnsond.jpg Haven't seen this posted yet.

Its in the big image in the OP

[Wonky]

My steam update just froze at 43% It's related somehow.

[Kalkka]

Akasolidus posted:

Haven't seen this posted yet.

Shower of clocks, commencing in 3... 2... 1...

[LetsGroove]

I finally found the "This is amazing" part in all that clutter.

This is extremely interesting.

[Sirdangolot5]

It's probably already been done, but I've been working on da following:

01-
02-
03-+
04-9
05-
06-6
07-C
08-A
09-C
10-8
11-C
12-2
13-O
14-3
15-B
16-8
17-1
18-2
19-8
20-B
21-7
22-C
23-C
24-6
25-B
26-0
27-6
28-8
29-
30-+
31-F
32-
_ _ + 9 _ 6 C A C 8 C 2 0 3 B 8 1 2 8 B 7 C C 6 B 0 6 8 _ + F _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2

__+9_6CAC8C203B8128B7CC6B068_+F_

Some of the SSTV images are divided into 4 sections. Each one prominently features either a letter, a number, or a symbol. I've tried to string them all together, but some of them are too hopelessly lost in noise for me to figure out.

Can somebody pick up where I've left off?

[Mexican]

Sirdangolot5 posted:

It's probably already been done, but I've been working on da following:

01-
02-
03-+
04-9
05-
06-6
07-C
08-A
09-C
10-8
11-C
12-2
13-O
14-3
15-B
16-8
17-1
18-2
19-8
20-B
21-7
22-C
23-C
24-6
25-B
26-0
27-6
28-8
29-
30-+
31-F
32-
_ _ + 9 _ 6 C A C 8 C 2 0 3 B 8 1 2 8 B 7 C C 6 B 0 6 8 _ + F _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2

__+9_6CAC8C203B8128B7CC6B068_+F_

Some of the SSTV images are divided into 4 sections. Each one prominently features either a letter, a number, or a symbol. I've tried to string them all together, but some of them are too hopelessly lost in noise for me to figure out.

Can somebody pick up where I've left off?

Been done, then it was decoded to find the phone number.

[Tk1138]

I wonder if we're solving this faster then valve thought?

[Fippe]

Akasolidus posted:

Haven't seen this posted yet.

I even drew the overlay on that pic in the OP compilation.

[solid_jake]

Mexican posted:

The ASCII are security cameras in the destroyed test chambers.

This makes a lot of sense

[gman_freeman]

Valve are so badass

[LetsGroove]

What does the phone number lead to?

[Kalkka]

LetsGroove posted:

I finally found the "This is amazing" part in all that clutter.

This is extremely interesting.

This is way beyond interesting, this is amazing.

[solid_jake]

Tk1138 posted:

I wonder if we're solving this faster then valve thought?

Valve just wants it solved

[Pappi_man]

This is one hell of a way to market their Episode 3. Can't wait to see more.

[Wonky]

solid_jake posted:

Valve just wants it solved

Could you imagine if some shit like this was handed to the Call of Duty community? They would just yell "OMFG WHY CNT I GET ACHIVMNT IW U GAY" on the forums for a few days.

[blerb]

About the whole "this is amazing" thing... If Alyx really is crying, and that really is Kleiner, why the hell would he say it's amazing? It's probably something like horrifying or terrifying... I can't see it being 'amazing' given the circumstances.

Just my two cents anyways.

[Fippe]

solid_jake posted:

This makes a lot of sense

The fish? Science? Big rings? No, it's GLaDOS backup data. That's why you log in with name backup and password backup.