I'm rather surprised to see I'll be the first to comment on the most intriguing article of the year. At least imho. Well, I'll gladly take the honors of being the first.
I've lived through many events that were foretold but proved to be false in the end. However, being different from your prediction, all of them lack scientific data so their stories (as a prediction in a written form) had fundamentally nothing real to be built upon. The data you have poked out of the Wow! dataset is, in my opinion, what an ETI would've expected from a species at our level of comprehension on a rather higher level. From whichever angle you look at it, this contact is at one point supposed to be shared with people. And what that moment arises, it should beshared by someone of your caliber, who apparently understands what and why is going on. Details are very important and there are many of them. Inducing panic should be avoided and I think you'd know how to deal with it...
Anyway, I should stick with what I wanted to say in the first place. I really love this intrigue you've managed to canvas with words. Adding to it all the physical and psyche details, plus the data from the real thing, makes the whole story a grand opening to a movie spectacle, so to say. Imagining it may even happen as foretold, makes me feel the chill in advance.
I also just accidentally figured out that you have that talent within you regardless how the prediction plays out. The chill talent :)
Yes - I have been surprised myself at how uninterested people seem to be whenever I've mentioned all of this. I've not just proven the signal is artificial but that it's a non-human intelligence, which should be the most profound realisation in the world. I'm trying my best not to be arrogant here but it seems that I'm the only person on the entire planet who has identified and deciphered this (obviously that makes me wonder certain things about myself). Mind you, the cabal may have done (which naturally raises a whole raft of intriguing thoughts - which I'll have to write about at some point) - even if they didn't, they will certainly know now that I've mentioned it (you can bet they pay attention to the likes of you and me). That's one of the reasons why I've talked about how scared they must be - 'there's always a bigger fish' etc.
Anyhow, the follow-ups I've got for next weekend (sat & sun) are first a decipherment of the message - I mean what should be inferred from it, and why it's personal to me, and then second a set of predictions for the kinds of things that might or might not happen on the day. I also mentioned a few in this article of course. I would also mention how personal it is to me (which gets a little mystical I have to say). Like maybe I was the only one capable of deciphering it. To be specific, I was born precisely 1648 days (less 24 minutes) before the signal. Which is 10 Feb 1973 at 02:40. So that's more related numbers for you. The idea that anyone would be 'mad enough' to actually work out the number of days is itself pretty strange!
With regards to predictions, the fact that we can assume the cabal will be paying attention adds another layer of, shall we say, game theory to it. Don't try and change fate, being the obvious advice I would give them. I can think of a few things I would like to happen, but whether they will or not is another matter. Then again, I can think of a few things I would like not to happen. Well, I guess you don't need to think particularly hard to work out what I'll be preoccupying myself with for the next 12 days.
This is why I've put Part V of Circe on hold for the time being. If the world doesn't end in 12 days and we still have a functioning internet (and a functioning me, for that matter) then I can resume that.
Ah - your other point about me being the one to help people make contact (without fear) is something I have been thinking about for quite some time actually (I deciphered the signal I think it was about 4 years ago now, or early 2020). That's why I put the bit about my 'ambassadorial purpose'. If the cabal, for example, want someone to help with their negotiations then I would be happy to help them (assuming they remember the golden rule of diplomacy which is to not harm the messenger). One interesting thought, actually, which you'll understand as someone who's familiar with Mathis' physics, is the cabal sending interstellar probes out to a lot of the nearest stars. Obviously I am not aware of the status of those probes but one hidden prediction is that the 16th is when they get their first data back, for example.
Anyhow - if there is a post-16th world, then I will able to write about all this stuff in detail and leave that as a legacy. From a certain point of view, part of me would be very relieved indeed if nothing happened (or not noticed on the day). Murry Hope, for example, was terrified at times of the belief that there was going to be a new pole shift/axis tilt. She even dreamed an asteroid strike (into the moon) then saw that image in a crop circle shortly afterwards. One of the most intriguing things, though, is that she did have a visit from someone in the so-called deep state who really believed everything she said. So there's a lot of that in the story.
What a long reply this has been! I'll stop now, but just to say there's a lot more to come and I am very grateful for your response to what I've said, because it has come to mean so much to me.
I don't believe people are uninterested but rather scared of the idea. You may find some other enthusiasts of sci-fi who would certainly agree that, if true, your prediction is the best sci-fi story of the century, definitely. You discovery is truly profound. However, when anybody learns about it and thinks what it means for the world, I believe they think about troubles ahead. People as what they are would rather continue suffering and ignoring all the misdeeds than wage a war against the true enemy. Even if it means this would be the first time homo sapiens members fought any meaningful war. But they rather choose not to because, well, they don't. That's what I think is going on actually.
On a smaller note, the subject is on the edge of a sci-fi genre even if it was 100% true. Because, well, it is a sci-fi subject after all. How else would you call a meeting with an alien committee? Except that in that particular moment, when the contact is realized, fiction becomes reality. A Sci-real event, therefore. :) Even if someone hates sci-fi genre and can't stand it, he or she will have to deal with it eventually if there's really a post-16th world on the horizon.
Well, I'll leave you to do you work then. Since you've already given yourself a lot to write about , why don't you just start now instead of replying here? :D And then immediately post it for mental consumption, of course.
Hi evelyn - much as I enjoy your writing, and bask in the deep beauty of your poetry, I cannot follow your numerical gymnastics from the WOW signal - 6-14-26-30-19-5 - you are mentioning numbers that are just not there - like 30 and 19? for example - how do the alphanumericals translate to those numbers? also, there is a 2 that follows the 6 - where did that go, and a 2 in between the 1 and the 4 - where did that go? - there is a lot of -"if you add this, divide by this, add one then turn that it into seconds you get this which equals that - and there you have it" - I would bet that I have not spent even 1 tenth of 1 % of the time you have looking into this fascinating topic of ETI - which I am a firm believer must exist in a universe of this size - but just for a start, are the numbers and rows etc of this print out not just a peculiarity of the computer programmer who wrote the code for the printer management software that represented them in this way - how would an ETI know that the signal would print out these numbers in this way? Where do you get base 7 from? why are there a few letters in there and if its septadecimal, why is there a Q? I think we may be finding patterns because we want to find them? - and if the ETI was contacting us with that, why send this only once?
I am sceptical about most stuff, most of the time, and I hope you wont find this some sort of attack on your commitment to this topic or to to your intriguing prose and fictional writing - In a way, I am desperate for the countdown to be actually happening - and pleased we wont have long to wait for it, if you are in fact right. I just can't draw the conclusions you state from that page of numbers. I will need to have a lot more to convince me that this is what that page is saying.
or is all this fiction and not an analysis? if so, it's great becasue it comes across as genuine discourse on the subject.
Ah - I can understand your confusion. It's partly why I gave the link to DEXOS part 5.
I can help a little though straight away (I should've explained this - the wikipedia entry on the signal will help here, actually). The printout uses an alphanumeric scale. That's to say you have the numbers 0-9 (zeros are done as blank spaces) then A=10, B=11, C=12 etc. So 6-E-Q-U-J-5, if you convert the letters into numbers, becomes 6-14-26-30-19-5 (they add up to exactly 100, btw). The alphanumeric reading actually refers to the 'strength of received signal', so the highest one 'U' means 30 standard deviations above the baseline.
I didn't explain it here, though, but my contention is that the 'signal' did not in fact originate from somewhere hundreds of lightyears away, but was inserted directly into the computer. This is proven by the existence of mathematics outside the 6-digit sequence. Remember the planet is rotating, so any signal from outside the atmosphere will only be captured by the telescope for a short while (72 seconds, as it happens - each number represents a 10-second reception, plus 2 seconds for the computer to process it - thus you can only register a signal for max. 6 digits worth of printout).
This is in fact one of the most important psychological points about the signal/message - by not only using human dating systems, and inserting stuff directly into the computer, they are essentially saying 'we are already here' and 'we know everything about you'.
I can perfectly understand why you are confused because it takes someone as strange as me to decipher stuff like this. Most people simply don't think this way or hypothesise certain questions. Like the base 7 part. This is indeed arbitrary on my part, but if it was just 'arbitrary' then how come '3111' just happens to also be 1086? That's a bit of a coincidence.
This is probably why the so-called scientists at SETI did not understand this as a genuine signal, because they think like materialist scientists who would dismiss my reasoning as 'pseudoscience'. But of course the ETI would've anticipated that. Interestingly the ancient Greeks probably would've easily followed my reasoning because a lot of their science was what many today would indeed call 'pseudoscience' - numerology and suchlike, for example.
There is a hint of base 7 in channel 7 however. That's the number sequence 3613. If you split this up into 36-13, then that's an obvious right angled triangle (36+13=49, which is 7 squared - so just apply Pythagoras). So the hypotenuse is 7. If I remember correctly 3613 in base 7 would be 1333 in base 10 (which is the mirror of channel 3's 3111), and 36 would be 27, and 13 would be 10. Multiply 1-3-3-3 together and you get 27, whereas add them and you get 10. These are all nice and neat little bits of maths. So from another point of view, the ETI is demonstrating that it has a sense of playfulness - in other words, not hostile.
What got me onto the music is the prominence of the number 31 - that's the first five octaves of the harmonic series. This likewise says something about the ETI's attitude - music is a lovely social activity. The notes in question (if you have an instrument to try it on) are G, A sharp, A flat, B, D sharp, and E. There's a missing note to this key, which is C sharp. Unfortunately I don't have a piano otherwise I'd record something. It sounds a little dark/gothic at the bass end but the treble end is beautiful.
Anyway, there's a fair amount of this pseudoscientific analysis in the dexos thing. It does take a while to get one's head around though - so for that I do apologise. Obviously I am completely familiar with it all, and I forget sometimes that for someone coming to it for the first time it must seem just totally weird. So that's my fault. I was going to do a proper full decipherment next week though - so I shall try and remember to explain all this properly and clearly.
thank you for taking the time to enlarge and expand the reasoning - I can see how you have been intrigued and drawn into this - lots of numerical angles here - I am setting a timer. But then which meridian are we using for the time - thats another question....
All times are in UTC. This is another implication from the signal saying 'we know all about you', because the metadata numbers (the date and the time) only makes mathematical sense in UTC. Specifically, it was 16 August 1977 at 02:16utc. 216 is obviously 6-cubed. August is the 8th month, and 1+9+7+7=24. So this reads 16-8-24, which reduces to 213.
We then have the time difference between that and the launch of the Voyager probe, on 05-09-1977, or 20 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second later. So if you remove the zeros you have 2-1-4, then add the 1 second remainder and you have 2-1-5, which completes the sequence. Personally, I think this coincidence alone is what demonstrates the non-human origin of the signal (including time-travel or foreknowledge - or one might also suggest the intelligence behind the message influenced the NASA technicians so the launch time would be mathematically correct - V1 was ironically delayed by 4 days because of a few problems with V2 which was launched first).
Ah - one thing that might help is if you sort of look at it as you might a crossword puzzle. So look at blocks of two numbers. When you sit back and look at it this way, some of these blocks become readily apparent. Like you'll notice the row that goes 24-3-12. Then you'll see that this '3' if you then go downwards, is also '36'. Obviously 24 and 12 and 36 are divisible by 12. So if you do that you get 2 for the 24, 1 for the 12, and 3 for the 36. This is called 'reducing'.
So likewise 24-3-12 are all divisible by 3, so that reduces to 8-1-4.
If you multiply 24x3x12 you get 864. If you were to then separate this into 8-64, and remember that 64 is 8-squared, then you have 8-8-8 (and 3x8=24 - so all these numbers kind of harmonise with each other). Or you could do 81x4 (=324, which is 9/10 of a circle in degrees. Reverse the 1-4 to get 41 and add that on and you have the 365 days of the year). Yes, of course this isn't necessarily 'scientific', but that's kind of the point. Numbers games don't crop up naturally in nature, and they certainly don't crop up in cosmic noise received by radio telescopes.
Similarly, 24x3=72. This is the maximum number of seconds a signal would stay within the receiver of the telescope due to the planet's rotation. Each row is a 12-second reception, as I mentioned.
You can then just play numbers games with all of it.
So for the 16-11-24 you see the two numbers 1 and 6 next to each other in the same row. Immediately below that is a '1' and a '1'. Then there's a space, then you see a '2' and a '4'. (the same 24 as in the 24-3-12).
Scroll down and you see the 4344. Split this into two and you have 43-44, for example. Arbitrarily decide to divide 4344 by the column/channel number, which is 4, and it just so happens that you get 1086. Or arbitrarily add 61 to 2411 and you get 2472. Both 2472 and 4344 are also divisible by that number 24 again. So it's the presence of all these round numbers which suggest artificial origin.
I always loved numbers games when I was a child (still do, obviously). You can get geometric Pi to seven decimals here as well - that's 3.1415926 - having translated the letters into numbers (6-14-26-30-19-5), you start with the '3' in the 4344 sequence, then do a kind of reverse-upwards zig-zag. So you get 3-14-1-5 (bottom of the wow sequence in channel 2)-then the '9' is in the 19-then there's the obvious 26.
19 and 30 also happen to be the distance in AU of Uranus and Neptune respectively from the sun. This should've stood out to the astronomers at SETI.
Anyway, try playing around with it and see what leaps out at you. But yeah, don't let it do your head in.
this is much clearer and intriguing! i didn't get the golden ratio however becasue thats 1.618... and the two numbers are not in that ratio... 2472 and 618 I think you say...?
In terms of deciphering the message - as a message - this kind of thing is in fact a lot more important and meaningful than just numbers games, because the GR is about aesthetics. Combined with the musical key (and the numbers games) it says a lot about the personality/psychology of the intelligence behind the message - like, on the simplest level 'we have an appreciation of art and music and we haven't forgotten our childlike love of play' - that should be taken as immensely reassuring, because it's a message of friendship, not hostility.
It's exactly the kind of thing I'd do if I were designing a message.
I'll do a fair bit more of this kind of interpretation in a follow-up article. Because you can infer a bit of biology and atmospheric composition here too.
I have a huge issue with all of this stuff, Evie, in a positive way :-D It has brought out an impression where everything else seems almost insignificant in comparison. Like for instance, I should've finished my article days ago, but just can't get myself motivated enough to do it. My thoughts are escaping into a dream or a visualization of the contact event and it's a thrilling mind trip each and every time. The idea attracts my focus to the point where I can't even think about writing my own thing. Despite the intriguing subject of my research and conclusions about yet another pseudo-scientific scam, it all pales beside the possible ETI contact.
I'm rather surprised to see I'll be the first to comment on the most intriguing article of the year. At least imho. Well, I'll gladly take the honors of being the first.
I've lived through many events that were foretold but proved to be false in the end. However, being different from your prediction, all of them lack scientific data so their stories (as a prediction in a written form) had fundamentally nothing real to be built upon. The data you have poked out of the Wow! dataset is, in my opinion, what an ETI would've expected from a species at our level of comprehension on a rather higher level. From whichever angle you look at it, this contact is at one point supposed to be shared with people. And what that moment arises, it should beshared by someone of your caliber, who apparently understands what and why is going on. Details are very important and there are many of them. Inducing panic should be avoided and I think you'd know how to deal with it...
Anyway, I should stick with what I wanted to say in the first place. I really love this intrigue you've managed to canvas with words. Adding to it all the physical and psyche details, plus the data from the real thing, makes the whole story a grand opening to a movie spectacle, so to say. Imagining it may even happen as foretold, makes me feel the chill in advance.
I also just accidentally figured out that you have that talent within you regardless how the prediction plays out. The chill talent :)
One more like for the story right here.
Yes - I have been surprised myself at how uninterested people seem to be whenever I've mentioned all of this. I've not just proven the signal is artificial but that it's a non-human intelligence, which should be the most profound realisation in the world. I'm trying my best not to be arrogant here but it seems that I'm the only person on the entire planet who has identified and deciphered this (obviously that makes me wonder certain things about myself). Mind you, the cabal may have done (which naturally raises a whole raft of intriguing thoughts - which I'll have to write about at some point) - even if they didn't, they will certainly know now that I've mentioned it (you can bet they pay attention to the likes of you and me). That's one of the reasons why I've talked about how scared they must be - 'there's always a bigger fish' etc.
Anyhow, the follow-ups I've got for next weekend (sat & sun) are first a decipherment of the message - I mean what should be inferred from it, and why it's personal to me, and then second a set of predictions for the kinds of things that might or might not happen on the day. I also mentioned a few in this article of course. I would also mention how personal it is to me (which gets a little mystical I have to say). Like maybe I was the only one capable of deciphering it. To be specific, I was born precisely 1648 days (less 24 minutes) before the signal. Which is 10 Feb 1973 at 02:40. So that's more related numbers for you. The idea that anyone would be 'mad enough' to actually work out the number of days is itself pretty strange!
With regards to predictions, the fact that we can assume the cabal will be paying attention adds another layer of, shall we say, game theory to it. Don't try and change fate, being the obvious advice I would give them. I can think of a few things I would like to happen, but whether they will or not is another matter. Then again, I can think of a few things I would like not to happen. Well, I guess you don't need to think particularly hard to work out what I'll be preoccupying myself with for the next 12 days.
This is why I've put Part V of Circe on hold for the time being. If the world doesn't end in 12 days and we still have a functioning internet (and a functioning me, for that matter) then I can resume that.
Ah - your other point about me being the one to help people make contact (without fear) is something I have been thinking about for quite some time actually (I deciphered the signal I think it was about 4 years ago now, or early 2020). That's why I put the bit about my 'ambassadorial purpose'. If the cabal, for example, want someone to help with their negotiations then I would be happy to help them (assuming they remember the golden rule of diplomacy which is to not harm the messenger). One interesting thought, actually, which you'll understand as someone who's familiar with Mathis' physics, is the cabal sending interstellar probes out to a lot of the nearest stars. Obviously I am not aware of the status of those probes but one hidden prediction is that the 16th is when they get their first data back, for example.
Anyhow - if there is a post-16th world, then I will able to write about all this stuff in detail and leave that as a legacy. From a certain point of view, part of me would be very relieved indeed if nothing happened (or not noticed on the day). Murry Hope, for example, was terrified at times of the belief that there was going to be a new pole shift/axis tilt. She even dreamed an asteroid strike (into the moon) then saw that image in a crop circle shortly afterwards. One of the most intriguing things, though, is that she did have a visit from someone in the so-called deep state who really believed everything she said. So there's a lot of that in the story.
What a long reply this has been! I'll stop now, but just to say there's a lot more to come and I am very grateful for your response to what I've said, because it has come to mean so much to me.
I don't believe people are uninterested but rather scared of the idea. You may find some other enthusiasts of sci-fi who would certainly agree that, if true, your prediction is the best sci-fi story of the century, definitely. You discovery is truly profound. However, when anybody learns about it and thinks what it means for the world, I believe they think about troubles ahead. People as what they are would rather continue suffering and ignoring all the misdeeds than wage a war against the true enemy. Even if it means this would be the first time homo sapiens members fought any meaningful war. But they rather choose not to because, well, they don't. That's what I think is going on actually.
On a smaller note, the subject is on the edge of a sci-fi genre even if it was 100% true. Because, well, it is a sci-fi subject after all. How else would you call a meeting with an alien committee? Except that in that particular moment, when the contact is realized, fiction becomes reality. A Sci-real event, therefore. :) Even if someone hates sci-fi genre and can't stand it, he or she will have to deal with it eventually if there's really a post-16th world on the horizon.
Well, I'll leave you to do you work then. Since you've already given yourself a lot to write about , why don't you just start now instead of replying here? :D And then immediately post it for mental consumption, of course.
lol. As usual you make some good points and yes, these are the kinds of things I should definitely be writing about...
I would agree with you about a lot of people not wanting to accept the reality of it. That's the fear thing I mentioned.
Hi evelyn - much as I enjoy your writing, and bask in the deep beauty of your poetry, I cannot follow your numerical gymnastics from the WOW signal - 6-14-26-30-19-5 - you are mentioning numbers that are just not there - like 30 and 19? for example - how do the alphanumericals translate to those numbers? also, there is a 2 that follows the 6 - where did that go, and a 2 in between the 1 and the 4 - where did that go? - there is a lot of -"if you add this, divide by this, add one then turn that it into seconds you get this which equals that - and there you have it" - I would bet that I have not spent even 1 tenth of 1 % of the time you have looking into this fascinating topic of ETI - which I am a firm believer must exist in a universe of this size - but just for a start, are the numbers and rows etc of this print out not just a peculiarity of the computer programmer who wrote the code for the printer management software that represented them in this way - how would an ETI know that the signal would print out these numbers in this way? Where do you get base 7 from? why are there a few letters in there and if its septadecimal, why is there a Q? I think we may be finding patterns because we want to find them? - and if the ETI was contacting us with that, why send this only once?
I am sceptical about most stuff, most of the time, and I hope you wont find this some sort of attack on your commitment to this topic or to to your intriguing prose and fictional writing - In a way, I am desperate for the countdown to be actually happening - and pleased we wont have long to wait for it, if you are in fact right. I just can't draw the conclusions you state from that page of numbers. I will need to have a lot more to convince me that this is what that page is saying.
or is all this fiction and not an analysis? if so, it's great becasue it comes across as genuine discourse on the subject.
Ah - I can understand your confusion. It's partly why I gave the link to DEXOS part 5.
I can help a little though straight away (I should've explained this - the wikipedia entry on the signal will help here, actually). The printout uses an alphanumeric scale. That's to say you have the numbers 0-9 (zeros are done as blank spaces) then A=10, B=11, C=12 etc. So 6-E-Q-U-J-5, if you convert the letters into numbers, becomes 6-14-26-30-19-5 (they add up to exactly 100, btw). The alphanumeric reading actually refers to the 'strength of received signal', so the highest one 'U' means 30 standard deviations above the baseline.
I didn't explain it here, though, but my contention is that the 'signal' did not in fact originate from somewhere hundreds of lightyears away, but was inserted directly into the computer. This is proven by the existence of mathematics outside the 6-digit sequence. Remember the planet is rotating, so any signal from outside the atmosphere will only be captured by the telescope for a short while (72 seconds, as it happens - each number represents a 10-second reception, plus 2 seconds for the computer to process it - thus you can only register a signal for max. 6 digits worth of printout).
This is in fact one of the most important psychological points about the signal/message - by not only using human dating systems, and inserting stuff directly into the computer, they are essentially saying 'we are already here' and 'we know everything about you'.
I can perfectly understand why you are confused because it takes someone as strange as me to decipher stuff like this. Most people simply don't think this way or hypothesise certain questions. Like the base 7 part. This is indeed arbitrary on my part, but if it was just 'arbitrary' then how come '3111' just happens to also be 1086? That's a bit of a coincidence.
This is probably why the so-called scientists at SETI did not understand this as a genuine signal, because they think like materialist scientists who would dismiss my reasoning as 'pseudoscience'. But of course the ETI would've anticipated that. Interestingly the ancient Greeks probably would've easily followed my reasoning because a lot of their science was what many today would indeed call 'pseudoscience' - numerology and suchlike, for example.
There is a hint of base 7 in channel 7 however. That's the number sequence 3613. If you split this up into 36-13, then that's an obvious right angled triangle (36+13=49, which is 7 squared - so just apply Pythagoras). So the hypotenuse is 7. If I remember correctly 3613 in base 7 would be 1333 in base 10 (which is the mirror of channel 3's 3111), and 36 would be 27, and 13 would be 10. Multiply 1-3-3-3 together and you get 27, whereas add them and you get 10. These are all nice and neat little bits of maths. So from another point of view, the ETI is demonstrating that it has a sense of playfulness - in other words, not hostile.
What got me onto the music is the prominence of the number 31 - that's the first five octaves of the harmonic series. This likewise says something about the ETI's attitude - music is a lovely social activity. The notes in question (if you have an instrument to try it on) are G, A sharp, A flat, B, D sharp, and E. There's a missing note to this key, which is C sharp. Unfortunately I don't have a piano otherwise I'd record something. It sounds a little dark/gothic at the bass end but the treble end is beautiful.
Anyway, there's a fair amount of this pseudoscientific analysis in the dexos thing. It does take a while to get one's head around though - so for that I do apologise. Obviously I am completely familiar with it all, and I forget sometimes that for someone coming to it for the first time it must seem just totally weird. So that's my fault. I was going to do a proper full decipherment next week though - so I shall try and remember to explain all this properly and clearly.
thank you for taking the time to enlarge and expand the reasoning - I can see how you have been intrigued and drawn into this - lots of numerical angles here - I am setting a timer. But then which meridian are we using for the time - thats another question....
All times are in UTC. This is another implication from the signal saying 'we know all about you', because the metadata numbers (the date and the time) only makes mathematical sense in UTC. Specifically, it was 16 August 1977 at 02:16utc. 216 is obviously 6-cubed. August is the 8th month, and 1+9+7+7=24. So this reads 16-8-24, which reduces to 213.
We then have the time difference between that and the launch of the Voyager probe, on 05-09-1977, or 20 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second later. So if you remove the zeros you have 2-1-4, then add the 1 second remainder and you have 2-1-5, which completes the sequence. Personally, I think this coincidence alone is what demonstrates the non-human origin of the signal (including time-travel or foreknowledge - or one might also suggest the intelligence behind the message influenced the NASA technicians so the launch time would be mathematically correct - V1 was ironically delayed by 4 days because of a few problems with V2 which was launched first).
Ah - one thing that might help is if you sort of look at it as you might a crossword puzzle. So look at blocks of two numbers. When you sit back and look at it this way, some of these blocks become readily apparent. Like you'll notice the row that goes 24-3-12. Then you'll see that this '3' if you then go downwards, is also '36'. Obviously 24 and 12 and 36 are divisible by 12. So if you do that you get 2 for the 24, 1 for the 12, and 3 for the 36. This is called 'reducing'.
So likewise 24-3-12 are all divisible by 3, so that reduces to 8-1-4.
If you multiply 24x3x12 you get 864. If you were to then separate this into 8-64, and remember that 64 is 8-squared, then you have 8-8-8 (and 3x8=24 - so all these numbers kind of harmonise with each other). Or you could do 81x4 (=324, which is 9/10 of a circle in degrees. Reverse the 1-4 to get 41 and add that on and you have the 365 days of the year). Yes, of course this isn't necessarily 'scientific', but that's kind of the point. Numbers games don't crop up naturally in nature, and they certainly don't crop up in cosmic noise received by radio telescopes.
Similarly, 24x3=72. This is the maximum number of seconds a signal would stay within the receiver of the telescope due to the planet's rotation. Each row is a 12-second reception, as I mentioned.
You can then just play numbers games with all of it.
So for the 16-11-24 you see the two numbers 1 and 6 next to each other in the same row. Immediately below that is a '1' and a '1'. Then there's a space, then you see a '2' and a '4'. (the same 24 as in the 24-3-12).
Scroll down and you see the 4344. Split this into two and you have 43-44, for example. Arbitrarily decide to divide 4344 by the column/channel number, which is 4, and it just so happens that you get 1086. Or arbitrarily add 61 to 2411 and you get 2472. Both 2472 and 4344 are also divisible by that number 24 again. So it's the presence of all these round numbers which suggest artificial origin.
I always loved numbers games when I was a child (still do, obviously). You can get geometric Pi to seven decimals here as well - that's 3.1415926 - having translated the letters into numbers (6-14-26-30-19-5), you start with the '3' in the 4344 sequence, then do a kind of reverse-upwards zig-zag. So you get 3-14-1-5 (bottom of the wow sequence in channel 2)-then the '9' is in the 19-then there's the obvious 26.
19 and 30 also happen to be the distance in AU of Uranus and Neptune respectively from the sun. This should've stood out to the astronomers at SETI.
Anyway, try playing around with it and see what leaps out at you. But yeah, don't let it do your head in.
this is much clearer and intriguing! i didn't get the golden ratio however becasue thats 1.618... and the two numbers are not in that ratio... 2472 and 618 I think you say...?
1000 divided by 618 = 1.618
and 4000 / 2472 logically also this
Also true.
In terms of deciphering the message - as a message - this kind of thing is in fact a lot more important and meaningful than just numbers games, because the GR is about aesthetics. Combined with the musical key (and the numbers games) it says a lot about the personality/psychology of the intelligence behind the message - like, on the simplest level 'we have an appreciation of art and music and we haven't forgotten our childlike love of play' - that should be taken as immensely reassuring, because it's a message of friendship, not hostility.
It's exactly the kind of thing I'd do if I were designing a message.
I'll do a fair bit more of this kind of interpretation in a follow-up article. Because you can infer a bit of biology and atmospheric composition here too.
I have a huge issue with all of this stuff, Evie, in a positive way :-D It has brought out an impression where everything else seems almost insignificant in comparison. Like for instance, I should've finished my article days ago, but just can't get myself motivated enough to do it. My thoughts are escaping into a dream or a visualization of the contact event and it's a thrilling mind trip each and every time. The idea attracts my focus to the point where I can't even think about writing my own thing. Despite the intriguing subject of my research and conclusions about yet another pseudo-scientific scam, it all pales beside the possible ETI contact.