Thread: Firefly reported found!

Originally Posted by gambit

I wrote a computer program that will take any sequence and re-number it every possible way. There are 120 combinations...

In addition, it can ceaser shift, mirror, and/or relayout the 5x5 to anything desired.

I have tried them all with the acorns and find nothing.

Impressive.

I have a friend who helped me with this so that all 120 permutations are spit out, but not all that other stuff. It'd be a lot to sift through. It also does row-column or column-row. I have another excel file that I got from someone on here that does the caesar shift, but I don't use it as much.

I just got the book Friday. Been meaning to get it for a while... better late than never.

I logged in just in time to see this weeks fury and have been digging in hard to catch up. Wish I had stopped to think of Excel, probably a simpler solution for the 5x5's and crypto's.

In any case, I'm here... It's great to see a few ideas work out !

gambit

You might consider using the directions of the acorns minus east and west. Use only the diagonals and the one pointing up at you as the blank. For the doubles, simply ignore the east or west acorn.

Doc

Originally Posted by scoot478

Not confirmed yet, but a poster on ATT is reporting that he was the second to the firefly site; finding only a note and some gas money!

Where can the "Firefly" story be found??? I only find vauge references to strings I can't locate...(what trek,,six miles..etc>>)

i'm with still - where's the story link (bus ride, no money, etc...)? I can't find it posted...

wilhouse

Try this...

http://tweleve.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2454&start=90

geez, thanks. now why was that so hard for me to find?
wilhouse

Our Berkeley paper did an interview with the guy who found the firefly. I got to meet him. He seems uber smart. I went out and bought the book. Now I'm depressed. It is sort of yet another thing to get excited about and then realize is an impossible silliness.

This is posted on the ATT site:

UPCOMING MEDIA

Inside Edition: Will feature Michael Stadther in his CT office and firefly finder Jason Davis on the Berkeley campus and retracing his steps in the Oklahoma park. Expected air date: week of August 15th

Should be interesting to see how he found the token!