3 June - The number of threads about different interpretations of the message keeps growing

June 4, 2023 July 6, 2023 Daniel Estévez

The number of threads about different interpretations of the message keeps growing. Ideas get mixed as connections appear between topics that were independent at first. Conversations get tangled. It is even a bit difficult to keep track of everything that is happening at once.

A new idea that has appeared today is the prevalence of the number 5 in the message. The representation of the message "body" as the "starmap" has 5 clusters of dots, and the footer contains the sequence of bits 111110000011111.

DareDevil — Yesterday at 14:30
Yes. A lot of patterns have been identified. Check out ⁠44 88 44 88
But nothing endgame yet
BatchDrake (EA1IYR) — Yesterday at 14:33
The thing is, that bit pattern is extremely interesting
Those 4 bytes in the beginning
Always couples of bits that, if you add up, do not overlap and add up to 0xff
Also, in the end, that mysterious sequence, 11111 00000 11111
It is like number 5 is important somehow
OGIANF — Yesterday at 14:34
@BatchDrake (EA1IYR) By using my Excel Map (that comes with "coordinates" and allows some basic measurement) I'm more incline to think at the "costellations" of points as some separate "Signs in Space". So there are 5 of them. Now, by measuring, over my Map, I discovered that on 4 of them there are 7 2x2 squares that match exactly with the relative "distances" among them, while on the 5th one only 6 of these squares match the exact relative distances.
I'm preparing an actualized version of my Map adding a "zoomed" detail of the 5 Signs to show evidence of what I just said. From there, probably a totally new line of investigation.
BatchDrake (EA1IYR) — Yesterday at 14:34
Maybe some kind of race of space urchin overlords?

Link: https://discord.com/channels/1066055437457297469/1111404329694400542/1114532227284484186

Some participants are linking the number 5 to the short story A Sign in Space by Italo Calvino, from which the name of this project is taken.
In that story, 5 signs appear at some point. There have been even some attempts to give descriptive names to the 5 cluster in the "starmap": a star, a hummingbird, a mouse, something shapeless, and a very spiky star.