Palindromes read the same way front and back.
Let’s take a look at the Morse code backwards:
qr sos yromem dicul secrof woodahs elbisivni yllautriv noitisop ruoysit uitaterpretni lategid
Nope! That’s not it…
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Don’t forget the eee’s!
I know one palindrome is found by manipulating the spacing of the Morse Code, something that seemed to have been confirmed in the 2005 DC trip. Not anything I would have otherwise accepted.
gary
By reversing the e’s they would just act as spacers in this most simple arrangement. I figured the e’s were simply added to force the PT phrases of the Morse Code into palindromes when they were cut as dots and dashes. You might have to elaborate on the spacing manipulation you’re describing from 2005, I’m still a little naive about the tomfoolery they used on the Morse code to get the phrases. One description I saw said they didn’t all make perfect palindromes and it involved some tweaking to get it to work. What’re the odds we’ve got the wrong text? Or the wrong impression? And what’s the point of the Morse code? Are the phrases clues? Is there a hidden message like some wackos suggest? Or is it just a dead end manufactured by a retiring CIA operative?
You’re right, they’re not all perfect palindromes. In fact, there’s only one that I’m aware of. There seems to be corresponding “palindromic” sections of the phrases, but I agree it’s a stretch.
We do have the right text. I mean I carefully reviewed all the photographs a few years ago and made sure we had the dits and dahs right. We do.
I think the Morse Code is where all our significant clues are.
For example, RQ appears in the Morse Code, right? It’s RQ or YR, depending on your position.
Both RQ and YR are sequentially backward (sorta like the tableau) in these two alphabets:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
KRYPTOSABCDEFGHIJLMNQUVWXZ
T is your position is probably a clue, and for now I take it to mean a couple things:
DESPARATLY. The e is missing between the T and L. Since the misspellings are supposed to be a clue, how is that missing E going to help us? Maybe “T” is your position.
This phrase is also abscised. The full statement is “whaT IS YOUR POSITION?” Which I think alludes to a physical question and a philosophical question that will make more sense after k4 is solved.
SOS – help – implies the Morse code is help.
Digetal Interpretatu- is both “digital” and “dig et al” interpretations. I think it also suggest we interpert at U. UndergrUund. This will become important.
Shadow Forces… Lucid Memory… those have been my focus this past week.
Virtually Invisible. This is where the palindrome comes up.
The Morse Code has eeee’s, and I think this will become significant later — or now — whenever — all these anomalies are clues, IMO.
could be wrong.