Starhawk

Welcome Suicider! Glad to have you aboard. It's always good to see another lurker step up and become part of the community. Happy landings!

Scheduled for 7:30 EST. Happy landings!

Welcome Kagame! I trust you will enjoy the forums. Happy landings!

There was a thread here a few days ago discussing this. Happy landings!

Crash, most likely. Or explode... he might explode. Seriously, though, I hope we get a fairly good look at 1.0 tonight. I'll have a glass of fine Scotch (Max goes better with whiskey) and be ready to enjoy another edition of "Whiskey and Rockets", my pet name for Squadcast. Happy landings!

I don't know about any puzzle today. Kasper said the next official one would be this weekend. In any case we are currently at 3 and counting. Happy landings!

I haven't been around all that long, but I don't believe I've ever seen you hyped before Slashy. What a beautiful snippet of video. Happy landings!

Just keep on adding hypervelocity and we'll get there eventually. Happy landings!

Hello Grunnt, and welcome in from the shadows. It is a wonderful community and very helpful, too. SSTO spaceplanes are quite difficult to create in the stock game right now. With the new aerodynamics coming in 1.0, which releases on Monday, we will all have to relearn how to fly. Happy landings!

At the top of the page is the main menu bar. Beneath that is a smaller menu bar containing the word 'Calendar'. That link will show you the calendar for upcoming livestreams in your local time. Happy landings!

That's what I would expect, as well. Happy landings!

Building and flying spaceplanes. Tonnes to learn before I could do it at all, let alone do it well. Happy landings!

I have a craft that could easily be modified to fit your requirements. The Bat Trans 6 transports 6 Kerbals (of any profession) to LKO. Currently, it only has about 720 m/s remaining once achieving an 80 x 80 km orbit. It only masses 8.64 tonnes on the runway so there's plenty of room to modify the design with larger fuel tanks to get the desired delta-v. It has only a single turbojet and two 48-7S engines for orbital maneuvers. I found the inline docking port quite inefficient, so I simply placed a regular clamp-o-tron on the belly. I always have to dock it visually. For whatever reason the navball doesn't accurately represent the location of the port (maybe because I moved it with the offset gizmo). Other than that, it works beautifully. Craft file here. Happy landings!

Oh yeah. I almost forgot what the topic was... We are currently at 4 and counting. Happy landings!

Every crewable part in the game will have an IVA. Happy landings!

This was clearly more difficult than I expected it to be, so iFail. But as you can see, there was absolutely nothing about this encryption that couldn't be reasoned out simply by looking at it. Best, -Slashy I know little of cryptography or information theory. I've heard of Claude Shannon before. I'm afraid that it seems to me that solving this requires a lot of specialized background knowledge and techniques. As I said, I thought I was being silly when I originally posted the binary. I spent almost all the time looking at the hex representation. I tried compressing all the pairs into singles and then seeing if it made any sense in ASCII. I tried leaving out all pairs and looking at what was left. When you mentioned the clue about 5's and A's I googled cryptography A 5 and didn't get any useful hits. But I had already tried leaving out the 5's and A's and compressing the pairs without success, so I didn't know how to use this info. I was surprised that you posted the binary representation, but I took a look it again. I didn't see anything that was obvious enough to jump out at me after looking for a bit. I thought to myself, if he wants us to look at the binary, there must be something obvious there. I couldn't see it. Wait, what?? How would I guess to do that? That's some awfully low-level pattern recognition. This seems very unobvious to me. I can't imagine how long one would have to look at that string of ones and zeros to tease this info out of it. This idea of 'framing' must be a common concept in cryptography, perhaps related to the 'salt the message' idea that Kuzzter referred to early on. I have to say that it seems to me that only a person who is experienced with cryptograms could get that out of the original message. At this point, I was looking at Kuzzter's 1's and 0's block rather than the block of 1's and 2's. Wow! That seems like serious lateral thinking to start from 1's and 2's combined with alphabet and get to Morse code. I was not able to successfully complete even one of the steps required to solve this puzzle. The real irony here is that I successfully cracked an encryption scheme for an employer of mine several years ago. Thanks anyway Slashy, I had fun trying. Happy landings!

Are you sure he wasn't trying to murder us? Happy landings!

I guess I just lack some background understanding of cryptography (specifically cryptanalysis). It doesn't even look like there's enough info left to make a message. Happy landings!

The number of digits between the 00's varies from 9 to 13. The position of the excess ones in each segment varies. There are eight segments. ??? Happy landings!

Here I thought I was being ridiculous breaking it down to binary when I first looked at it. Happy landings!

Everything you say describes the road I've been walking up and down. Except... google-fu. I have some small skill in this area, but I can't for the life of me even see what to search. I'll take another crack at it later. Happy landings!

My logic skills appear to be failing me. I'm still at a loss. I seem to be missing an understanding of some basic aspect of decryption. ???

That was the other thing that I noticed right away, but I can't see a way to make anything of it. Puzzled landings?

Yeah, the highlighted part is where I actually laughed out loud when I originally read it. Well, like I said, I figured I was overthinking it. Still thinking, but work keeps interfering! Happy landings!

Still no ideas. I've gone to EBCDIC, bitmasks, reading random bits of Wikipedia related to cryptography... I'm probably overthinking it, or maybe I'm trying to see it too much from a computer-encoding point of view. It certainly doesn't look very random. I wondered right off the bat if the pairs were significant. Happy landings!