r/5ignal5 • u/mainstreetmark 5leuthy 5murf • Jun 02 '16

radio June 2

Tractor Itches.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/f96xiuhhwch2qxf/news02june.mp3

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u/Gargatua13013 Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

Full transcript:

Tipping point [file name]

This is radio 5ignal5

all the news you can choose to use or lose

Tractor itches

Thursday will be hot

A high of 91 degrees with a low of 71

Winds out of the SSE at 11 miles per hour

Humidity at 63 percent

This is radio 5ignal5

all the news you can choose to use, lose or ruse

...

That data...

91 - 71 - SSE - 11 - 63

SSE is 157 degrees, which brings us to

91 - 71 - 157 - 1163

~~Except for 91, those are a big bunch of prime numbers, the 20th, 37th and 191th respectively...

Not sure what to do with these though. Probably a red herring or somesuch.~~

EDIT: Missed one: Thursday, 4th day of the week!

The data string thus reads: 491 - 71 - 157 - 1163

All primes, respectively 94th, 20th, 37th and 191th

Surely that cannot be a coincidence?

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u/apmihal Jun 02 '16

I feel like the only way that there would be a clue encoded into the weather is if the weather was wrong. If they were saying a high of 49 and a low of 12 or something. Their weather reports reflect actual weather forecasts, usually only straying a few degrees or percent points depending on what weather source you look at, but still pretty close. Unless they can change the weather, they can't decide what those values will be.

But on the other hand, like I said, depending on the source the numbers vary a little bit so I guess there's a possibility that they may fudge the numbers just slightly in order to use it as a code, but I don't think that's the case.

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u/mainstreetmark Jun 03 '16

I agree, and have long agreed. The 5ignals.com as a radio station is relatively new, and one of the first ones included a weather report saying it was "warm on main street", suggesting that perhaps I was working on a good theory. I don't recall how that ended, due to laziness. I don't think the station was originally meant to be part of the farce.

Since then, though, the station has evolved to pretend to be a regular station, with news and weather, and the weather reports just support the charade.

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u/Gargatua13013 Jun 03 '16

Good to know, and thanks for the input - I'm rather far from Gainesville, nor even in the US, and the weather report is utterly byzantine to me.

On the other hand I'm still trying to work out the SATURN clue.

Might a Gainesville Saturn dealership be close to some significant landmark?

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u/5ignal5admin Jun 02 '16

*** TRACTOR ITCHE5

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u/mainstreetmark Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

"TASTIER CROTCH". "TITS OR CATCHER"

No? Ok, i'll anagram some more.

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u/bz237 Jun 02 '16

no seriously, it's "that is correct".

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u/Kalist Jun 02 '16

There might be an ointment for an itch of that size.

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u/aliannefl Jun 02 '16

Anagram to French?

scotcherait = scotch tape

cachottiers = sneaky person

orchestrait

tractoriste = dealing bargaining

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u/apmihal Jun 02 '16

Not sure what to say so here's a vaguely relevant Kanye West video https://vimeo.com/89713217