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3. Avoiding confirmation bias A key issue is that the pattern was noticed before testing. Therefore the test deliberately did not ask: “How unlikel…
2. Data The cipher was represented as a rectangular grid: 24 rows 17 columns 408 cipher symbols total The final row tested was: VEXr9WI6qE…
For the purposes of this analysis, the ciphertext of the Z408 is reconstructed in UTF-8 characters according to Oranchak’s transcription as used for h…
Here’s the list of five months which The Zodiac added to the Dripping Pen card: for comparison with how these same months are represented in the …
Hey, Druzer. Yeah, it’s not the most active forum around these days. I’m old school and remember when this was where you came for the serious discussi…
The point made by ZGPT above under the heading of An Analogy is precisely the point it was my intention to make here.
I think that’s a very perceptive observation, and it highlights a difference between a modern investigator’s expectations and what a person in 1970 wo…
I would regard the following a centrally pertinent to this whole debate as to what we are actually expected to do with the Phillips 66 map and our dec…
CORRECTION: This should read clockwise, with the same correction required for the response.
Yes. That makes the distinction practically unavoidable. If the Phillips 66 map is treated as the plotting artifact: measure 4 inches on the map…
In addition: “There is also the fact that the actual scale of the Phillips 66 is not 6.4 miles to the inch but around 7.04, with a north misalignmen…
The response: I think this is actually one of the strongest practical arguments you’ve made, because it focuses on the workflow available to Zodiac …
Okay, so let’s push this a little further and get into specifics, with: “If we propose that the Zodiac even measured a magnetic north bearing from t…
I agree that this is the most natural reading. The authenticated instruction is not merely “use Mount Diablo.” It is effectively: this map + thi…