[Mason]

I still don't see the link with anything on that, tipsila.
It's probably just a co-incidence, what else can we draw from it? He's dead, it's not like we can contact him, or get any more information to link it to.

Francis is a common name, it's like 'Al' being on the site and relating that to Einstein.

[tipsila]

Okay. In the page source of the cached page of Midnight Creative, I found something that said:

Quote:

META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="midnight creative, midnightcreative, eric hachlinski, Hachlinski, OH, O.H., Wired, creative, follow the white rabbit, 42, trillian, mo francis"

mo francis - Mason told me that Scribe told him that mo was the chemical symbol for the element #42... so I looked. Molybdenum. When I searched further, I found Francis Crick - most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule!

Crick also studied the origin of life, which he considered to be that life arrived on Earth from somewhere else in our solar system.

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1107.html

Quote:

Crick was not content to sit back on his laurels after winning one of the top prizes in science, however. He continued to study the mysteries of life, such as the nature of consciousness, or the possibility that RNA preceded the development of DNA. In 1973, he and the chemist Leslie Orgel published a paper in the journal Icarus suggesting that life may have arrived on Earth through a process called 'Directed Panspermia.'

ETA: added url

[Mason]

Oh this is getting too much.


Eric Hachlinski says:

Quote:

seventynine

Who said the games aren't connected? I do believe they were mistaken.

[Mason]

Okay - I've just had a lead that I can't reveal just yet, but it mentions 'noise' quite clearly.
Can someone good with images try to get the 'noise' out of that blue pic on 6op1libra? There's apparently the "rabbit" clearly behind the noise. I'm not sure what it all means, but its definitely something to do with that pic (or the pic prior to that one - 6op1libra_.gif)

[godson2k7]

was stumped on what to do and decided to use yahoo search instead of google....first page result for 6op 1 libra is her myspace. Look at the cached version....she gets a lot of comments =/

[Mason]

This is so odd. Could you link to the page where he left the message? And how did you find that page to look there?

Hmm!

[godson2k7]

so looks like Eric has a myspace....http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=78499698

left a message on Morgan Webb's (girl from G4tv) myspace page saying

"May 27 2007 10:49A

Hey Morgan... a message thankfully only you will understand... 6op 1 Libra"

His page is private, but I've sent a friend request. Maybe there will be related things within the page? Then again it could just be someone following along. We will see.

[tipsila]

An interesting little plant...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabidopsis_thaliana

Quote:

Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly called arabidopsis, thale cress, or mouse-ear cress, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, is one of the model organisms for studying plant sciences, including genetics and plant development. It plays the role for agricultural sciences that mice and fruit flies (Drosophila) play in human biology.

And, down the page a bit further:

Quote:

Non-Mendelian inheritance In 2005, scientists at Purdue University discovered in arabidopsis an alternative to previously known mechanisms of DNA repair, which one scientist called a "parallel path of inheritance". It was observed in mutations of the HOTHEAD gene. Plants mutant in this gene exhibit organ fusion, and pollen can germinate on all plant surfaces, not just the stigma. After spending over a year eliminating simpler explanations, it was indicated that the plants "cached" versions of their ancestors' genetic code going back at least four generations, and used these records as templates to correct the HOTHEAD mutation and other Single nucleotide polymorphisms.

[Scribe]

I thought I'd mentioned it before, but can't remember. Yeah, c2c2 brings up a lot of mentions of Arabidopsis Thalianus (IIRC) - a plant which seems pretty important in genetics. Not sure how that ties in just yet, except that genetics is important in all this. c2c2 is like some "model" plant, which (I think) means it's useful when doing experiments.

Also, I can't remember if Nick did genetics at Informatics or not, even if Eric says he did FWIW, half of my degree there was AI, which involved doing a lot of genetic algorithm stuff (ah yes, I remember the ol' "phenome-genome-mutatey-selection" days... ah, memories.. ahem). So some of these pages make a (small) amount of sense.

BTW, I ran the rest of the images through a hex editor, but couldn't see anything. Except one of them said "Ducky" at the start, but I think that might just be a coincidence :-/

[Mason]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I googled c2c2 again and clicked all the sites I had overlooked the first time.

One was a genetics one:

http://datf.cbi.pku.edu.cn/browsefamily.php?familyname=C2C2-GATA#Intro

I have no idea what any of this is about. Does anyone know anyone who's into genetics?
Maybe I should ask Nick/Giles... hmm...

[Mason]

This was also a puzzle on this site: http://www.entropiaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45739
Solved on 11-23-2006, 06:23 PM by a guy called Teranoz

Can someone register and check it out? It won't let me *curses computer*

[Scribe]

Hi godson2k7, welcome to the beginning I think someone's mentioned the +11 thing before here, but no-one's really answered it. Maybe it's how the counter program works?

If no-one's done one by Tuesday, I'll try to get together a concise page on what we know so far, and what needs to be answered still.

Oh, and I got this in a mail from Eric:

Quote:

Have you seen a snowflake? It means something... it asked me to place it back again... it has been a long time.

There's the snowflake over at highfivegame.com. I find it odd that it's a bitmap rather than GIF/JPG/PNG...

[Edit] Opening the snowflake bmp in a hex editor reveals the text "SANTA WORKS AS A CODEBREAKER FOR NSA" inside it.

So now we have a Santa as well as a rabbit?

[godson2k7]

Don't know if this had been mentioned before or if it is a change on the http://www.highfivegame.com/ site but this is on the page in black text. The "Counting: 1891" thing is a counter and has the +11 tag in it again for some reason?.

Again sorry if this is old news but I didn't see any mention of it while looking through the pages here. Oh and hi.....I'm new around here

06

Santa is coming.





Counting: 1891

You are not expected to find it.




c2c2

c2c2

[Mason]

Another update on http://www.highfivegame.com/:
http://www.highfivegame.com/6op1libra.bmp

[Scribe]

End of day summary