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[UNSOLVED] Controls To The Gun -puzzle
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Center Lot
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 		my clock
03:08:10:13:300

PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:54 pm
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 		OK, here's another way to choose the words:
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TURNING AND TURNING in THE widening gyre
THE falcon cannot hear the FALCONER
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
MERE anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, AND everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

SURELY some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze BLANK and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?


Look at the positions of the words in caps (not including BLANK): 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55

It fits a Fibonacci seuqence, where a number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers. The only problem is the last word, which is at word 106. I doubt this is random, but I haven't gotten any good codes yet either.

---- oh crap! I got it!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

BLANK doesn't refer to the word blank, it's like a blank in a sequence: word 89: sands. Now it's asking for coordinates or a self-destruct confirmation code. EEK, what do I do?


Edit: I'm not putting in anything yet, because I don't know if we'll be able to change it (I'd imagine so, but don't want to take any chances!)

PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:51 pm
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 		All right, Joe! Great job on this, all of you guys!

Wish I could have helped more, but this was bad timing for me as work was really busy today!

I think all we need to do now is email this info to Hanna (I'll let you guys do it, since I can't take any credit) and keep working on the diversion.

I've emailed Lisa to see if she'll help, but haven't heard back yet.

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 		Hey - excellent solve!

Umm - don't do anything yet!

Not sure whether we want to destroy it or shoot the asteroid!!!

We can't activate it from this end though - Hanna has to do that if we can sort out a distraction for her!!

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 		Well, we have the coordinates to the asteroid. So we can point it there. I remember someone saying something about a self destruct code...but I don't know where.

My vote is for the coordinates Tim gave us.

Or maybe that's what he wanted to have happen. Maybe we shouldn't blow up that asteroid...I don't know.

My vote is still for the asteroid.

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 		You get the self destruct code by emailing

finalsolutionSPLATaresstation.com

I emailed Mary back earlier to ask her if she can do the monkeys, or if she knows anyone else we can trust. No reply yet. Hope we hear back from Lisa.

If we email Hanna, do you think we should tell her about the choice we have to make? I imagine Charlie and Ohmega might have views on pointing it at the gate.

I think I'll tell her...

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 		Lol much as i would love the monkeys to be the next solve, if i was mary I would find that email hilarious!! Laughing

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 		im wondering if its a self destruct sequence for the gun . . . or the station
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 		Also, we dont have the sector to input which im guessing is the PM's way of stopping us from progressing to completion until they want us to

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we dont have the sector to input


Yes we do - it's sector 9.

As for the monkeys - I know it does sound pretty ridiculous, but it's all we've got at the moment. Hey, if she does laugh then I'll be laughing with her Very Happy

But it should be great fun - especially if they get the "more direct communication" up and running!!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:26 pm
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 		Dr. Park is the key.
I'm not saying the monkeys aren't a fine idea; they are. But I sent an e-mail to Dr. Park. As we know, he's got a PHD in radio astronomy. He says there's a radio telescope and an intercom on the station. It seems like this might have been significant somewhere. I'm going back to check his old posts before thing went all wonky.

I'll edit this and put both my email and his when I have a touch more time. Even though time is of the essence.

(edit) just got some time.

Dr. Park,

I am writing from Earth. As you may have heard, some of your collegues on the "big floating wheel" have devised a plan to destroy Earth. Obviously, this would be quite incovenient for me and a few other people I am fond of. I am sure that my misfortune could concern you less.

So, what does this have to do with you?

As a man of science, you will note that the destruction of Earth would not only cause disasterous fluctuations in the moon's orbit, but also spew out large chunks of previously-Earth rock. We're talking destruction Alderaan-style, here. While it is unlikely, some of these chunks may strike your station, killing everyone aboard. This includes you, Dr. Park.

Earth's destruction will also upset the previously harmonious balances of interplanetary alignment, of which I'm sure a man such as yourself holds great reverence for.

Now that I have your attention, I must ask a great favour of you: help us stop the gun. You needn't do anything with the weapon yourself; all I ask is that you create a distraction so a certain Earth-friendly crew member can direct the gun away from earth.

I have reservations about giving you the exact time the distraction needs to be implicated, so I will request that you reply to this E-mail giving me your word that you are on our side. I will then pass along the rest of the details.

Anyway, sticking with the Alderaan motif: Help us Chin Mae Park, you're our only hope.

Center Lot

HIS REPLY

Alderaan? Do I look like an aficionado of classic literature? A fine time to try
and look cultured.

While I do not weep over the possibility that my ex wife might be turned into a
collection of flaming particles, I do not quite wish the same fate on the rest
of humanity.

However, I am merely an astronomer and not very knowledgeable about such things.
What sort of distraction could an unpopular PHD in radio astronomy provide you?
I don’t know much about the station, other than it has a radio telescope.
It also has an intercom system, as someone found it fun to turn it on just for
my room and blast that abhorrent ghetto-synth into my room at four am not long
ago.

I am not here to beat up black clad storm troopers. What else could I do?


MY TWO REPLYS

Dr. Park,

Rest assured that you won't have to take anyone on in hand to hand combat. At least, not unless you decide it might be a tad fun.

Some of my fellow Earthlings have been planning a distraction that involves setting loose Ares Station's resident monkey population. No one on the station they are in contact with has access to the labs in which our primate friends are being held, however. Is it possible, being a scientist, that you've got a way to release them?

Also, there's something about that PHD in radio astronomy that sticks in my mind. I've got to scrounge around in some my old college text books to find what sounds familiar to me. While I do that, can you run me through some quick fundamentals of the radio telescope on the station? Is there anything significant about resonant frequencies?

Thanks for your help,

Center Lot

AND

Dr. Park,

I went back and re-read one or two of your earlier posts on radiological phenomenon in space. Would it be possible to direct the radio telescope at a pulsar and amplify the sound given off through the station, at an extremely loud volume, using the intercom? Perhaps this, coupled with the outlet of the monkeys would give those black clad storm troopers quite a headache, and thus allow our other helper to complete the objective of repositioning the gun.

Looking at the gun's countdown clock from different time zones seems to produce a slightly different number on its display. I'm guessing the clock is set to the time zone of the observer, thus making the actual time of discharge 20:00, Ares Station time. The distraction will need to happen 20 minutes before this.

Once again, thanks for the assistance,

Center Lot



Hopefully, we'll all be saying "yay for newbie" in a few hours. Anyway, 'night everyone.

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 		Good job, Center Lot. I think we should be able to manage something here.

I've had replies from both Hanna and Mary

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Well...

I asked Garith and he said that it would be bad karma to shoot a gun at anyone, aliens or people. Then he tried to convince me that he should be allowed to go to his ship and, um, commune with our brothers among the stars. That's about all he'll say.

Beth, on the other hand...

Beth is starting to be a little unhinged. I can't tell if someone's
speaking through her or if she's lost losing it. No one thought to bring
anti-depressants up to the station, it seems. Last night everyone else was
asleep and she started talking to me, but it sounded like someone else, far away. She tried to tell me that Jacob was dead, that the aliens on the gate killed him. I told her that we just got something from Jacob and she said it was a lie. That we were being used. That they killed him and we were next.

Then later she said I had to let her go, that she and Charlie had to go home, down to Mars. That was Charlie's home, that he'd been there a long time.

And... and that made me think of my dad. I never wanted to come up here, you know? My dad was part of the first landing on mars, and he just disappeared. I never wanted to come but I couldn't let David be up here alone. And now... I wonder. It sounds silly, I know, but I wonder if Charlie didn't have something to do with my dad. I want to yell at Beth / Charlie but she's just some teenager. I can't...

But I get a bad feeling whenever Beth / Charlie talks. I'm not sure we
should trust them.


So - self destruct seems the best policy from that!!

And, Mary said

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Yes, I'm scared all right.

Well, there are a few that we can trust, I think.

The problem is that they are mostly spread out over the station. I could try talking to them but, I don't know if I could get out of my
apartment. I mean, I can open the door. But.

I mean, I can try.Monkeys or apes? Well, depending on where they are and where they're secured, I might be able to talk someone into helping me. I've... been hanging out with a tough crowd these past couple weeks and I think a couple of them might know a thing or two about security. They could probably help me get locks open.

What do you think I should do?


Umm - actually Mary, I'm not sure...

I think you're probably right about the time Center Lot - I might just ask Hanna to confirm though. Then maybe we need to plan a co-ordinated attack - use Dr. Park's distraction to let Mary get out of her room and release the monkeys!!!

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 		Ok, I emailed Lisa asking for help. I didn't give her any specifics because I didn't really know if we could trust someone who was so close to Simon. Seems like that might have been justified. Her response:

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Look, hon. Tim Cohen isn't going to have any choice but to rely on us once we all move planet side. I might be just a miner, but I would also
like to be alive when this is all over.

I'm sorry, but I don't think I can help you.


I also emailed Hanna and Ohmega to see what they thought about setting fires as a distraction, since we hadn't been able to contact anyone who knew how to get to the monkeys. Hanna replied:

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Hey Angela,

Ohmega says that all the fire suppressant systems all use some sort of foam to put out fires. Usually bulkheads seal too so smoke doesn't mess up the oxygen levels on board. She says that she could possibly turn the bulkhead system off. She also doesn't really know of anything that would burn and that wouldn't also blow up a part of the ship.

She isn't sure about putting a delay on the foam either, but foam could be a distraction in its own right, I suppose...


So, for distraction options it seems we have:

Monkeys
Intercom
Foam

What else?

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 		How about pumping infrasound over the intercom?

http://www.lowertheboom.org/trice/infrasound.htm

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 		opening the Star Gate should also provide a distraction . . . or more destruction . . .
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