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[vidstudent]

Letter received here, too. Lowercase a in Nicholas crossed out on mine.

Also, odd side note - apparently, I've had my ZIP+4 wrong for some time; I thought it ended 2829, not 2866...anyway, nice to know we're halfway to figuring out what's going on.

[HappyFunNorm]

[chaotic_mind]

[johnny5]

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Okay (*haha* ignore my previous post...I get where we're all coming from now *haha*)

So...I'm just going to see if I can review the connections so far...

67 of the Hindenberg is HYDROGEN because that's what was in it
57 of the Nirvana album is LITHIUM because that's a song they sang
55 of 'Space Quest' is BERYLLIUM as that's what the ball in the movie is
58 of soda cans(?) is SODIUM as that's a primary ingredient
76 of skulls is CALCIUM due to that being a large component of bones
71 of the Titanic is TITANIUM as they share similar names
78 of the car is CHROMIUM since cars are covered with 'chrome'
77 of smelting is IRON as that's a common metal to be smelted
86 of blue is COBALT since there is a colour called 'cobalt blue'
83 of a nickel is NICKEL
94 of a bobby hat is COPPER as that is another way to say cop/police officer
96 of food is ZINC because zinc is found in food...particularly meat(?)
104 of a diagram is YTTRIUM (??because that's it's chemical diagram??)
99 of rifts is PALLADIUM since that is also the name of the publisher
MOON is SILVER due to it's silvery colour
104 of batteries is CADMIUM as they are cadmium batteries

I realise most people probably already knew all that, but it helps me to have it in one place


((I guess I should also add that these are the elements that the spaces DO correspond with when layered over a Periodic Table of Elements assuming that space 67 is Hydrogen))
**thanks for the correction**

[johnny5]

[jamesi]

[johnny5]

[Starfire]

...actually I feel the need to point out that potassium chloride *is* edible. If anyone uses sodium free salt, chances are you're eating potassium chloride. It's got a bit of an aftertaste compared to "regular" salt.

[chaotic_mind]

Potassium chloride is usually classified as a "salt-free" substitute - a suitably innaccurate description

The specific name edible salt came from a Wikipedia article - I guess it's another inaccurate name.

L.

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Now what the heck do the faint numbers on the pictures mean?? *waaaa* Going down the first column (67, 57, 58 ) if you add the the two digits together for each box you get 13, 12, 13...which means nothing...but if you subtract them you get 1, 2, 3...which means a little more (only a LITTLE). Sadly it all goes to crap from there (5-5 is 0??? What do you do with 104...TWICE?? Multiply?) Just thinking out loud here...

What's everyone's opinion. Do you think that the abbreviated element names (H, Li, Na, etc. (or whatever)) will eventually be arranged to spell something out?? What's the point of all this!!??

I feel better *haha*

[snowhite]

[Incitatus]

[regnevah]

Quick table I drew up , the delta is the written number minus the atomic number


Element Atomic # Written Delta
H 1 67 66
Li 3 57 54
Be 4 55 51
Na 11 58 47
Ca 20 78 58
Ti 22 71 49
Cr 24 78 54
Fe 26 77 51
Co 27 86 59
Ni 28 83 55
Cu 29 94 65
Zn 30 96 66
Y 39 104 65
Pd 46 99 53
Ag 47 moon #VALUE!
Cd 48 104 56

[Nik_Doof]

We just got the exact same letter too, bet theres a few more UK people who got them today also. Also maybe the thread should be retagged as [Trailhead?] instead of [Question]