Author
Message
Flidget Jerome
Unfettered
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308
[Puzzle] #179 Purple - By Another Name "What are these places?
1) 18.6N, 134.0W
a tough climb
2)19.33N, 33.55W
my first wheels
3)22.48N, 49.97W
the pioneer settled here
4)0.8N, 113.4W
right on the equator, a good place for an elevator
5) 72.8N, 164.5E
the Chief Designer
6) 2.7S, 16.7E
farsighted mapmaker"
Description
Filesize
102.51KB
Viewed
345 Time(s)
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:52 pm
cassandra
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831
Okay, these look to be Martian features. What I found (at a nice astrogeology site):
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
1) Olympus Mons
2) region in the Ares Vallis where the sojourner landed, now called Sagan Memorial Station
3) Chryse planitia
4) Pavonis Mons
5) Korolev crater
6) Schiaparelli crater
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:31 pm
Leeravitz
Unfettered
Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 450 Location: Stevenage, England
So, again, this is one of Von's. I like to think we may have to travel to Mars in order to find the Cube, but, perhaps not...
_________________What is the New Nature of the Catastrophe?
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:05 pm
cassandra
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831
I think this is one of Adrian's
I'm a little confused as to the placement of the sites on the card, though..
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:23 pm
nmarciano
Boot
Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 11
I think the captions for the locations are hinting at something more here.
1- the chief designer could refer to Sergei Korolev, designer of Russia's Spacecraft Mars-Venus
2- Mons Olympus indicates a tough climb at Mount Olympus
3- Schiaparelli, who the crater was named after, mapped much of Mars, thus a farsighted mapmaker
4- the pioneer would be the Viking I, which landed at Chryse Planitia
5- the rover Sojourner landed at Ares Vallis as my first wheels
6- Pavonis Mons is the largest volcano on Mars, and Cotopaxi is the largest active volcano in Ecuador, right on the equator and definitely a good place for an elevator
I'm just not sure how to put this information together or if the location of the marks on the card has something to do with it.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:33 am
Seej
Unfettered
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614
I'm just thinking out loud here and possibly derailing the thread, but Schiaparelli is also a shade of pink (not too dissimilar to shocking pink). What? I like What Not To Wear , OK?
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:17 am
cassandra
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831
And what's the card code on here? 10 of...triangles?
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:00 am
Flidget Jerome
Unfettered
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308
Card Code wha?
Is this like the ghost image of a card on the Whipsmart card?
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:03 am
cassandra
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831
yeah, under the W of What, there's a 10 with what could be a diamond but looks like an inverted triangle.
Just noting in case the Silver Shuffled card requires this information.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:16 am
firefox
Unfettered
Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 333
10 of hearts?
how did i miss that before
sooooo... not wanting to give up on the silver card
what if this is a contingency plan, if we cant solve the card by itself (find a password for encoding the order of cards) we can collect 54 marked cards and find the order to decode the message that way.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:43 am
spugmeistress
Unfettered
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 460 Location: manchester, uk
Seej wrote:
I'm just thinking out loud here and possibly derailing the thread, but Schiaparelli is also a shade of pink (not too dissimilar to shocking pink). What? I like What Not To Wear , OK?
schiaparelli was a fairly important fashion designer who practically invented the bias cut. she liked bright pink. consider it derailed :)
rach =)
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:13 pm
Da Tee In TeeS of doom
Boot
Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Denmark
It's not Earth I looked at the coordinates at erth.google.com, and it was all just in the sea... BTW what is that little heart and the figure 10 about? It's in the upper left corner of the card.
_________________Don't Take It Too Serious
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:24 pm
BrianEnigma
Entrenched
Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 1199 Location: Pacific Northwest
Re: It's not Earth
Da Tee In TeeS of doom wrote:
I looked at the coordinates at erth.google.com, and it was all just in the sea...
Yep--it looks like all of these coordinates are on Mars, not Earth.
Da Tee In TeeS of doom wrote:
BTW what is that little heart and the figure 10 about? It's in the upper left corner of the card.
That is best answered by checkout out the FAQ . That repesents a playing card. Many other cards have similar symbols.
Welcome to Unfiction!
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:50 pm
Da Tee In TeeS of doom
Boot
Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Denmark
Thanks Thanks! and Cassandra.. How did you come up with, that it could be on Mars, in the first place?
_________________Don't Take It Too Serious
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:41 pm
looosy
Boot
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Kent, England
Anyone managed to get this solved yet?
I've tried various possibilities - rethinking the wording on the card: what are these places?
Maybe its not as straight forward as the name of the places???
Help Please!!
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:34 pm
Display posts from previous: All Posts 1 Day 1 Week 2 Weeks 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year Sort by: Post Time Post Subject Author Ascending Descending