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Azati_Prime
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The morse code translates to "I am the child".

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ndemeter
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Um....OK that definitely categorizes this one then as an ARG.

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Children of Men info

From the trailer for Children of Men, the Human Project appears to be interested with solving the problem of human infertility that plagues humanity in the year 2027.

The rabbit hole appears preoccupied with the problem of falling human fertility rates, etc.

The only real problem that comes up is the timing - all the timing in the webiste is 2006. Meanwhile Children of Men takes place in the year 2027. I'd almost say fan site, but it is really premature to be making any of those estimations.


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Esteed
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This ARG could be concerned with what leads up to the movie. It wouldn't be the first time in history a project/company has caused a problem secretly, and then publicly tried to seek out a fix for it.
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chaotic_mind
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It would a delicious irony if the corporation that caused the infertility tried to find ways to resolve the problem.

After all, when it's your mess, who's better informed to stop it than you?

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jenni42ld
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Analysis of "Which Way" page

Ok - this "which way" flash page is annoying me. It's obviously a puzzle. Here's what I have so far:

The title of the page is "UDLREWSNULDREWNSSNEWLRLR"

This totals up to be only 8 different letters, with a total letter count of 24. The letters, followed by the number of times they appear are: d - 2, e - 3, l - 4, n - 3, r - 4, s - 3, u - 2, w - 3.

The letters, then put in the order they were originally in (and non-repeating), with the numbers instead of the letters are 22443333. The letters in order (and non-repeating) with their numerical counterpart to the alphabet (a = 1, etc) are 21 4 12 18 5 23 19 13.

*sigh* And I get no where very quickly...
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Right... so I tried something a little different but ended up with "no dice".

I will add it just in case it gives someone an idea or something.

First, I put up and north together (considering that when you look at a compass, up is north), then I followed that with the others. Next, I put a number to show where each direction is located in the string.
N/U-1,8,9,15,18
S/D-2,7,11,16,17
E/R-4,5,12,13,19,22,24
W/L-3,6,10,14,20,21,23

Then, I broke the string into groups of 4. Note how directions like East and west (as well as north and south) are not included in groups that have up and down (as well as left and right) in them. The same goes for the other way around.

UDLR
EWSN
ULDR
EWNS
SNEW
LR
LR

I split the last group into two sets of two because those sets did not fit the pattern.

After looking at the pattern and reading the question, I thought "well, it's probably asking for directions (or something like updown or downup.html)". No dice, like I said. I also tried du.html, DU.html (just in case the page was "case sensitive"), ud.html and UD.html.

All of the directions by themselves (east.html, up.html, etc.) got me nowhere as well.
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Nola
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Nola wrote:
BTW, for the human race to be extinct by the year 2087 due to low births, and life expectancy 60+, then 0 babies should be born right after 2027 or therabouts... tell that to the developing countries.


chaotic_mind wrote:
From the trailer for Children of Men, the Human Project appears to be interested with solving the problem of human infertility that plagues humanity in the year 2027.


I'm a frekin' genious! I think that the events that cause the 2027 plague have already been set in motion... some of its effects are already being felt (hence dramatic drop in birth/death ratio). The Human Project knows this (while the government denies it) and is working on a solution to counter the drop, not by reversing the "plague", but by creating more human beings.

EDIT: I saw this mentioned at another forum... it looks like spam sent to some french blog from an IFPV spoof, but hey, it might be a clue.

Quote:
sqnbw junmalvex pmrk tjbnpzew juefkm tmbnoqh vywnfso hluetrwn mplug

Ecrit par : iphrgbkqSPLATmail.com | 26/07/2006


You'll find it here http://marvin71.m6blog.m6.fr/archive/2006/02/27/mise_a_jour_du_27_02_06.html


EDIT 2: The spam text actually translates into a hotlink here... the text is this

sqnbw junmalvex pmrk tjbnpzew juefkm tmbnoqh vywnfso ([)URL=http://www.yixko.ifpv.com]hluetrwn mplug[/URL]

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Nola
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UPDATE!

Well, the site is now replaced by

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one of those 'squint-eyes-to-see' 3D pics which I can't quite make out, and the text "IFPV is down for maintenance".


Hopefully this is the preamble for this game to start moving.

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Paulzilla
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There's this in the source code for the page, which looks a bit wierd:

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<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Triumph">
<meta name="ProgId" content="DESPAIR">


Also, the name of the picture is oneless.jpg, the same as the page title.
</statement of the bleedin' obvious>

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JoeOE18
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I'm prety sure there's a word in there, or maybe two large symbols...

I'm not very good at them either though Smile
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Esteed
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Anybody else notice the blue line on the picture? It's on the right, just a little to the left of the second pole-thing.
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schummbo
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I'm fairly good at the magic eye illusions, but I can't seem to get anything out of this. Could it be possible that there is no illusion here, and just repeating patterns from photoshopping or something? I see some areas that clearly match up, like it could be an illusion, but when i match those up with my eyes, i just get a block with what MIGHT be a letter. Other than that, I can see anything in this. Anyone else fairly good at seeing these illusions?

Edit: whoa.. i take that back. something clearly just popped out at me. i'm still working at it, because the picture doesn't seem to be as clear as a normal magic eye puzzle. (My eyes are starting to hurt...)
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Delusional
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Esteed wrote:
Anybody else notice the blue line on the picture? It's on the right, just a little to the left of the second pole-thing.


I believe that is just because the background image is tiled.

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DetroitLegend
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I'm pretty good at these, and it might just be me, but i swear i see the outline of the girl you see on truck mud flaps (the one in the commercial with Yosemide Sam?!). I brought my friend over and he said the same thing, just that we cannot make the whole thing out...

Maybe the picture is just repeating (like schummbo said) to keep people interested and visiting the site. So far, everyone has had a different opinion on what the picture really is...

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