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[LOCKED] [TRAILHEAD] Halo 3 ARG (a real one, not ILB2 again)
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Supermodified
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Antikythera Mechanism (wiki link)

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The Antikythera mechanism (Greek: O μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων, O mēchanismós tōn Antikythērōn) is believed by many to be an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC. It is especially notable for being a technological artifact with no known predecessor or successor; other machines using technology of such complexity would not appear until the 18th century.

While a century of research is finally answering the question of what the mechanism did, we are actually no nearer to answering the question what it was for. There are numerous suggestions, any of which could be right.

Practical uses of this device may have included the following:

* Astrology was commonly practiced in the ancient world. In order to create an astrological chart, the configuration of the heavens at a particular point of time is needed. It can be very difficult and time-consuming to work this out by hand, and a mechanism such as this would have made an astrologer's work very much easier.
* Calculating solar and lunar eclipses. However, the device would probably only have indicated days when eclipses might occur, and a more accurate calculation of the time of day would have to be done by hand.
* Setting the dates of religious festivals connected with astronomical events.
* Adjusting calendars, which were based on lunar cycles as well as the solar year.

Price suggested that it might have been on public display, possibly in a museum or public hall in Rhodes. The island was known for its displays of mechanical engineering, particularly automata, which apparently were a specialty of the Rhodians. Pindar, one of the nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, said this of Rhodes in his seventh Olympic Ode:

"The animated figures stand
Adorning every public street
And seem to breathe in stone, or
move their marble feet."


EDIT: My bad, hadn't looked at the Evidence page, which clearly states it's the Antikythera mechanism Embarassed

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Urk
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http://206.16.223.63/default.htm

How 'bout this?

Click the Evidence tab.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:04 pm
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Jaxon-Xz
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Minutes of clock are also off, right now I see 106...

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irasel
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I think people found it in the wrong order. If you look on the 206.16.223.63, one of the statements is:


FINDINGS- The message boards are still out on this piece. One of our members came across a website that also contains this symbol (206.16.223.65) but it's much to early to determine if this is valid evidence of Ancients. None the less, the supposed "alien" server is quite interesting. The quest for the truth about this image remains.

So could it be possible that we were supposed to go to 206.16.223.63 first, but instead skipped ahead?

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Xin
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Kore wrote:
Mission page has a broken mailto: tag, it doesn't have an email to send it to....


Yeah, there is no email yet, just a ?

I guess we'll have to wait on that. Yeah, this is definitely our new site. The crappy quality, the paranoid organization. They're just asking to be taken over by AR or god knows what.

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Falagard2
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Small thing, but on the http://206.16.223.63/evidence.html page there's a spelling error of "be" to "bee"

Quote:
Stonehenge – about 3000 B.C.

How did they do it? Why did they do it? Hundreds of years of work to build a calendar seems like a faulty explanation. Point – Notice the shape. The Round nature with counterpoints seems to bee an ancient theme.


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MjolnirMkII
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LONG POST!
Clock is in base 7. Yay!
Time is in milliseconds as indicated by msecs variable.

Here is the code for others to see the bases are 7 for each field:
v2.showTime = function (msecs) {
var v6 = Math.floor(msecs / 1000);
var v7 = Math.floor(v6 / 60);
var v8 = Math.floor(v7 / 60);
var v9 = Math.floor(v8 / 24);
var v2 = this.toBase(v6 % 60, 7);
if (v2.length < 2) {
this.time_mc.secs_txt.text = '00' + v2;
} else {
if (v2.length < 3) {
this.time_mc.secs_txt.text = '0' + v2;
} else {
this.time_mc.secs_txt.text = v2;
}
}
var v3 = this.toBase(v7 % 60, 7);
if (v3.length < 2) {
this.time_mc.mins_txt.text = '00' + v3;
} else {
if (v3.length < 3) {
this.time_mc.mins_txt.text = '0' + v3;
} else {
this.time_mc.mins_txt.text = v3;
}
}
var v4 = this.toBase(v8 % 24, 7);
if (v4.length < 2) {
this.time_mc.hours_txt.text = '00' + v4;
} else {
if (v4.length < 3) {
this.time_mc.hours_txt.text = '0' + v4;
} else {
this.time_mc.hours_txt.text = v4;
}
}
var v5 = this.toBase(v9, 7);
if (v5.length < 2) {
this.time_mc.days_txt.text = '00' + v5;
} else {
if (v5.length < 3) {
this.time_mc.days_txt.text = '0' + v5;
} else {
this.time_mc.days_txt.text = v5;
}
}
};
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Kore wrote:
Most of the links appear to be unrelated to the actual game. Could be hidden info, but they all look like legit sites, so who knows.


Well the site contains the glyph pic, it does link us to the countdown, and it does mention ancient aliens aka forerunners. So yes i do believe we have our site, lets start digging.

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Jaxon-Xz
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Probably an off hand ILB reference, or a misspelling. I'd still like to know how this site was found, because the comic didn't have anything about this one...

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Note that this Society of Ancients site is in the same DNS block as the countdown. I'm sold; it's in-game.

-- Steve'll probably sign up when they put a destination address in the mailto: link.
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Metacore
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Supermodified wrote:
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Yup base 7. But this begs the question what kind of a time format is it following 60 seconds 60 minutes 24 hours 365 days?


Yeah, it's just following base 60, which makes it a lot easier to calculate the actual time it's counting down to.

I did some calculations, and the countdown in base 60 time is for 5 days 11 hours 5 minutes x seconds as of now. It's 12:54pm on the 15th where I am (Sydney, Australia), which means the countdown finishes at midnight on the 21st.

Does everyone have the same time? Or is it running off our computer clocks?

This is so much fun! I never really got into ILB, but I can see myself enjoying all of this.


You may have calculated wrongly. The seconds go from 113-100, then to 66. so, as I said, 7 * 7(7 '0-6' seconds for each of the 7 cycles) = 49 + 14(extra 100-113 seconds) = 63. This same calculation goes for minutes in an hour, as far as I can tell. No idea for how many hours in a day... Waiting...

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Two things:
1) how did we find this site? there've been a lot of hoxes so far.
2)
"FINDINGS- The message boards are still out on this piece. One of our members came across a website that also contains this symbol (206.16.223.65) "
where is the symbol on 65?

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Lostconfused
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Kore wrote:
Probably an off hand ILB reference, or a misspelling. I'd still like to know how this site was found, because the comic didn't have anything about this one...


NVM, my mistake, the numbers in the comic lead to the countdown. The actual site is .63 not .65, which is pretty close and it links to the countdown. I think some one screwed up, we originally should have found the site first and then the countdown.

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BTW, great work on finding the new site everyone! We can all contribute a lot more toward our end goal now that we all have something we can see and look at and contemplate on and tinker with.
I am thrilled to be in the midst of this stuff again!
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MjolnirMkII wrote:
BTW, great work on finding the new site everyone! We can all contribute a lot more toward our end goal now that we all have something we can see and look at and contemplate on and tinker with.
I am thrilled to be in the midst of this stuff again!


i wasnt around for the original ILB campaign, but i imagine you people are getting the same thrill all over again.

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