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natedoggy
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 		Other photo's by Dr Lowry
Has anyone seen this yet?

It's a photo by Dr. SF Lowry (yes the same one) that won him 4th place in a Microscope Photography contest back in 1994. Note the unmistakable resemblance to the Flood that the main subject has (in this case it's a water flea), and the 7 ring like objects. Additionally each ring has a different color.

The url of the photo is here

It's probably nothing but dang, it sure does look Halo related.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:49 am
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mogbert
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 		Yeah, he wrote the book on coloring electron microscope photos.

No, I REALLY mean, he wrote the book on it:
Lowry SF. The use of digital image processing in retouching and colour rendition of black and white photographs. Supplementary Proceedings of the Royal Microscopy Society 20: 23, 1995

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:22 pm
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Shlonster
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 		I feel like we are all looking way to deeply into everything we've been given -- it doesn't seem like we have any real clues pointing us in any direction. The website does emphasize the whole "lex parsimonae" (sp?).

I'm not sure if that is meant to be taken as directive from the PM's, meaning "hey you guys, this is just the beginning there isn't anything too crazy here...", or if maybe it's a sort of sarcastic poke at ARG's where things are rarely as they seem... I don't know, just throwing this out there, we've been coming up with crazy ideas for about a week now.

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BobBobson
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mogbert wrote:
... and I also have no reason not to believe the metadata that indicates this. They grabbed the Sonogram Overlay to make it look more medical-ish, to punch-afy it up a little.


On the other hand, I would consider the metadata and the paths to be OOG. If you keep them in, then this is obviously a doctored picture, indicating a conspiracy or some such.

If on the other hand, you keep them out, then this can be a picture of some sort of fetus. Maybe a fetus infected with something, or an alien fetus growing up. It can be either historic or current day.

mogbert wrote:
The exception to this is the "CnRL - Infc HR 568" which they didn't grab from the sonogram. These letters might mean something,


Agreed.

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natedoggy
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Shlonster wrote:
I feel like we are all looking way to deeply into everything we've been given -- it doesn't seem like we have any real clues pointing us in any direction. The website does emphasize the whole "lex parsimonae" (sp?).



True, we probably are...

But if out of 20 bad leads we get 1 good one, at least we get the one good one right?

For some reason I just can't let go of the Dr. S Lowry theory (even though it's probably totally OOG).

The Metadata from the in-game strep image matches a different photo from SF Lowry on gettyimages.com. Additionally if you look at all of Dr. Lowry's work on gettyimages.com you will notice that the image from the ARG is not there.

The pieces just don't add up... why would Bungie strip the metadata out of the image BC3779-001 on getttyimages and place it into the image they created/used for the ARG? Just strange if you ask me...

Attached: Another image from the same Dr. SF Lowry... now THIS REALLY looks flood like....

Link to page here
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CookTrain
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 		This is my first thing, so if I've royally got this wrong, excuse me...

I put "Dr S Lowry" into google and got this page as my top result:


http://www.scitizen.com/screens/usersPage/userSummary/sw_userDisplay.php?idUser=439&PHPSESSID=97d138b2eee9866855c335373fadfbdb

It was created on the 07/05/07 which is the number on the first slide. But this is under UK style dating...

Can anyone see any relevance to it? Or am I just in the realm of coincidence?

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natedoggy
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CookTrain wrote:
Can anyone see any relevance to it? Or am I just in the realm of coincidence?


Well, the Dr. Lowry from the ARG photo metadata was Stephen F. Lowry of Ulster University. The one from the article link you posted is Stephen C. Lowry from Queens Belfast University, so pretty sure that it's just co-incidence. Smile

Although I have to agree that the article date 070507 in combination with the name does pop out at you, but the article itself is about sunlight causing astroids to spin faster so no real relation...

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Shlonster
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 		natedoggy:

I certainly can't refute what you're saying -- getting any good lead would of course be helpful! I was pretty much just thinking out loud, and reminding everyone to think critically about what they're finding/looking for.

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BobBobson
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 		Thread revival:
It seems the update to server 5 updated this picture. The picture itself seems the same (will check) but the metadata is gone. I tested opening the picture in Photoshop windows and resaving and the metadata stays, so it must have been manually removed.

This seems to point towards Dr Lowry being OOG, and possibly this not being an SEM picture nor being related to streptococcus pyogenes. (Since these came directly from the metadata)

So, we might as well just start from scratch. The posibilities seem to be:

- This a bacteria/cell/microscope picture of a group of infected cells
- This an ultrasound picture of some sort of infected fetus
- This a a disguised map. For example, related to starimage, or some volcano/crater/lake in Tanzania (Kilimanjaro? olduvai gorge?)

The paths are still in the image. I doubt they just forget to clean that up if they went through this much trouble, so these might be significant.

Thoughts? Fresh analysis?

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BobBobson wrote:
Thread revival:
It seems the update to server 5 updated this picture. The picture itself seems the same (will check) but the metadata is gone. I tested opening the picture in Photoshop windows and resaving and the metadata stays, so it must have been manually removed.

This seems to point towards Dr Lowry being OOG, and possibly this not being an SEM picture nor being related to streptococcus pyogenes. (Since these came directly from the metadata)

So, we might as well just start from scratch. The posibilities seem to be:

- This a bacteria/cell/microscope picture of a group of infected cells
- This an ultrasound picture of some sort of infected fetus
- This a a disguised map. For example, related to starimage, or some volcano/crater/lake in Tanzania (Kilimanjaro? olduvai gorge?)

The paths are still in the image. I doubt they just forget to clean that up if they went through this much trouble, so these might be significant.

Thoughts? Fresh analysis?


If you place the paths where they belong in the image like was done previously in this thread, every circle in the image is underneath a path. The four circles on the right are under where the two paths overlap. One of them just makes it in.

not sure if this is relevant, but it seems like somethings up here.
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whitekeyes
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 		Has anyone tried reshaping the Slide_Ref701070.jpg to match the shape of the sonogram? And then seeing how the other paths fit on that image? It seems that they may have taken a sonogram and photoshopped it to look like a TEM which would explain better why those paths exist at all. I've got to photoshop skills, though, soo...

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zarkon
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 		Doesn't this image look a LOT like that caldera?
I'm really new to this but this slide (if rotated 180 degrees) should fit exactly on the image of the Mount Elgon caldera. Maybe I've been staring at Google maps too long...

I don't have any decent graphics utility to do this but maybe when superimposed the slide gives more clues???

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MariusDarkwolf
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 		Re: Doesn't this image look a LOT like that caldera?
zarkon wrote:
I'm really new to this but this slide (if rotated 180 degrees) should fit exactly on the image of the Mount Elgon caldera. Maybe I've been staring at Google maps too long...

I don't have any decent graphics utility to do this but maybe when superimposed the slide gives more clues???


Here's one version that was a little spooky. All I had to do was up the photo size for the mt elgon map from the wiki, and volia



What's interesting to me, is that the glyph neatly overlaps the caldera, and that gray spot under the glyph which reminded me of a simian of some kind, (I thought baboon) looks like it fits in now.

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 		Sorry, This is what you were asking for, though the other is a better fit I think



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mithical
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 		Hey I got an awesome idea. Let's throw star image in there too. I'm sure once you take all 3 they form a pic of Master Chief pointing to the way to the next server.

In all seriousness, thinking outside the box is a useful tool, but answers will only lie so far out of the box. If you look around and you can't even see the box anymore, you should probably rethink your position.

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