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[tipsila]

My apologies for the double post.

Just wondering here... I noticed some things in common.

The numbers (118 76 243 118 42) are similar to the coordinates we have received previously. The St. Thomas location 18 20' 06.15" N, 64 56'34.28" W, and the Detroit location at 42 19' 40.00" N, 83 3' 6.26" W (also the 342/243 in the seconds of the St. Thomas location). What about 76?

76 as a latitude, either north or south, brings us to the poles, although neither are nice places to lay on the beach and drink margaritas - unless one is a penguin

Something else odd, but "op libra" anagrams into BIPOLAR, and the cube root of pi is used for determining the volume of a sphere, if I am not mistaken?

[DelVillan.]

Something else strange that I noticed, though probably far-fetched, is that the cube root of pi is 1.464591889, rounded. Most of those digits are in the sequence found, with the leftover digits having the ability to neatly make up the five and nine in the center.

But, I don't think that's much of anything.

[Cowabella]

JUNK DNA

[mortality]

Google seems to think the writing on found.jpg is Tamil.

[ncfriend]

another dead arg?

[DelVillan.]

It might not be dead. We're pretty sure this connects to one or two other ARGs, though we're not sure which ones. So if some of the progress here is relative to another ARG, we might just be waiting on some group of players somewhere to find a particular solution so we can continue.

But, that's being too optimistic for me.

[Mason]

Eric is on holiday for 2 weeks (from now, I'm unsure as to how long he's been away).

I expect 118 now also refers to August 11th.

There are still puzzles open to exploration.


What's Mahasamparka got to do with it?

[Scribe]

Hi all, back, and glad I haven't too much to catch up with.

Nice one on the code everyone - I got the message too, but completely missed the backwards numbers. Will digest it in my dreams.

Coming back, I noticed my RSS reader picked up an update to Aulus' Live Spaces page - the background image was apparently updated, but looks the same to me - same circuit diagram thing.

However, the feed also included the name of the file, handily. It's called Mig60.jpg. A bit of Google research throws up the Sovtek Mig-60 Guitar Amp, and this page has the original picture (<- links here).

Nothing too spectacular, but thought it might be helpful to clear one thing up at least

[Scribe]

Chat with Eric & Analysis

[Mason]

http://www.gatethreeincident.com/

Major update. Counter appears to be counting down to 11th August (11/8 in UK).

[Mason]

http://www.6op1libra.com/

Also updated with the same counter
Meta: META name="finding"


http://www.highfivegame.com/
META name="beww" /
TITLE Delivering /title

The blue image is still up. That is so puzzling.
Is anyone good with images?

[DelVillan.]

I'm going to mess with some of those images tomorrow and see if I can nail anything.

Unfortunately, I won't be around for the eleventh thing. I'm going on vacation that week, so I doubt I'll be much help.

ETA: Highfivegame.com's image's alt text is "searching," and Gatethreeincident.com's is "locate." Pretty weird.

[Scribe]

Cyg X-1 and X-3 refer to cosmic objects seen in the Cygnus constellation (the Swan). Both emit large amounts of x-rays, and have a good probability (pretty near certain for X-1) of being black holes. Here's some info on X1 and X3 yanked from Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast25feb_1m.htm

Interestingly, the Cygnus constellation (link) is at a declination of +42.03 degrees. I wondered about cosmic co-ordinates before, but the friend I asked on them said they weren't of the right form. But I'm not convinced. Can anyone map the 2 locations we have on to the sky somehow? Maybe using the "cosmic north" or some kind of absolute measure?

Also, the backwards thing is definitely annoying me, like it's key to something. 11th August might be 11/8 here, but it's 8/11 in the US, and the way the numbers were written backwards through the stolen code suggests they should be read backwards, perhaps.

[Scribe]

Sorry for the double post, I just worked out what the Javascript in the new pages does. It's basically been written to hide the fact that it doesn't actually to much at all - indeed, it's been "obfuscare"d

Summary: the code sets the final countdown date time as Sat Aug 11 2007 23:00:00 - 11pm, not 4pm as it's originally set at. Note that this is also 11pm your local time, as far as i can see.

All the preceding stuff with 'dateNow', 'dateNowServer' and if statements is completely static - you get the same result every time. hourDiff gets set to 5. dateAdjustment gets set to 24. dayAdjustment is never set to 1, so the only manipulation of dateFuture is this bit:

[Mason]

Yeah, scribe is right. 11pm regardless of time zone. But, could we have someone in the USA test this? Roll your clock forward to 11th August 1pm and see if it reads 10h.

When you roll it further than 11th Aug 11pm, it reads: