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rockizzy
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latin ARU
in need of translation

Britt³ wrote:
Good find! I don't know if we were suppose to get the ARU yet..there seem to be a lacking in non-latin info. lol I could be wrong.


is this ARUsite the one with the password puzzle? you know, "name of a supporter and his/her last two words"?

anyway, i got the latin here, tried translating it with an online translator which... basically didnt work. unfortunately i never learned latin, but maybe someone else is smarter here?

Quote:
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:56 pm
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degravedi
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Maybe Twelve wrote:
The Google Earth file has some files with words that are lighter, like the previous one:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
bhopal: UN

love canal: Layer

exxon valdez: africA

aral sea: dried up

the gulf war oil spill: lake


So. In addition, changing the URL for a certain file gets you to a walkthrough for the entire game. I didn't look at it... but it's there. I'm not sure what to think of this?


Oh my o.o Erm, but anyway. On Bhopal it's only an N, the U is supposed to be capitalized. And Chernobyl has a capitalized E in NuclEar

EDIT: And I think that that isn't really latin but Lorem Ipsum. Basically filler text before you have actual text to put on a page.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:58 pm
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rockizzy
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degravedi wrote:
EDIT: And I think that that isn't really latin but Lorem Ipsum. Basically filler text before you have actual text to put on a page.


ah, i see. i have never heard of something like that... but now it all makes sense, maybe we really werent supposed to find that yet.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:02 pm
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Britt³
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rockizzy wrote:
degravedi wrote:
EDIT: And I think that that isn't really latin but Lorem Ipsum. Basically filler text before you have actual text to put on a page.


ah, i see. i have never heard of something like that... but now it all makes sense, maybe we really werent supposed to find that yet.


Sorry, thats what I meant when I said that we maybe weren't suppose to have that yet.. Hopefully if we've gone to far (which I believe we have) they will fix it soon. Smile Or we will resist the temptation to look at the walkthrough.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:20 pm
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phyzix
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This is what I could make from the latin text.


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Some a quiver orci he is amet dignissim price , if not is concern to set free eget fringilla lorem bed eget was. Up to the time when eget fear. Some to add to a heap blandishments skirmish. Nullam lamentation ligula and not ullamcorper to please massa spotless sagittis in fact , this carry itself orci easy diam. As yet itself dui sagittis a , first principle a , always not nibh. Eneus mauris. Consequently some ornare diam. But a quiver , prefix meaning half- but a thrower always , in fact equity ninth dui , he is amet dignissim worthless dui this eros. Up to the time when to make sad equity when to set free. Upon consectetuer. Maecenas transitory nisl this sagittis avenging , how orci to make sad region , and not porttitor pain eros and in fact. Curabitur vulputate lucky a unseemly. Up to the time when good prefix meaning half-. Consequently he is amet wise not mi lacinia to grow strong. Each one dignissim. Upon ornare lorem when lorem. Phasellus lobortis was and spotless.



I couldn't find translations for all the words. But this might help.


Also can someone do a recap of what we've found so far?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:29 am
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Pony
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Sounds fun

Ok, so I sent an e-mail to thier web site, do I need to wait to join in until I get a response e-mail or can I just jump in using what has been given so far by everyone else? Thx

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myf
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Feel free to dive in whenever you like. Have fun, and welcome Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:52 am
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CraigRJ
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Chernobyl has a P as well as the E, maybe that points us to the UNEP Layer in Google Earth, looking for a dried-up lake in Africa?

-- Craig.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:53 am
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CraigRJ
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Her location?

So, if you take the list of locations from the travelogue and put them into latitudinal order it actually gives you a valid location, in northern Libya:-

30 46 46.82 N, 17 24 08.85 E

So I've emailed that off...

-- Craig.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:56 am
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nbnewell
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CraigRJ wrote:
Chernobyl has a P as well as the E, maybe that points us to the UNEP Layer in Google Earth, looking for a dried-up lake in Africa?

-- Craig.


I though the same thing as well and found this:

forum won't allow me to to attach .kmz

Lake Faguibine in Mali 17°15'46.60"N 3°27'39.55"W

which has a link to this:
http://na.unep.net/digital_atlas2/webatlas.php?id=273

if this is it...now what?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:23 am
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gambler
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secret_files

I don't think this tells us about her location, I think it's something different that we weren't supposed to find yet, as Britt suggested. I also thought of the UNEP layer in google-earth thing and found an alternative dried-up lake in africa --- Lake Chad. I think we'll have to wait until later to discover which one solves whatever part of the game this is Wink

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:45 pm
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CraigRJ
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OK, I can accept that - where I see us (well, me at least!) as being stuck, is in what to do with Bindu's travelogue. To recap, if you check them all out some have numbers, two have a letter, and six have neither a letter nor a number.

Sixteen numbers and two letters (N and E) really screams out that we have two eight-digit co-ordinates to discover.

Putting these in order of latitude, from N to S

3 Surtsey Island 6318 N
0 Sognefjord Fjord 6104 N
The Matterhorn 4557 N
4 Redwood National Park 4123 N
Yosemite National Park 3744 N
6 Mammouth Cave National Park 3711 N
4 Mount Fuji 3523 N
6 Wulingyuan 2920 N
8 Mount Everest 2759 N
2 Lijiang River 2456 N
Chicxulub 2125 N
N Paricutin 1929 N
Challenger Deep 1127 N
1 Mouth of the Amazon River 25 N
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park103 S
7 Mount Kilimanjaro 304 S
2 Rainforest 556 S
4 El Misti 1618 S
0 Victoria Falls 1755 S
8 The Great Barrier Reef 1920 S
8 Soussusvlei 2345 S
5 Uluru (Ayers Rock) 2520 S
Moreno Glacier 5028 S
E Antarctica 8835 S

Gives us what I posted earlier - I'm really drawn to this answer, as we get eight numbers, the N, eight numbers, the E, which is spot-on for co-ordinate purposes.

But, there's nothing tangible there on Google Earth.

Maybe I messed up the latitude on one or more locations? Maybe the entries with no number or letter provide an ordering clue in another way. That's what I'm looking at now.

-- Craig.

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agentgr33n
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reply time

so i mailed scopernica some cooridnates (ler, ethipoia...dont ask) heres his reply....

Quote:
Thanks so much for helping me locate my sister. I'm beginning to
really fear for her safety as I know there's some people out there
that don't want her doing what she does.

But I´m not sure what the information you´ve given me all means. I´ve
a feeling that you´re on the right track but not quite there. I've
racked my brains but can't figure out where she is either. Maybe she´s
left a message for me somewhere?

I fear that time is running out. Please continue helping.

-Salvador


so......yeah.........

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:41 pm
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CraigRJ
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Well, as people can add text and photo tags to various co-ords in Google Earth, my feeling is that we should decrypt the numbers we have to get a valid set of co-ords, and if we get it right it would be obvious as it would lead to a user tag from Bindu for her bro....

It's how to get that two sets of co-ords from our sixteen numbers that's driving me nuts!

-- Craig.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:50 pm
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CraigRJ
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My message back was:-

---

Craig

Thanks so much for helping me locate my sister. I'm beginning to
really fear for her safety as I know there's some people out there
that don't want her doing what she does.

I think you´re onto something. But I was hoping she´d left a message for me somewhere?

I fear that time is running out. Please continue helping.

-Salvador

---

I'm gonna cry in a minute.

-- Craig.

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