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MrToasty
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Be@rbrick wrote:
Okay, two things. The first is, do you think this "evil logo" is simply a reference to Tagruato's old moto "holding Earth's energy in my fist"? Perhaps it was just the old logo? That can't explain why it was hidden, but thought I'd point that out.

The second thing is that if someone decompiled the flash on this site and was unable to find this alternate logo, wouldn't it still be possible that the flash on the Slusho site might actually have some hidden secrets as well?

Not hidden at all, see my post on page 12. It's right in the source of the page's html and shows up if you don't have Flash installed. Again it is odd though.

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Red Walrus
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Water bear

Here's one freaky monster if it was 1000 times bigger.



YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH
YMR is a genetic research firm specializing in deep sea bioprospecting. YMR implements Tagruato's advanced exploration technology to study extremophiles found only in the deepest parts of our oceans. The understanding of such organisms that thrive in conditions of extreme pressure, temperature, and toxicity has boundless pharmaceutical and industrial promise.

One such extremophile living on the ocean bottom is the Tardigrade or water bear. Notice the three claws on it's arms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_bear
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun00/mmbearp.html

This may lead to something , who knows. Like the Slusho history tells us - from a small fish to an enormous whale.


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Valken
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Hi, I'm Valken.

So what?

Secret Slusho ingredient turned a "little fish" into a "whale."
Out in the ocean there was a large untapped amount of the ingredient.
A sea creature was living around it so it growed really large.
So they drilled and woke it up?

Chuai "looked to the seas and saw nothing, so abandoned his faith."
If I don't see it, It's not there mentality?
No giant sea creature in sight, must not be there.

I'm just curious though. If this is the case, and the Slusho ingredient was what made the monster a monster in the first place. Which seems very possible. Then why only one monster? And if it's an energy drink, why was he sleeping?

Maby it's got to do with an ancient prehistoric beast sleeping in the ocean, and they get the ingredient and get greedy and dig deeper. Disturbing the slumbering beast. So he shifts but doesn't attack because he's not aggressive. Just old. In turn the oil rig breaks and spills all of the minded ingredient around the now unveiled beast. Filling him with energy and making him mad at being woken up. I mean. If you're woken up and you had all the energy in the world wouldn't you exact revenge on the people who woke you? As apposed to just slowly swatting them away like it did at first.

Oh and this just a thought i've had on my mind. If the world was once Pangea (one continent) and a meteor did hit it. And it did break apart. Then wouldn't Chuai be around the most likely spot a meteor hit. Concidering the size and positions of the continent. Perhaps something on the meteor? Perhaps the meteor was the origin of the ingredient? I don't know. Just a thought.

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dontlookmyage
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Whoa!

I guess I should go on vacation more often! I come back and the jackpot was hit! New picture, new website and a LOT of information! Anyway, here are my thoughts:

1) Regarding Dr. Awkward's call to the Tagruato Co. - it said that "there are NO UPDATES at this time" - should we perhaps call every so often to see WHEN there are updates posted?

2) The changing Tagruato logo - I use Firefox, and I could NOT for the life of me, see any change when I clicked on the logo, went to different places on the site, etc. Then, I switched the rendering engine from Friefox to I.E. Tab and BAM! There was the "hand of power" logo staring me in the face! It was somewhat startling at first, but there it was. I couldn't navigate through the site like in Firefox, but that may be because I need to upgrade my IE tab (though I may try with regulat IE just to see what's what).

3) I must agree about the writing of the day in the life of Dr. Takahashi - way too many exclamation points to seem professional to me. But hey, it's interesting reading - perhaps they'll find a cure for bladder infections as well....

Good find! Thank you so much! You guys rock and I love this forum! ARG or not, I'm definitely enjoying the ride, as this is my first one of whatever it is!! Very Happy

BTW - my youngest daughter's name is Keiko (really!). Not that she cares, but I'm going to tell her that her name is part of this whole thing (she thinks I'm the biggest nerd ever, but I don't care!). Geek

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Heff
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Hello, this my first post so please bear with me. I didn't see this posted, but I didn't read through all 14 pages of this thread.

In the history section the phrase "A New Sun Risen" stood out as odd to me so I threw it in the anagram solver and one thing that came out was "New Sin Near US". I just thought that was kind of interesting.

Keep up the great work!

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eliwein
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deletia wrote:
When you select a new location on the interactive drilling locations page, gibberish spews out as the information on the station appears at the bottom of the screen.

Someone else brought this up previously and it was dismissed, but now that we've seen that evil logo that shows up for only a split second, it occurs to me that we should probably investigate.

I would do it myself, but sadly I don't have the know-how


Can someone do this, please? Its a 50/50 chance that its important.

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crazedstapler
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i like the whole pangea idea, although some of the facts you had were wrong. pangea wasn't actually broken up by a meteor, it actually is believed that the reason pangea started to break apart was because of continental drift. we've all taken high school geology or earth science, so i would assume everyone knows what the continental drift theory is.

but, in keeping with the pangea idea, if you look at pangea and compare its position to the continents of today, you can see that the mid-atlantic rift/ridge is central in the breakup of pangea. thank you wikipedia.

so what if, instead of it being some kind of alien life form, its just a prehistoric creature that lies dormant in the deep recesses of the ocean, somewhat undisturbed until ganu starts pestering him with his damned digging devices.




i do know that the last part has been brought up a number of times, but it seems more logical now with the information of pangea and the location of the mid-atlantic ridge in relation to pangea.

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dontlookmyage
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One other thing - there are 14 drilling stations, which is double 7 (Slusho 7). Just a thought.....

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tiny420
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Don't know if this has been discussed..But.

18 Palace Plaza
36-40-10 Marunouchi
Marunouchi, Tokyo 118-8336
Japan

TEL +81-3-5403-6318

Has anyone tried to see if this is a real location...Or, like if anyone is in Japan, tried to call this number. I think it would be better than trying to send an Email. Considering will we probably get the same email. But if this is a real location, who knows.

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rjharris1960
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I posted this in another thread. Maybe the Cloverfield monster really is an alien. Perhaps many eons ago, a civilization from another galaxy banished this monster from their planet sending the creature off into space encased in a capsule filled with a liquid sedative and this capsule crash lands in the Atlantic Ocean. Cut to the present….a company discovers flora in the deepest part of the ocean that secretes an edible, flavorful and intoxicating compound that has health benefits and no side effects. No one realizes that these plants are actually the result of from a leak in the alien creature's ancient capsule; and the sedative in the capsule mutates surrounding aquatic plant life to create the secret ingredient used in Slusho. The drilling rigs accidentally drill to deep and puncture the creatures capsule. The creature wakes up and follows a scent trail back to New York City, sees and oil tanker, and tosses it into Midtown Manhattan. Then it sees the Statue of Liberty and tears the head off the statue and launches it into Manhattan. Then it reaches the island , and all hell breaks loose.

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Real life model of YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH

YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH
YMR is a genetic research firm specializing in deep sea bioprospecting. YMR implements Tagruato's advanced exploration technology to study extremophiles found only in the deepest parts of our oceans. The understanding of such organisms that thrive in conditions of extreme pressure, temperature, and toxicity has boundless pharmaceutical and industrial promise.
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I found a real life counterpart of YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH
Kinda interesting
http://www.funcrypta.de/www/en/

The strategy of FUNCRYPTA, therefore, is:

(i) to use a cultured tardigrade species, which will be used for all investigations as a model organism,
(ii) to link molecular, biochemical, and physiological data by bioinformatic techniques and modelling, and
(iii) to transfer the knowledge to the industrial sector

Also:
http://www.bio-pro.de/en/region/stern/magazin/02623/index.html

This could explain why the secret ingrediant has to be keep cold and also may be how a sleeping monster awakens:

Cryptobiosis
The way that tardigrades have adapted to environmental stress is to reversibly suspend their metabolism and to effectively isolate themselves from the changes. This state is known as cryptobiosis and is a truly death-like state. Cessation of metabolism in other organisms is called death. Metabolism in tardigrades can lower to less than 0.01% of normal, or be entirely undetectable and the water content of the body may decrease to less than 1%. Tardigrades have been revived from this state after more than 100 years and shown signs of life! However, experiments have only shown cryptobiosis under natural conditions of 12 years but frozen they could theoretically survive for ever! The change in environmental conditions determine which cryptobiotic method—anhydrobiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis, and anoxybiosis—will occur.

Most studies of cryptobiosis have been done on anhydrobiosis, the form of cryptobiosis initiated by desiccation. Tardigrades living in a limno-terrestrial habitat, such as moss or lichens, require that they can survive long periods of dryness. Anhydrobiosis involves an almost complete loss of body water and the animal can stay in this state for an long period of time. Tun formation is an essential part of the process, which can be done repeatedly throughout the life cycle, even by adults, resulting in a body that is constricted and folded up. The limbs invaginate, the body contracts and becomes folded.The tun formation is an active process requiring metabolism and synthesis of a protective sugar Trehelose. After the tun is formed further desiccation can take place in 0 % relative humidity and the tardigrade can still survive. Revival typically takes a few hours from natural habitats but depends upon how long the tardigrade has been in the anhydrobiotic condition.

Cryobiosis is cryptobiosis which is initiated by a reduction in temperature to below 0 °C and involves the ordered freezing of water within the body cells . Osmobiosis is a form of cryptobiosis initiated by a decreased water potential due to increased solute concentration in the surrounding solution.A reduction of the % of oxygen initiates a suspended state in tardigrades, but is mostly not considered a form of cryptobiosis—tardigrades in this state remain extended, turgid, and immobile but it can only last for days before they die

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Here's a screenshot of the gibberish as it rolls accross the screen. Just seems like nonsense to me. Just a cool effect, especially since it change rapidly at every space.
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crazedstapler
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I really like the water-bear theory. When I read the mission statement of yoshida medical, the first thing i did was look up extremophiles.

I never found the water-bear though. After reading 'the art of survival' and researching the water bear, it seems highly likely that it could be our monster.

Good find.

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MrToasty
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TaninimBait wrote:
Here's a screenshot of the gibberish as it rolls accross the screen. Just seems like nonsense to me. Just a cool effect, especially since it change rapidly at every space.

In the decompiled flash they fill the fields with randomly generated text, so no, there is nothing interesting in the flashing text aside from a cool effect.

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dontlookmyage
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I REALLY need to work, but....

..I can't get this out of my head - this new find it too "tasty" Wink . Anyway, thinking about Slusho! quickly becoming the second most popular frozen drink in Asia, I, like others, was wondering what the first was. I Googled and found these websites about Bubble Tea (or Boba Tea).

http://www.bubbletea.com/

http://www.boba.com/

Something that caught my eye was at the bottom of the "What is Bubble Tea" page from the Bubbletea site:
[url]
http://www.bubbleteasupply.com/index.php?page=what.html[/url]

"One thing is for certain. Bubble Tea is not a fad. It's a trend. This drink is addictive. If you've had a good one before then you know what we're talking about."

Also on the boba.com site (a.k.a., "Boba World"), a few of the links don't work, all located under the "Info" menu.

These are real sites, from what I can tell, but I thought that was pretty interesting. I'm not even sure that Bubble Tea IS the most popular frozen drink in Asia right now - I don't even think it's always frozen - but that's what I found, FWIW. I've actually seen it offered in the Japanese restaurant near my house, but didn't try it (though now I may). I'd like to see if I can find a Japanese website featuring Bubble Tea, and see how it's set up.

Right now, though, I really need to get back to work.....

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