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eliwein
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 396 Location: Toronto
[SPEC] ParafFun! and specimen analysis I posted this in the general Tagruato forum, but the problem with threads like that, is that it ends up being a dozen question with no answers. Still, if a moderator wants to lock the thread, I won't rip anyone's head off... ( bad joke)
There's a few things on the list on ParafFun! that look very odd to me:
Quote:
Preparing specimens for histology? ParafFun!
Testing samples in infrared spectroscopy? ParafFun!
Moderating neutrons? ParafFun!
I don't know who the target market is, but considering their logo is a smiling candle, and give that the word "Fun" is in the name, these sound really odd. I hardly consider moderating neutrons "fun", nor would the moderator be amused by a smiling candle. In fact, I doubt a scientist doing such experiments would use the same product used for making crayons.
There's also "Propelling your hybrid rocket motors? ParafFun!" but the three above seem to be interconnected, and I guess if you're really committed, you could make your own hybrid rocket...
So lets put this all together. Ganu and his team finds the deep sea ingredient. He brings it into the lab, "prepares the specimen (DSI) for histology", "tests the sample in infrared spectroscopy" and "moderates the neutrons." Realizing how much paraffin wax he'll need to conduct and re-conduct these tests, he decides to create his own paraffin company, as a subsidary of Tagruato Corp. Money isn't an issue, considering he owns a oil rig company.
I'm still missing the connection to the monster, but we're getting warmer.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:37 pm
fitofjoy
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Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Posts: 39
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't moderating neutrons the act of guiding neutrons to control a nuclear reaction, like in nuclear power plants? Neutrons are fired at uranium, and to keep it contained, they use some sort of paddle to direct and regulate the amount of neutrons. I don't think there is a person who is a neutron moderator.
I think putting everyday products next to scientific activities was meant to be an amusing marketing strategy for the company.
"We can do everything, from making crayons to building rockets! Boo-yah!"
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:00 pm
cmg
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Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 31
paraffun as has been mentioned.. this is just a list of common uses of paraffin wax and i'm sure the variety of uses is just meant as amusing juxtaposition
the amount of paraffin used to prepare a slide for histology is quite minute.. as for the other uses that you mention, it would hardly require someone to found their own company... esp. considering how cheap paraffin wax is..
the use of paraffin is really ubiquitous in experimental science.. but not in any suspicious ways
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:13 pm
eliwein
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 396 Location: Toronto
Okay. I'll take that. Although it's still gonna stay in the back of my mind... maybe once they make the ParafFun! website, I'll get more info.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:38 pm
Dr. Awkward
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Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 374 Location: Marunouchi - Tokyo, Japan
I still sense ominous overtones in all of the subsidiaries of the Tagruato Corp., including ParafFun Wax.
Possibly just the residual of what I've read concerning all the Dharma related institutions underlying evilness in the Lost experience.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:00 am
Finch
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Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 150 Location: Wisconsin
In another thread I pointed out that I haven't found anyone mentioning using paraffin to moderate neutrons for about 70 years. It seems they have found much better materials to do this with. If you look up the wiki for paraffin and then look at the uses they describe for paraffun you start to see that whoever made the tagruato page didn't really delve all that deep into the uses of paraffin. I still think that possibly one or more of the uses they list will come into the game later on though. Anyone else here think all these subsidiaries will have their own stand-alone site eventually, like slusho?
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:17 am
eliwein
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There's 3 months until the release. I'd say its a good chance there'll be subsidiary sites, 3 months is a long time. One month is a long time.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:43 am
Dr. Awkward
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Finch wrote:
In another thread I pointed out that I haven't found anyone mentioning using paraffin to moderate neutrons for about 70 years. It seems they have found much better materials to do this with. If you look up the wiki for paraffin and then look at the uses they describe for paraffun you start to see that whoever made the tagruato page didn't really delve all that deep into the uses of paraffin. I still think that possibly one or more of the uses they list will come into the game later on though. Anyone else here think all these subsidiaries will have their own stand-alone site eventually, like slusho?
I'm hoping they'll provide subsidiary sites.
Weren't a number of sites incorporated into the Lost ARG.
I thought I remembered reading about quite a few.
I did have a premonition that they weren't going to when I read paraffun.jp was still available for domain registry.
At least there is hope considering boldfutura.jp (or .com can't remember which ) is parked for now.
Ymr.jp is taken, as we all know, but I don't know about yoshidamedicalresearch.jp??
I suppose it doesn't matter regardless - couldn't they just make active in-site links from tagruato.jp (ie. tagruato.jp/subsidiary/paraffunwax, etc.) ??
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:17 am
Matt Dark
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 256 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
I'm not entirely sure they're going to make sites. On WhoIs sites like BOLDFUTURA.JP and PARAFFUN.JP and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.JP are still available and if they ARE trying to branch into America and Europe like they say they would use .com right? Well Dennis from Cloverfield Clues already now has PARAFFUN.COM and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.COM. So if they were gonna put up sites don't you think they would have already purchased those sites even if they weren't live yet just to get them off the market? Not to mention if they were going to use other ones YMR.JP is already a financial place, YMR.COM was created in the 90s, BF.JP unregistered, BF.COM was created in 1994, and I don't know what you'd use to shorten ParafFun so I'm not even going to try. I don't think subsiderary sites are going up.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:59 am
Finch
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Matt Dark wrote:
I'm not entirely sure they're going to make sites. On WhoIs sites like BOLDFUTURA.JP and PARAFFUN.JP and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.JP are still available and if they ARE trying to branch into America and Europe like they say they would use .com right? Well Dennis from Cloverfield Clues already now has PARAFFUN.COM and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.COM. So if they were gonna put up sites don't you think they would have already purchased those sites even if they weren't live yet just to get them off the market? Not to mention if they were going to use other ones YMR.JP is already a financial place, YMR.COM was created in the 90s, BF.JP unregistered, BF.COM was created in 1994, and I don't know what you'd use to shorten ParafFun so I'm not even going to try. I don't think subsiderary sites are going up.
I think Slusho is the only subsidiary that mentions wanting to strike in the US markets.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:28 am
Dr. Awkward
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Finch wrote:
Matt Dark wrote:
I'm not entirely sure they're going to make sites. On WhoIs sites like BOLDFUTURA.JP and PARAFFUN.JP and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.JP are still available and if they ARE trying to branch into America and Europe like they say they would use .com right? Well Dennis from Cloverfield Clues already now has PARAFFUN.COM and YOSHIDAMEDICALRESEARCH.COM. So if they were gonna put up sites don't you think they would have already purchased those sites even if they weren't live yet just to get them off the market? Not to mention if they were going to use other ones YMR.JP is already a financial place, YMR.COM was created in the 90s, BF.JP unregistered, BF.COM was created in 1994, and I don't know what you'd use to shorten ParafFun so I'm not even going to try. I don't think subsiderary sites are going up.
I think Slusho is the only subsidiary that mentions wanting to strike in the US markets.
I believe you're right Finch.
So by certain logic they should have established that site as slusho.com instead of jp...but they didn't.
I suppose they're not that concerned w/ the details as meticulous as they are. I believe you also pointed out "their" lax in creating the IG purposes and such for ParafFun...if those are the real purposes as opposed to a cover for that subsidiaries true agenda (ie. world domination ).
If am not mistaken, Dennis bought parafun.com (or jp...i/d/k - 1 f), and paraffun.whatever ( 2 f's) is still available...
He said they wanted $99 to register that site and he wasn't willing to flip the bill.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:40 pm
Euchre
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Dr. Awkward wrote:
Finch wrote:
I think Slusho is the only subsidiary that mentions wanting to strike in the US markets.
I believe you're right Finch.
So by certain logic they should have established that site as slusho.com instead of jp...but they didn't.
Uh, take note...
They DO have Slusho.com. It redirects to Slusho.jp.
Also notice that the Slusho! site is primarily in English.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:34 am
Mikeyj
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Finch wrote:
In another thread I pointed out that I haven't found anyone mentioning using paraffin to moderate neutrons for about 70 years.
In case you're interested (yeah all right - probably not, but sometimes it's hard to control myself) the association between neutrons and paraffin wax actually goes back to the original discovery of the neutron by Chadwick in 1932, he discovered that the wax emitted protons when exposed to certain substances and it turned out that these substances emitted neutrons.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:43 am
Fehdman_Kassad
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Isn't paraffin wax found suspended in Crude Oil, like the oil that Tagruato gets from it's deep sea drilling. I am guessing that ParafFun! is a subsidiary because they are pulling the paraffin right out of the oil they drill...
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:44 pm
TheSupafly
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 17
Paraffin is derived from crude oil. We need to remember that Ganu tore apart and rebuilt Tagruato Corp. from the ground up. First as a drilling company, and eventually in to the subsidiaries we all know about.
To me, all the subsidiaries are there primarily to cater to the needs of Tagruato Corp's harvesting and processing of DSH.
Bold Futura:
I think perhaps we've missed the point of the information given to us on BF, yes they have dealt with arms manufacturers etc, but they seem especially proud of their exploration gear.
Quote:
A machine made with Bold Futura parts works where others fall to pieces. A vehicle made with Bold Futura equipment will travel where others cannot reach. Our unique ability to function in areas of severe temperature or pressure can have desirable implications for our clients.
BF is there, it seems, to enhance the efficiency and quality of their harvesting mechanisms.
Slusho!:
Keeps it cold, feeds the people DSH. Nuff said.
YMR:
An extensive amount of research on the extremophile and DSH would have been conducted to fully understand its benefits and possible risks, and there is no gain at all in having an outside company conduct the research.
Tagruato Drilling and ParaFUN!:
These would ultimately provide the massive revenue required to operate constantly at extreme temperatures. Maintenance of machines, Constant research/development... It's not cheap at all.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:27 am
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