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[Mason]

We have an update!


http://www.6op1libra.com/
meta name="description" content="the world ends"
img src="6op1libra118.png" alt="cracked" /


4am 11th December 2007

[mortality]

Now it looks more like an aerial photograph of a town/city at night.

[Mason]

Nope - definitely space. If you're thinking surface, maybe the moon?

[mortality]

Definitely not the moon. I'm pretty sure it is space, either the target of a launch from Earth or the site of a launch to Earth.

But the new version of the picture looks like what you see when you look out the window late at night while flying cross-country.

[JawZ]

image on other website hasnt changed. but im thinking that this is a close up...or a more "indepth" version of the blue checkered thing

the cross could be representing the biggest red blob? or another red blob?

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launch initiated? what was it that was supposedly launched
and it says the world is gonna end? 11th december?

our world? or another world?

[JawZ]

[JawZ]

http://naraka.blogspot.com/2007/08/yarr.html

pictures of/near carean hill i believe.

[Scribe]

Bah, didn't get e-mailed with the updates, otherwise I'd be posting sooner...

At first I thought the new image also looked like city lights - the section 3 squares up from the middle reminds me a little of Europe. But I now get the impression that the "scan", or map, or whatver it is, is just "incomplete". Certain squares have more info than others, so each one, I guess, represents some distinct difference.

Maybe each square is covered by a different "team", or satellite dish or something? Any chance we can see if this relates to something like SETI data?

Also, I randomly found out what Eric's chat avatar (see previous post here) relates to - the one that originally reminded me of the Mysterious Cities of Gold... it's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International

Edit: BTW, each of those smaller grid squares is 32x32, a pattern we've seen before. The binariness of it all (32, 512) definitely sticks out to me - either it's computer generated, or significant in terms of bits and bytes. If it was a sky scan, I can't think why it would be so binary-based. Is there some way to find out how many different colours are presented in the image?

Edit 2:

[JawZ]

Edit: BTW, each of those smaller grid squares is 32x32, a pattern we've seen before. The binariness of it all (32, 512) definitely sticks out to me - either it's computer generated, or significant in terms of bits and bytes. If it was a sky scan, I can't think why it would be so binary-based. Is there some way to find out how many different colours are presented in the image?
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in the new picture?
or the old?
or another?

21 colours
http://www.6op1libra.com/6op1libra118.png

27 colours
http://www.highfivegame.com/6op1libra.gif

[Mason]

MSN: from augustine_asimovSPLAThotmail.com
MSN comment: eyes

[Scribe]

[Mason]

Also, notice the headers: back/front.

Scribe, I think Nick is Nick from Magpie. Talk to him.

[JawZ]

inverted images of what we already got

[Scribe]

OK, there's just something about the way those dots are clustered that makes me want to look down, rather than up. See the attached image for an overlay of Europe/Africa on the image. I initially took a screen shot of Google Earth and placed the UK over the bit that reminded me of the UK. No resizing done.

This is a rough approximation to what I was thinking, but 1 thing in particular strikes me as important - the cross is pretty directly over Israel. This only intrigues me as Israel has come up before - see this post in the NN thread for the NN.org whois details.

Yes, this is sketchyish, but so is my graphical treatment. I'm not entirely convinced, but the Israel link is odd. Also, the bold red vertical line would then almost be on the Meridian Prime line (GMT). Plus the coloured dots then lie mostly over land - although these seem to be incomplete, with some grid squares not having any "data".

Argh, this is driving me mad.

(ETA: Turns out this is a map generated according to an xkcd idea - see here. There's fairly little overlap with the real world map, so I think the location of Israel is probably just coincidence here.)

[Scribe]

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