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[SuperSquirrel]

The Case...

[starshiptrooper]

[rocksmars]

Yes I've heard of a few good men hopefully Cloverfield will actually be good unlike that film. A few good men is a legal case, military but still legal.
The use of the term "Case" in a legal sense has an entirely different meaning from it's use in a military investigation. A military investigation is to determine cause, not assign blame or fault. The evidence gathered in the case designated "Cloverfield" could certainly later be used in a legal case but it's not the same thing. It is similar in usage as to the CIA or FBI, their "Cases" are never what they are known as when and if legal proceedings are brought. It's just a naming for convenience and identification.

[starshiptrooper]

No argument Rocksmars. That's what I said in the beginning. The whole 01-18-08 website could be the file on "Case Designate: Cloverfield", meaning the monster and attack.

The court stuff is just what I was speculating what the file could be used for.

[Chrizzy]

From the DoD Dictionary of Military Terms
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/data/c/00857.html

[huricanefan]

this is the same thing i was try to say here you thought stealing b@st3rd
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23485&sid=6da4760d956ded25457fc3679009bc80

[LaNcEleCtriKuTion]

Whoops.

[rocksmars]

The idea of getting a whole case file later is cool, I would read it.
But I'm not holding out a lot of hope. Other than the newcasts and the Slusho! site, which is Abrams pet I think, the whole ARE has been rather lazily handled in my opinion. Besides the date problems there are a number of things done poorly I think. The Jamie vids come to mind but also the way the MySpace pages were done. If they cared even remotely about them they could have took the time to add posts to flesh them out, like holiday greetings to the other people. The person updating it would have tried to add a bit of reality too by letting time pass between the posts instead of logging into one person each after the other like it was a chore to be done before leaving work.

Yeah I know it's just marketing stop your bitchin Rock but this could have been done better and it wouldn't have cost them a dime more.

[rocksmars]

[Windwind]

You know it would take years for the nuclear fallout to wear off? They are still keeping Chernobyl a restricted zone, and that's a way longer period than some half a year as your theory states.

That is, of course, if we assume that there really was a nuclear strike on the city. If that was a different sort of a weapon, then there would probably not be a need to wait at all before recovering the evidence. Well, just for the dust to cease.

Then again. If you state that the timestamps on the pictures show the time these pictures were found, then why is the actual time different? If you find the camera, you find them all at once. So there has to be one single timestamp on them all. Instead, the time of 12:36AM and such is a lot likely to be the time the party took place, not the time you would be looking for evidence..

Then again, if we assume somebody was timestamping the images as they were processed for the lawsuit file (and not found with the camera), why wouldn't they timestamp the other pictures as well? Why are the Rob's party pics the only pics stamped? No sense.

But there can be sense in a fact a handheld camera puts its own stamps on the pictures. It's just that the date does not match. After all the mindtwisting, I'm tending to think it's some sort of a flaw (I know it sounds stupid, but argh! I have no idea!).

One more thing. There was a post here saying that the pictures may have already been printed before the event, that's why there are messages on their back sides. Well, you know, we can assume the camera stayed alive somehow during a military strike, and so the video is intact. But the printed pictures? Printed on paper? During a bombarding of the city? I don't think so.

[starshiptrooper]

Re: Whoops.

[Chrizzy]

[LaNcEleCtriKuTion]

Re: Whoops.

[rocksmars]

They may used some very limited tactical nukes in the film off shore or at shore but they would never nuke Manhattan, the monster could raze the joint and they would let him if the only thing that would stop him is full nuke.

There's billions in precious medals in Manhattan (much of it not ours), they aren't going to make them worthless no matter how many people die.
Nuking Manhattan would render the island uninhabitable for many, many years. You can't rebuild in a radiation zone. They would fight him with conventional weapons until he left the island then nuke him at seas of on the mainland.

[starshiptrooper]