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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Des Moines, IA

 		Looks like you have an image of a louse or some other arthropod. More specifically maybe a crab louse.



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DarknessRising
Boot

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 		toasty, do you ever get any sleep? Shocked Razz

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Oriza
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 		The louse idea makes me think that that is perhaps what carries the virus. Like the Black Death-- it picks up the virus from sucking the blood of other animals, then passes it on to the next creature it bites.

EDIT: Never mind that theory-- according to Wikipedia, the crab louse lives only on humans....
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FriarTech
Boot


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 		My picture
Sorry all - but there's really nothing too exciting directly near me.

But the perfect place to investigate the effects of a virus? A hospital - campus.

Here's my pic
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DarknessRising
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 		 Re: My picture
Silent Monk wrote:

But the perfect place to investigate the effects of a virus? A hospital - campus.


How about a war zone? something of the likes of unit 731. In fact they were developing biological weapons that would be spread with the use of fleas.


i probably dont have any idea what i am talking about Rolling Eyes

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Oriza
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 		Well, I finally managed to escape my house and take some photos. It took me forever to decide which photo to send in, but I finally picked this one because I feel much closer to it-- it's a branch of a young cypress tree that I take care of at this one pond I live near.
Unless you guys think I should send the second one xD I don't really know.
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Lain
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 		Aha! It IS a crab louse!
Mr. Toasty, you are so right.
I'm guessing that this is the website that the crab louse image was taken from:

http://bio-ditrl.sunsite.ualberta.ca/detail/?P_MNO=1581

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Nighthawk
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 14 Jul 2007
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Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth

 		Do we, or can we, have a Wiki for all this? I haven't been following or doing the puzzle solving in that much detail (I hate these repeated, complex, tedious puzzles to be honest), so I'm kinda lost on where we're at.

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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Des Moines, IA

 		That's where I got my pic from, not sure if his is from there too.

So, if it is a crab louse, the most commonly alluded to method of transmission (not necessarily most common in practice) is through sexual contact. Punishing the naughty?

Oh, the logo from the Telather Creed page bothered me, so I had to check out my suspicions in Photoshop. Sure enough I was right - somebody is playing around with the rectangular to polar filter. See the attached for the reversed process. UL ? LU, d'oh! Rolling Eyes
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Lain
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 		Do they carry viruses?
Everything I've read so far seems to say that crab lice rarely carry disease or viruses but other lice do.
Although I did find one article that said they'd found HIV in a crab louse, I can't remember now where I read that.
Has anyone else found something different?

Ok, my bad, I just realized that Toasty's picture wasn't the same as the lazurus union one...but I still think he's right.

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Oriza
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 		/me has no idea what Toasty means by 'rectangular to polar' filter-- can someone explain that? Sorry Razz
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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Des Moines, IA

 		This isn't the best explanation, but read a little of this, mostly look at the pictures:
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/polar_coordinates/

Basically if you start with a regular grid (cartesian coordinates) and wrap it around a center point so you get something that looks more like a radar display (polar coordinates0. That's what was done to the UL to get the logo. I just did the reverse process, unwrapping the polar back to cartesian.

ETA: I wouldn't take my word as gospel on the whole crab louse thing. It looks like one, but may not be one in the game, and there's nothing to support huge leaps in spec if I'm not mistaken. I don't want to ruin anything for the Disciples by throwing in a red herring. Red Herring

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Palm
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 		New Photo from Endrid
database
Ok, had some events - it took me awhile to figure out the password even though it was staring me in the face. Sylvia helped me. It seems that most passwords have been all lowercase.

When I responded about the research I needed to do about the explosives, I received an e-mail back:

> Hello. Thank you for your message and a chance to do some research
for
> you.
> This is what I found. If you need more please let me know:
>
> What is the cause of deflagratio (latin word) or deflagration?
>
> A triggering of a PASS:lowexplosive: causes deflagration (not to be
confused
> with detonation). A low explosive is when a substance becomes ignited
and
> burns very quickly. It then produces alot of expanding hot gas. It
then
> undergos combustion. This triggering is a decomposition event and a
> combustion, not a shockwave but can still be quite a violent event.
>
> For example, firearms rely on deflagration.
>
> A deflagration is an explosion in which the shockwave of the
explosion
> reaches each part of the explosive before the reaction front, because
the
> reaction front is travelling more slowly than the speed of sound in
the
> substance.
>
>
> source:
>
> http://lazarusunion.org/Main/Terminal%20Access/Palm/index.php
>
> LOGIN:Palm:
>
********************************************************

which finally, after getting the password right (login: palm; password: lowexplosive), led to this:

Access granted.
Endrid: Well done.
:I will now begin to upload documents here.
:They should explain everything.
MOG58-HEOI31496

Edited to add link: http://www.lazarusunion.org/Main/Terminal%20Access/Palm/809284109841209.html


********************************************************

which finally, led to this after clicking on the file link"

http://www.lazarusunion.org/Main/Terminal%20Access/Palm/MOG58-HEOI31496.JPG

New picture[/url]

EDITED:
Took off picture because I was over my space limit for attachments. If you want to see it go to the Wiki:

http://thegatereaction.wikidot.com/

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natas
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Joined: 06 Oct 2007
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Location: Northwest Indiana

 		That's the outline of the state of Missouri. smack dab near Cape Girardeau, That's the town where my crew change office is located. Maybe St. Louis on second look. Either way it's near the Mississippi River.

Didn't know I pissed off Bowty THAT bad lol.


Can't believe I just typed "smack dab"

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MissWiSH
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Location: East Coast
Nighthawk wrote:
Do we, or can we, have a Wiki for all this? I haven't been following or doing the puzzle solving in that much detail (I hate these repeated, complex, tedious puzzles to be honest), so I'm kinda lost on where we're at.


Ditto. I'm completely lost. Although I can always go and bribe Lain with a piece of cake (which will not be a lie) and she'll catch me up. A Wiki would be most helpful though. Confused
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