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[keybsnbits]

[Anton P. Nym]

[Freelance]

Re: [SPEC] The Obvious Coordinates Conclusion

[GunsmithCat]

Because this is currently the funniest GPS thread I can find, I'll post this here.

I drove past the Addison/Wilton location on the way home from work today. Saw something I missed when I drove by yesterday.

One on corner is a boarded up building.

The building was apparently condemned by a contractor.

That contractor's name?

Buzy Bee Boarding Company.

Kid you not.

Life's funny, huh?


(if anyone takes this as as serious SPEC, I will hunt you down and beat you )

[keybsnbits]

[floorneyne]

[GunsmithCat]

OK, fine, I'll remove the threat of beating.

But 2 out of 220 isn't very significant. If someone thinks this is possible, someone needs to start hitting the books and pulling a LOT of research together.

[strife777]

Honestly...If Bungie/the PMs want people to be at these real-world locations, why the heck would they pick a time like 6:07am? Seriously, you want to be walking around some of the major cities at that time?

Occam's Razor here doesn't point to real world interaction, it points to distances between points. Why would they link to the applet in Dana's blog? Why are the co-ords in pairs?

Other questions to answer:
Why would they put locations 20 feet from each other, rather than have a location in a more populated area such as Texas or Long Island? How would they expect people to know what time to be in the area, 6:07am each time zone? PST? How does it relate at all to the story? Do they really expect people to be searching around national landmarks and buildings before they open, most likely with camera's to document things, in a time where I can't even take pictures on my local ferry anymore? Also, given the average age of the Halo player is most likely under 18, why have an event they most likely wont be able to get to?

My spec as to why they are all near public buildings/landmarks is to keep people safe in they decide to go to these points. If there was a point in the middle of the woods, someone went there and got hurt, they might be responsible/or at least feel pretty bad.

If the PM's DO intend for us to be there, I really hope they hint at it better and give us some sort of idea that this will be a safe/okay thing to do. If they DONT intend us to go there, I really hope they'll hint at that more deeply before August 24th. I for one don't want to see fellow players wandering around at 6am in the morning unless they are 100% sure of something happening

[E3_Nighthawk]

Ok ive only checked this on the first 6 coordinate pairs, but if you average them together (to get the mid point between the 2 corrdinates)... they're conspicuously... inconspicous, and the more I think about the Axon reference... can any one say US Armed Forces? The first mid point is smack dab in a marine base in California... Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base at 34.50495 -115.9753... if anyone checks into this feel free to please post your findings all over the net cuz i dont post about this ARG much.

[Aelith]

Her toung cut out

[floorneyne]

If you need it, here's a link to a map of US Military bases (you guys aren't terrorists, right? ). I know someone made a spreadsheet of the averages (by coordinates, not by distance) in the 30+ page thread. I'll look into that, as well, because I kind of like the idea that the Op is trying to contact the military.

edit: forgot the linke (DOH!)... http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/documents/BasesMilitaryMAP.htm

edit numbero 2: xnbomb already did the distance midpoints... you can find them right around in this link... http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5476&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=average&start=405
Some of the points fall in the ocean... so unless there are bases there (I'm not saying there aren't), I think things kinda fell through for distance midpoints.

[E3_Nighthawk]

I thought the same thing about the places in the ocean but I'm also thinking they could be places where the navy does some small training exercises, because the first place I know is in a Marine base but looking at pictures of the place it looked more like a training area, and the second spot I havent confirmed is related to the armed forces but theyre is a clearing right next to the coordinate. Like I said I haven't checked out all 110 of the mid points yet lol. So right now im just workin on a hunch.

[Speaker]

[Astald]

I have to admit, that is pretty interesting. It seems like that is what the PMs were looking for when they made some of these coords. So are we to continue checking other sites for possible bee references? And even if we find them, how will that solve this puzzle? I am not "bee"littling this find in any way, I think it is a good start to get a better look at this, but it still doesn't seem like the solution.