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Motoss · Decorated Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 170 Location: Ohio

I think that the GPS coordinates are DEFINITELY pointing to specific locations for the reason of having us watch what happens to those locations on the 24th. I live only an hour away max from all three locations in Ohio, and they are all the same two cities, one which has been restored to its historic look. These GPS are much too specific to simply be making a picture or mapping where the Queen has spread to.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:28 pm

keybsnbits · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 121

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:29 pm

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Grout · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105

Yeah, you'll have to take what my friend handful says with a bit of salt occasionally, he can get emotional.

I personally don't believe the internet backbone theory as of yet - because if it were true... the map would have to match EXACTLY... these coordinates are accurate to within less than 100ft. Having them maybe point to a city in which there happens to be a hub doesn't cut it in my opinion.

If you draw a bunch of lines connecting pretty much anything... mcdonalds, liquor stores, pet cemetaries... It will eventually look similar to our map because they are based on population. Yeah, it would make sense in the story if this was a map of the internet, but if that is what the PMs are getting at, they are doing a pretty horrible job.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:34 pm

ElGameR

Well, I did the same thing I did a few post back with the distances from each point to " Margaret's House of Bees" and again, its just a bunch of random letters.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:37 pm

Grout · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105

HEY HEY.......

Speaking of my friend handfulofhoneybees...

He just found this little tool:

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

So you CAN find addresses based on people's IPs - it even gives you nice GPS coords in 4 decimal points. It found him precisely. It was way off on me though... this may account for the discrepancies and weird locations.

I'm partially inclined to go back to the "this is us" theory. The queen is trying to hunt us... or at least hunt dana through the people she has been in contact with. The PMs just used a faulty tool to find us?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:58 pm

Astald

Well, if one of those new points pops up in New Kensington, PA. I will crap my pants. (And I got the e-mail from the Sleeping Princess today, so I think they would consider me for one of them)

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:10 pm

Guest · Guest

With Dana's post about playing hide-and-seek in China, I don't suppose that the coord's really ARE supposed to be on the other side of the world and we are missing the point entirely by looking at US locations -

Melissa is trying to track Dana down, and these are the coord's of wifi spots in China that Dana has been at during her trip, or something like that

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:53 pm

gohoos · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 33

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:54 pm

Grout · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:04 pm

handfulofhoneybees

I've been playing with the IP locator tool that Grout mentioned for me...

The results seem wildly inaccurate to the user's physical location. For instance, looking up several of the last few dynamic IPs of my home computer (don't ask me how I still have them) told me I had moved between Chicago, Tennessee, and California. However, someone who knows more about this magical 'Internet' thing might be able to tell me what the aforementioned tool is REALLY doing. For instance, is it giving me the coords of the server I'm routing through?

If this is the case I may have to eat my words, to some extent, though others might also. It could be that these GPS locations were culled from a list of our IPs, but the IP lookup tool the PMs used returned servers/backbones/magical internet fairies - thus meaning that the reality lay somewhere between the two theories.

We must follow this lead, even if it takes us to another dead end!

Beekeepers, use this tool http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm to look up your location! Eventually, we may start seeing overlaps with the posted GPS coordinates.

If we do... well... beats me what we do with it. But at least we'll know where the numbers came from. [/url]

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:05 pm

Grout · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:13 pm

Grout · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105

Here's some text from the FAQ of that IP locator:

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:18 pm

Ben_Dover · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 35

But do you guy really think that nobody in Texas was playing? Really? Texas is a big, big state, and the odds of there being so many people in Sedalia MT getting their name's randomly pulled without a single name from TX being drawn seems pretty far fetched to me.

But maybe it's first 220 to e-mail the site and just maybe nobody down here in TX was in that first 220. Odds are way against it, but I guess stranger things have happened.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:00 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:13 pm

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