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[Doppelganger-X4]

JPass is a good resource for exploring Another_Chooch's hypothesis--maybe a certain satellite is scheduled to fly over each of these points at the given time, I don't know. I'm checking out a few of the coordinates now.

In the meantime, anyone think the coordinates have anything to do with radio telescopes?

It's unlikely that Melissa would be looking for them in densely populated areas, but if the current train of thought is going in the right direction, they're exactly the kind of thing she'd be looking for. Besides, I hear a bunch of them use GPS for calibration...

Not sure where that's going, but hey.

[edit] I've plotted ten or eleven points on JPass and there doesn't seem to be any strong correlation between the coordinates and any specific satellite. Hubble, SEASAT I and the International Space Station occasionally come alarmingly close, but they all drift off as you go down the list. Furthermore, none of the satellites should be visible during the times given since all of them appear to be after sunrise and before sunset.

[MusicToEat]

[thebruce]

FYI - if this helps, I've got a coordinate plotter made which displays the current coords from the site, and visibly rotates through them in order.

[SixByNine]

[BoonIsha]

just did my own graphing proggy for em...
heres the results:

if anyone wants a copy, let me know..it can do just points or it can connect lines in the given order. also, it reads the coordinates in from a text file, so if they change, it should be really easy for us to modify...if you want it, lemme know and i will post a link for download

[HoldenC]

Since this thread is on BRAINstorming, I figure it's as good a place as any for my random thoughts...

Keying on the word "axon", I have been thinking about what the coordinates could symbolize. I know the definition has been posted before, but just to lead off on my theory, here it is again:

[Dorkmaster]

Holden your sanity is safe. However, I just don't think that we have enough info right now to accurately tell what the dang coordinates are about yet. Hopefully tomorrow's update will enlighten us. But maybe not. I think the PMs are enjoying our tortureous wait since that means we really care about this game... so I also wouldn't be surprised to see dana's blog or a SP email that says "Wow, I can't wait" or something as trivial as that... But we'll see. But your thoughts are definitely solid, and make complete sense, and I see what you're saying, but there's just nowhere to go after that thought, ya know?

[MusicToEat]

BoonIsha, I would very much like a link to that program.

[thebruce]

boonisha, flip the x coordinates, you're looking at the mirror image of the US

My plotter would do lines, but it's a web based simplified one that's mainly intended to be a chronological plotting of points... did in under an hour, during work hours if I had time I'd find a way to be able to make lines between points... ah well. (tis in my sig)

[Another_Chooch]

[JTFK]

Re: another view of Dana's blog

[Eck]

The IP address thing makes some sense, btoh in game and from an implication standpoint. Have you check any adresses to see where they go, or is there a chart somewhere with the GPS coordinates converted to IP's?

[usernameguy]

I'm pretty sure some of the numbers are meant to represent GPS coordinates. It'd be quite a coincidence that these numbers were IP addresses that happened also to point at famous places like the San Diego Zoo and the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

[Ghost77]

[SPEC] 8/13 SP caps and Axons

[Doppelganger-X4]

Ghost, if there was some significance to the capitalized words, I'd think it'd be a little more obvious. To me it sounds like she's just emphasizing the words to emphasize the disgust and frustration she feels about the Widow's ineptitude.