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[GunsmithCat]

DC also makes sense since it shows up so frequently (though it's a bit of a mystery why the DC coords aren't always exactly the same ... course Melissa is purportedly quite good at this, she might be covering her tracks).

And while I'm still leaning to some kind of transmission - radio, tv, whatever, I'm not sure there are many kinds that reach DC to Cleveland outside of satellite based tranmissions.

But maybe, like a radio wave to space, that's why it takes some time between transmissions.

[msekolpsu]

Alright, at least two of the locations are in Phoenix:
33.495068 -112.014587
and
33.511875 -111.986529
Also, there are at least 2 in Indiana.

Phoenix and Indiana do not have Daylight Savings, which means if there is significance to the times, this could be another error. Then again, it could be intentional to see how close we are paying attention to the times.

[Foz]

I like Extrasonics theory that the fact that the first hop is to DC illustrates that Melissa started in San Francisco. Deleting of Melissa's memory fragments does not support this though because Dana obviously accesses the server remotely and can inflict whatever damage she wants. So why the high concentration of points in DC if the "real location"of the server wasn't in game? This also discredits the idea that Melissa started in San Francisco. This becomes a real problem though because that means that Melissa's spreading was occuring from the very beginning at high speed (her first response was physical control of a computer 3,000 miles away) which leads to the possible conclusion that these coordinates are not Melissa merely spreading but more of her "seek"ing which is supported by the decrease in coordinates, illustrating a narrowing of her search(I believe someone already mentioned this). She has already "survive"d the crash and "escape"d the SPDR.

If we knew for sure that Melissa's starting point is in D.C. then perhaps we should be looking at these points as "hops" in terms of distance from her origin rather than by time. This is supported by Melissa's refernce to a "starfish" which branches out from the center. Again there is no evidence that the times are when things are going to happen. For all we know it was a time at which something already occurred. (though that might not make much sense, but maybe it's because we are missing something)

I just feel that we are being distracted by the times.

Edit - added the bit about the starfish - pretty important to the argument

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[SocialElite]

GPS coord

[vpisteve]

Well, at four decimal places, it was accurate to about 30 feet. So now, what? 4 or 5 feet??

[jegger]

[INFO] Size of the locations

[Foz]

Here's a quote from this site.