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OOG-Guy · Boot Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 50

oog guy here.
OT for a brief listen to Carl Sagan's message to those on Mars.
http://www.planetary.org/special/vomgreetings/greet2/SAGAN.html
from this page

War of the Worlds broadcast happened Halloween in 1938 as well.

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:51 am

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S.P.I. · Unfettered Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 485

Maybe we should try a program with Scalar Gain anyway, just to be safe? It could have been intended as two anagrams instead of just one?

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:45 am

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Thunderclap · Veteran Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Posts: 122

This is a shot in the dark, but Carl sagan as the anagram and the coordinates make sense. Anyone watch the move 'Contact' with Jodie Foster. I think the numbers in sources.txt link up with movie sites. Not entirely mind you but I do remember them in most of those places.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:38 am

Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

This looks intriguing. Room for one more?

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:58 am

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:28 am

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Maybe they are currently ecliptic co-ordinates and we need to convert them to equatorial co-ordinates?

I did the working out for the first 2 values and got new co-ords of 0.0011509, 1.789 which is in the golf of New Guinea in Africa. So don't think that's right though my working out could be wrong.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:43 am

Amazing Larry · Boot Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 19

jaybill has it and I'm getting impatient for him to post, so:

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:31 am

Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

Nice find Jaybill! I'd actually gone the other way and ~added~ 1 to all of the coordinates, when that turned up nothing I gave up that tactic and tried another. *smacks self*

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:33 am

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:34 am

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Wanna mention that the destegged Datamatrix code on the sources page is imo quite siniliar to the first pictures taken of the newly discovered extrasolar planet HR8799 as seen in The New York Times. Major props to jaybill for the Seti math/match. Cool

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:40 am

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Amazing Larry · Boot Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 19

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:42 am

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Merago · Unfettered Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 341

For reference, here are where the coordinates point to:-

52.9153 6.603 Westerbork radio telescope in Hooghalen, The Netherlands

34.0787 -107.6182 Very Large Array, New Mexico

47.371 2.1976 Nancay telescope, France

53.2365 -2.3087 Jodrell Bank, UK

42.6233 -71.4881 Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, USA

35.9445 138.4725 Nobeyama Observatory, Japan

50.5248 6.8835 Effelsberg radioteleskop, Germany

40.2513 -83.0597 "Big Ear" Radio observatory, Delaware, Ohio ? (I'm not certain on this one)

18.3442 -66.7528 Arecibo observatory, Puerto Rico

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:07 am

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Amazing Larry · Boot Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 19

(edit: OOG-Guy already posted the WotW connection, nevermind!)

**Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:41 am