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Zhirgoyt
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 		I was wondering about what was said about the fact that there are three highway intersections in the US often referred to as "mixing bowls". Two of them have "interstate" in the names. Just saying Wink

What we "have" so far.

[edit - lets save spoilers for actual SOLVES and SHARE the spec rather than hiding them - kona]

Quote:

interstate (mixing bowl)
mercury (freddie)
the moon (17%
mars (38%)
carry that weight (beatles reference)
crazy little thing called love (freddie mercury song)


What we don't have any leads on so far is the Ion coolants [of] holy hippos thing. Anyone know anything that is ever referred to as hippos?

Edit: did anyone else google stilyagi debs and arrive at a nationstate-website. "The Stilyagi Debs of Luna States"

stilyagi debs writing lyrics in a munich hotel

I'm leaning towards moon and mercury...

Edit 2: OR!

[SPEC] googling moon and mercury -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury's_moon with the convenient name of "31 Crateris" (coincidence?), which is actually a star (Ringo Starr anyone?) part of the "crater"-constellation.

Hmm... might be reading a BIT too much into it.[/spec]

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oli
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 		I can only find one crater name which the moon and mercury have in common: Kuiper

Kuiper gave his name to the Kuiper Belt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

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tornok
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 		the stilyagi air pressure corp in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Hienlien

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Zhirgoyt
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fezzik wrote:
There are several: Tycho, Janssen, Copernicus.


fezzik, where did you get "Tycho" from?

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tornok
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Zhirgoyt wrote:


fezzik, where did you get "Tycho" from?


tycho under another Hienlien reference

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oli
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 		Some random thoughts on the first line of the clue:

Hippos is the greek word for horse
Hippos is a place in Israel that has biblical connections (holy?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippos
Ion coolants - could be a cryptic reference to the Ionian Sea?

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Zhirgoyt
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oli wrote:
I can only find one crater name which the moon and mercury have in common: Kuiper

Kuiper gave his name to the Kuiper Belt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt


[edit - let's save spoiler tags for SOLVES and just SHARE the spec & sites for data/information - this facilitates community brainstorming that will lead to your solve - kona]

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/090420rays.htm

Apparently there are some strange rays emitting from the Tycho and Kuiper (craters on mercury and the moon). Tycho refers to Tycho Brahe (an astronomer just like Kuiper). Is it possible that the locations we are looking for are those of these two craters?

Edit:
Both "stilyagi debs" and "sacred hippo" are nations of nationstates.net.

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fezzik
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Zhirgoyt wrote:

fezzik, where did you get "Tycho" from?


These are most likely wrong; they are shared between the moon and mars, whereas I now think Mercury is at least part of the puzzle.

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aquarius904
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 		Another thing about the phrase stilyagi debs writing lyrics in a munich hotel.

There is a hotel in Munich called the Mercure München City Center. Another Mercury reference there.

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Zhirgoyt
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 		I'm going to go to sleep now (4 am in Sweden), but I'll leave you with what I got from sending an email to Teevan with a possible "answer":

"No. Tell me about the first line of what you see.

Tevan Aelaan"

And I replied that I believe "ion coolants" refer to some kind of plasma coolant (because that's a star trek reference of an ion (plasma) coolant I could find). The answer was:

"On 9/9/2011 9:47 PM, Zhirgoyt wrote:
I think "Ion coolant" refers to a plasma coolant.
I do not know where the holy hippos fit in, at least not thus far.

Perhaps ion coolant means something else. Perhaps holy hippos do, too. How do you like your eggs?

Tevan Aelaan"

Scrambled eggs anyone?


(It's justified this time! Very Happy)
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

ion coolant:
consolation

[of]

holy hippo:
philosophy

Consolation of philosophy was writting by Boethius, who has given his name to a crater on both mercury and the moon.


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Zhirgoyt
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 		After sending an email containing "Boethius" to the email adress I got a reply saying:

Quote:

Subject: Yes. Perhaps the bridge.

Hale: 45°28′N 73°40′W
Michael: 34°34′29″N 83°19′12″W
Templar: 42°21′28″N 71°03′42″W
Slick:

Solve for Slick.

Tevan Aelaan


What I can figure out so far is that Slick is a name of something or someone (hence the capital letter).

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posse
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 		Hometowns!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Hale = Cote Saint Luc, Quebec = William Shatner (Kirk)
Michael = Toccoa, GA = Deforest Kelley (Bones)
Templar = Boston = Leonard Nimoy (Spock)


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Zhirgoyt
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posse wrote:
Hometowns!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Hale = Cote Saint Luc, Quebec = William Shatner (Kirk)
Michael = Toccoa, GA = Deforest Kelley (Bones)
Templar = Boston = Leonard Nimoy (Spock)


Darnit, why didn't I think of that. Can you see any correlation between the names on the left and the towns/actors/character names?

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posse
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Zhirgoyt wrote:

Darnit, why didn't I think of that. Can you see any correlation between the names on the left and the towns/actors/character names?


Still working on it... although if we were just going to guess, I would think Slick would be narrowed down to either Scotty, Sulu, or Chekov.

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Zhirgoyt
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posse wrote:
Zhirgoyt wrote:

Darnit, why didn't I think of that. Can you see any correlation between the names on the left and the towns/actors/character names?


Still working on it... although if we were just going to guess, I would think Slick would be narrowed down to either Scotty, Sulu, or Chekov.


Since many of the clues so far has involved wikipedia, maybe we should go after the list of star trek-characters there which has Montgomery "Scotty" Scott as the number forth (after Kirk, Bones and Spock). That would mean Vancouver, British Columbia as the forth location.

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