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[toongoon]

ryknow's images reminded me of some sort of retinal scan imaging or perhaps some other vascular staining images I've seen. I focused on searches for retinal images (elucidate, light, see, eyes,retina etc) but I have been unable to find anything specific.

I haven't found much but I thought this may give someone else ideas.

[Seej]

I showed this card to a mechanical engineer I know last night and he said it looks like stress fractures due to compression (the lines) and the patterns of stress around the fractures (the blobs). He was talking about those machines that test a block of metal by placing it under enormous pressure until it shatters.

Unfortunately Google has yet to turn anything up with a similar image, but while searching for compression fractures I got a lot of pictures of x-rays of bones suffering from compression fractures and got to thinking; elucidate means to clarify, or to shed light on, and taking an x-ray certainly clarifies, and so long as you consider the wider e/m spectrum it could also be said to be shedding light on a subject.

If I find anything conclusive I'll let you know, but in the meantime if any of you know some mech engineers or MDs who happen to have their textbooks to hand it might be worth pursuing this further.

[Nightingale]

To me it looks like a geophysical readout of fault lines with mountains/hills/volcanoes on top. I've been searching google like mad but I can't find a geophysical map of the Himalaya's. But I have seen some other types of maps of the Himalayans fault lines that did look similar to the picture on the card but they were only of major fault lines and weren't really close up (put it this way you could see the whole of India on the map) which makes it VERRRRRY difficult to tell. Anyone have an atlas?

[tangohead]

right,
i hope noone has mentioned this (i dont have much time to check at the moment) but in a magazine called Computeractive (i dont read it but i saw this) there was a small article on PPC. there is one section that intrests me

[oliverkeers13]

It's unlikely. The Shuffled card is heat sensitive. This is more likely to be light related.

[Nightingale]

Desperation is setting in now.

The card is called "Elucidate" right?

elucidate

v 1: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, clear up] [ant: obfuscate] 2: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate]

Well, with my other post about fault lines I've been investigating other fault lines. San Andreas in particular. I found a possible link in the San Gabriel Mountains. Archangel Gabriel was THE messenger of God (after all it was him who appeared to Mary to tell her she was to bear the Son of God). Messages generally clarify something... do you see where I'm going with this? I don't have an atlas and my knowledge of geography is limited, can anyone help/discredit?

Thank you

P.S. I hope that all contibutions including the tenuous/insane are welcome.

[Curlytek]

Pure spec here, along the fault line theories, if you flip the image then it does look a bit like the 'drawn' images of the areas around California near the San Andreas fault:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/shakemap/nc/shake/about.html

The density mapped areas may indicate cities or the lakes/bays around San Francisco. In any event, I have not seen anything like this in my scientific endeavors, it is certainly not a 2D NMR or similar spectroscopic image.

[bearq]

More spec, i'm also of the belief that it's a series of fault lines. Thinking that it could be from PC itself , i recalled this article from the sentinel:

http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/07/tremor_recorded.html

which says:

[mupdan]

Dunno if this has been suggested yet, but...

I was staring at this card last night, and thinking along the pressure/fracture lines, I realised that it looks kind of like a hand print. The bottom has the curve of the palm (left hand), and the 4 lines (fractures?) near the top could correspond to the fingers. The areas of highest pressure would line up with the lower joint of the index finger and the tip of the little finger.

A wild guess, maybe, but I can't shake the image now. What does anyone think?

Dan

[Nightingale]

Just recieved the latest news from Scarlett - could this be a map of Viendenbourg? It seems to fit the description (sorta):

Viendenbourg. It's in what looks like a deep mountain ravine, with a small lake to the north. North of Iskara Peak, to the west of Veldet Lake, almost surrounded by the spiky range of the Grey Towers. It's not a place you'd really go to on vacation - Veldet is beautiful and lush, Iskara is magnificent but the Grey Towers are bleak - stunning from a distance but no fun to hike - just miles and miles of shifting shale. I mean, people go there, but not *many* people. And this place is right in the middle of them. You wouldn't even get a good view! Still, it was pretty well identified on this map.

Could this be a map of Viendenbourg before it, the lake and the ravine disappeared?

This card's driving me crazy!

[ammonite]

Scarlett's email

[ammonite]

SPEC - Earthquakes and Syzygy

[oliverkeers13]

OK. I just got this card today, and have noticed a number of interesting things, that (i think) haven't been documented.
1. (this may be a printing error or a kloo) in the left hand side of the middle big blob on the right hand side, there is a VERY small blue dot.
2. All the lines seem to go in the same direction
3. Not all the lines are solid, some are lines of dots.
4. There is a line on the left hand side that STOPS abruptly at the outside of one of the blobs. While the others seem to round off, this stops at the point it meets the blob.
5. The picture is VERY blurry, not due to print quality as the name is clear. THis may be vital.
6. Some bits of the lines are MUCH lighter than others, even on the background

I hope that helps.
Initial thoughts on my part as to what it is are: volcanoes on fault lines (lines = fault lines, blobs = volcanoes), heat cracking (lines = cracks, blobs = hotspots).
I also think that, like with the 13th labour, it may represent a message. When we decifer it, it may pose a question.

Anyway, those are my $0.02. I hope that you can make something of this!

[Loric]

Geology