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oliverkeers13
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Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 917 Location: London, UK
I tried ROTing, did nothing.
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"im iver an idiot or a genus" Dekuprince
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:01 am
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
If you look at the name of the background image, it indicates
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the lyrics to an Incubus song, "A Crow Left of the Murder," so I started taking the letters and shifting them one to the left on the keyboard.
I got:
If you're having trouble with math, it might have been because you were missing a step.
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Stories and dreams, crossing my palm like silver.
xbl gamertag: krystyn
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:21 pm
Wiser
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 251 Location: 127.0.0.1
If anybody wants it, I've included a file with the locations marked that can be imported into Google Earth .
Note: I've had to zip it in order to be able to attach it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:32 pm
Tiny
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 502 Location: Cincy, OH or there abouts!
Why is Comedia so loved in the puzzle and Arg world? Because it's freakin awesome...
Oh yea, that totally is relevant because that is the circles of hell on the Ulysses page alongside Nicolous Copernicus...Workin on the math puzzle, gimme some more time. Yay for Jinx, he's found something to hold my attention! Which is really really rare these days.
Hah, I take that back about that being the circles of hell, cuz I'm retarded, wasn't paying attention, that's totally all the planets, which was already said...
Tj-
_________________But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I spread my dreams at your feet.
Tread Softly, For you tread on my dreams.
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Current Arg's: Rookery Tower
Gamertag: DanteThePoet
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:30 am
Last edited by Tiny on Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:34 am; edited 1 time in total
ThaJinx
Unfettered
Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 430
Tiny wrote:
Why is Comedia so loved in the puzzle and Arg world? Because it's freakin awesome...
Oh yea, that totally is relevant because that is the circles of hell on the Ulysses page alongside Nicolous Copernicus...Workin on the math puzzle, gimme some more time. Yay for Jinx, he's found something to hold my attention! Which is really really rare these days.
Tj-
Actually, that's the heliocentric universe, but good connection; glad you know your literature
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:33 am
Tiny
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 502 Location: Cincy, OH or there abouts!
Check the edit man, like two seconds after I posted and took a second look I fixed my post.
Da da da... EDIT TIME!
So check the background image, it's definetly a plus sign added with the "Having trouble with the MATH ?"
So Hdkf + Iubj
Jeez, I have tried sooo many ways to put together those two things switching them to numbers, then adding them, and switching back to letters or using the numbers. But nada so far.
Work work work!
Edit again- The way the letters are fonted, makes me wonder. I tried flipping them and reversing them, can't really make out anything different tho...
Edit third- Missed a step makes me worry that Love.html was a red herring solve
Last Edit- The rotting over 40 things in the last twenty minutes has made my eyes bleed, I give up for tonight, tomarrow night I'll work some more. Good luck figuring it out. I've tried moving one key left on the group of four, switching it to numbers and adding it, adding it at either a 1-9 etc or a 1-26 scale and then changing it back in both directions and then ROTing it again, no luck whatsoever for now.
I still think that if Love is a true solve, then it has to have something to do with math, and addition.
Tj-
_________________But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I spread my dreams at your feet.
Tread Softly, For you tread on my dreams.
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Current Arg's: Rookery Tower
Gamertag: DanteThePoet
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:38 am
Le Tuna Man
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Southern CA
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So, it's a matter of HDKF + IUBJ. On an whim, and also knowing that miss Krystyn tried something similar, I shifted each of those letters to the right and got JFLG + OINK. Then I placed them on top of each other:
JFLG
OINK
I added up each of the corresponding letters as such. J + O = Y (10 + 15 = 25), F + I = O (6 + 9 = 15), L + N = Z (12 + 14 = 26), and G + K = R (7 + 11 = 18 ). That gave me YOZR. If I shift each letter back to the left I get TIME, taking me to http://www.ryanjoseph.com/~tunajinx/head2heel/time.html .
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:15 am
Wiser
Decorated
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 251 Location: 127.0.0.1
And more locations...
Quote:
30.805230 -97.967292
38.782276 -92.856043
(doubt we really need the spoiler boxes any more...)
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:20 am
Le Tuna Man
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Southern CA
3 more sets of coordinates:
<!-- 38.782276 -92.856043 -->
<!-- 30.805230 -97.967292 -->
<!-- 32.332094 -103.210309 -->
EDIT: yeah, the coordinates aren't really spoiling anything.
But there are three images on this new page. One is behind the others.
_________________I am Woody. I am totally 3% great.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:21 am
Wiser
Decorated
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 251 Location: 127.0.0.1
Ok, so we currently have:
40.221988 -90.763943
38.355236 -87.102237
39.993402 -87.423037
33.979980 -103.595324
33.884242 -100.760005
33.949427 -101.237301
43.516639 -89.451141
32.944234 -102.554030
31.27964 -95.445936
30.855175 -101.686193
43.325740 -88.478853
33.543759 -95.103091
30.805230 -97.967292
38.782276 -92.856043
32.332094 -103.210309
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:30 am
urthstripe
Entrenched
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 1113 Location: Atlanta, GA
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The snippet of text comes from this article .
_________________In this life, there are nothing but possibilities.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:38 am
Le Tuna Man
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Southern CA
Quote:
So knowing what lies beneath the surface before the trowel hits the soil has long been the dream of many an archaeologist.
He is taunting us.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:45 am
urthstripe
Entrenched
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 1113 Location: Atlanta, GA
Also, anybody why arecibo.gif is so named.
That's the place in Puerto Rico with the really big sattelite dish (the one from Goldeneye and the like).
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:01 am
Le Tuna Man
Boot
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Southern CA
If you've noticed the titles of each page as we've gone along "Dawn, Theory and Myth, Love, and Space" it follows the course of human thought and reasoning over the years. I think arecibo is simply a reference to today's modern day reasoning through science.
In any case, I tried decoding the first few lines of binary in arecibo.gif and got all gibberish. I also tried decoding the binary in binary.gif and also got gibberish.
Now I'm just trying to figure out where binary.gif fits in since it's all gibberish and it's filename has no significance like the other two.
_________________I am Woody. I am totally 3% great.
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:09 am
Wiser
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 251 Location: 127.0.0.1
Updated Google Earth file and screenshot.
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:03 am
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