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[puzzle] silver - #247 - Polar
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chichiri
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Daffydil wrote:
And I was so sure it was something to do with Mars too, it seemed so right!


Well I suppose that if it was on mars, they would have named their resident marsologist adrian hon.

Still way too easy for a silver, though maybe it's hard because it's easy.

no da

PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:08 am
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Blanchie
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 		I could not be more p*ssed off if I tried.
Not only had I tried this answer (but with an s on the end) about two weeks ago, but I had found this site ages ago and dismissed it as too easy!!! http://tea.armadaproject.org/ellison/10.18.2003.html
Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad
I did exactly the same thing with Angel's Key as well. Why are we putting ourselves through all this?!?!?!?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:19 pm
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legolad
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 		as i dont have this card im unsure but had any1 tried

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the lost city of atlantis


PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:23 pm
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dopiaza
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 		Has anybody else noticed, there's another (possible) clue on the card:

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"What lies here?" is an anagram of "Here with seal"


PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:20 pm
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AngusA
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 		I found this site which may provide some enlightenment:

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http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/oldissues2000-2001/2000_1224/seals.html


PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:52 pm
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A person
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 		So what is the answer?
Please help me!!!!!!!

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kie_yeo
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seal


it says it in the text above plenty of times!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:20 am
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Ashes
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 		Ok, has anyone ever found the mention of [the solution] together with 77°38S and 166°45E ? Because I can't and that's disturbing. I mean I can give you any coordinate in the pacific and then say the solution is "water", or "boat". or "agae" and any of those is as likely or more than [the solution] and the given coordinates.
I am a bit disapointed with the silver cards so far. They seem to have the "obvious solution" but then they give you hell on synonyms or spelling or somesuch. Not exactly a puzzle. More of a wild guessing.
So if anyone has a smart explanation of how to find the solution, please let me know. I'm a tad frustrated here.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:55 am
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kalisco
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 		I agree with Ashes
To me this card is answered rather than solved.
Perhaps someone in the area of the University the lady did her research for could try and get access to her reports, cos I really don't fancy a trip to those co-ordinates.
BTW - I tried e-mailing her - no joy there !

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maniacfive
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 		Woo! I jusy got polar in a trade, and was all keen and all as it will complete a set, I was aware it had a silly answer from mentions in other threads but...

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FRICKING SEAL IS THE ANSWER!


Man that could've been so much better as there is so much interesting stuff there. But i guess, we would've just listed all the intersetng stuff till we got the answer. I feel vaguely cheated mind you.

ON the other hand 62 points, with a sweet bonus 248. woo!
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PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 9:13 am
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Fuseunderground
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 		I really don't understand why
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seal
is so much worse an answer than 'the lost city of Atlantis' ot 'the cube root of 2' for example.

It's possibly easier than most silvers,
but it is still quite abstract, and you had to find out about the person who
identified the answer etc.

I think it was quite lucky someone tried the answer in the first place,
just because it was a simple word doesn't make the puzzle bad, just different.

I for one, would have enjoyed having to go out there to find out,
like some kind of extreme Geocaching, oh well, maybe in wave 4.......
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PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:21 am
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Jakeo
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 		I think the irritating bit about the answer comes from a post during this thread. One of us (can't recall who) contacted one of the research stations looking for help. While the guys there weren't able to help directly, when they found out the answer they did say that it was wrong (or at least unlikely). Its one thing to have whimsical/silly answers, but given the depths to which people investigate this sort of thing, it just seemed odd.

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:11 pm
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zepheria
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 		Just ran across a reference in Alexa Thomson's Antarctica on a Plate (on the other side of the continent, though) of visitors going out on Skidoos with GPS's to analogous spots for recreation - it made me wonder if recording these locations was a common Antarctic practice. A search led me to this Australian Antarctic Division site, with photos (26 May 06, second set of photos) and a travelogue of one such expedition:

http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=22168

Quote:

Last Saturday four of us travelled up to the plateau to the Southern Masson Range. We wanted to check out a minor local landmark:
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the mummified carcass of a long dead seal.

Just how the
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dead seal
came to be about 30 kms from the coastline high on the plateau is now a station mystery.
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Old infirm seals are reputed to wander up there to die.
This is described (perhaps anecdotally?) by a number of authors including Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

Inspired by the stories, we located
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the carcass
by GPS co-ordinates only to be somewhat disappointed.
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It was clearly a very young seal (both by size and skeletal development), presumably unable to get up there by itself. Our best guess is that it was a carcass taken up there as dog food in the early husky days and either fell off the back of a dog sled or was cached as a dog food depot.
Oh well. Still we had a beautiful trip up in the pre-dawn twilight and the dawn sunlight, and called in at the magnificent striated "wind scour" ice wall at Fearn Lake near Rumdoodle on the way home.


So one possible explanation.

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Completely unrelated to Thomson's camp responsibilities as cook, I hope!


PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:00 pm
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Cinana
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dopiaza wrote:
Has anybody else noticed, there's another (possible) clue on the card:

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"What lies here?" is an anagram of "Here with seal"


ha, before I received this card, I did do that anagram. Then I looked up the cordinates and somehow came up with
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The International Dateline


But alas...I was incorrect on both.

I came to this forum to get a "hint" and read thru what ya all had to say...then literally smacked my head.

I daresay...do not brainstorm while holding a sharp object...it does not feel good.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:11 pm
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gunny
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 		I think the answer was quite elegant. But the idea that compasses 'tell lies' near the poles would have been more neat, IMHO.

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