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**Posted:** Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:51 pm

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"I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not ."

Dionysus

**Posted:** Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:52 pm

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Caspian

Received email from Stevie and Raidar with a couple answers. See full post here.

#1 - D. Fossil Fuel (currently burn oil, working on solar. See email here)
#2 - B. 0.3g
#3 - A. Dr. Martha Crappert
#4 - C. Optical Disks (D is a possibility with all the new tech up there)
#5 - A. Athens
#6 - C. Miss Rose Mantling
#7 - D. Meta-physics
#8 - B. New Dawn
#9 - C. Carbon nano-fibres
#10 - ???
BONUS - ???

Stevie and Raidar will investigate #10 tomorrow. Raidar will also investigate #4 tomorrow.

I have an email out to Igor regarding the Bonus Question. I posed as a college student wishing to write an article about Bronco for our school newspaper (nothing to get a man to talk like a little ego stroking). I asked him some random questions along with the info we need to know. I'll obviously post here if I receive a reply.

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"I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not ."

Dionysus

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:36 am

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Rogi Ocnorb

When we get all the answers, I think we should explore some base conversions. Specifically, Base 40 as a target. That chalkboard text just looks an awful lot like a definition alphabet for base conversions, though usually, the numbers come before the letters.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:27 am

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Dionysus

Sounds like a good idea Rogi. Frankly, I was thinking just to go simple first... then do stuff like base 40. Simple as in why not just conver the numbers to their letter equivilants a=1, b=2, etc and oh.. line them em or something? The type of number we'd get seems like it'd fit the "bonus" question... and I, for one, feel strongly that the answer to the bonus question is our solve.

Of course.. I've been wrong before - stupid lower case 'e'

EDIT You know what? I'm just gonna add that to my signature...

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:06 pm

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Abraxas

May I respond to the star solve...gah.
Why is there a small E and the rest of the letters are capitals? Once again I'm not happy with the solution, because it is not following a unified logic...
I guess we should not take anything for granted, after all. Razz

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:45 pm

Dionysus

Thats EXACTLY what I said to some one in chat.. I dont remember who. They said it looked like it could be lower case 'e' and I said "No.. see everythign else is capital.. why would they switch like that" and so the person never tried lower-case 'e' and we were stuck on the puzzle for liek.. 2 more days

Hence the addition to my signature

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:48 pm

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Rogi Ocnorb

I think we can exclude choice D from the possibilities for #10.
Per this page at nasa, The dimensions of Toutatis are:
(1.92, 2.29, 4.60) +/- 0.10 km

**Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:00 pm

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Caspian

We have all 10 answers! See the latest email from Stevie. Note that the answer to #1 has changed.

#1 - C. Solar Energy (Stevie's email confirms that now most energy is solar.)
#2 - B. 0.3g
#3 - A. Dr. Martha Crappert
#4 - C. Optical Disks (DVDs)
#5 - A. Athens
#6 - C. Miss Rose Mantling
#7 - D. Meta-physics
#8 - B. New Dawn
#9 - C. Carbon nano-fibres
#10 - C. 4521m*
BONUS - ???

*#10: Raidar measured 4275m up to the Enviromental Dept, since Stevie was not allowed in there. If we take NASA's dimensions on Toutatis as true (thanks Rogi), then C is the answer by process of elimination.

So we have: CBACACDBCC

It is my suspicion that we can determine the Bonus answer by using the answers to the other 10 questions. I further conjecture that the Bonus answer is either the solve itself, or can be used with the chalkboard image to determine the solve.

We are getting closer!

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:40 am

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"I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not ."

Rogi Ocnorb

tried a base 4 to base 40 conversion using the tool at the bottom of this page.
It came back with "joi0".
Tried that and "join" to no avail. Could be a bad answer on the quiz or just me barking up the wrong nanotube, again.

P.S.: Rowan. You gotta see the pic on that page.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:30 am

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Dionysus

I really feel that the chalk board image is irrelevant. Then again, see my sig.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:23 am

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Caspian

It very well could be irrelevant. However, I don't want to count it out. So any potential solution I come up with I will first try directly emailing (bypassing the image) and if that does not work, I will try using it with the image somehow. But that's just me.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:26 am

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"I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not ."

Dionysus

Alright I've tried a couple thigns so far.. straight letter to number conversion gives

3213134233

So I've tried 3213134233SPLATmaefamily.info, 3213134233bSPLATmaefamily.info, 3213134233bitesSPLATmaefamily.info, 321MBSPLATmaefamily.ingo

No joy

I tried adding the numbers but 25SPLATmaefamily.infor and ySPLATmaefamily.info yeild no fruit.

IN a fit of inspiration I tried calling 321-313-4233 and 210-202-31222 (base 4 conversion) but neither was anything.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:44 am

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crouchosarus

Just because I thought it might lead somewhere I set up the chart on the board on a document

A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q
R S T U V W X
Y Z 0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 ! ? " -

Now using it I get

LKJLJLMKLL

TSRTRTUSTT

0ZY0Y01Z00 (If you make all of the Y's 0's and Z's 1's it binary translates to J, If you make the Z's 0's and the Y's 1's you get *)

7657578677 (Could not make anything out of it)
Nothing there sounds helpful

Still not sure if it means anything but if you take the Character that only appears once you get MU16 if that might matter

**Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:05 pm