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[myf]

I have also been having less-than cheery thoughts about this card. What it boils down to is: what happens if our fella Satoshi should shuffle off this mortal coil (or indeed has already)? Has some kind of failsafe been built-in in case of this eventuality, so somehow whatever we had to do once we'd found him would trigger anyway? Or possibly (but not an idea I want to consider) is this card going to just tail off as unsolveable?

It's been bothering me for the last few days, and I know that no-one will be able to answer my ponderings, but they needed to be let out as they were making my brain ache. It goes without saying that I hope Satoshi is in the finest of health, and will have many happy years of life to come.

As you were before my morose interruption, folks.

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Finding Satoshi

[sus]

I've noticed in previous posts that everyone has assumed that Satoshi has taken the picture of himself.

But isn't it entirely possible that he is pointing at something??

If anyone does take a trip to Kayersburg and found his spot take a look in the opposite direction and see if there's anything to see.

[rose]

cnet

[ixalon]

[myst]

im new but

[pheebs]

my train of thoughts are these:
1) we need to find the name of where he is ie the street,building, what he is looking at (as suggested by someone)
2) its a 6 degrees thing in which case we could never find him
3) his last name is satoshi (or written "something Satoshi" as japanese people write their names)
4) he's a famous satoshi and we just need to keep trying different famous satoshi's until we get it
5) satoshi is an anagram, metaphor, something else for who he really is
6) keysersberg is a clue to something else, like france, plastics, japanese tourists, lost people..
7) he really lives/is in keysersberg and someone has to go there or find the town records
he's obviously lost his tour group as there are no other japanese people taking photos of bus stops around him... maybe we have to find his group?
9) the answer is

[akitch]

google earth?

[myst]

tried that akitch good idea an all but before i thought about contacting my freind about possibly setting up a trip there i checked google earth. sadly however the zoom it gives us it less than pathetic............ it finds keyersburg quickly but its just not the detail quality we need. i can see the cars in my driveway where i am but keyersburg you can even make out clear buildings.

any other ideas?

[sus]

[c1023]

If he stayed in a hotel in the area, they will have his name, home address, and even passport number! I'm not sure if we have any way of accessing that information, but he could have left a comment in a guest book.

Of course, he probably just drove 100 miles to get there, and left the same day...

[myf]

Ever since pheebs posted the link to Kaysersberg Plastics site a few pages back, I've had a nagging feeling that Satoshi works for the UK branch of the company and while we're concentrating on Kaysersberg, he's been cosily ensconced in a delightful semi somewhere on the outskirts of Gloucester

[ixalon]

Well after more hunting than a poorly-designed PXC puzzle I found the contact details of J.J. Abrams' agent. I've sent an email pointing out the connection to his new series and asking if he'd pass the email on to Abrams. He probably won't but I tried :p

Edit: P.S. also added a Spanish and Catalan translation, thanks to Naqui

[pheebs]

[x]

I browsed the google maps of Kayserberg, but the stream/brook isnt shown, so i cant really locate the bridge he is on.

Anyone know what the street is called?

I only ask this because half the roads in the area are named funny things.

Like Solid Wood of the Vorges and Route of Wine. Odd stuff. (course babelfish is probably just spouting gibberish at me)
Maybe this is a normal road naming convention of the Area, but it leads me to wonder if the name of the road he is on is a clue, maybe?