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[Henchman]

Hello all, I had never heard of ARG's before this, but I have been reading up since and its all very fascinating. I have two comments/ideas about what has been discussed so far in this thread:

A) I first heard about Steorn via Fark.com right after the Steorn site went public. I was fortunate enough to get on the Steorn forums before they blew up and got all cluttered. There were only a couple posts up but one of the first I saw was about the Halo 3 connection. The author cited similarities between some Halo concept sketches and in the steorn video. It was all very specific, talking about line weights and sketching styles. It seemed like a pretty good indication that something was going on. I was wondering if anyone has these images that they could link? I went back digging through Steorn today (ive been out of touch for a while) and I couldnt find the original thread that I saw before. It could be somewhere in the 43 pages, I didnt look at them all.

B) The Fox news thing is a pretty strong discouragment of this being an ARG isn't it? Yes its fox news but still. This is national tv media attention. Energy and Automotive corporations will certainly sit up and take notice after this, if they had not already. Steorn's technology represents a huge threat to their buisness models. World governments will also be taking serious notice as well. The online community has certainly been probing this alot, calling the phone numbers, emailing, and investigating and such, but I gaurantee that our investigations are not nearly as detailed or urgent as the investigations that Steorn is, or will soon be, getting from govermental and corporate investigators. Steorn is going to be put under the largest of microscopes, if they are not already.

My two cents: if it is an ARG (hope, hope, hope!) then they might have bitten off way more than they can handle.

[kfresh97]

Just a little bit of extra info on the Steorn - Nestor anagram that someone mentioned a few pages back...

Nestor, according to Greek mythology, was an Argonaut who eventually became the King of Pylos (after Hercules murdered his father and brothers). Pylos, during these times, was a neighbouring territory of Sparta, who's military force was the Spartans. And we all know who else is a Spartan

I too am very much hoping this is an ARG, so you know, all thoughts are somewhat biased

EDIT: Also, I believe this is the page that an above poster mentioned. http://www.steorn.net/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=191&page=1

[Fardo-NL]

[atdt1991]

And clearly, FOX isn't going to do any damage to their reputation by reporting on a fictitious company.

That they didn't mention their patents in the video is interesting.

Not to be a devil's advocate (but why not, it's such fun!), I wouldn't rely on the "companies will be ruined" angle. Those who manufacture batteries will still manufacture batteries. Those who make products that use energy will still make products that use energy.

There's onlyone set of companies that would find a massive downturn in profit. Big Oil (and Big Gas, if you will).

Yes, that's big, yes, that's scary, but it's not the same as having all the companies that use energy in the world on your back.

[Ehsan]

[brandon]

Has anyone actually seen the Economist ad?

[Nola]

Copy of The Economist add from page 5.

[creatureattack]

suspicious chart/graphic

[Rolerbe]

Re: suspicious chart/graphic

[oraclle]

Re: suspicious chart/graphic

[creatureattack]

point taken... but still...

[mapmaker]

I don't know the details of the ad, but according to their price schedule, it would seem to be at least $35,000 for the US Edition only, or at least $120,000 for all editions.

[creatureattack]

nice find. to me, that price is getting out of the range of something a prankster would be able to pay for/justify with the additional web hits such ads would bring, and into the range of something with big money backing.

this doesn't prove anything, but it seems to strengthen the argument that someone is expecting a big payoff (or more units of something sold) because of this "hoax".[/i]

[1r0niC]

ok sorry if this matter has already been discussed or posted but it is difficult for me to keep track of all the trails given about the Steorn subject.

i have done a search in the golden pages phonebook of ireland( it is where the phone number of registered companies are listed) and i have come up with a a number: (01)6641744

but when i was trying to verify my findings i have realised that a different phone nuber is registered in the white pages of ireland for the Steorn.
that is: (01)8069478

so a rather logical question came up to my mind. How it is possible for the same company to have different phone numbers registered as their main number??

one of them must be fake..... i assume it is the number listed in the white pages becauses in order for a company to get into the golden ones is much more difficult. although about the matter of the fake company registered instead of the real one when the first "collapsed": if the first Steorn Ltd really collapsed then why it is still registered in the official golden pages lists??? and if the second Steorn Ltd is really registered why it is not listed in the golden pages??? so i believe that the true Steorn Company still exists and really came up with a new invention. whether it works or not i cannot tell.

Now another matter comes up... why they so suddenly cleared all traces and changed a domain server (from steorn.com to stoern.net)???
when i say traces i mean clear logs from sites such as archives.com and other......

i really do not think it is an alternate reality game because someone must have already predicted the collapse of the steorn company(if it really happened) and had to start organising since 2000.

But something else surely hides among every known fact. all we have to do is to combine them together and maybe mix them with a little more new ones...

[atdt1991]

Scientistics closed - no more scientists may apply!

Their site has changed, says over 3000 scientists have applied.