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[rose]

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[oxdeltaxo]

Back track through the thread I believe I posted a link to a company that occupies the same block as steorn! Maybe you could call them and fish for info there.

Theres one guy named dicombobulator on the steorn forums whos dead set that this is scam. His post are.....funny to say the least.

[witt]

I figured it out

Let's have a look:

steornwatch.com:

[AnthraX101]

I would just like to point out that Steorn filed a patent application in April, 2006. It seems pretty deep for an ARG to me.

AnthraX101

[enicholson]

Doesn't this remind anyone of the Lost Experience?

[colin]

[Max Steele]

Well, here's another 'coincidence'.

I started doing some searching on the names of the employees at Steorn. This is what I turned up on 'Richard Walshe':

http://www.niftc.co.uk/newspage.asp?id=66&storyID=66

[Nola]

Re: April Fools!

[Nola]

FWIW, here's a pic of The Economist add

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6595/steornadrb4.jpg


edit: Huge pictures make the screen scroll - Rowan

[colin]

Re: April Fools!

[Nola]

Re: April Fools!

[oxdeltaxo]

If you look at the poll on the front page the results used to say 75% yes 25% no. It's now almost the exact opposite.

[Nova Loop]

Re: April Fools!

[tsondie21]

I have been tracking this for the past few days and I dont believe this is an ARG. That being said, here are a few signs that it could be one.

1. Taking out an ad in the Economist. Most people will argue that this shows that it is not an ARG because it would cost $100,000. What most people fail to remember, however, is the the Economist is sponsored by MICROSOFT. If this is an Xbox ploy, or ILB2 then it would make very much sense for the ad to be taken out in the Economist. It's like putting an ad on the Microsoft main site because "that's what computer people read" (I know they dont, but you get the picture)

2. Team Xbox was one of the first sites to link to the steorn site. Although this does seem incriminating, it could also be coincidental. Team Xbox has reported on Mac OS X, Dell buying Alienware, and other non-xbox news in the past. This could just have been a slow news day for them and they found this very interesting. On the other hand- the Xbox-ARG thing is just uncanny.

3. The registration site. The registration site for scientists seems a little sketch from the start, but then the "credentials" section gives one little box. If steorn is to be serious about this, it will take a while for them to sort out the liers from the serious scientists- if in fact this "challenge" is true.

Just a few reasons I could think of, I'll post more as I see them.

[Nova Loop]

Ok I didn't see (and Search didn't find) this yet.
I see that the images directory is open too:
http://www.steorn.net/images

Lots of stuff in there including a sizeable .zip which I assumecontains all of the images in the directory(downloading now to see). There are also a few images like this one that are HUGE (1984x3000 px)! Way bigger than you'd expect to be floating in a company's webserver's images dir.

I still don't know what all this means, but I do believe that we are supposed to be digging through the site, ARG or not.

Edit: And I must add that I find it odd that the .com url redirects to the .net url. I would think everything would redirect to .com. Call me .com-centric.
Oooh and there is a Managment Login Portal page at: http://www.steorn.org/ but please folks lets make sure that this is in fact an ARG before anyone starts trying to hack the login.