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[cat-offline]

Apparently Hank's daughter is very interested in energy packets as they relate to discrepancies in the flow of time....

[guywiththegun]

Where'd you find this? Hank still hasn't emailed me I asked him if he liked Coast to Coast AM...I figured we'd have some common ground.

I am so totally crying right now.

[LatentMoths]

Regarding Puzzle Solution

[Jarok]

Nice work. I just thought of the same idea using the number of moves in the equations before i found this post, so good to know we're on the same wavelength. Not really sure what a good question would be. Maybe you could ask for a password or maybe the purpose of the equations?

[ancalime]

I'd ask something more like "for what purpose are Hank and his daughter needed?" Forget the equations, that was just for the puzzle.

[molecularr]

Lots of questions about the language come to mind, but go with whatever seems important to you. We're assuming right now that the syntax is the same as English (and that assumption seems to be borne out so far), but it would be nice to confirm that. I don't know, though; we can probably figure that out on our own.

Great work on that puzzle.

[Dorphalsig]

[Caterpillar]

Puck you have indeed solved the twosides equation....it just needs to be taken a little further I think.

7-21-3-21

GUCU

Rot6 = MAIA

Atlantis literally translated means Daughter of Atlas....

MAIA was just such a daughter....

[Dorphalsig]

[Caterpillar]

It's a short term for a Caesar Cipher

[Orphevs]

ROT6 stands for rotation by 6. It's shorthand for saying that he's using the Caesar cipher with the letters shifted by 6 places. So A would be G, B would H, C would be I, and so on. You can google it for more info.

EDIT: Whoops, got beat to the punch.

[Caterpillar]

I get overlappng and sometimes conflicting information on Atlas:

1) Atlas is a scion of the Titans, the Greek race of giants, and the son of Iapetus and the nymph Clymene. He is the father of the Hesperides, the Hyades and the Pleiades. He was also thought to be the king of legendary Atlantis. "The Pleiades" was the name given to the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Pleione was one of the Oceanids (nymphs of the great ocean). Maia was the eldest of the daughters, and said to be the most beautiful. Being shy, she lived quietly and alone in a cave on Mount Cyllene, in Arcadia.

2) According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a mortal son of Poseidon. Poseidon was the god of the sea. According to Solon's notes the history of Atlantis began at the beginning of time. It was then that the immortal gods divided the world among themselves and each ruled their proportion. The god Poseidon received Atlantis, an island larger the Libya and Asia combined. He chose for a wife the mortal woman Cleito, and with her begun the royal family of Atlantis. Cleito bore Poseidon ten sons, five sets of boys. Atlas the first son of the first set of twins, was made king over the vast territory by his father.

There are also some publications out there that suggest that the Greek Gods were actually the revered and very mortal Kings of Atlantis.

[Orphevs]

Well from the little I know of Greek myth, the two reports may not be as conflicting as they seem. The whole wacky thing of having two fathers and a mother isn't actually uncommon in Greek mythology. One father is mortal and one is God and there's the one mother that bears the child. Greek and Hindu mythology are similar in this respect. And anything you find that seems like it conflicts even bearing this in mind... well... Greece was a big place and there were a lot of people telling the stories and a lot of versions of the stories.
There isn't really a ruling body making sure translations mesh with Greek myth like there are with religions that are still practiced. Look into any religion and you'll see that there tend to be different interpretations and versions of stories. That is, unless the other versions of stories that weren't as accepted were made to dissapear through concious effort by some group. As far as this applies to Greek mythology though, I think anything you find on the top google links are probably accepted enough to go with.

[Caterpillar]

[Caterpillar]

From YshkLanti after sending "MAIA" as an answer to the test: