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[Pixel Set] Silver #252 - C. 237.85, F. 460.13,
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caraj
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[Pixel Set] Silver #252 - C. 237.85, F. 460.13,

Wave 4 Silver

Sorry, it isn't a very good scan, if anyone can lighten the image as there is what looks like a map in the background.

And you can't read the bits of type or numbers all over it. Sorry. Embarassed

Guest puzzle architect : Ehsan Al-Kooheji

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Curlytek
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So, given the title, should this card be heated up (pretty hot it must be said!) to reveal something???

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:10 am
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BBuck
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Or could the temperatures in the title refer to the boiling/melting/freezing point of a substance? Are the other things on the rest of the card temperatures plotted on a graph?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:09 am
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anansi
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I don't think you could heat the card up that much, isn't F 451 the combustion point of paper (hence the title of Farenheit 451)?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:26 am
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Cinana
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Could you maybe list what the little letters state? To give us an idea on what we should be speculating about?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:32 pm
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matt220781
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This is the first silver i've got so i'm quite keen to solve it.

The small words all over the card say the following:

Smite
Deal
Edgy Name
Io
Ken Ana
Data Sear
Cream
Lama Heat
Pisa Heap
Hail Aim
Last Coil
Ponies
Aero Up
Hasty Lie
A Lear
Be The

they are repeated all over the card in no obvious pattern although they do appear in lines vertically and horizontally.

There are also the numbers 1 to 16 dotted around the card.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:07 pm
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Curlytek
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The second comma (at the end of the title) leads me to list other units for this temperature:

(most interesting perhaps) Kelvin = 511
919.8 degrees Rankine
190.3 degrees Reaumur

Perhaps these indicate (somehow) an order to the items displayed in the image?

PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:04 pm
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DarkHuman
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C. 237.85=F. 460.13=K.511 yep, but i keep looking at all the anagrams for whats on the card, and i keep geting planets or stars.
i.e. Jupiter's moon, ananke.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:21 pm
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Velma
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They're all anagrams of Jupiter's moons.

Smite = Metis
Deal = Leda
Edgy Name = Ganymede
Io = Io Rolling Eyes
Ken Ana = Ananke
Data Sear = Adrastea
Cream = Carme
Lama Heat = Amalthea
Pisa Heap = Pasiphae
Hail Aim = Himalia
Last Coil = Callisto
Ponies = Sinope
Aero Up = Europa
Hasty Lie = Lysithea
A Lear = Elara
Be The = Thebe


I haven't got the card, so I don't know if this is of any use, or how.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:09 am
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MontyWorm
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Absolutely!

Several minutes searching on Wikipedia produced some meaning for these numbers relate to conversion between Celsius, Farenheit, and Kelvin.

Incidentally, not via the main page. Searching via google leads to an alternation language variant at http://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheithttp://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

These values, if negative, equal absolute zero - the minimum possible temperature, at which all movement stops, down to the atomic level.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:59 pm
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KingOfWrong
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Re: Absolutely!

MontyWorm wrote:
These values, if negative, equal absolute zero


Nope. That's -273(.15) degC, not -237... and the concept of negative Kelvin is nonsensical, since it's just degC biased such that absolute zero is 0.

I'm liking the Jupiter approach, but what are the numbers for the ordering? Why are the anagrams repeated? And what's the temperature mean? Seems rather hot for a surface temp that far out, and Jupiter doesn't even have a surface...

PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:22 pm
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Dranioth
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Just so we know, The only element that has a melting point close to 237 degrees is everyone's favorite metal, TIN, at a sweltering 232 degrees celcius.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:20 pm
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domroberts
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You should probably all make use of this on the card info page :

Quote:
This card has the following corrections:
The card name should be "C. 277.85, F. 532.13," (Last Updated: 2006-08-01 10:19:58 GMT)


Dom

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:27 pm
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UKver2.0
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domroberts wrote:
Quote:
This card has the following corrections:
The card name should be "C. 277.85, F. 532.13," (Last Updated: 2006-08-01 10:19:58 GMT)


Hmm... that makes for 551 Kelvin or to continue the format on the card...

K. 551

Not too far off from "Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, ('Jupiter')"

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:02 pm
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ne0x
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Well that certainly implies that the value "551 kelvin" is very relevant. I guess they accidently typed 511 the first time.
Funny no one at MC noticed.

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UKver2.0 Shocked I like how you think...

I'm curious what the K. 551 refers to though.

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