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[TRAILHEAD?] Them Earth Meteors

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:11 pm

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Jas0n · Decorated Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 244

viewing the source is a headache... I removed the none code and this is what ya get:

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:17 pm

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Looks fasinating but all that code and all is kind of over my head right now. May look later but wanted to add that 'them earth meteors' sounds awfully...anagramish. 'Thermometers heat' can be made of it in case that could be of any use to anyone (doubt it). Confused

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:06 pm

catherwood

It contains the following URLs:

WelcomeMicrosoft.php
Welcome.php
JoinUs.php
PuzzleSolved.php

It also contains the intriguing test:
if (PUZZLE_CONTEST_ACTIVE)

And it is testing submissions against a server-side script, so you won't find the username/password embedded in the Flash:

http://www.themearthmeteors.com/submitPass.php
http://www.themearthmeteors.com/submitUName.php

Nothing else jumps out at me.

Domain is registered privately thru Dreamhost; site is hosted on a Dreamhost server farm in California, no help there. These people have covered their tracks.

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Oh, and you can also make "the master theorem". Probably reaching but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_theorem - which is waaaay over my head.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:12 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:40 pm

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alrun · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Denmark

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:16 pm

PatRol

Rollover

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:26 pm

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The 2nd gyyph (kind of like a gray code based shaft encoder) reads, "BECAUSEICHOOSETO". Still working on the first one.

EDIT: Got it. The first glyph's binary works out to "WHYDOYOUPERSIST".

"Smith"? "Anderson"? "Neo"? "futile"?

Just throwing stuff out there.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:35 pm

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nitefoll

How did you decipher them?

I was looking at http://clicmobile.com/blog/?cat=30 and shotCodes, but gave up after 30 mins of trying to clear up the image.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:19 pm

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Jas0n · Decorated Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 244

He explained it in chat as a graphic binary representation

oh and I've started #tem for this, but I didn't reg it - leave that for someone that'll be around more

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:57 pm

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enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

Here's how Rogi explained it to me. If you divide the graphic up like a 16 hour clock, but 8 rings deep, you read each time slot from center out. So 1 oclock would look like this:

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:33 pm

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i'm not sure this proves the answer, but it's a visualization of how i THINK it was solved -- i used the Photoshop distortion filter for polar coordiates

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:21 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I'm constantly amazed by the skillz people around here display. That's awesome, catherwood.

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:38 pm

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addlepated

Not sure if it means anything, but if you take the letters that cause the misspellings and anagram them, they spell "HEARSE."

08:24:48 <Jas0n> Elvis (E.) Presley
08:24:48 <Jas0n> t(a)m Cruise
08:24:48 <Jas0n> Nic(h)olas Cage
08:24:48 <Jas0n> Oprah G Winfre[ e]
08:24:48 <Jas0n> William J Cli(r)ton
08:24:48 <Jas0n> Fidal A Castro(s)

**Posted:** Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:40 pm

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