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Bruce
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NY1 has a website. I searched for 1-18-08-related terms. No hits on most. I got one for 'Rob Hawkins':

New York 1 search

I think OOG, but maybe more searches will bear fruit?


edit made url tiny ~rose

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Aye agreed we are still missing on some of the clues in the trailer I think.

For example the ACE on the wall. There is a date above the 2004 which I think looks like 1187 not 1987 as previously speculated, however having looked at ACE publications (now a penguin imprint and a sci fi favorite) I'm still no further at tying up with the theme of the movie. The closest I can get so far is http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/monst-table.html which is an Edger Burroughs tale about a scientific frankenstinian approach to super humans, but not finished reading it yet to know if there are any clues there.

Also the temperature might be as a result of the explosion (residual heat)as recorded by a local temperature monitor live feed to the news room in which case they would have no control at time of broadcast. Hopefully I'm not making any excuses for the movie but just my view of how the temperature may have been broadcast in the news.

however I agree I think there are still clues to be picked out of the original material.

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maybe thats why that havent provided anything new, they feel we still have stuff to work with?

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Possibly the heat in january could tie to the off shore drilling as it was mentioned on another thread that it could breach a tectonic plate or even the mantle! (they did say on the tagruato site they were going deeper than ever before into the mid atlantic ridge) just a thought!

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john locke wrote:
Possibly the heat in january could tie to the off shore drilling as it was mentioned on another thread that it could breach a tectonic plate or even the mantle! (they did say on the tagruato site they were going deeper than ever before into the mid atlantic ridge) just a thought!


would that keep it warmer in NYC?

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Re: Trailer Clues Revisited
We need to figure out what all those meant on the trailer...

Matt Dark wrote:
We had the ABZ3293.com thing, obviously that was a jack, but they did put a lot of focus on that in the trailer, he wanted us to see it, like a lot of things, it's where we got slusho! so there's got to be more! ok so what do we have?

ABZ3293 - Licence plate
Exit to mystery st. - sticker on fridge
ACE 2004 - Wall after explosion
Dead Dead - back of street sign after SOL hits
AKM - Paddle board
63 degrees - on tv

I know we've sought this out to death but this stuff means something I know it!


*Exit to Mystery St.: Comes from an actual honest-to-god OOG sign from the New Orleans Jazz Festival. There's a photo online (I can google it easily enough...just don't have time right now) that shows it -- the font matches *exactly.* And there really *is* a Mystery Street in NO, and the sign merely points to a car exit from the festival to that street.

*AKM -- Alpha Kappa Mu fraternity. Real. Real frat paddle, even if they (say they) don't paddle pledges. It's an honor fraternity, and is found in colleges only in the south and midwest (not NYU or Ithaca College). So if it actually belongs to a Slusho 7, it's either Lil's or Hud's (Rob went to NYU, and Hawk was lucky to get out of high school...no college).

*63 degrees -- DEFINITELY a plot point. Not some sort of continuity error, because everyone is DRESSED like it's 63 degrees. At midnight. In January. In NYC.

And they act like it's perfectly normal.

So...highly unlikely the 63 degrees came from a sudden catastrophic rise in temp -- everyone would still be wearing coats and boggans and other winter clothes.

My theories about 63 degrees:

1) It's not January 18, 2008. But the timestamps on the 1-18-08 photos come into question. Maybe those aren't TIMEstamps at all....but seems unlikely.
2) It's all in somebody's head. I still keep coming back to the theory that this is an alternate/multiple reality sci-fi story....that what we're seeing isn't "real" -- it's part of some virtual reality, or inside someone's head, possibly "inserted" by the DSI's weird side effects. If so, the DSI might be skewing that person's (Rob? Jamie? Hud?) sense of reality, so that little things don't make sense -- like 1/18/08 seeming like a warm night in spring, or the "Slusho 7" seem to look different in every frame....

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Re: Trailer Clues Revisited
We need to figure out what all those meant on the trailer...

brettoniasam wrote:
My theories about 63 degrees:

1) It's not January 18, 2008. But the timestamps on the 1-18-08 photos come into question. Maybe those aren't TIMEstamps at all....but seems unlikely.
2) It's all in somebody's head. I still keep coming back to the theory that this is an alternate/multiple reality sci-fi story....that what we're seeing isn't "real" -- it's part of some virtual reality, or inside someone's head, possibly "inserted" by the DSI's weird side effects. If so, the DSI might be skewing that person's (Rob? Jamie? Hud?) sense of reality, so that little things don't make sense -- like 1/18/08 seeming like a warm night in spring, or the "Slusho 7" seem to look different in every frame....


Actually, I've been thinking about this as it relates to the Tagruato site. 63 degrees didn't make much sense at first, but now we know there is supposed to be drilling commencing in Sept. 2007 off-shore near NYC (BTW, anyone able to plot the distance from the map, looks like a couple hundred miles), one plausible theory is gases released from the deep sea drilling over a span of 4 months increased the temp in the NYC/East Atlantic area...so its a somewhat gradual increase or because of the drilling, the winter did not start off cold and no one is aware why its unusually warm.

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dalphx wrote:
john locke wrote:
Possibly the heat in january could tie to the off shore drilling as it was mentioned on another thread that it could breach a tectonic plate or even the mantle! (they did say on the tagruato site they were going deeper than ever before into the mid atlantic ridge) just a thought!


would that keep it warmer in NYC?


A shift in the location of the Gulf Stream caused by intense mining along a fautl line ????

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Could somebody show Bruce how to use tinyurl?
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Two opinions
My opinions

First:

The movie is released in January but it is NOT set in January. Especially considering they filmed it in June. This has been discussed before.

Second:

We're all eagerly anticipating the next trailer and trying to guess which movie it will be in front of. However, this close to the release date I think that the next trailer will be on... TV
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The only thing is that everything is leading up to the movie in real time. I think the movie would be set in January, any earlier and the ARG would be off, as it gives actual dates. Any later and there would be a gap. Not to mention, being the type of movie it is, it would work best being released on the same day its set.

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Re: Two opinions
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Anteros wrote:
First:

The movie is released in January but it is NOT set in January. Especially considering they filmed it in June. This has been discussed before.

Uh, except that the timestamps on the pictures are 1-18-08. it'd be pretty screwed up to have all the emphasis on that date (by having the site itself refer to that date, and of course the release date), and have evidence setting it on that date, then change it to mid-year.
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The unseasonably warm weather may be part of the plot , all the different mentions of keeping the dsi freezing seems to fit in. Jamies' "hotness" may be someething related too, why all the mentions of it and then choosing Hotprofilesplus as her myspace templates.(please do not understand--not that she makes the ny temp hot, just that it seems to be emphasized)

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Re: Two opinions
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Anteros wrote:
First:

The movie is released in January but it is NOT set in January. Especially considering they filmed it in June. This has been discussed before.

Second:

We're all eagerly anticipating the next trailer and trying to guess which movie it will be in front of. However, this close to the release date I think that the next trailer will be on... TV


are you kidding me? Of course it's set during january 18th 2008.

Just because something is filmed at a time doesn't mean it's set there. You can film something in 2007 taking place in the 1900s .

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63 degrees in NYC in January isn't unheard of...
At all actually...

I've spent a substantial amount of time in NY...I'd assign the temperature
factor a lil' more weight if it were in the 80-90 degree range that fateful
night. Doesn't even seem like the characters are taken aback by the
cool 60 something degree night
they were enjoying in the teaser. No
mentions or references to the temp being out of place...

It's hard for me to consider 63 degrees in January in NYC any sort of
anomaly. This isn't the average monthly temp by any means , but if you
live or have lived in NY, it's well understood that the weather there is
fairly schizophrenic. It's not unheard of to experience all four seasons in
a 1 month period come October or so: sun shining (70 degrees) followed
by 4 days of straight rain followed 5 inches of snow…all the while the
leaves are changing color.


Lately the more harsh end of winter's been picking up between late
February and March melting off around aroung April sometime....

Check out this link from '98...about tens years of global warming follows this article headlined,
" Forget Bermuda! Try Binghamton, N.Y., which hit a balmy 63-degree temperature in January (News from the northeast regional climate center)".

Seems like the "clue" with the least oddness and significance.
I'd quicker blame it on El Nino Wink
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