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Areia · Boot Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Chicago

I just emailed the cells from the first video to a friend of mine with a Phd. in Biochemistry. He says:

"Depending on magnification this looks like bacteria not eukaryotic cells (i.e. us). Most likely cocci (like lung infection stuff). "

I've managed to extract a screen shot from the second video as well. Looks similar, but I've emailed it to the biochemist as well, to see if he has anything else to say.

ETA: the second image (from the long video) is just a close-up of the earlier image. Either way, cocci bacteria would fit with Jeff feeling like he has flu, and coughing a lot.

There's some good information here about the bacteria. It sounds like Jeff is likely to get a fever, possibly a rash and the disease can be fatal. Considering these are likely to be designer bacteria, it could be much worse than the variety the American Lung Association talks about.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:04 pm

casablanca · Boot Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 39

Strange AA's

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:58 pm

cyberus · Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 102

Re: Strange AA's

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:33 pm

Brantai · Boot Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 10

Re: Strange AA's

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:48 pm

Areia · Boot Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Chicago

Spoke to Jeff just now. Regardless of the images in the video showing bacteria, he says his doctor believes it's a virus, and has sent him to an ICU. There he started "throwing up weird crap", at which point they flew him to Ann Arbor. He said he was IMing from the hospital, and his parents were with him. He hasn't take the pill.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:56 pm

miki_38x1

Well the next time I talk to him, I'm going to tell him to take the damn pill. Obviously it's going to help... Unless it doesn't. Haha.

I'm going to concentrate my efforts on the engineering part of this whole shebang, as that's my expertise. Hopefully he'll drop some kind of hint I can help with.

EDIT: New blog up on blogspot with pictures of the bag and some other info. I haven't read it thoroughly, but it merits a good looking at.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:11 pm

nextday · Decorated Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 156 Location: UF

Update!

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:10 pm

Areia · Boot Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Chicago

Some thoughts based on the images and talking to Jeff tonight:

If you connect the X's on the map, the shape you end up with is very similar to the tiny shape on the $100, be it in mirror image. I've tried to overlay the shape on a map of Iowa, and the X's are near some towns, but between the perspective in the photo and the inaccuracy of the markings it's hard to get them to match.

He told me he knows someone named Jason. The guy's a co-worker, but Jeff doesn't know him very well. He says Jason is "kinda dorky, very nice, very religious". (For the benefit of the Crowley fans out there: Jeff doesn't know what religion.)

He doesn't know Jason well, because he only saw his co-workers once a week in a stand-up meeting. The rest of the time was spent working with a single person, Erin, who he knows better, but never spent much time with as the company discouraged fraternizing between co-workers.

Finally, whereas Sunday and Monday he was using double a's in his AIM conversations, today he's doubling his t's. A lot. Pointedly even. Maybe it's not just a fluke, and he's actually trying to spell something out.

nextday · Decorated Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 156 Location: UF

He put a double t in his new blog post as well.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:32 pm

Will 2.0

I just talked to him over the phone. He really sounds horrible, death coughs and all. We decided that the mark on the 100 bill looks like a state and I thought the bag with the x's looked like the US. He didn't recognize the handwriting on the bag, talked a little about Jason. He spoke low so it was kinda hard to hear. His parents left for the night so he's really anxious to leave. He wants to get his camera back to film what he vomited up. We need to find info on this, fast.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:57 am

Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

response to a comment i left on his blog

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:00 am

miki_38x1

I just pulled up a map of the US and what's on that $100 is not any one state. I'm trying to see if it could be a composite of 2+ states... Like a general area. I can't get the mark on the bill to get much clearer though.
As for the whole vomiting thing, what the hell could he have thrown up that is so interesting? Eww. Haha.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:06 am

Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

Looking at the videos again, I found this. I hesitate to mention it, though, cause we are so hot wired to see faces.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:14 am

faeryqueen21

Whoa. Creepy. Jeff said at some point that he was seeing faces out there, so I don't think this is just wanting to see something. I think that looks very much like a something.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:24 am

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Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

I checked with frappr to see if any unfiction players live in Iowa. but I didn't find any. http://www.frappr.com/unfiction

Do any of you guys know anyone from Iowa?

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:14 am