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[TRAILHEAD] Lost Experience Part Trois?
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dposse
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 		Relax, people. It was only a possibility. It should open soon enough.

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Apopheniac79
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dposse wrote:
Relax, people. It was only a possibility. It should open soon enough.

Yeah, well if it doesn't happen in the next few minutes my money is on midnight pst, meaning a little less than 3 hours to go.

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Apopheniac79 wrote:
dposse wrote:
Relax, people. It was only a possibility. It should open soon enough.

Yeah, well if it doesn't happen in the next few minutes my money is on midnight pst, meaning a little less than 3 hours to go.


well, yeah. I'd bet that timezones have something to do with it. If not, then they will turn it on whenever they want to. Of course, they said that it would be on monday, so....

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 		Re: recap of Comic-Con 08!
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Okay, i think we are in need of a recap of the events at Comic-Con, so here it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osXPybrjYeM Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avuVIzjTSDY Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NT7G1hXDvo Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcFIg8YAsI Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchDKE1uOBA Part 5

People took a test at the DHARMA booth. There was a video at the booth that was transmitted by Bluetooth. This was almost a complete failure due to technical diffculites. We got a glimpse of it, though, and it's basically a "hacked" version of the video showed on the outside of the DHARMA booth.

At the LOST panel, Hans Van Eeghen announced the results: everyone failed dismally except for a few. These few were taken back to the booth where they were shown a secret video. Dan Bronsen, a geeky teenager with a small video camera, recorded it and interupted Damon and Carlton to show it to everyone. Here's a transcript:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Hello. My name is Dr. Marvin Candle and i....you know what? Forget it. No point in games anymore, right? If you're watching this now, you already know that my name is, my real name is Pierre Cheng and i...(baby cries off screen and the Doctor looks over. He gets up from the couch and yells: "Jennifer! Just take him outside, please! I've got one chance at this." He sits back down.) [static] ...professor of (something) astro-physics from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was brought [static] years ago to conduct experiments to study the Kerr metric solution to the Einstein field equation and... [static] If i can hold this pinhole open long enough, you should be recieving my message roughly thirty years [static] If you're... [static] The American president is a man named George W. Bush and you share digital infomation instantaneously on something called "internet". And, unfortunatly, my colleagues and i are all dead [static] and if, of a violent purge, one that we are apparently powerless to escape. (he looks down sadly at his right arm, which looks normal, and grasps it with his other normal hand). [static] This infomation comes to me from a source that has proven himself to be credable.

Other man (possibly Daniel Faraday): None of that matters. It doesn't matter. Just get to it, please! [static]

Dr. Cheng: Because, if this transmission is successful, it's proof the work i've been doing here is valid. This place, it has extraordinary properties. I'm begging you, no matter what's happened, it's imperative that the DHARMA Initiative be reconstituted. You have to continue to research [static] and you have to do it now. Time is not just of the essence, it is the essence. Perhaps you'll be able to find a way to save us, to change the past and to [static] (something) You can't let it....

Other man: This is useless! Alright? It's just useless. They'll never gonna see this. How do i turn this off?

Dr. Cheng: No, no! W-w-what are you doing?

Other man: How do you turn it off?

Dr. Cheng: No! What are you doing? [static]


link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn_dNsaz-AA

link: http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Marvin_Candle

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_metric

link: http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Daniel%27s_journal

We've heard of the Kerr metric before. It was in Daniel Faraday's journal in "The Constant".

And that was pretty much it. I think that Comic-Con was stage one of this ARG, and it is now over. Stage Two, the website(s), begins this monday. Be there.


[repost for newbies]

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 		Monday for us but Hoodlum (the company doing the ARG) is an Australian Company. It will be Tuesday for them and it's the middle of the afternoon in Sydney.
It's already Monday in Australia.

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Sam G wrote:
Monday for us but Hodlum (the company doing the ARG) is an Australian Company. It will be Tuesday for them and it's the middle of the afternoon in Sydney.
It's already Monday in Australia.


they might exist in australia (holy crap, there's alot of ties with LOST in that country!), but are their servers there? Can you find out where this site is hosted from?

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 		They're the same company that did FIND815. I think that their servers and everything are in Australia. It's a good way to keep things quiet and things are not as likely to get leaked.

http://www.hoodlum.com.au/v5/index.html

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 		If it's centered around Comic-Con, shouldn't we be waiting until Midnight PST? That's like an hour and a half hours from now.

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dposse wrote:
they might exist in australia..., but are their servers there? Can you find out where this site is hosted from?

The server is hosted by Media Temple in California. Server box time could theoretically still be set to Australia time zones. (Both the dharma and the octagon domains are hosted on the same IP address)

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[...All of the theories about midnight time zones, cut for brevity...]

It's also quite possible that they will not use an automatic switch-on and instead wait until the morning or afternoon--when they can guarantee fully awake network operations personnel, game designers, web programmers, and writers. Usually, you can automate things such that none of the above people are required, but with such a high-profile launch, they will probably want those folks on standby in case issues arise.
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 		It's half past midnight here in California, so I guess it's a no-go until later in the day....
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Sassy wrote:
It's half past midnight here in California, so I guess it's a no-go until later in the day....

Perhaps 3:05 or 3:25 tomorrow. Wink

Obscure Lost reference's are fun! Very Happy

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Perhaps 3:05 or 3:25 tomorrow. Wink

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AM or PM....? Wink Wink

(EDIT: well, it wasn't AM. ::::snicker:::: )
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KLind wrote:
Sassy wrote:
It's half past midnight here in California, so I guess it's a no-go until later in the day....

Perhaps 3:05 or 3:25 tomorrow. Wink

Obscure Lost reference's are fun! Very Happy


it would be awesome if they decided to do it with the Numbers in mind. if they did that, we could very well be waiting until 8:23 tonight.

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dposse wrote:
KLind wrote:
Sassy wrote:
It's half past midnight here in California, so I guess it's a no-go until later in the day....

Perhaps 3:05 or 3:25 tomorrow. Wink

Obscure Lost reference's are fun! Very Happy


it would be awesome if they decided to do it with the Numbers in mind. if they did that, we could very well be waiting until 8:23 tonight.


or 4:08pm, 8:15pm, 3:16pm, 4:23pm or 11:42pm. I think I might go crazy if I have to wait till 11:42pm Laughing

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