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[INFO] "Milwaukee: A Reasonable Haven" Informational Booklet
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dposse
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synspark wrote:
Okay, so i've been doing some heavy physics looking-around...

m.w.e. stands for Meters of Water Equivalent. It's used when discussing depth in terms of the amount of water above the point that would be needed to reduce cosmic ray flux by the same amount as the actual material above the point does. I'm not sure if we're talking flow of cosmic rays here, or some other kind of high-energy waves or particles, but it's a start.

I would think that the chart refers to flow of proton energy at particular depths of whatever material we're talking about. Could be concrete for all we know, but the depth doesn't refer to actual depth in feet, it refers to the depth in meters of water that would reduce the flow of those particles the same amount as the actual material.

I'm still lookin around Very Happy


Can you explain that again, but this time to a High School grad?

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aldys
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 		One thing is kinda bugging me.. In the introduction, they mention "the many Go.D.S.E.E.D fragments you'll encounter in the desert".
I remember a while back we were talking about parts of the US being flooded.. Maybe we have it the wrong way around?

...Maybe I'm focusing too hard on irrelevant details? Razz

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Bigwig
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 		Just got of the phone with Mike Russo Convo went kind of like this, it was kinda of hard to hear understand him because he cailmed to be drunk and was swearing often and loudly.

Mike: Hello This is mike

Me: Hey Mike how have you been?

Mike: Not good, not good at all

Me: Why whats wrong?

Mike: Its those F**king info packets!

Me: I thought joey was more responsible for that?

Mike: Joey? I dont even know that kid I have only met him like 15 times.
IM going to get fired, in a week! BECAUSE OF MICHELE LEWIS!
YOU DONT TRUST HIM! Tell you friends!

Me: Dont trust Lewis?

Mike: Yeah, he dosnt give a shit about civics! Theres only 5 cities left, we need to get more cities active! And THOSE goddamn GS Fragments! IM goings to have to go back to working at F**ing ferbreezes!

Me: Im sorry mike is dose it suck working there?

Mike: No! They are good people! I just need more dark dollors!
Look I have to go!

Then he hangs up, he said some other things about how he was to fat and too old but I dont think any of it was important.

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Bigwig
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 		Sorry my grammer/spelling is so bad, at work kind of distracted.

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horkheimer
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 		rad

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bluesylvia
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 		So it looks like we only have a week left to get whatever information Mike may have still.

Perhaps he'll be more willing to share "secrets" now that he's getting canned?

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Bigwig wrote:
Just got of the phone with Mike Russo...


Nice. I've been calling all afternoon, and though for the past hour it's actually been ringing, I haven't had him pick up yet.

Sounds like the sh** really hit the fan.
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isaac newton
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 		tweet!
from our friend chuck
Just now, via twitter:

ChuckDideEate: Just got back from a stroll with some friends, saw Russo stumbling around the streets. Offered him a ham sandwich, and he started crying...?

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bluesylvia
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 		/\/\/\ Oh no, poor Mike! Sad He can have my hamBURgers too if he'd like

Bigwig wrote:

Mike: No! They are good people! I just need more dark dollors!


Both Joey and Mike have complained about having not enough money, right? Has anyone tried offering them a bribe for info?

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synspark
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dposse wrote:
synspark wrote:
Okay, so i've been doing some heavy physics looking-around...

m.w.e. stands for Meters of Water Equivalent. It's used when discussing depth in terms of the amount of water above the point that would be needed to reduce cosmic ray flux by the same amount as the actual material above the point does. I'm not sure if we're talking flow of cosmic rays here, or some other kind of high-energy waves or particles, but it's a start.

I would think that the chart refers to flow of proton energy at particular depths of whatever material we're talking about. Could be concrete for all we know, but the depth doesn't refer to actual depth in feet, it refers to the depth in meters of water that would reduce the flow of those particles the same amount as the actual material.

I'm still lookin around Very Happy


Can you explain that again, but this time to a High School grad?


LoL. It took me a bit to understand it too...but then again, I only get to check "Some College" on surveys...

m.w.e. in depth terms - Say you've got a sensor underground trying to detect cosmic particles. You could say that it's 1000 meters under typical rock. If it were sand, salt, marshmallows... whatever, instead of rock, the amount to which incoming particles would degrade would be different. m.w.e. is a way of standardizing the measurement for different materials through which the particles are passing. That way you could say, the particle degrading properties of passing through 1000 meters of standard rock is the same as those same particles passing through 2650 meters of water, so the meters of water equivalent of 1000m of standard rock is 2650 (typical rock is always multiplied by 2.650 for the m.w.e.). 1000 m of marshmallows could be the same as 30 m of water (for all we know, i'm guessing no one has tested).

Really all i was saying is that measurements in m.w.e. as in that graph are usually used for underground sensors trying to detect incoming particles.

that's all i got, i think Very Happy

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canebrake
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 		anagram
This is half-baked, but maybe someone can do something with it.


If a unique anagram could be made with the letters on p. 27, the subscripts would then yield a unique sequence of digits (the first W maps to 6, the 2nd one to 0, etc.). The dashes would separate things into 6 numbers, with an average of 5 digits each.

I was thinking it might give us a zipcode for a 6th city, but there aren't enough 5s in the puzzle to cover the five known city zips.

Of course, it's going to be nearly impossible to make a good anagram. I've been hoping to make sense of something that included 'family tree' but none of them are any good so far....

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mrbass
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bluesylvia wrote:


Both Joey and Mike have complained about having not enough money, right? Has anyone tried offering them a bribe for info?


or get info on skills like dark archer or baking or try to dual him for dark dollars

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drpfenderson
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 		Ok - Some random stuff here.

I'm stuck on Decatur, IL. It is mentioned on Page 0 of the book (the map). It was named after Stephen Decatur who was the youngest man to reach the rank of captain in the history of the United States Navy, and the first American celebrated as a national military hero who had not played a role in the American Revolution.
Also - he saw the Jersey Devil/alien/whatever it is in real-life.

Ok - So Decatur is (IG) "Big Brass City". It seems to be denoted with a dot signifying a "capital" or large city - usually see that on maps. No other city has that signifier. Also, the dotted line coming from Witchita goes through it before going to Milwaukee. Brass seems to come from there. It is even listed 3 times under important materials:
* brass
* reinforced brass
* M-brass (related to m-rotors?)

So - Dinosaurs lived with humans in this alternate reality. It has been pointed out that maybe they were crappy at history? But they have quotes from the Dinosaur Viceroy - which wouldn't make sense to make up.

http://mymilwaukee.wikibruce.com/Image:Haven-p8%2C9%2C11.jpg

This lists how we were able to gain footing against the dinosaurs and how our freedom came due to the Brass Age. I'm thinking that their "Brass Age" is a different one - due to different timelines....and the numerous references to Brass. Why would they be talking about the RL one when the IG one is so specific?

So - Dinosaurs had submarines (mentioned twice on 2 pages) and advanced technology like turbines.


Note: Abraham Lincoln studied law in Decatur. Heh

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 		So this is where everyone went...

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synspark
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 		Ok, i know I'm wayyy fixated on the charts pages. I had a thought about the M-Rotors....particularly M-collapse. The book refers to 80% of M-Rotors entering some sort of sympathetic spin condition that causes them to end up collapsing or failing. If there were, 10, or, say, less than 20 M-rotors, I think it would be odd to refer to them in percentage terms. There have got to be a lot of them out there to refer to them in that way.

just a thought that was bugging me.

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