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Bran
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rempas wrote:
I've pasted all the interval images into one gif. It doesn't make much sense but maybe one of you can make something out of it.
There are a few distinct ones that show a camera lens in the upper right corner. I've tried merging them to one but that didn't give anything comprehensible.

[sorry wrong thread, I'll repost.]


Some of those frames look alot like microscopic life being viewed through a microscope.

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 		I've pasted all the interval images into one gif. It doesn't make much sense but maybe one of you can make something out of it.
There are a few distinct ones that show a camera lens in the upper right corner. I've tried merging them to one but that didn't give anything comprehensible.

[sorry wrong thread, I'll repost.]
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 		Regarding the box that says AN/TTQ-1:

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AN/TTQ-1. (Army Navy/Transportable Tracing eQuipment) from surplus stock. It was a portable equipment for air defense centers, used during World War II as the basic elements of the prominent mobile search command centers. It was then field-rate and robust built using particular equipment crates.


Source

Crossposted from the screenshot thread here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29519
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Závin
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 		it actually says:
AN/TTQ 1
TTQ: tryptophan tryptophylquinone

googled it a couple times, definitely army connection:

http://aero-defense.ihs.com/document/abstract/QSWJDAAAAAAAAAAA

http://www.gordon.army.mil/ocos/Museum/AMC/radio2.asp
(can't access this one)

(BTW, have been lurking here since the Cloverfield early days, can't wait to help in this viral)

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rempas wrote:
Definitely a boys face.

And apart from the train crossing sign and the cars license plate number there are only two other props there with text on them. Just thought I'd post them.

I'm working on a animated gif of all the strange stills. Keep you posted!


Cool screens!
People, please post all your screens and analysis of this trailer in this thread:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29519
Let's analyse it here!
(I've simultaniously posted my screens there, but post everything you find, even if it's double) We need as much as we get.
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 		Definitely a boys face.

And apart from the train crossing sign and the cars license plate number there are only two other props there with text on them. Just thought I'd post them.

I'm working on a animated gif of all the strange stills. Keep you posted!

[edit] plate number is E6465K
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 		Combing through it now.

Gonna have a full radio chatter transcript up in a few minutes.

EDIT: Maybe longer than I thought.

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MOVIELORD101 wrote:
Surprised no one's mentioned this. HD version of the teaser's now up!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/super8/


Cool! Nice found, thank you!
Perhaps the best update since the weekend.

What, what is the long dark pause after the end of the trailer? Is there something?
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 		Re: download
vapor wrote:
Spanky Kiddo wrote:
Melodyman wrote:
Man. That PDP-11 sure is one slow loading unit..
In 3 days its downloaded the equivalent of a small photo..

Hmm true. So whatever it is we're waiting for ... shouldn't be much.


Here's info about the TU56 DECTape Drive

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The tape is normally formatted with 1474 block of 129 12 bit words per block. Only 128 words are normally used in each block. This gives a capacity of 184K words per tape.


Source: http://www.pdp8.net/tu56/tu56.shtml

So we could potentially get a lot of text. Which makes sense since there was no graphics processor to speak of. The PDP-11 could only display text and simple graphs.


Nice information there... We might get a source code that we will have to put into HTML ourselves. Would be neat if we get source code from the ARG's time period that can only be compiled in our world, but is this possible?

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 		Surprised no one's mentioned this. HD version of the teaser's now up!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/super8/

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 		Re: download
Spanky Kiddo wrote:
Melodyman wrote:
Man. That PDP-11 sure is one slow loading unit..
In 3 days its downloaded the equivalent of a small photo..

Hmm true. So whatever it is we're waiting for ... shouldn't be much.


Here's info about the TU56 DECTape Drive

Quote:
The tape is normally formatted with 1474 block of 129 12 bit words per block. Only 128 words are normally used in each block. This gives a capacity of 184K words per tape.


Source: http://www.pdp8.net/tu56/tu56.shtml

So we could potentially get a lot of text. Which makes sense since there was no graphics processor to speak of. The PDP-11 could only display text and simple graphs.

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 		Re: download
Spanky Kiddo wrote:
Melodyman wrote:
Man. That PDP-11 sure is one slow loading unit..
In 3 days its downloaded the equivalent of a small photo..

Hmm true. So whatever it is we're waiting for ... shouldn't be much.


Thats not completely true. In the Cloverfield ARG the smallest thing led to some of the biggest discoveries. The Slusho logo alone led to Slusho.jp and Tagruato. The download could be nothing more than a link or picture, but in an ARG knowledge is progress.

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 		500 Blahs
RasGold wrote:
kosmopol wrote:
Nice coincidence, but Super8 has so much to do with Hal's logo as with mine own logo Very Happy


There's a difference between camera lenses and reflective lawn ornaments.

Yeah, about as much as this video has to do with Super 8.

WARNING: Coarse language, potentially disturbing sounds.
(Not visually graphic, and generally no worse than exploding chicks.)



YouTube: Link

It is a train hitting something after all.
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 		Re: DEQNA
Chinghis wrote:
I started looking for references to DEQNA - But, I'm wondering if that's going to be the next piece of info we see.

(Disclaimer: The blog that shall not be named got me to thinking about this, but that's largely irrelevant.)

Anyway, turns out that a DEQNA is a very old type of Ethernet adapter. From what I can tell, it was used on the PDP-11 - the kind of machine that we're apparently looking at over at scariestthingieversaw.com.

Enjoy.


Quote:
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I'd like to close by saying that the PDP-11 development work has always been a bright and happy time in my career. There were many wonderful people involved. The only one I've seen in more modern times is Harold McFarland. He was out here (California) working at HAL and met with me for lunch and to ask if I remember why we did some of the things we did on the PDP-11. Gads, that really was a long time ago ...... I hope my memory has not caused me to get too many things wrong. If so, I apologize in advance. It's been fun writing this -- many things I'd forgotten came back to me.


Regards,
Larry McGowan

SOURCE: pdp-11/birth


kosmopol wrote:
Nice coincidence, but Super8 has so much to do with Hal's logo as with mine own logo Very Happy


There's a difference between camera lenses and reflective lawn ornaments.
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RasGold wrote:


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While many of you think 500rads/10cfr20 surmount to an Ethan Haas alternate universe ... I believe they were the beginning of this whole new viral spread. i.e. just "bumps" to official announcements and the sort. ... J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Jackson and even George Lucas ALL started out shooting on Super 8mm movie film. I don't think "Super 8" is just going to be an homage to just Spielberg, I believe it is going to be an homage to ALL those films from the 60's/70's/80's that shaped the way we see films today. I would imagine the plot to surround those that "experimented" with that film structure and inadvertently captured various forms of reality (accidentally created: i.e. Big Foot, Loch Ness Monster, Aliens ... that sort of thing), and, while the big corporations who have been trying to hide/contain their mistakes, investigate/retrieve any and all known footage ... with horrifying consequences! I think the two blogs were created to get that "feel." IMO


Personally, I hope that "Super 8" does NOT take place in the 70's-80's ...
In order for it to have any scare factor (for myself), it would NEED to take place in the "here-and-now" as JAWS, Poltergeist, Jurassic Park, etc ... took place during the time periods in which they were created and released! They were scary then, but they are far from scary now.

So far, this "new viral" ... scariestthingieversaw ... seems VERY "RetroVertigo!"
... I was around when computers first crept their way into households!

It would be funny/creepy if the *DOS* download actually does something to make all followers become a part of the viral, in some way, as stated above!


Go get 'em, boys!!


Well, I don't dislike 500 rads, it's nice alternate reality, but it's again a fan fiction, just because of the kind of presentation of it.

Sure, JJ Abrams would perhaps want to make something like pretending OOG blog, which were actually IG, to copy the style of ARG player and conspiracy theorists. But for that compare the 500 Rad blog with, say, conspiracy video about Oceanic Six on the LOST Season 4 DVD. I'm sorry, but if a fictional character of 500 rads sends comments to CloverfieldClues.com, it's the best evidence for "500 Rads blog" beeing completely OOG. JJ Abrams wouldn't act in such unprofessional way.

Again, for a distributing of fan fiction it's perhaps a way (even if questionable: I'd rather contact people and blogs, who don't report about Cloverfield themes - it's more realistic).

And collaboration of all these filmmakers would be awesome, just in this case there would be many posts in Slashfilm, aintitcool.com and another movie rumour sites about such things. So, only this rad blog is too few for me to cover a huge cinematographic-viral project.

Anyway, if you want to discuss about it, let's do it here:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29516
instead of another Super8 threads, otherwise it will completely confuse newcomers. And the last thing we want is to loose people at this awesome Super 8 project. Wink
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