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ComptonAssJohn
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 		I'm not sure this is important, but I came across this wiki article on "Train Whistle Code."

From the trailer it seems we may be picking up right in the middle of "Rule 14L".

â€" â€" o â€"

I hear a short burst followed by a longer one.

"Train is approaching public grade crossing," but then we already know that.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#United_States

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Nickydo wrote:
It seems to me (looking at the trailer for like the 50th time!) that the man in the truck isn't simply trying to commit suicide, he's driving with too much urgency. I think he KNOWS what's on that train and he is desperately trying to do anything to stop it from reaching it's destination and the only way he can do it is to go head on and hope that the train derails. He's trying to destroy the creature before it gets where it's supposed to be going because if it DOES get there all hell is going to break loose (To put it mildly).

My question would be, where is the train heading to make this man go to such drastic measures to take his own life. Perhaps he has some involvement in the project, a scientist maybe who helped create it, or was a part in the discovery.

What do you think? sound reasonable?

I agree that it doesn't look like normal suicide to me, but also doesn't look like suicide for a cause. There is no pause at all in losing his life. He seems more like a man possessed. I mentioned this before, but my theory is that the alien inside there created his own escape opportunity. Obviously he has been caught once by the military, so it stands to reason that the alien knows an escape attempt without some kind of diversion (like killing everyone on the train with giant explosions and a derailment) will likely end in recapture. It has pretty much been spelled out for us that he has some degree of extra-ordinary mental power by the way the wheel spins on its own when he isn't hitting or touching the door. So he is riding along in his car waiting for an opportunity, he reaches out with his mind and finds a good old country boy driven' his truck, a weakminded fool who can't stand up to jedi mind power (that part has no basis, really, just a star wars reference, no reason to think anyone could resist), tells him telepathically to run his truck into the train and create an opportunity for escape while his captors (you can be sure that there were cars beside it with some kind of escort ready for an escape attempt, if it is that dangerous) are dead or bleeding. This explains both the truck, in that his driving was too commited and without pause despite giving up his life, and the fact that the alien didn't try to escape before that, since he could just break down the door. Also it just occured to me that we don't know that he has telepathy, but we are pretty for sure about telekinesis. He may have just completely, physically taken control of the truck.

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ComptonAssJohn wrote:
I'm not sure this is important, but I came across this wiki article on "Train Whistle Code."

From the trailer it seems we may be picking up right in the middle of "Rule 14L".

â€" â€" o â€"

I hear a short burst followed by a longer one.

"Train is approaching public grade crossing," but then we already know that.

edit: link


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_horn#United_States


Wow! good catch! Even if we do already know that, I'm glad you're on our side! Nice attention to detail!

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bnkr
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 		One wonders why a being strong enough to (punch?) and rupture metal needs to wait until the train is derailed and hence the carriage is still. Surely it could have done so while the carriage is moving? Or are we to assume
that it was being guarded in that carriage or held in some way such that derailment was necessary to bring about its escape?

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bnkr wrote:
One wonders why a being strong enough to (punch?) and rupture metal needs to wait until the train is derailed and hence the carriage is still. Surely it could have done so while the carriage is moving? Or are we to assume
that it was being guarded in that carriage or held in some way such that derailment was necessary to bring about its escape?


lol copycat I said that first Razz it must have either been trapped in some sort of cage or been unconscious until the train crashed.

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 		I really don't think that whatever is escaping from the car could've done so at any time during the journey.

The derailment definitely offers some sort of opportunity.

I also don't think it's able to control peoples' actions or else it would've had an opportunity much sooner than OH, near the end of the journey.

This has to be a related, yet autonomous, act by whomever is driving the truck.

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Animaniac
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degravedi wrote:
So assuming the number is 21+70.64 the sign means that spot was 21*100 + 70.64' or 2170.64' from the beginning of the project. Unfortunately, that doesn't exactly help us since we don't know what rail line it is.


The rail company's not the issue... the pole would have been put in when they laid the track.

Theres only 1 rail network heading (south)west from Dayton (Where Wright Patterson AFB is) according to this map: http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/ohio/ohio-railway-map.html

Information indicates W-P has a train station.

[cross posted in the rail crash spec thread, not sure which location is better]
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 		crackdown jr-if I reiterated what you had earlier stated I apologize; this was a product of my individual thought at the time and I do not intend to intrude on your limelight!

I like the reasoning that the derailment afforded an opportunity but what is key is its nature. What could it have been about the "entrapped one's" situation that necessitated this? Perhaps a more subtle getaway would have been in it's interests...prolonging the time it was free without the military's knowledge.

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Nickydo wrote:
It seems to me (looking at the trailer for like the 50th time!) that the man in the truck isn't simply trying to commit suicide, he's driving with too much urgency. I think he KNOWS what's on that train and he is desperately trying to do anything to stop it from reaching it's destination and the only way he can do it is to go head on and hope that the train derails. He's trying to destroy the creature before it gets where it's supposed to be going because if it DOES get there all hell is going to break loose (To put it mildly).

My question would be, where is the train heading to make this man go to such drastic measures to take his own life. Perhaps he has some involvement in the project, a scientist maybe who helped create it, or was a part in the discovery.

What do you think? sound reasonable?
thanks for assuring me that im not crazy. i said it could be dan morris since he seems to know everything.

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 		You can see the truck in the first wide view of the teaser. This guy was planning it. I'm with the camp that thinks this ARG will lead to THAT event and why this Paco Garcia rammed his truck into the train. Yes I've donned our mystery man in the truck Paco Garcia. And he's a tequila drinker.

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IncidentCloverfield wrote:
You can see the truck in the first wide view of the teaser. This guy was planning it. I'm with the camp that thinks this ARG will lead to THAT event and why this Paco Garcia rammed his truck into the train. Yes I've donned our mystery man in the truck Paco Garcia. And he's a tequila drinker.


ahahahhahaha Very Happy

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IncidentCloverfield wrote:
You can see the truck in the first wide view of the teaser. This guy was planning it. I'm with the camp that thinks this ARG will lead to THAT event and why this Paco Garcia rammed his truck into the train. Yes I've donned our mystery man in the truck Paco Garcia. And he's a tequila drinker.


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 		Did anyone else notice the word "BONHAM" on the containment car?

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yellowdart1 wrote:

I agree that it doesn't look like normal suicide to me, but also doesn't look like suicide for a cause. There is no pause at all in losing his life. He seems more like a man possessed. I mentioned this before, but my theory is that the alien inside there created his own escape opportunity. Obviously he has been caught once by the military, so it stands to reason that the alien knows an escape attempt without some kind of diversion (like killing everyone on the train with giant explosions and a derailment) will likely end in recapture. It has pretty much been spelled out for us that he has some degree of extra-ordinary mental power by the way the wheel spins on its own when he isn't hitting or touching the door. So he is riding along in his car waiting for an opportunity, he reaches out with his mind and finds a good old country boy driven' his truck, a weakminded fool who can't stand up to jedi mind power (that part has no basis, really, just a star wars reference, no reason to think anyone could resist), tells him telepathically to run his truck into the train and create an opportunity for escape while his captors (you can be sure that there were cars beside it with some kind of escort ready for an escape attempt, if it is that dangerous) are dead or bleeding. This explains both the truck, in that his driving was too commited and without pause despite giving up his life, and the fact that the alien didn't try to escape before that, since he could just break down the door. Also it just occured to me that we don't know that he has telepathy, but we are pretty for sure about telekinesis. He may have just completely, physically taken control of the truck.


I like your thinking. The driver could be drunk too. I'm extremely susceptible to Jedi mind tricks while intoxicated, so it does lend itself to theory.

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Eleven72 wrote:
Did anyone else notice the word "BONHAM" on the containment car?





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