Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:32 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » ARG: Super 8
[ANALYSIS] HD trailer 1
View previous topicView next topic
Page 33 of 35 [517 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 31, 32, 33, 34, 35  Next
Author Message
GabeGideon
Boot


Joined: 11 Jun 2010
Posts: 19

 		Recognizable Constellations
I emailed a teacher the following pictures, because, in his own words, he's been watching the sky for over 30 years. He couldn't recognize any of the stars, so I'm thinking that the editing team made the sky themselves. I'm a star-gazer myself, and I was really hoping for some hidden meaning in the night sky. Oh well, I'll keep looking none-the-less.

http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/Constellation2.jpg
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/Constellation2Assisted.jpg
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/Constellation1.jpg
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/Constellation1Assisted.jpg
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/S8/NIghtSkyEnhanced.jpg

PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:39 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Tenshi Akui
Entrenched


Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Posts: 1003
Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

 		Guess I was seeing things. Oh well.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:56 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Saiyan King
Unfettered


Joined: 20 Nov 2007
Posts: 599
Location: Orlando, The crappiest town in America, thanks to Disney

 		Dont know about the others, but constellation 2 is definitely Orion. Look at the alignment of the four stars on the upper right , its his bow. For some reason the other stars, usually very visible, is blocked out by something. But as an amateur astronomer, id recognize Orion anywhere. It was the first constellation i learned as a child and its always visible in the night sky.Not saying i know better than the experts, he was probably knocked off course by the fact that the others are not visible. Even notice how the only visible stars are in the upper and right sides. Dont you think if thats all they were looking at ,wouldnt it be centered and focused on them. Even spacially it fits that its Orion
_________________
Nobody kills Kakkarot while im around, destiny has reserved that pleasure for me

The funniest stories always end with "and thats the last time i ever did acid"

Im sorry, I can't loan you $20, Im saving it for Slenderman

PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:46 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Tenshi Akui
Entrenched


Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Posts: 1003
Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

 		See that's what I saw. I likewise am an amature stargazer but he fact the others don't match any I know or I can't place other than casseopea makes me think maybe I am just seeing what I want in the others. Anyone else have any input?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:03 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
GabeGideon
Boot


Joined: 11 Jun 2010
Posts: 19

 		We Might Have a Time Frame
I compared the two, and I definitely see the similarities. Maybe the big explosion that was happening in the foreground of the original screenshot managed to block some random stars. Here's my comparison image, which the green dots representing the stars that were in the Super 8 trailer.

http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/S8/OrionComparison.jpg

So I used a star map site for Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1977 (I'm pretty sure that's the year we're using, correct me if I'm wrong). It took me a while, but I arranged the dates and times so that Orion would be on the eastern horizon, because we know the train was heading east. Knowing by the landscape that it's not winter, I found that Orion is sitting in that spot on October 15, 1977 at 4am. It's a pretty rough estimate, but I'm willing to bet that's our time frame for this train wreck.

Here's the pic of the star map:
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y311/GabeGideon/S8/OhSkyOct154am77.gif

Here's the place to convert normal dates to a Julian Date:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/jul-date

Here's the place to find the star map for the specific date, time, and place:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky

PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:32 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
NACforDesign
Boot

Joined: 07 May 2009
Posts: 11

 		Did you see this?
This could be very old news . . . I tried searching the forums and apologize if this was already brought to your attention.

I went back on to watch the trailer on Apple.com again today.
Typed in Super 8 in the search box in the upper right.

When you search their site for the trailer, the box under the search bar says the movie is "In theaters January 01, 1970".

Weird.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:35 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
VanGoghX
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Mar 2010
Posts: 386
Location: SoCal

 		Re: Did you see this?
NACforDesign wrote:
This could be very old news . . . I tried searching the forums and apologize if this was already brought to your attention.

I went back on to watch the trailer on Apple.com again today.
Typed in Super 8 in the search box in the upper right.

When you search their site for the trailer, the box under the search bar says the movie is "In theaters January 01, 1970".

Weird.
Apple's computers don't go past the year 2000. People are still waiting for an update. Wink
_________________
SAGODNE


PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:51 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
comadarkvale
Unfettered


Joined: 12 Oct 2009
Posts: 747
Location: tampa fl

 		bawhaha i needed that chuckle
_________________
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:01 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Euchre
uF Game Warden


Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 3342

 		Re: Did you see this?
VanGoghX wrote:
NACforDesign wrote:
This could be very old news . . . I tried searching the forums and apologize if this was already brought to your attention.

I went back on to watch the trailer on Apple.com again today.
Typed in Super 8 in the search box in the upper right.

When you search their site for the trailer, the box under the search bar says the movie is "In theaters January 01, 1970".

Weird.
Apple's computers don't go past the year 2000. People are still waiting for an update. Wink

Which is of course a joke, because Apple computers were 'Y2k ready' from day one. (True story.)
_________________
Any sufficiently plausible fiction is indistinguishable from reality.
Any sufficiently twisted reality is indistinguishable from fiction.
Welcome to the new world of entertainment.
ŠEuchre 2007

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:13 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
FilmEdge
Unfettered


Joined: 21 May 2010
Posts: 645
Location: Burbank, CA

 		PCers making fun of Mac OS technology.... shouldn't that have to be filed under [HUMOR], Euchre? Laughing

PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:30 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
comadarkvale
Unfettered


Joined: 12 Oct 2009
Posts: 747
Location: tampa fl

 		lol
_________________
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live

PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:33 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
chrisrowl
Guest


 		Clues from the trailer
Looking for clues within the trailer
Numbers seem important. Numbers in the printed image from the PDP-11 sim lead to a zip code in WV. Numbers from the items on Craigslist lead to the Josh Minker 1-800 number.

There are more numbers in the trailer.

Toward the end of the trailer, as the camera approaches the wreckage of the train, it passes over a bunch of computer equipment and crates. One of the crates near the center of the frame has a number on the side of it.

I can't read the number, nor can I capture the frame. Maybe someone else can?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:29 am
 Back to top 
chrisrowl
Guest


 		Never mind
Someone else identified the writing: AN/TTQ-1

PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:34 am
 Back to top 
Headman
Entrenched


Joined: 26 Aug 2007
Posts: 839
Location: Michigan

 		Sometimes it's easy to miss stuff with all the info on here. Just gotta read through it all and hope it sticks.

I found this number at the end of the trailer as we are looking through the camera lens and the item appears to rise from the wreckage. Looks like 48B. I posted it once before and it has never been discussed so it may not be of any importance.
Shape close up 3 w arrow.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   64.41KB
 Viewed   283 Time(s)

Shape close up 3 w arrow.jpg

PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:02 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Guest
Guest


 		Everything is worth noting
It may turn out that this number has importance somewhere...

PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 12:14 pm
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 33 of 35 [517 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 31, 32, 33, 34, 35  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » ARG: Super 8
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group