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RYT HOSPITAL - NEW BEAST?
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Parannoyed
Kilroy

Joined: 08 Jan 2004
Posts: 2
Location: vancouver,WA

 		RYT HOSPITAL - NEW BEAST?
Hello all,

I don't mean to get anyone's hopes up but I'm needing some third-party thinking here. I've run across this site and if it's not a new ARG, then I don't know what it is. I've searched the forums here and at other sites and can find no mention of it yet.

www.rythospital.com

It's a well-designed site for a hospital that specializes in male pregnancy, nanobot doctors, and super-intelligent micel.

Now, I'm pretty up on my technology news, and I'm fairly certain none of those things are happening today. Here's the WHOIS info for the site. Looks fairly legit, in fact, the site was registered back in 2000, which suggests either this is a seriously well-planned game or something else is going on. I have no idea when the actual site was put up.

Domain Name.......... rythospital.com
Creation Date........ 2000-12-28
Registration Date.... 2000-12-28
Expiry Date.......... 2004-12-28
Organisation Name.... RYT Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center
Organisation Address. P.O. Box 20800
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. New York
Organisation Address. 10009
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES

There's a blog on the site from one of their "doctors" and it's written is such a way as to suggest some plot lines, but nothing has gone anywhere yet. Lots of external links to legit sites as well.

HELP ME OUT HERE. IS THIS REAL???
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:06 am
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colin
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Joined: 13 Oct 2003
Posts: 810
Location: Australia

 		just appear to be a fake site:
http://www.medicaldesignnews.com/full_story.php?WID=1051
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RYT Hospital (www.rythospital.com) is a virtual research hospital created by artist Virgil Wong. While it is not a real institution, all of its "research projects" pose as fact and have just enough basis in real science to be thought provoking. The most publicized project of RYT is malepregnancy.com, which provides so much detailed information about the procedures and treatments involved that many people have been stumped as to whether of not it's a farce. The site won an INVISION New Media Silver Medal in 1999 and the artist still receives e-mail from men wanting to participate in the research on a daily basis. There's also an area of the Web site devoted to Designer Babies and several tools that allow you to interact with "Clyven the Transgenic Talking Mouse." Please try to ignore the fact that the "neurological device" Clyven is pictured using to communicate looks much like the spout of a water bottle.


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NashCarey
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Joined: 11 Dec 2003
Posts: 102
Location: Nierstein, Germany

 		I hope so.
This is a VERY well done site and if it is a game I would say that it would of had to made as a for profit game. Or maybe my eye for talent sucks.

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Mighell
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Joined: 23 Nov 2003
Posts: 4
Location: Massa-choo-setts

 		Yeah, sorry to shoot this down, but this is just a fake website.

This was part of an art project that the "Mr. Lee" in the male pregnancy photos was involved with. This was a huge deal too, because he fooled quite a few people, including me when I saw this a year and half ago... Rolling Eyes

Here's more info:

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/malepreg.htm

- m.

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Parannoyed
Kilroy

Joined: 08 Jan 2004
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 		damn...

oh well, thanks for the info... Crying or Very sad

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