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zzaryn · Decorated Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 180

And now for something completely different....

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:23 pm

zzaryn · Decorated Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 180

The red marks look like runes to me and the rest of my household, so I'm dumping a bunch of links here before I go back to working on schoolwork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Italic_alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos_syllabary

http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/runic_scripts.html

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:33 pm

augusta.echo · Kl00 Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 42

Oh, my. I've missed tons in the past few days. All this traveling with limited internet access is lame.

I'm currently attempting to catch up, and I'll check in when I can.�

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:43 pm

amandel

PTS-77 memo nbr. 3 with more of those symbols has been placed in Tanner Wallace's Aegis file.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:10 pm

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Distraction

Artifact?
Did I miss that part? There's an artifact involved in this? It can't be talking about the Litke thing..right?

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:23 pm

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sinewave89

**Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:27 pm

amandel

Admitting this is odd. Noticed something unusual in the EXIF data of PTS-77 memo #3. Found that #3 as well as memo #1 opened in Audacity & emit an audio pulse.
Also, Memo #2 does not emit an audible pulse even when manually converted to an audio file. fwiw: none of the other PNGs on my comp possess this audio quality.

ETA: Does Chelac's photo from the N.Y. City drop help to clarify "the same location they found in the artifact." sentence?LINK *Ditto on them finally caring about Ethan*

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:52 am

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Ronan8901 · Boot Joined: 26 Nov 2012 Posts: 17

So how exactly did you get those files? Just curious.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:24 am

amandel

@Ronan8901. In the usual way: "save image as" 003.png. There's unusual EXIF(meta) data in #1 & #3. Those 2 PNGs simply play on their own in Audacity as audio.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:32 am

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DerKork · Decorated Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 174

I've not been around for quite a while, so all I have is a hypothesis regarding "IT" (the one using AIs to talk to anyone):
IT's origin is presumeably the planet with the pulsating atmosphere. A part of IT might have been brought to earth with the research team, potentially within the ALICE AI system. (IT hinted to itself as 'not being contained', which means there is a chance this is merely a small portion.)
It also has means of long range communications with no or minimal delay.
Would you agree with me so far?

My hypothesis is that the class 4 planet Ethan is stranded on (which I will now call Planet Hell) contains most of IT either bound into its atmosphere (a plasma lifeform? It is too cold for that. Electricity-based? Possible, if there are regular stormfronts there) or "buried and forgotten", meaning it is a subterranean being, which would even keep up the possibility of it being a Gaia-like (simplified: spirit of the earth/spirit of the planet) entity of unknown intent.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:02 am

Distraction

Uh, guys?

I was looking through the NYC drop pics to respond to DerKork...when I came across this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelbelle6/8084520666/in/set-72157631763111140/

Interstellar anomaly? Could that be a planet? The one Ethan ran into? Horizon did know of its location..

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:33 am

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DerKork · Decorated Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 174

As I said, it's just a hypothesis, based on the information IT gave according to this thread (without adding too many assumptions of my own, I hope).
I mean, I could contact IT, but since I was out of the loop for a few years, I thought I better leave the idea for all of us to discuss...

An interstellar anomaly could theoretically include a planet (even though I personally would have referred to it as something gravimetric - but that's probably the remnants of my physics major education speaking), but also any 'transmission' (be it a broadcast in any coherent way or just a burst of radio waves) from said location.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:50 am

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Distraction

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:02 am

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MrToasty

Holy cow, get sidetracked by another game and you miss SO much. Feverishly trying to get caught up now. BTW, I received a black envelope in the mail as well with the same contents as the rest.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:10 am

DerKork · Decorated Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 174

Yeah, the Litke Deep theory could work if we assume that the respective wormhole didn't only go through space (as it does right now, being called 'slipstream'), but also through time (which it totally could).

It would fit with the 'buried and then forgotten' phrase.

EDIT: Sending an Email right now under the unbelieveable alias of Derek Kork

**Posted:** Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:26 am

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