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stringstheory
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Billy Brown wrote:
Okay, I think I might have a small breakthrough with the word categories. The next image on the Progress page of Alexa's site is the New Horizons probe, which was launched with a view to studying Pluto.

Pluto, formerly recognised as a planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Put another way, it was previously suffering from mistaken identity. Arguments about the classification of Pluto had raged on for years before this with threats of reclassification often being called Much Ado About Nothing -- example:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/lpib/lpib86/nspace86.pdf

So if we take Pluto as one possible category, I think it would be fair to put the following words under it:

reclassified
mistaken identity
Much Ado About Nothing
scientific

Those are the only obvious ones to me at the moment so maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but the link to the image on the Progress page makes me think this must be relevant. What do you think?

ETA: Maybe press and publishing could also fit:

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


awesome!!

just got my email from Daphne:

Quote:
Thank you for your origin story! Very interesting. You've proven that you can find information about your area of expertise.

Your first clue to the new web page is:

replace


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Billy Brown
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supersekretsrsly wrote:
That's great, I think you've solved it. There's more than those words there, in that article alone the following words pop up:

Thanks -- clearly I didn't read the page thoroughly enough in the excitement of my initial 'a-ha!' moment! I emailed Daphne with my initial thoughts about Pluto and she has confirmed that we're "onto something".

Upon further research I think Uranus (or possibly specifically its moons) are going to be a second category for us, continuing the space theme. Uranus' moons are all named after characters in plays and poems (mostly Shakespeare). Indeed the moon 'Margaret', discovered in 2003, is named after a maid in Much Ado About Nothing, while 'Belinda', 'Ariel' and 'Umbriel' are named after characters in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. More info here:

http://www.bobthealien.co.uk/uranusmoons.htm

Onwards and upwards!

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phenexfirf
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 		I just got a response from Daphne:

"Your first clue to the new web page is: part of a whole"
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phenexfirf
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 		So far we have 8/19 responses from Daphne listed here:

documents
directory
lesser location
sub
folder
stored data
replace
part of a whole
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stringstheory
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ads123 wrote:
At 12:30 AM GMT last morning I recieved an email from Alexa. Not sure if anyone else got it (although I assume some of you have.)

Alexa's email wrote:

Circles


i don't know if this means anything, but i just realized that i received the same email except the subject line was Mirrors

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ads123
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stringstheory wrote:
ads123 wrote:
At 12:30 AM GMT last morning I recieved an email from Alexa. Not sure if anyone else got it (although I assume some of you have.)

Alexa's email wrote:

Circles


i don't know if this means anything, but i just realized that i received the same email except the subject line was Mirrors


So did I. Just typed the wrong word. Don't know why I was thinking circles.

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stringstheory
Kl00

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ads123 wrote:
stringstheory wrote:
ads123 wrote:
At 12:30 AM GMT last morning I recieved an email from Alexa. Not sure if anyone else got it (although I assume some of you have.)

Alexa's email wrote:

Circles


i don't know if this means anything, but i just realized that i received the same email except the subject line was Mirrors


So did I. Just typed the wrong word. Don't know why I was thinking circles.


oops, haha ok. just thought i'd point it out.

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janetbreenjamfestival
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 		I got my email back from Daphne, and she just gave me 'folders' again so it may be that that's the last of it. Or are the words different according to what topic group you're in? (I'm film.)

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phenexfirf
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 		I am film, too, and my hint was "part of a whole". So this may be it.
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Billy Brown
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 		I'm thinking Jupiter could be the third category for our word list. This is based purely on the fact that New Horizons gained a 'gravity assist' from Jupiter during its mission and because the word 'largest' is on our list. I'm not really sure which other words would fit, though.

ETA: 'Factory' would also work with Jupiter:

http://englishrussia.com/2014/02/19/the-huge-factory-of-pripyat/

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Syke
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 		got my clue
it took a few days but my clue from the origin emails is: Domain

From all the list of words, were obviously looking for a website.....(duh) lol

I wonder what wed find if we did a whois lookup?
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packbunny
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 		hey guys. sorry for the delay. sent in my crypto fun fact and received the following reply

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Thank you for your origin story! Very interesting. You've proven that you can find information about your area of expertise.

Your first clue to the new web page is:

text


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catherwood
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 		Remember that Starbucks in Cupertino?
morbus wrote:
...the Starbucks location in the password-protected "Protected: Task Manager II" post on Daphne's blog. ...
They reported that there were actually two Starbucks in the area, one inside a Target (a department store) and one at the Stevens Creek Blvd strip mall with an actual storefront.

Well, someone drove a car thru it today.
Cupertino: One injured when driver crashes into Starbucks
Quote:
CUPERTINO -- One person suffered minor injuries after a car crashed through a glass window of a Starbucks at South De Anza and Stevens Creek boulevards on Saturday morning.

(At least his name wasn't Ingram.)

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BubbleBoy
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 		About to leave for work, got a response: my clue is "subdomain"

I am a vampire researcher, for the record.

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Billy Brown
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BubbleBoy wrote:
About to leave for work, got a response: my clue is "subdomain"

I am a vampire researcher, for the record.


Interesting -- I've tried loads of potential new URLs but not new subdomains. I'll try a few options tonight.

Incidentally, I sent a word list guess over to Daphne based on the categories Pluto, Jupiter and Uranus on Friday morning (UK time) but haven't heard anything back just yet.

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