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[Varin]

[PUZZLE SPEC] Possible ingame/meta explanation for coords

[lure x]

i like this idea the best so far.

[krystyn]

I just posted in the mammoth thread about this, a little.

If these coordinates are indeed the axons, and the formatting possibly indicates that they are to be paired, then it makes sense to plot them all out from SF (the Queen's home base), and outwards, starting with the left column, and then connecting the coordinates in the right column to the points from the left column.

I would like to say, though, that I have seen plenty of posts using Dana's blog link as a cue - it hasn't been completely ignored, from what I've seen.

[sherpa]

Indeed, we're already totally working on this (as well as several posts in the mammoth thread). Though my approaches so far playing with the distances haven't got anywhere.

[Mukaikubo]

Just to keep anyone from going down the same blind hole I just did:

The specific distance 5913 miles isn't relevant to the puzzle. Just converted all the distances in kilometers to feet and miles. Although some come close (Pair 99 is 5.919 miles apart) nothing's near enough to be anything but coincidence.

[Varin]

I've read some of the attempts at getting the distance idea to work. Doesn't seem like many are working on it though. I was trying to provide the ingame support to the idea along with the PM's actions as support. It seems that many are saying that this idea or that idea don't work because they either don't fit with the game's story or they couldn't be done by the PMs. Just supporting the distance believers cause here with some SPEC My intention wasn't to take away from anyone's work on the distance idea, hence the bit in my post in parathesis near the top and the PUZZLE SPEC in the topic.

edited for clarification

[Mukaikubo]

One point of curiousity-

The distances are fairly smoothly rising. What I mean is, if you sort them by length and plot them so that you have a point at x=1 y=(shortest distance) on up to x=110 y=(longest distance), you get something that fits pretty well into a smoothly rising power curve. It's not a group of short distances and long distances.

[Varin]

[krystyn]

I think there was a lot of spec of, "OMG, that coordinate is right near my house, we must be meant to go there on August 24th and camp out with the dancing robots!" excitement. Combine that with all the other possibilities, and any one method of approaching this problem looks like it's being lost in the shuffle. It's getting more focused now, I think, which is thankfully a wonderful thing.

I think it's good that you're pointing it up, though!

[Zedix]

Well it's been tried if you look in this excel chart. All the distances were calculated between the two points. Unfortunately, I can't find any relation between those numbers... They seem to vary widely (from 0 miles to over 1000 miles...) and in no pattern. Either it needs a more thorough (sp?) look, or there's nothing to be found in the distances, although I agree that this theory would be the most plausible right now, storywise and all...

[peeveen1]

In case it helps any ...

I just wrote a quick Java app to fire all the coordinates at www.indo.com (the site referenced on Dana's blog, which she uses to calculate the distance). In this Excel file are the distances between the left and right columns, and also the distance from each to the supposed location of ILB (as provided by someone in another thread). The distances in miles, kilometres and nautical miles are listed.

[babbler]

[Zedix]

Awesome, that's pretty usefull. I'm going through the numbers, trying to find a connection. So far, haven't found anything tho

[Varin]

[sherpa]