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[vpisteve]

[SPEC] The Obvious Coordinates Conclusion

[Speaker]

You don't think the distribution is a little odd for it to be something like that? I mean, why the 7 sites in a Sedalia, MO? Why the total absence of sites in Texas? The sheer wierdness of the distribution implies some deeper meaning - to me anyway.

[Dorkmaster]

Why two sites across the street from each other in Chicago?

I don't outright disagree with you, apisteve, but I do question it.

[eMouse]

I believe someone reported back that one location was at the end of a remote dirt road. Another was in the middle of a fenced-in industrial complex. Both highly unlikely candidates for an 'in game' event.

The more I hear about the locations, the more I believe what's at the locations means little to nothing. These locations were pulled off a map, and a map should be enough to get the information we're intended to get from these coordinates.

[Andy]

I've got to agree with Speaker and the others here.

[Grout]

One would think it would take a hell of a lot of manpower to get something to happen at once at 220 remote locations around the country. I'd like to think the PMs have the money and the manpower to do such a thing, but I find it doubtful. The only thing I could imagine them having enough support for, would be a direct marketing endevour, such as handing out halo demos or something... but then why would they pick such a bad distribution of locations? Sedalia or wherever? None in Texas? 2 in Chicago that are across the street from eachother?

Maybe I'm wrong... maybe something will happen at all of these sites on the 24th... but what? What could they do that would fit in with the plot? Have a bunch of actors show up in robot costumes? And if they were just going to plant objects - I imagine they would have some trouble getting away with that at the Sears Tower.

Even so, we've got 2 weeks... what else are we going to do to pass the time? Even if this is just a list of addresses for us to go get our Halo teeshirts on the 24th, lets treat it like a puzzle until then. Why not?

[Andy]

[sherpa]

I agree with most of the posters in this thread. Occam's Razor is all very well, though I'd say the "simplest" explanation which happens to involve a jump from numbers to GPS co-ordinates to physical locations isn't necessary the "simplest".

Anyway; let's think about this in terms of the story, not as a disconnected puzzle.

Why does SPDR know about these physical locations? Surely she doesn't... is there another way the data could be interpreted, to a computer?

[Dorkmaster]

[Andy]

Are you saying that a bunch of actors in robot costumes wouldn't rule? Maybe they'd do a little dance or something!

[Grout]

If I ever make an ARG, it will definitely end with over 200 people in robot costumes all over the country doing a coordinated dance routine.

[ilovecheese]

[Ikkarus]

[Hayden2013]

it would be even better if they were dancing to the Hamsterdance theme.....

[Dorkmaster]

Holy cow! I'm sorry vpisteve. I didn't mean to derail your topic. I just wanted to make a quick joke. I didn't intend a War-and-Peace-like saga of epic proportions about the humor found in robotic dance. Accept my apology. I hereby give myself the horse's head award for telling jokes in a serious forum: to remind myself that if I can only see the horse's head, then I must be the part attached at the other end.