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[Andy]

[SixByNine]

[GunsmithCat]

[SixByNine]

[sfsdfd]

[Kagehi Kossori]

Bah.. Why the heck did they pick Kingman in Arizona. Yeah, it is where the counties government sits, but their is bloody nothing there and no one that doesn't already live there wants to go there. lol They should have picked Lake Havasu, it has a lot bigger population and people actually want to go there...

[Dorkmaster]

Don't feel bad, SixbyNine! Ok, here's the deal, we are going to have people going to these points, and someone did say they would be going to the very first point, so we will know quickly on the 24th if the points physically mean something or not! So while I think all of us believe that somehow these points represent something physical going on at those points, we're trying to justify, and maybe that doesn't happen yet... maybe our justification is going to be revealed later, (or maybe not at all... if you want in-game, then look no further than the fact that in-game, Melissa doesn't have to reveal her motives/next step of actions to you at all! )
Anyway... I think that we're all blurry-eyed with detail right now, and should enjoy the fact that we've gotten a fairly subtle update. (Meaning only one page has changed, and it has changed in a subtle way, clarifying only info that we had previously obtained.)

[SixByNine]

A comparison of the old and new coordinate (overlaying two maps) shows we have lost points (ignoring the details in citys)

- Las Vegas
- South Dakota
- Kansas

And gained points in

- Texas (most notably, there were none here before, now we have 4)
- South carolina
- Boston


If anything they have become more geographicaly spread out (I do note that they are all inside the US, you would have thought that the intelegence would have found links outside (e.g. to canada, if not euorope) what with the global internet.


I don't really know what to make of the movements. Despite the lack of enthusiasm I am going to try and track where the points moved if it is at all possible (basicly by seing if new points lie close to old ones)


We should also consider the timeing in greater depth. Why the 12 hours, why the varying interval?

[Dorkmaster]

Don't forget the new omission of the Sears Tower location, 6x9...

[aliendial]

I have attached an annotation of the hits in DC (the first 15) and VA (the last 6)

Well National Airport and the location on Route 1 near Mount Vernon are gone from the Northern Virginia locations. The two around Potomac Mills moved around a bit but are still there, as is the one near Ballston Common. The other two northern virginia locations are more or less the same on the map. No way you could drive to them all at the times specified, esp. on a weekday.

DC seems to have a lot more hits than before. The Museum of Natural History and Arts&Industries are still there, but they've added the National Archives (looks around suspiciously for whoever it was who mentioned the archives last week), a couple over by the Department of Agriculture buildings also on the Mall and two more a little farther south there on 12th St. The 2 on K St. in Georgetown remain and the one on 14th and P (not the one Cortana took pics of at 14th & K). But there are some random new ones - 3rd & Independence, Vermont between K&L, the National Building Museum at F between 4th and 5th, 14th & Constitution, and H between 17th and 18th (they're getting closer to me, but still no cigar!). If you were to try to drive them, I see only one that is not do-able at all, though many others on the latter part of the list would be tough if you don't know the best way to get there and traffic were a bit clogged.

Phone booths at many? Maybe. Toy or game stores? Unequivocal no. Wifi hot spots? No idea.

Posted my list with annotations.

edited to add one I missed in my cut-and-paste haste

[sfsdfd]

[gohoos]

Can anyone else confirm that there are three points in the ocean now?

9:23 AM
11:23 AM
5:55 PM

(The times seem to be an easy way to refer to them now.)

[princeofthesword]

All this coordinate coordinating gets a bit too technical for my sticks, rocks, and books kind of brain, but I'd like to point out that the changes in the locations/times of the axons are likely due to the Flea running the show now, as opposed to SPDR before. Sure you all thought of that already, just saying it in case.

However, in Marathon, AIs need large networks to expand their "minds." Perhaps something virtual is going on at these places? Leylines, other weirdness? I hope we don't have some Microsoft employees show up and hand us stuff. I'm hoping Melissa's building a network, like a giant radio telescope to send a distress signal. However, since the flea is doing it now it seems, has the motive changed? Since we've analyzed the physical/technical aspect of this quite well, maybe we need to work on the motive, and that might open more doors into the phys/tech aspects.

Plus, if you're going to go to those places for a check up, take a recorder of some kind, cam or audio, in case you know? Don't trout me too hard if this is posted elsewhere, I'm working on the "limit the new topics" thing. Still trying to learn conciseness, though. Work in progress. Need motive for axons!! Farewell.

[BGMalone]

So Sad

[Giskard]

Re: So Sad