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Kyrin
Kl00
Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 42
[SPEC] New puzzle hidden in the recipies? Ok, so I know this is kinda crazy, and someone's probably mentioned it before, but I was looking over the Wiki and I saw mention that the recipies might be a puzzle of some kind. So I started thinking, and I came up with this: Coordinates are measured in Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds, right?
Well, the recipies, being recipies, all include: Degrees and Minutes. Seconds could potentiall be extrapolated from leftover numbers, like measures of things, etc.
Trout me if I'm crazy, it's just a thought/idea I had, perhaps someone can turn it into something workable. I'm not very good with coordinates though, so I doubt I'll get anywhere with it, but I'm currently examining them to see...
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:08 pm
pjv2
Boot
Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 53 Location: Chicago
seems a little crazy but I love crazy
how do we account for negative degrees? and the fact that we are limited to numbers between 180 and -180 and 90 and -90
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:25 pm
Kyrin
Kl00
Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 42
pjv2 wrote:
seems a little crazy but I love crazy
how do we account for negative degrees? and the fact that we are limited to numbers between 180 and -180 and 90 and -90
I don't know...part of the reason I think I might be crazy
Perhaps there's a "key" of some kind?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:30 pm
tomithy
Kilroy
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 1
Kyrin wrote:
pjv2 wrote:
seems a little crazy but I love crazy
how do we account for negative degrees? and the fact that we are limited to numbers between 180 and -180 and 90 and -90
I don't know...part of the reason I think I might be crazy
Perhaps there's a "key" of some kind?
i thought about this B4 i saw this post and the negative degrees could be as simple as if you add the number of degrees together from -180 to +180 thats 360 degrees so maybe (-180=1 and +180=360) or (0=0, +180=+180, 0=360, and -180=540) or some other variant of this concept
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:55 am
Hornet
Veteran
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 136 Location: Offutt AFB, NE
i've been playing around with this for about 3 weeks, and still haven't come up with anylthing....of course, i'm gonna keep trying...
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:51 pm
dut
Boot
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 12
Hornet wrote:
i've been playing around with this for about 3 weeks, and still haven't come up with anylthing....of course, i'm gonna keep trying...
i like it. i spent a few hours trying to coordinate the text on the links.html site to a longitude/latitude. If you notice, the links page itself mentions 92-93 degrees and 100, -40 degrees. The only correlation is to a point right off the southwest tip of australia... has dana confirmed she's staying in china the whole time??
i've still gotten to no conclusions on any original site text correlating to coordinates or times, but it might at least explain why an AI would choose that method of communication since it was generally agreed to not know how to communicate at all when it 'crashed'.
-- dut
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:19 pm
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
Intuitively, I feel like there's still something going on with the recipes, since SP recently mentioned she'd found a better hiding place to watch the Queen in the kitchen (I didn't make a note of the reference, but it's on ILB somewhere).
I don't know whether it's the quantities in the recipies (anything look obviously funny to any chefs?) or what, but there's still something new in there, I can feel it. Converting the values to GPS coordinates seems like a stretch, though, since there'd be so little way to prove that you'd found something useful; the coordinates would essentially be random numbers.
R.
edit: I believe she said, "pantry" not "kitchen." More coffee, please.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:06 am
Cherry Cotton
Decorated
Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 237
Don't worry; I plan on baking some Bee-Licious cookies, and I'm positive (POSITIVE) that when one of us eats one, we will immediately go into a trance and say, "INDEX THIS IRONCLAD PREDICTION: HALO TWO DEMO DISK CD-ROM UPCHUCK IN T MINUS 5 SECONDS. YOUR CARPET WILL NEVER BE THE SAME."
edit just to note: this isn't to discredit anybody's theory, it's only because I might've had a bit too much sugar
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:06 pm
jellyfish_green
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Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Inner Colony of Eire
Rob wrote:
I don't know whether it's the quantities in the recipies (anything look obviously funny to any chefs?) or what, but there's still something new in there, I can feel it.
Well, the recipe3.html was the secret everyone knew about, and that was good enough for me. Axons go honey glazed!
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:00 pm
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1327 Location: Charlotte NC, USA
the recipes are part of Aunt M and Dana's original site, and they haven't been altered since then Mel and SP got here, so.... no... no puzzles hidden IN the time and temperature (unless Dana or Aunt M hid secret info about their new honey-fueled dancing robots)
keep in mind that there are no "random" puzzles, every one has had a point of origin deeply rooted in the storyline, whether it was garbled text spilled out from the Op's memories, or SP deliberatly playing games with us, it all makes sense from within the context of the plot.
now that i think of it, it is possible that SP could have used the pre-exsisting time and temps as clues/pieces of a puzzle... but work within the context of the game... if they are more than what they appear, i think we'd have a better hint... the "kitchen" was just a pointer to axons on recipe3.html
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:46 pm
Dorkmaster
Unfictologist
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1328 Location: The People's Republic of Dork
I just find it funny that someone using the Swedish Chef as an avatar says:
"Intuitively, I feel like there's still something going on with the recipes"
I'm just waiting for him/her to end with "Herdy-verdy"
In some other time, in some alternate reality, I think we were the same person, Scarpe...
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:07 pm
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ScarpeGrosse
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Bork bork bork
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:08 pm
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
Yeah, in my head there's "okie dokie wit de flim!" every time I see this picture, but I try to keep it myself; sort of like a closet Tourette's thing, maybe.
Anyway, I agree that there's probably nothing too weird with the ingredient numbering in the recipies, but I have it in my head that there's a relationship among them, or an unusual ingredient, or another implied missing one, or something. I don't know what it is, but I keep loading and reloading all those pages, looking for something. I believe that when the little voice in your mind goes "hmmm...bork bork bork," you should pause and look around, 'cause something's up.
Or, I could be wrong. That's a definite possibility.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:38 pm
CoffeeJedi
Unfictologist
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1327 Location: Charlotte NC, USA
put de chickie in der potska!
("okie dokie wit de flim!" wouldn't be from 'Muppetvision 4D' would it? )
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:45 pm
Rob
Boot
Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Chicago - North
It's from the original, during the film melting scene, about mid-way through. And I'm in my late(!) 30's, and I can't believe I remember that. -sigh-
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:55 pm
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