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Wolf
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Well, it's a long shot but (as in our "Tell Me" mail link to reportSPLATheismissing.info), I sent mail to reportSPLATitismissing.info.

Reply:

Quote:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

reportSPLATitismissing.info

Technical details of failure:
PERM_FAILURE: DNS Error: Domain name not found


So I'm going to try another domain.

Edit:

I just sent this:

Quote:
to reportSPLATlessonstolearn.net

Subject: Have I Seen It?

Message: Not s'posed to say, am I?


And now I wait.

Another edit:

60 minutes have passed with no bounces. There's obviously no autoresponder at that address either...so I'm guessing it's the wrong path to go down.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:29 pm
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The Watcher
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Well, the map on that page is of course the map from the MetaCortechs directory.

The Redland location, which is MetaCortex headquarters is highlighted in red and isolated on the http://www.lessonstolearn.net/ page.


Is MetaCortechs coming back to life through fans?

Also:
The title of the page is eyesee.

The first letters of the last three word shown are i c e .

Sound very similar. Coincidence?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:46 pm
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jerebnibob
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Something else

There is something else at the end of the flash video
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
At the very end of the flash video when it says "Identity Connection Established" if you right click on the flash video and select "forward" you get another fram, previously unviewable.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 10:13 am
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
That does make the Q1 stuff make a little more sense now


PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:45 am
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Wolf
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Well, I'M one step closer to the solution now.

Not.

Nice catch, though...I played with the settings yesterday and never thought to try that one.

No reply to yesterday's mail either.
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darkphan
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I hope I did the "graphing" right...
(that is using 0,0 for each point, just realized that is probably not right)

PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:23 pm
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I think maybe once you find the plot points then you have to find the second number that the plot points are moved.

i.e. I've plotted the given points (correctly I think)

Q1 (1.5.0.5) blue
Q2 (0.5,0.5) yellow
Q3 (-0.5, -1.5) purple
Q4 (0.5, -1.5) green

Then (and this is only an example, not sure if it is correct) and in order for this theory to work I think I have to assume that there was a mistake and that "0.1" means "1.0"........which is probably unlikely:

The directions say "move by":

Q1 (-1.0, ?)
After moving the -1.0, this blue dot could then go either up or down and be any one of the three red dots on my illustration.
(y=1, 2, or -3)

Q2 (0.1, ?)
As I said this theory only works if you assume this is meant to say 1.0. If so, it puts Q2's yellow dot in line with and again could be any one of the three red dots.
(y=1, 2, or -3)

Q3 (-1.1, ?)
Moving this purple dot -1.1 put it directly below (what was a red dot but I've colored purple), now the next number would be 4 (Haven't had time to actually measure it and am estimating).
(y=4)

Q4 (0.1, ?)
There's that "0.1" again that's messing me up.....and actually I can't make anything work with this green one.

Anyway maybe this will make some sense to someone......I suck at stuff like this, but maybe someone else will see some way to justify it all.

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greywolf
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darkphan wrote:
I hope I did the "graphing" right...
(that is using 0,0 for each point, just realized that is probably not right)



not that I know anything about anything, if you move all of your "dots" up two spaces they will cover half of the red dots already on the graph.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:07 pm
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darkphan
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Just correcting what the flash actually says:

Code:
logging user info
{this.x;this.y}=bw=(x,y) bw_moveBy{x,y)

this=(bw.Q1 || bw.defined=(1.5,0.5){-1,0))? this.css.is:your.one;
this=(bw.nQ || bw.undefined)? this.css.left:this.world.in.pain;
this=(bw.Q2 || bw.defined=(-0.5,0.5){0,1))? this.css.is:your.two;
this=(bw.Q3 || bw.defined=(-0.5,-1.5){-1,1))? this.css.is:your.san;
this=(bw.Q4 || bw.defined=(0.5,-1.5){0,1))? this.css.is:your.death;
{this.cxl.visibility="dreamlinestate"identity}


Notice the comma's in the moveby part, instead of the periods.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:42 pm
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Wolf
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I just noticed in the flash that the red light in the center of the map doesn't blink like the others all do.
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Caterpillar
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darkphan wrote:
Notice the comma's in the moveby part, instead of the periods.


Well now that makes alot more sense........lol
I was just going by what was posted here.

So here's a color coded correction. Doesn't mean much because they've already told us the values for each, but when I connected the dots along the obvious straight lines, sort of looks like a Japanese symbol - which given the "san" part may actually be on the right track, although I don't claim to have actually drawn the one we're supposed to (if we're supposed to Smile)

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You know you need to go to bed when..........was wondering about that doorway looking thing.....eye see?

Used only one, two, san, death.

This looks like a FOX to me???
Pictionary anyone?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:44 am
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Still plugging....

1505100505 - One
0505010515 - Two
0515111505 - San
0515010505 - Death


Red = Orig. Coords
Blue = Move By
Green = Final Resting Point

It looks interesting.......but that's about all it does.
Notice the columns of 5s are all lined up?.

1505100505
0505010515
0515111505
0515010505

Tried some binary, didn't get far.
Tried morse (using the 5s as breaks), got this but I'm sure it's a fluke:

. - .-- -
ETWT

- - -.- .
TTKE

- . ... -
TEST

- . -.- -
TEKT

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Omnie
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Darn, I wish I had more time to spend with this. So, just throwing out some thoughts, because I have nothing particularly constructive to add:

It looks like there are (at least) two separate clues there, doesn't it? The pattern of flashing dots on the map, and the grid + coordinate equations. The latter is clearly a clue, the former not so much, but it's still pretty strange. There are two sets of dots lit up at any one time, it seems, with two or three dots per set. Every few frames, one set stays, the other goes out and another set lights up. Is there more to the pattern?

Also, the grid doesn't seem to connect to the map. Should it? And what's with the way the middle 24 squares are slightly lighter than the others?

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trallyus
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Omnie wrote:


Also, the grid doesn't seem to connect to the map. Should it? And what's with the way the middle 24 squares are slightly lighter than the others?


I noticed that too Omnie. It really shows up lighter when you press printscreen and then save the pic and turn it in to a negative.

I am not sure if this helps here, but I wrote the numbers 1 -8 for each point used in the formula that was mentioned, and noticed that all the odd numbers of the points connect to the points on the grid while the even numbers are not on the grid.

I also noticed point 8 matched up with point 4 on my printed grid.

I assume it is some sort of formula and given the four points of Q1-Q4 that your supposed to use those to solve for nQ . My guess is n=a number or could be another 4 points like 1Q-4Q , and that may mean you would reverse the formulas of each to get the new set of numbers.

It looks like a kind of algrebra formula to me since it uses ( , )) , is, and the or symbols ||

I believe if memory is holding up that || is the math symbol for OR.

I am stumped but thought I would give my observations on the grid.

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