Star Trek ARG Update 5 – First Video Clue + more [UPDATED w/ another clue!] April 21, 2009
by Aliotsy Andrianarivo , Filed under: Star Trek (2009 film), Star Trek ARG , trackback
Today the Star Trek ARG took a big step forward with the revelation of ‘Malak0′ on video, showing off an interesting alien-looking device. There is also more ‘chat’ going on at the viral site. So just one day after our last update, we have a whole new update and analysis of the exciting Star Trek alternative reality game.
[4/22 UPDATE: One more clue added, see below]
APRIL 21st STAR TREK ARG UPDATE 4
NOTE: if you are new to the Star Trek ARG see ‘Quick review’ at the bottom of this article
April 21 Clue 1: Malak0 posts a video of the mysterious device
Malak0, following up on his "Enough is Enough" email from April 20th, sent out another email with a link to his YouTube profile page. He’s posted one video, giving us a first look at who he is … and the mysterious device he’s retrieved.
Here is a translation (thanks to Eric Saussine of UnificationFrance)
I’m doing this video following my post on the Internet. The other day I was at the Café Presles at the intersection of Rue de la Fédération and Rue de Presles and there was this man in the street who fell next to where I was sitting and who let an item fall behind him. (showing the item) That’s like a P.D.A., some of sort computer, I think, with a screen and buttons. I put a message online and I got many replies from people who were interested and some even offered money. I’m really looking for its rightful owner to make some sort of deal because I imagine he wants his item back. (showing the item in detail) There is a connector on the back. There are several buttons. I successfully started it. When I touch (the screen) here there is this light effect. There may be some battery problem or something missing but… it doesn’t work beyond that – I can’t make it fully work for now. It’s rather heavy. I think there is some info in it and I think it must be rather important for the owner. So he probably wants it back. It must be rather expensive. Contact me to get it back and to make some deal.
The device looks worn and dinged, like it has seen its fair share of abuse in the open. It also looks very alien. Here are some screencaps:
Malak0 revealed
The Device
The device activated
It may also be worth noting that the poster behind Malak0 is The poster for the 1998 Rennes Film Festival (Rennes is in French Britanny).
Poster clue?
April 21st Clue 2: Another QR Code
Sharp-eyed "Jenni Generation" noticed that there’s another QR code visible when Malak0 flips the device over, similar to the QR code discovered on PHPChatUser5’s Twitter page yesterday.
Bottom of device, note sticker bottom right
April 21st Clue 3: 2387-42.com chat updated
While people were still analyzing Malak0’s video, a contentious exchange started on viral chat site 2387-42.com…
Transcript courtesy of community members "Tom,"Merzmensch aka kosmopol," and "Slaynest" (original, untranslated messages below translations)
PHPChatUser1 (ja) "It takes too much time, it won’t be a wonder, if we will be annihilated by him. [he/we should] ask for help. Because they will notice my access point tomorrow"
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
PHPChatUser5 (en) DON’T YOU DARE!!! DON’T YOU DARE!!!
PHPChatUser5 (ja) "We shouldn cooperate with them! Even for the sake of their surviving. They should understand the whole story!!!"
??????????????????!!!????????????!!!???????????????!!!
PHPChatUser4 (es) "And what will you do when them run from your appearance?"
¿Y qué harás cuando ellos corren de tu aparencia?
PHPChatUser1 (ja) "Don’t worry, we will put the SNS, make new friends, like in a game, and we will elicit them!!!"
???????SNS????????????????????????????????????!!!
PHPChatUser5 (en) That doesn’t make any sense, I cannot allow you to risk everything!!! You need to listen to me. You have lost it. You
PHPChatUser3 (de) "Let him do it, they won’t know, what do see there. Let the baby think, he does something meaningful"
Lass ihn machen, sie werden nicht wissen, was sie da sehen. Lass den Kleinen glauben, er tut was sinnvolles.
____PHPChatUser3 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser5 (en) This is madness.
PHPChatUser4 (es) "He won’t do it."
El no lo hará.
____PHPChatUser1 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser5 (en) We’ve got to do something about him.
____PHPChatUser5 has disconnected____
____PHPChatUser4 has disconnected____
Star Trek ARG – A quick review
The Star Trek Alternative Reality Game began a couple of weeks ago after some fans spotted URLs on the walls of ‘Star Trek Dance Party’ photos up at thecobrasnake.com, these clues led to more sites, which in turn led to more clues. Here are the previous four TrekMovie articles on the Star Trek ARG:
- April 10th – first article identifying ‘binary’ sites
- April 15th Update, identifying ‘Malak0′
- April 17th Update: more ‘PHP chat’
- April 20th Update: Twitter conversation leads to "APUS:01-05"
Also, all TrekMovie articles regarding this are now in a single Star Trek ARG Category.
What do you think? — and A NOTE before you comment
Before you post clues or speculation in the comments below, check the previous TrekMovie articles (including comments) to be sure they haven’t already been covered.
New Star Trek ARG Forum
TM community member "Tom" — who hosts the very active ARG chat where much of the problem-solving is taking place — has graciously responded to the request for a better way of dealing with updates by setting up a forum for posting clues and speculation. It also includes links to the chat.
Other resources
- ARG site Unfiction also has a thread dedicated to the game
- Thread at startrekmovie.com
- This Star Trek ARG wiki is a great place to get caught up on the chats and their translations
UPDATE: Malak0 posts picture of QR Code on mysterious device
More activity from our friend Malak0! At around 9:50 GMT, community members who emailed Malak0 requesting a clearer picture of the QR code on the dropped device received an email back with a link to a closeup!
QR code on device (Click to enlarge)
Community member "Dougrass" quickly decoded the message: CHAMAELEON: 13-23.
The APUS: 01-05 clue from earlier suggests that these are references to the constellations Apus and Chamaeleon, both located in the southern sky, both first defined by Petrus Plancius in the 16th century, and both first depicted by Johann Bayer.
Community member "LoneStranger" summarizes some interesting speculation:
Romulus is 128 Trianguli III-A. Triangulum is in the northern hemisphere, whereas the constellations Apus and Chamaelen are in the southern hemisphere. However … there is a constellation Triangulum Australe, located right next to Apus.
[Please note that the reference to "128 Trianguli III-A." is non-canon: although it appears in many Star Trek novels]
There has been much speculation on the precise meaning of "01-05" and "13-23" (stars in the constellations? coordinates for triangulating a position in 3D space? Biblical references?) but nothing that points definitively to a new clue yet.
Any new clues or theories? Let us know!
but again, be sure to check previous posts to make sure they haven’t been covered. If you really think you are on to something, send in a clue to tips [at]
trekmovie
[dot]
com. However, please keep tips to new (at least semi) verified clues, and not just speculation, that is what the comments are for.
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Unless the first person to figure this all out gets a date with Zoe Saldana, I’m not sure it’s worth it.
Wow, this is all very confusing, lol.
FIRST! No idea why folks are interested in this!
Curiouser and curiouser.
again, requesting everyone to come and join the chat =) just click my name, that’ll do.
Drat – my first chance at first…and I blew it! : ( I’d better take typing lessons.
What about a date with Zachary Quinto!
Cool stuff!
I really do wonder what all of this could possible culminate in… I’m totally fascinated regardless, but what other tricks could they have up their sleeves?
wow wicked weird
Just from looking at the picture of the device turned on, it looks to be Romulan in origin.
->Combine that with what we know, all this may mean there is a Romulan spy on Earth and these people have found a piece of the spy’s surveillance arsenal.<-
The video is a fake.
No LENS FLARE.
Looks more like a Vorlon device.
Right Mike?
You know, after you mention the Vorlon, it just might be,
Check out this ship design
http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/vorlon_med.jpg
For all those who don’t see the point in this –
The mystery is fulfillment in itself. Who doesn’t enjoy a good mystery?! That’s the point!
Well obviously all this is taking place whether or not WE find out about it, the PHPChat-Users probalby will also “see” the YouTube video and somehow contact Malak0 and try to get this padd/scanner back.
Screencap above from after the screen is touched looks like a squeezed picture of Nero sitting in his seat on the Narada.
http://www.filmedge.net/StarTrek/images/STapproved/Nero_1000.jpg
Its deffinately romulan
It really has some details that could match the Nero Picture… but I don’t know… if it is this picture then it is heavily distorted and squeezed
It could be the picture. There seems to be a big light splotch in the middle, which could or couldn’t be from him touching it.
Any one know how to read the code thing on the back?
I tried to match the blue lower left light with the right alignment on the Nero Picture and it does somehow match a bit you can see a something like a staff and a lighter spot that could be the head… and I think the big blob in the middle is from malak0 touching it.
I’ll take a little stab at part of this. I was first noticing what a shitty job the camera person was doing, like drunk or something, and then we hear what I think is a female voice sounding ill or moaning at the end which could explain why she couldn’t hold the camera still for more than a second. That’s all I got. Otherwise… WTF?
… or Reman?
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Reman
I wonder if this team is here to stop Nero, and the device Malak0 has is a general data storage or something like it, one item on there being a photo of Nero to positively identify him (possibly also containing photos of his crew).
This team is here to try and stop Nero, because they knew he had a screw loose. I wonder if it’s some kind of group from Rura Penthe?
One clue could be the footage in the second (?) trailer, which was taken out of the movie, showing Nero’s escape from the prison. This group could contain a Klingon.
Is there something going on with his tie? They seem to freeze on it for quite abit at the end of the video….
Another thought, maybe it is just me but the sound the device is making sounds a bit like the static from the binary sites….
This is too geeky to even catch my interest. Too dry.
Is it of any help?
Just googled for ‘mklvnd’
‘mklv’ Command: The mklv command creates a new logical volume within the VolumeGroup. For example, all file systems must be on separate logical volumes.
Good job on this, Aliotsy
I’ll be working on this…
#22
Decalithium poisoning maybe from residual elements on the device maybe. But malak0 didn’t look ill.
Selor is right, id does kinda sound like the binaries.
If that is so, then maybe the sites we have been seeing are the different parts of the data they were talking about, which is why they need this one back, the last piece of data to complete the plan.
He, he. I was just trying to put some vowels in ‘mklvnd’. So far the only ‘logical’ combination is: mAkE-lOvE-nUdE ;) Huh… o_O
The tie must be a clue … O
What about the poster?
FESTIVAL DE CINEMA DE RENNES 1998.
Google it: http://www.jimdietz.com/festival_files/image016.png
The guy who sell this poster has a studio in Paris. He also has an adress in the US:
JIM DIETZ VINTAGE POSTERS
1011, 4010 GALT OCEAN DR. FORT LAUDERDALE,FL 33308 USA
954- 563-3353, EMAIL- jsdietz@earthlink.net
Picture of him: http://www.jimdietz.com/poster_files/image002.png
His website contain some tiny pics of the flat he´s renting, anything familiar in the malak0 maybe?
Poster is pretty expensive too..$150. Artist is “Bilal”
…did i go to far? :p
Yeah, you probably did. :)
I don’t see how the apartment of the guy who found the device would help us in this game. What seems to matter is the PHPChatUsers and using information about them to figure out their story.
How this will end?
Maybe, the chat users will find Malak0, take their thing (and kill him?), will be killed somehow themselves or go back in time, just before May 7th.
Maybe?
The guy who does these posters seems to specialise in military paintings, maybe there is something there but again I think i’m taking that too far
I keep coming back to that tie shot. Could that be binary code in the tie?
yes, it was weird the shot of the tie lasted so long, im with u on that
why wear a tie, also?
If you look closely at the tie there are circles. If you zoom in there are little dots around those circles, if I remember correctly from chemistry class ,eons ago:), ‘O’ stands for oxygen and the dots stand for electrons, if i’m not mistaken.
Not sure what it would mean, but you never know.
Just my 2 cents.
–M–
Has anyone heard from Malak since the video went up?
Hmm. This doesn’t really seem much fun like the Dark Knight viral campaign was.
Did you noticed the avatar of Malak0’s youtube-Account? Is it possible that it contains another qr-code?
@44– It looks like Napolean Bonaparte to me, not sure if it contains another qr-code..
–M–
Got an email from Malak0!
Email exchange as follows:
From Aliotsy Andrianarivo
to mklvnd@aol.fr
date Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
subject Re: Vidéo de l’appareil
Malak0,
Merci beaucoup. Pardon-moi, mon francais n’est pas bon.
Il y a un image (un “bar code” ou “QR code”) en dessous l’objet, comme
l’image j’ai attache pour identifier le proprietaire. S’il te plait,
est-ce que vous pouvez pris un photo de l’image?
Merci,
Aliotsy
=============
I attached a picture of the QR code from yesterday. His response below!
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from mklvnd@aol.fr
to aliotsy
date Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM
subject Re : Vidéo de l’appareil
http://aol.pixum.fr/album/sharingImage/id/4280878/page/1
=============
QR Code tentatively translates as: CHAMAELEON:13-23
Question: is the correct translation for “Yarakashita’s” message “we SHOULD” or “we SHOULDN’T” help them? It doesn’t seem to make sense if it’s “we shouldn’t”. Anyone?
-RedShark
@47 It’s “Should.”
Kosmopol commented that he’d made a mistake in his translation.
This is getting too complicated to be fun now. I will keep checking back for anything interesting, but after 4 days its becoming a bore, clues are too random and there is nothing for the average person to do other than watch.
Good luck all!
46)
Chamaeleon is also a constellation in the same area as Apus…
It begins to make sense.
The first qr-code containt the word “APUS”. That is a constellation in the southern sky. And guess what you can find there also: A constellation with the name: Chamaeleon.
I’m sure, it has something to do with these constellations. But i have no idea what these numbers could mean
13-23 and 01-05 could be Flamsteeds designations for stars… ?
@52:
Flamsteed designations are only applicable to stars visible from the UK – these constellations are in the Southern Hemisphere sky, and so are not visible from the UK, and so do not have Flamsteed desigations.
@50, 51:
Constellation Chamaeleon confirmed – they even got the unusual spelling right! Definitely refers to the constellations.
The USS Apus (NCC-618) ?
While I’m not sure my mind is up to the challenge of figuring all this out, it has been fun to see what you guys come up with. :)
I watched Malak0’s video again. Something makes me curious: When Malak touches the device, some black points appear. Probably stars. When i stopped the video in time, four of these points have a similiarity with the chamaeleon constellation.
I’ve asked malak if it is a navigation-Computer. We will see if he replies.
So, apus and chamaeleon…
CONSTELLATIONS!
That camera work looks very…Cloverfieldish in style.
Is there something in that static that shows up on the device? Is it possible for anyone to check if that’s the same as what shows on the binary sites possibly?
I think some people also said this in the last thread, but I thought I’d reiterate. In Stargate, they use constellations like coordinates to describe a location – (they use 6, like the sides of a box – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StargateCoordinates.svg -)
Is it possible that these constellations we’re being given are coordinates also? (Maybe the way they work is different than in the Stargate universe, but it’s something)
im not done with the poster yet…since the 01 in Enterprise NCC-1701 means “first bird” and Apus is “bird in flight” and the poster behind Malak clearly show an Apus bird…
The NCC-618 Apus is also the number of the USS Hawking whos named after Stephen Hawking. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology, the study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity’s place in it. He also wrote the book “A Brief History of Time”, an attempt to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory. Time travel.
What about the book on his table?
This is getting way too weird.
Anyway, isn’t Darth Malak the antagonist of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic?
This game is sooo…gah, I’m not even going to complete the sentence.
@62– Yeah he was and JJ said he was more a Star Wars fan than a Trekkie….
@60– Very interesting indeed. That’s some serious deductive reasoning my friend.
–M–
So, Chameleon is a constellation close to Apus that was also included by Bayer in his book (The guy in PHPchatuser5’s twitter profile that had the first embedded code). Also there is an Apus (bird) in the poster behind Malak0. What about the significance of the numbers? We had APUS 01-05, and now we have CHAMAELEON:13-23.
01-05 and 13-23. Coordinates?
Just for note, Apus = 4 stars, Chamaeleon = 5 stars
Sorry if this is a Duplicate… I had a couple of thoughts..Just thoughts I thought it was posted but never showed up
1. The Enterprise models on the offical site. There is a SLUSHO and a new one with Japanese writing on it, Could it be a clue. With the SLUSHO prise I know JJ is having a hand in these they are not just random Art.
2. http://tagruato.jp/boldfutura_subsidiaries.php is part of the Cloverfield ARG but to my knowlege was never used it is the tech branch of the Tagruato, which we have seen as an easteregg in the trailers already.
Things that make you go Hmmmm….
“Let’s build a bold future — together!”
sounds treckie
Don’t think someone wrote it. About Apus, from wiki:
“It is bordered by Triangulum Australe, Circinus, Musca, Chamaeleon, Octans, Pavo and Ara”.
If we are dealing with coordinates of neighboring constellations, the next QR should mean one of these.
And its a StarTrek font ;)
http://ukpress.waytoblue.com/distribution/Marion/ST-INTL_STYLE%20GUIDE-FINAL.pdf
#69
i read that two. btw you can watch the systems with “celestia”
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
nice gimmick for this arg ;)
Ok, so, here’s what I’ve got:
First Clue: Malak0’s avatar — Johann Bayer, a sixteenth-century astronomer.
Second Clue: A QR barcode, embedded in Malak0’s avatar. Translation:
Apus: 01-05
(Apus is a constellation in the southern sky (hemisphere), first identified by Johann Bayer, listed in his book “Uranometria”, published in 1603. The constellation tranlates to English as “Bird of Paradise”)
Third Clue: QR Barcode on the bottom of Malak0’s device. Translation:
Chamaeleon: 13-16
(Chamaeleon is also a constellation in the southern sky (hemisphere), first identified by Johann Bayer, listed in his book “Uranometria”, published in 1603. The name translates to “Chameleon”)
So, the important thing to consider is the numbers —
Coordinates?
Incomplete pieces? (Will we see more constellations with similar number combinations?)
Is this a simple cipher based on Johann Bayer’s book?
Rats! This is mind numbing! But it sure is a lot of fun, too…
… And, ok, I just restated what “Illogical” just said moments before… silly me…
#1
Lol, I couldn’t agree more!
The poster artist is Enki Bilal. He’s one of my favorite artists. I doubt this will help. Sorry.
I did just discover something not yet mentioned:
Both the stars in Chamaeleon and Apus have Bayer Designations — indicated by Greek letters;
Reference:
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-stars-in-chamaeleon
http://www.answers.com/List%20of%20stars%20in%20Apus
Anyone here know greek?
I guess the device is a Romulan navigational computer. Something like a modern sextant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant_(astronomical)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant
Apus and Chamaeleon are both constellations. With the help of those and probably other constellations later revealed in the ARG, the Romulans would be able to calculate a course (Flugbahn in the chat).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaeleon
http://contentdm.lindahall.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/star_atlas&CISOPTR=118&CISOSHOW=0
Link to the original book of Uranometria
Pavo, Toucan, Grus, Phoenix, Dorado, Piscis Volans, Hydrus, Chameleon, Apis, Apis Indica, Triangulum Australe, star map.
I would posit that since the number in the clue exceeds the number of stars in Chamæleon that we should look at combining clues–treating the constellations as a connect-the-dots puzzle, to spell out some sort of other clue when viewed on a star chart or something. What do you think?
Did anyone else notice that right in the last second of the video, our friend Malak0 suddenly looks concerned and heads for the camera, while the camera gal makes noises like she’s getting woozy?
Oh wait…#22 noticed. And then tie that in with the fact that Malak0 mentioned that he got the device when a guy next to him fell? Could it be radioactive?
A few observations:
1) A chat exchange may give us some clue as to the goal of the chatters:
1: No, you’re wrong. I have a bad feeling, it was all a mistake! We should go home!
4: It’s no longer ours.
5: There is NO going back! There is NO Federation to stop him, we MUST move on without “Ca”!! Their ONLY fighting chance is if we get this thing sent!!
This tells us that the chatters’ goal is to send something. What and how we don’t know and need to find out. Why is likely to “stop him,” my guess for “him” is Nero.
2) And there’s this part of the chat:
3: Okay, nobody needs your yakety-yak. I’m doing this for Karnis. By the way, I am near the coordinates, we have to aim for it.
5: And I am on the magnetic field, we didn’t calibrate for interference.
4: I can send you some information on the frequency, where do I send it?
5: Hold it for now, it’s useless without getting Ca’s wave pattern.
In Malak0’s video, didn’t Ca’s device show a wave pattern when it was on? Can anyone analyze this pattern and see if it means anything? Also, now that the chatters have seen the video, they may have the wave pattern, so we may need to be on the lookout for “information on the frequency” from Fe. Maybe whatever we analyze or find will help us make sense of what the “it” is that they are going to “aim for.”
3) O in a chat says “I’ll post locations as I find the key fields. I’ll need you to go them exactly when I say.”
So we should be on the lookout for postings by O about locations and key fields. But what are these locations? The same as access points? Something different? And where would she post them? Twitter? The chat page?
4) O then says “Pictures are tough here, but we must start sending each other the access points – @PHPChatUser5. Not sure yet how to get Ca’s – but the input site will soon be live for all our fixes, hopefully generates something that works.”
This likely means that we need to wait for – or find – a web site into which we can input some information. Perhaps when we see it, APUS:01-05 and CHAMAELEON:13-23 will make sense. Have we seen any clues that would point us to another web site?
Malak just emailed me http://aol.pixum.fr/album/sharingImage/id/4280878/page/1
So now we have a better shot of the QR code on the back… anyone else get it?
And can someone better than me have a better shot at getting this QR code scanned?
@ 84: you’re ages late
Jenni, I hate to say it….. you’re a bit late. Check the previous comments, starting with #46. :-p
86. Sorry, I only just got up, i managed to scroll past it XDD
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#62
#64
Malak was not only the antagonist of the Star Wars-Game “Knights of the old republic, the player’s goal was to achieve parts of an ancient star map, to stop the threat. The similiarities are obvious.
In the game, it was hinted that Malak and Revan (the player’s figure) not only wanted to conquer the republic, they wanted to prepare the republic for a bigger threat, which was unknown to the rest of the galaxy.
Not sure if these thoughts of me go too far….
#89
To me it makes a lot of sense, though doesn’t lead to any new clues…
@76 I do but rather than go through them one by one…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet
There are both upper case and lower case letters but just like in our alphabet, Upper and Lower are called the same thing. Starts with alpha.
Also I study Astrophysics so it seems this game is heading slightly in my direction. If anyone needs anything physical checked…give me a shout :)
Hmm… the more I look at the device, the more I think its Borg tech.
Let me explain, as I have two ideas about this
- Firstly, we know for sure that the Narada is a hybridisation of Romulan and Borg technology.
- Secondly, I liked the previously mentioned stuff about the green blur being a picture so I would suggest that maybe this device has some sort of time-travel connotations… afterall, the Borg do have the technology to travel through time and the Narada had the red matter so… I dont know?
Sorry, I’m rambling
strange, malak0’s profile image has just changed from napoleon to the picture of a sheep that someone sent him;
http://www.youtube.com/user/mklvnd
you might need to Ctrl+F5 to refresh the image
Hi everybody, I was following this whole thing for a few days and I did not contributed yet… till now.
As per question #61, I had a closer look at the book on the desktop seen on the video. Just a small pa of it is visible, but I was able to identify the publisher (Folio from Gallimard editeur) and the end of the title. Then I finally found the book: you can find the exact edition by googling “ISBN 9782070381654″.
The English edition of the book is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being .
I am not sure how to connect this to the rest of the evidences we have, but I doubt the book is there by chance.
I will send an e-mail to mklvnd, for starters.
#94
I agree, the book on the table is indeed L’INSOUTENABLE LEGERETE DE L’ETRE http://fenetresurpapillon.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/kundera.jpg
Anyone know anything about Aztec or Mayan glyphs? Enterprise model #4 on the official site, the saucer is covered with them. Is this a clue or random art? JW. Idk
Maybe Romulus is near the constellations apus and chamaeleon
@97 – Romulus is 128 Trianguli III-A. Triangulum is in the northern hemisphere, whereas the constellations Apus and Chamaelen are in the southern hemisphere. However….. there is a constellation Triangulum Australe, located right next to Apus.
Luca:
We figured that one out yesterday, and it fell quickly into the back of our minds.
We’re chatting in real time at
http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=ce9a733dae31c19c6cf23d9e4a4db1fa&noServerTab=false&server=irc.tvdw.eu&channel=%23arg&autoConnect=true
Also you have Romulus Augustulus and Imperiului Roman de Apus..clues?
92:
It DOES look “Borg-ish.” But since when have we known the Borg to carry around PDA-style devices? If these Romulans were using Borg technology for a PADD of their own, would they make it look “Borg-ish” as a style choice?.
What does the number 81511921 mean to anyone? It was on the 20 on a model. Connected?
The sheep which appears now on MalakO profile is from merzmensch!
http://merzmensch.blogspot.com/
Haha! Actually it’s really a sheep I’ve sent him for some days!
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=610625#610625
http://merzmensch.blogspot.com/2009/04/star-trek-identitat-von-malak0.html
I like this interactivity! :-D
@ 104
Deine Seite ist übrigens toll und das Schaf auch. ;-)
@105
Vielen Dank!
Immer willkommen! :-)
Perhaps we should be on the lookout for a new Star Trek game that will end up functioning as the “input site” for whatever the chatters are doing.
“1: Don’t worry, we’ll place the SNS, make new friends, and like a game we’ll elicit their help!!!”
Here’s a link to a screenshot of the constellations Chamaeleon and Apus I found on my KStars accessory on my Eee PC: http://www.twitpic.com/3rvk9
Please look at it as I think it may help loads! PS: It shows other constellations so don’t come running to me if they appear later in this confusing game…
So, it looks like those constellations are in the Alpha Centauri (in one direction) and Vulcan (in the other) vicinity, roughly.
There is the number 2009-113 on http://www.dezibelmusik.de. before it links to the youtube site form MalakO.
There is also a strange wiki site with that number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Calendar/2009/113
2009-113 is tomorrow if you use the new stardate.
APUS has four letters. 01 + 4 = 05
CHAMAELEON has ten letters. 13 + 10 = 23
110. I think all dates have that though, for current events on Wikipedia. I mean after the day has passed, events are no longer current, so maybe there’s just an automated delete for them, since they’ll always need deleting?
M-113 anyone :p
110 – When you go to the dezibelmusik site, the header says “0011001″ before it redirects to the YouTube site.
Could that be anything new?
I looked that binary up on Google, and the first result was to an experiment using cascading particles and such, relating to the “Askaryan Effect”, which also involves salt.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askaryan_effect[\url]
0011001 in ASCII is an escape sequence, ^Y. If it’s a misprint for 01011001, which is Y, then that would be yttrium.
M-113 is the Man Trap planet from TOS. Messier objects don’t go that high. Your :p might get dried out from that sucker! :)
Of course from that episode CRATER is another southern hemisphere constellation.
And what if Nancy is the woman McCoy was involved with that resulted in his divorce? Damn, space is just disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
APUS: 01-05 = coordinates/frequency for PHPChatUser5 as it was in her twitter pic
CHAMAELEON: 13-23 = coordinates/frequency for where PHPChatUser2 was supposed to be; it was on the device he had
???
#110 + 115
I don’t think that’s something new. You can access an index-site of http://www.dezibelmusik.de There you can read, that the site-template was made bei “Marcel Anke”.
He also made some LCARS-Homecontrol’s, which you can see on his youtube-Account. He also put Malak0’s video in his favourite’s. Apparently not more than a fan.
Malak0 changed his pic back from the sheep. Weird.
#118 Going on your theme, the five circumpolar (south pole) constellations are:
Apus, Chamaeleon, Musca, Hydrus, and Octans.
That aligns Chamaeleon with #2, CHA, “Ca”
And Apus with #5 who’s in the US.
So if Musca, Hydrus and Octans show up, you’re on to something, eh?
Octans would have fit #5 better though. Oxygen is element #8.
Could this thing be of Borg origin? The Narada is based upon Borg technology, as indicated in the Countdown series
Boy — we’re all just waiting for the next clue, or the next shoe, to drop, aren’t we?
Perhaps someone who said it earlier is right — perhaps it’s just the puzzle — the figuring, the researching — that’s important, and not the solution… The journey, and not the destination…
… but, then again, that would kinda suck in this case, eh?
:)
123: It’s quiet. Too quiet. . .
Just throwing stuff out there.
These constellations were all documented by Petrus Plancius, located in the southern sky and put in Johann Bayer’s Uranometria.
APUS (BIRD) 1-5 = 4
DORADO (FISH) 6-12 = 6
CHAMAELEON (REPTILE) 13-23 = 10
INDUS (MAMMAL) 24 – 29 = 5
or 30 – 35 = 5
MUSCA (INSECT) 30 – 35 = 5
or 24 – 29 = 5
brain is beginning to hurt from the possible patterns, either that or memories from ENT
125 how do you get those numbers for those other constellations ?
#125 I don’t get your inclusion of INDUS and DORADO. OCTANS and HYDRUS are further to the south.
Although we agree on MUSCA. All of the appear in Bayer’s Uranometria, so I’m not certain that we have a lock on Plancius being a requirement. (And he created 12 total, not 5).
Too bad we didn’t get another QR code to scan today. If only we had some of those barcode scanners on the NCC-1701-JJ!
@126 I just extrapolated from the numbers from the QR codes we have so far.
@127 I chose those based on the letter count and that they are different animal phylums(?or what ever the subcategory they are). I focused on Plancius because the other 2 QR codes were his. DORADO could just as easily be VOLANS
Some hopefully improved translation of the last 3 lines in japanese:
時間がかかりすぎだよ、彼に僕らがいつ全滅しても不思議じゃない。助けを呼ばなきゃ。僕のアクセス・ポイントを、明日彼らに知らせるからね。
彼らと協力しなきゃいけないんだってば!!!彼らが生き延びるためにも!!!彼らが全部分かってるはずだって!!!
心配しないで、SNSに載せて、新しい友達を作って、ゲームみたいに見せて彼らをおびき入れるから!!!
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It takes too much time. It is no wonder we all die.
We have to ask help to others. I will tell them where is my access point tomorrow.
Please work together with them !!! For the sake of their surviving !!! They know about everything !!!
Do not worry. I will put it on SNS, make new friends, likewise a game, lure them into a trap!!!
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Hope it helps :)
I was just looking back at the twitter conversation between PHPChatUsers 4 and 5.
The first (from User5) read:
“Here, Start sending yours”
Then, User4 says that he has not completed his ‘access point’.
I was thinking, thought, that the other two ‘points’ were hidden in the QR barcodes; and Since User5’s code was hidden in the avatar, then User5’s comment ‘Here, start sending yours’ might easily be interpreted as ‘Here is mine, start sending yours.’
Is there any way that the original spanish dialogue might be turned into a QR code in some way?
It is:
No tengo completado ya mi punto de acceso, pero esto no es la razón por la cual yo escribo.
Lo que trato de decir es, “Si” no es el único que se está volviendo loco.
Esto es por que yo estoy tan loco para decirte lo siguiente–
esto puedo ser el fin para nosotros, para todo, y tengo que saber que por lo menos yo te dije como me siento.
No hay nada para nosotros aquí o ahora.
Pero me di cuenta de que aunque tengamos una casa todavía,
aunque él no se haya vuelto loco y los perros le hayan perseguido, todavia no tendría nada.
Tú eras y eres mi única oportunidad para la alegría.
Creo tú te has sentido así alguna vez.
Si no me vendrías, te ruego, permiteme que te venga.
(I put it in order of appearance on the site… top line first, bottom line last…)
Just a thought. I’ll still noodle with it…
Maybe this group of aliens are Romulans checking out Earth for mining after they were finished with Vulcan. The device could be some sort of special tricorder to search for key elements.
Just a thought.
malkO said something about a connector on the back of the device. it would be good to get a better look at that. mabye it needs to be connected to a keyboard and then put in a password. i also wonder what happens if you try to write on the face like a palm. then again you might have to learn to write in romulan.
you know what would be funny is if they are just makeing this up as they go along.
I think he pointed out the connector just so he could show the back of the device and we could see the QR scancode.
I don’t think they’re making it up as they go along. I’m sure there is a script they’re using. However, like any great Dungeon Master, they need to be prepared to bend things a little bit to react to how the players decide to play the game.
Camille “Ca” Dupont, Albert “Al” Stein, and Ferdinand “Fe” Franco:
Phone Number: +44.161652883
Address: 98 Grosvenor St. M17HL Manchester United Kingdom
Hori “Si” Kei:
Phone Number: 147-2580-369
I’d call but 1. I live in America, charges would be crazy and 2. I don’t even know if those are real numbers. Those are what are listed for the websites.
I called this number from Skype: +44.161652883 but then it says “incorrect phone number”. I then called +44-0-161652883 but it gets a constant, non stop tone, preety strange, i’ve never heard one like this.
I also called this number +81-147-2580-369 (assuming it is a japaneese number) but all it gets is some japaneese blablablah (a voicemail I suppose)
On a map, +44.161652883 leads to some area out in France somewhere but I don’t think it’s important.
[...] + alternate reality gaming http://bit.ly/XMDtL@bettinac thanks now is good, try the rabbit hole at http://bit.ly/XLjIv which is the best synopsis I’ve found #StarTrekARGRT @antonymd #adtech09 A 13 yr old girl in LA [...]
+44 is the UK dialing code, but its an incorrect number when I dial it. 0161 is for manchester though
This ARG doesn’t seem sensible, in that there aren’t enough clues being proffered.
Should have been another QR today at least. Where is it hiding?
The pace seems fairly erratic, unless there’s a major clue that we’re missing.
Could the “make new friends” by user #1 be an oblique reference to Facebook?
Facebook would be the next logical step, but theres too many users named Camille Dupont.
We would need something better to narrow it down with
Ok, can someone email me or post here on WTF this is all about?
What is ARG? I am lost! LOL
I thought it had something to do with the construction of the Enterprise website. Now I’m really thrown!
Erratic, yes. Plus, why would Romulans be using QR code? It’s like… what would God need with a starship? As my 15 year old is famous for saying: “I’m bored.”
This ARG strongly could have used some influence from Bob Orci. The Countdown comic, and the Paul Pope Wired comic are Aces-on superb. This thing is sorely lacking.
QR = Quantum Reality :p
#146 Funny! Ties in with The Orci Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. :)
If only it didn’t already mean Quick Response!
Hey everyone: http://www.2387-42.com/ is about to start updating … the “stopUpdating()” function is gone.
# PHPChatUser3: OK, ihr habt recht. Der Kleine ist verrückt geworden. Was machen wir?
# PHPChatUser4: Pienso que deberías dejarlo estar solo.
# PHPChatUser5: Just be ready, both of you, I’ll have your locations by Saturday – Fe, yours will likely be near the museum right by you with the rusty towers. “Al”, the other is on the eastern side of Berlin, by a derelict building in Mitte. I’ll need you to go the next day AT the time I give! Look for me in one of our spots. Also, I’m handling Sargash.
# PHPChatUser3: Ach wirklich, und wie willst du mit “Si” fertig werden?
# PHPChatUser5: Just worry about sending the test signals, and the rest of your research. Keep in mind that even their WPANs can pick this up in those areas, so keep it coded.
# PHPChatUser3: Leider muss ich Dir sagen, dass unser Geheimnis gelüftet wurde. Ein gewisser Geoff Greatbatch beobachtet uns anscheinend im Auftrag von „A40 Curbridge“ und erzählt allen von unserer Landung.
# PHPChatUser5: Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
# PHPChatUser3: Ich habe noch mehr wichtige Neuigkeiten. Ich glaube, ich habe ein Päckchen von “Ca” erhalten. Er muss gewusst haben, dass er in Schwierigkeiten ist, als er es verschickt hat. Es beinhaltet die Korrektur für die Frequenz. Mit dieser Fehlerbehebung brauchen wir nur die Wellenform und den Zielort, um das Ding auszurichten, und wir sollten es noch einmal versuchen.
# PHPChatUser5: Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
# PHPChatUser4: Aún si lo haremos, todavía necesitamos ampliar esta cosa, y esto supone que funciona finalmente.
# PHPChatUser3: OK, wir haben viel zu tun. Ich verschwinde. Los geht’s.
# ____PHPChatUser3 has disconnected____
# PHPChatUser4: Nunca me contestaste.
# ____PHPChatUser5 has disconnected____
# ____PHPChatUser4 has disconnected____
Initial *poor* translation. Native speakers, dig in!
Janus (de) “OK, you did right. Little is mad. What do we do?”
OK, ihr habt recht. Der Kleine ist verrückt geworden. Was machen wir?
Candir (es) “I think you should leave it alone.”
Pienso que deberías dejarlo estar solo.
Unknown (en) Just be ready, both of you, I’ll have your locations by Saturday – Fe, yours will likely be near the museum right by you with the rusty towers. “Al”, the other is on the eastern side of Berlin, by a derelict building in Mitte. I’ll need you to go the next day AT the time I give! Look for me in one of our spots. Also, I’m handling Sargash.
Just be ready, both of you, I’ll have your locations by Saturday – Fe, yours will likely be near the museum right by you with the rusty towers. “Al”, the other is on the eastern side of Berlin, by a derelict building in Mitte. I’ll need you to go the next day AT the time I give! Look for me in one of our spots. Also, I’m handling Sargash.
Janus (de) “Oh really, and how do you want to do with \”Si\” to be ready?”
Ach wirklich, und wie willst du mit “Si” fertig werden?
Unknown (en) Just worry about sending the test signals, and the rest of your research. Keep in mind that even their WPANs can pick this up in those areas, so keep it coded.
Just worry about sending the test signals, and the rest of your research. Keep in mind that even their WPANs can pick this up in those areas, so keep it coded.
Janus (de) “Unfortunately, I must tell you that our secret was revealed. A certain batch Geoff Great watching us apparently on behalf of \”A40 Curbridge\” and told all of our landing.”
Leider muss ich Dir sagen, dass unser Geheimnis gelüftet wurde. Ein gewisser Geoff Greatbatch beobachtet uns anscheinend im Auftrag von „A40 Curbridge“ und erzählt allen von unserer Landung.
Unknown (en) Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
Janus (de) “I have more important news. I think I’ve got a packet of \”Ca\” receive. He must have known that he is in trouble when he has sent it. It includes the correction for the frequency. With this fix, we need only the waveform and the destination, the thing to them, and we should try again.”
Ich habe noch mehr wichtige Neuigkeiten. Ich glaube, ich habe ein Päckchen von “Ca” erhalten. Er muss gewusst haben, dass er in Schwierigkeiten ist, als er es verschickt hat. Es beinhaltet die Korrektur für die Frequenz. Mit dieser Fehlerbehebung brauchen wir nur die Wellenform und den Zielort, um das Ding auszurichten, und wir sollten es noch einmal versuchen.
Unknown (en) Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
Candir (es) “Even if we will still need to extend this thing, and this means that finally works.”
Aún si lo haremos, todavía necesitamos ampliar esta cosa, y esto supone que funciona finalmente.
Janus (de) “OK, we have much to do. I disappear. Let’s go.”
OK, wir haben viel zu tun. Ich verschwinde. Los geht’s.
Candir (es) “I never answered.”
Nunca me contestaste.
Spanish translation
PHPChatUser4: Pienso que deberías dejarlo estar solo. [I think that you should let him be alone]
PHPChatUser4: Aún si lo haremos, todavía necesitamos ampliar esta cosa, y esto supone que funciona finalmente. [Even of we'll do it, we still need to amplify this thing, and this assuming it finally works]
PHPChatUser4: Nunca me contestaste. [You never answered me]
Looks like some interesting stuff is happening at “A40 Curbridge”
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-248102
“Strange markings on ground, A40, Curbridge, Oxfordshire UK”
wireless personal area network (WPAN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_personal_area_network#Wireless
i have emailed Geoff Greatbatch, would be interesting if he replies
“# PHPChatUser5: Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?”
I think Malak0 is the idiot, and the device is the communication unit…
“Museum right by you with the rusty towers”
A quick Google check, and it could be the Alhambra Museum in Spain, as there are ancient and rust – colored towers in that area.
The markings are from the Romulan alphabet:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/romulan.htm
2 3 2 followed by a character I don’t find.
157 – It looks vaguely like a “4″ for that last one, but I can’t be sure.
The crash at Curbridge almost seems to obvious… Is this actually part of the ARG? This would be the very first REAL connection to Star Trek, actual Romulan markings, but is that font even canon?
Huh. That wreckage in the photo seems to be a Romulan ship that crashed then, yeah? But it doesn’t look like the ship Nero is using. So does that open up the idea they’re Romulan but not with Nero again? Or am I missing something, ’cause coming in late to this clue has lost me. :P
#158, perhaps it’s the small letters ‘f” and ‘r’ pushed together.
2 3 2 fr. Makes no sense unless it’s a price? Must be Priceline, 232 swiss francs, and you get William Shatner? =)
#159 Okuda used it, but in no particular order. Just like the Klingon glyphs, in how they were used on the set. A shame, because with Marc Okrand available, they could have had accurate linguistics all the time at a low price…
Okay, PHPChatUser3 was talking about the crash, so what does this mean? They actually ARE Romulans?
Geoff Greatbatch’s email address:
greatbatch@fsmail.net
Translation from http://startrek.wikibruce.com/PHPChat
3: OK, you did it right. The kid is mad. What do we do?
4: I think you should leave it alone.
5: Just be ready, both of you, I’ll have your locations by Saturday – Fe, yours will likely be near the museum right by you with the rusty towers. “Al”, the other is on the eastern side of Berlin, by a derelict building in Mitte. I’ll need you to go the next day AT the time I give! Look for me in one of our spots. Also, I’m handling Sargash.
3: Oh really, and how do you want to do with “Si” to be ready?
5: Just worry about sending the test signals, and the rest of your research. Keep in mind that even their WPANs can pick this up in those areas, so keep it coded.
3: Unfortunately, I must tell you that our secret was revealed. A certain Geoff Greatbatch is watching us apparently on behalf of “A40 Curbridge” and told everyone of our landing.
5: Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
3: I have more important news. I think I’ve got a package of what “Ca” received. He must have known that he was in trouble when he sent it. It includes the frquency correction. With this fix, we only need the waveform and the destination, the thing to them, and we can try again.
5: Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
4: Even if we will still need to extend this thing, and this means that finally works.
3: OK, we have much to do. I’m leaving. Let’s go.
3 has disconnected
4: I never answer.
5 has disconnected
4 has disconnected
Anyone recognize that as romulan or vulcan text? I didn’t find matching characters in the font downloads I made.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=A40+Curbridge&ie=UTF8&ll=51.777745,-1.51798&spn=0.001835,0.004603&t=k&z=18
vs
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-248102
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hrm…. 232fr…
“The evaluator presents in this publication spectroscopic data and level schemes from radioactive decay and nuclear reactions for all nuclei with mass number A = 232.
Highlights from this evaluation include the discovery of a new isotope of francium, 232Fr”
#165 Look at omniglot. I already referenced it, here it is again, k?
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/romulan.htm
It clearly starts with a Romulan 2, 3 and 2.
Could the Romulan ship be cloaked? Would explain how it seemed to have gotten away so fast.
Wait, didn’t one of the noise video’s say VI? Six. Does this mean there is a sixth Romulan?
In the A40 picture – there is a clear roman numeral 5 (V) in the right hand corner – in the patch of circular grass.
171 – I do not see a Roman numeral there.
Fr in Binary is 0100011001110010, if Fr is sixth romulan maybe there’s a site with that as the url?
172 – In the lighter patch of grass on the right side – there is a V that takes up the entire patch.
The image looks photoshopped, in any event. Might be an artifact of that process.
http://twitter.com/phpchatuser6 ??? Another Romulan or… a hoax? He mentions Cloverfield, seems a bit TOO forced if you ask me.
hoax
@175 of course its photoshopped, what did you think? an actual romulan ship landed there? it a game!
@173 – Good thought. Unfortunately, Tom ran that sequence through 100 different extensions, and there are no sites that use it. :(
Improved translation from http://startrek.wikibruce.com/PHPChat
3: OK, you’re right. The kid’s gone crazy. What are we going to do?
4: I think you should leave it alone.
5: Just be ready, both of you, I’ll have your locations by Saturday – Fe, yours will likely be near the museum right by you with the rusty towers. “Al”, the other is on the eastern side of Berlin, by a derelict building in Mitte. I’ll need you to go the next day AT the time I give! Look for me in one of our spots. Also, I’m handling Sargash.
3: Oh really, and what are you going to do with “Si”?
5: Just worry about sending the test signals, and the rest of your research. Keep in mind that even their WPANs can pick this up in those areas, so keep it coded.
3: Unfortunately, I must tell you that our secret was revealed. A certain Geoff Greatbatch is watching us apparently on behalf of “A40 Curbridge” and told everyone about our landing.
5: Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
3: I have more important news. I think I’ve got a package from “Ca”. He must have known that he was in trouble when he sent it. It includes the correction for the frequency. With this fix, we only need the waveform and the destination to align it, and we can try again.
5: Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
4: Even if we will still need to extend this thing, and this means that finally works.
3: OK, we have much to do. I’m leaving. Let’s go.
3 has disconnected
4: I never answer.
5 has disconnected
4 has disconnected
You might want to check 87. Fr has Z=87 not 232 :>
@176 I think thats a true gamejacker. Then again we thought Malak0 was too didnt we :P
This is all getting rather insane lol. I wanna speak to the guys doing all this.
@179 Maybe the site’s just not up YET. I mean he just crashlanded :p
What has user1 went doing? Going public himself? Getting to malak0? When they say the’ll have to go public, will they go to the press? YouTube? Post something somewhere…?
Maybe we should ask Greatbatch to go to the field himself, search for the cloaked ship.
everyone remember where we parked ;)
There are 34 known isotopes of francium ranging in atomic mass from 199 to 232.
That 232 element could be Decalithium they all keep talking about, bec. there’s no such element in our periodic table, if that stuff is an element and not some silicate or other mineral.
Ok, there is, if 232 is atomic mass, of course #186 is right.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1714655232&v=wall&viewas=509390194
Looks like SI…
The pics are called Access Points – Soduko.
You can’t solve the 5 th sudoku. It is wrong! The first line is insolvable.
Again six :o It still makes me think there are 6 romulans.
190 – Which is the fifth? The one numbered “5″ or the fifth in the row of pics?
Could the Sodukos be used as QR codes? Say you were to take the grid and block in the boxes that have numbers/symbols in them. Could that possibly give us something?
The numbered 5. But it seams that all sudokos are not solvable.
Some intelligent folks at http://widget.mibbit.com/ think the sudokus are in reality a Micro QR Code
http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/microqr-e.html
in combination with the old codes, or something like this.
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll172/LtPiper/QRs.jpg?t=1240518334
Can’t explain it better. It goes way over my head.
http://www3.telus.net/tw6/gareth/qr3.gif
Indus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_(constellation)
INDUS:13-06
Looks like #125 was sort of on the right track.
APUS:01-05
HAMAELEON:13-23
INDUS:13-06
All are constellations.
http://www.vb-tech.co.za/astronomy/southern.gif
No one knows yet what the numbers mean.
Okay, now I’ll explain how I got the QR code in post #195:
Every QR code has those square-within-a-square’s in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners. Each one also has timing and alignment markers. If you assume the QR code is a 27 X 27 code like the rest have been, then when you divide the QR code into nine blocks, they all have to have to have this format:
http://www3.telus.net/tw6/gareth/qrbase.gif (with the white spaces in blocks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 filled with the actual information of the code)
Each of the nine block of the code can be subdivided into its own 9 X 9 cell, which can again be divided into another 3 X 3 partition, just like how a sudoku puzzle looks. So when you look at Sargash Si’s Facebook pictures (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1714655232&v=wall&viewas=509390194#/album.php?aid=188&id=1714655232), you can see that the filled-in sudoku squares can correspond to the black pixels. Since blocks 1, 3, and 7 are already given in the above picture, we can create ourselves a QR code using the numbers of the blocks in the captions of the Facebook pictures:
http://www3.telus.net/tw6/gareth/qr3.gif Tada!
By the way I forgot the C. It is of course
CHAMAELEON:13-23
Oh, looks like there’s a new ARG Update story on here. I’d should have been posting there. Oh well.
#178 Hey Marvin, I’m talking about the perception there was a Roman V on the grass. That’s why I was pointing out these images (like the others in the game) are photoshopped. I was being polite to mention the image is photoshopped. You’re being impolite, or rather like Perez, I wanted to use the “c” word to describe you.