Star Trek ARG Report 6: More Chatter + Romulans in UK? [UPDATE 2 w/ new clues] April 23, 2009
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After a flurry of updates at the beginning of the week, the Star Trek ARG fell strangely (ominously?) silent for over 48 hours, with no new clues. Until, today with a lot of new chatter and a possible Romulan sighting in the UK. See belove for a full breakdown of the latest in this intriguing viral game.
APRIL 23rd STAR TREK ARG UPDATE 6
NOTE: if you are new to the Star Trek ARG see ‘Quick review’ at the bottom of this article
April 23 Clue 1: More chatting at 2387-42.com
The viral chat site 2387-42.com activated at approximately 6:30pm GMT…
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____
And a translation of the Spanish and German, courtesy of TM community member "Slaynest" and "Raphael" at Unfiction.
PHPChatUser3: Okay, you’re right. The little one has gone crazy. What are we going to do?
PHPChatUser4: I think that you should let him be alone.
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: Really?? What are you going to do with "Si"?
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: Unfortunately, I have to tell you that our secret is out. A guy called "Geoff Greatbatch" is watching us, he has done so on behalf of "A40 Curbridge" and he is telling everyone about our landing.
PHPChatUser5: Between this Greatbatch and what Sargarsh’s done, we may have to go public.
PHPChatUser3: I have some more important news… I believe I received a package from "Ca". He must of known he is in trouble when he sent the package. It contains the correction for the frequency. With this new information we only have to find out the waveform and the destination to align the thing and we should try again.
PHPChatUser5: Yeah, well some idiot has Ca’s comm. unit. So how do you plan to get the waveform?
PHPChatUser4: Even if we’ll do it, we still need to amplify this thing, and this assuming it finally works.
PHPChatUser3: Okay, we have loads to do. I am leaving. Lets go.
____PHPChatUser3 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser4: You never answered me.
____PHPChatUser5 has disconnected____
____PHPChatUser4 has disconnected____
April 23 Clue 2: Crash site near "A40 Curbridge" with Romulan markings
Several community members immediately Googled "A40 Curbridge," a major trunk road in the UK. The top result…
Strange markings on ground, A40, Curbridge, Oxfordshire UK
Romulans in UK?
Several people recognized the markings as Romulan letters, with the larger markings translating as "2 3 2."
Analysis – What did "Si" do? Is Malak0 safe?
The context of the chat seems to suggest that "Sargash" is "Si," aka PHPChatUser1, aka "the Kid." He’s noticeably absent in this chat, and there’s a clear sense that he’s done something crazy. Community members were expecting some sort of update from "Si" over the past two days, and having received none, it’s possible that a clue was missed. The PHPChatUsers are also aware that Malak0 has the "comm. unit" … is he in danger?
Other questions:
- What are the landmarks that the team is referring to (museum with rusty towers, derelict building in Mitte)?
- Where is Sargash now?
- What is the meaning of the constellation clues found earlier in the week?
UPDATE: PHPChatUser1 has a Facebook page.
Persistence pays off. TM community member "LtPiper" has found a Facebook page for "Sargash Si" with a photo album full of access points!
Access Point from Facebook page
UPDATE 2: Sudoku puzzles actually another QR code
After "Tom" and others ascertained that the sudoku puzzles posted in Sargash Si’s profile were, in fact, unsolvable, "wildo" pointed out something interesting: the sodoku puzzles could be rearranged into a QR Code! All six puzzles were numbered, corresponding to a spot on a nine-square grid representing a QR code, with the positioning blocks left out (see below for illustration). "Osh" quickly put together a black-and-white, machine-readable version, and "CptnValdez" was the first to read it: INDUS 13-06. Excellent teamwork, all!
Sodoku clue
Indus is, unsurprisingly, yet another constellation near Apus and Chamaeleon.
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"
- April 21st Update: Malak0 posts video of dropped device, leading to "CHAMAELEON:13-23"
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.
Star Trek ARG Forum
TM community member "Tom" hosts the very active ARG chat where much of the problem-solving is taking place. He has set 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
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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Whoo Hoo Romulans in the UK!
First post?
Curiouser and curiouser!
Why must the internet constantly get more confusing?
This better be leading to something awesome…
I’m all for publicizing the new movie, and I really really hope it succeeds, but talk about preaching to the choir. There isn’t a single person following this that wasn’t going to see the movie anyway.
They don’t seem to be putting half the energy or creativity into making the movie interesting for my non-Trekker friends.
Wake me up when somebody figures out this mumbo-jumbo.
this is reeeeeeeeeeeally big for a viral marketing ….
Instead of “232,” could that be “2^32,” meaning, “two to the thirty-second power?” I ask only because the first “2″ is quite large compared to the other numerals.
They really seem to be increasing the scale of this ARG. I am very eager to see where this goes…
I still dont have any clue the heck is going on with all this.
Im glad there are people with the time to Go through all this.
Interesting to see how it all ends
Well, I think the english-speaking “Romulan” refers to the german-speaking one to be near some derelict building in Berlin-Mitte and the spanish-speaking one to be somewhere near that museum with rusty towers (maybe somewhere in Spain) on saturday, time TBA. I am from Berlin, but I have no clue which building could be the one in question, if I find out I’d go there on saturday, on any given time… OR they’re both in Berlin, in different locations at the same time. In any case I don’t know a Museum with or near rust towers…
#4
Slusho.
I’m wondering if that last character in the field is some kind of flag, emblem or insignia?
Also, I had posted on the other part here that I was wondering if the “museum with the rusty towers” could possibly be the Alhambra Museum in Spain?
Sargash Si is at Facebook!
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=611830#611830
And he has some Sudoku to solve!
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=611837#611837
It looks like the fellow that posted the picture in CNN’s iReport has an e-mail address on his iReport profile under biography:
greatbatchatfsmaildotnet
I’ve posted this in the previous ARG update, but I guess I’ll put it here too…could the Sudoku be disguised QR code? If we were to black out the boxes that contain numbers or symbols, would we get any usable code out of it?
#14
I’ve already sent a message to greatbatch, but still no answer
11. THX, I really hope not.
IPv4 uses 32-bit (4-byte) addresses, which limits the address space to 4,294,967,296 (2^32) possible unique addresses
The “rusty towers” with a museum could be the old flak-towers/bunker in Berlin-Wedding (part of Berlin-Mitte) which is part of “Berliner Unterwelten” (Berlin Underworld) that also run a museum nearby… http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
Here’s the Google-Maps Link http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=flakbunker+wedding&sll=52.544077,13.373086&sspn=0.005585,0.021973&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=52.547323,13.384561&spn=0.001474,0.003455&t=h&z=18
I GOT IT!!!!
It was ………Captain Kirk….In Sickbay……….With a Tribble
What do I win!!!!
This viral stuff is really quite easy
Thanks Michael. Our suspicion is that this museum is in Spain, because user4 (Fe) has been writing in Spanish. Nobody’s positive, of course.
Yeah, but still, there’s some derelict building here that needs to be found ^_^
Sodukus + photoshop =QR Code =INDUS:13-06
Solved! (Not by me, but by the fine members of the “mib-chat”
Chat : http://trek.tvdw.eu/arg/
23 Michael – You are absolutely right! And that’s still a mystery.
I love this month
I would presume that some of us have to be in those places by saturday, to maybe pickup theire Network
I guess, so. That’s nice, central Berlin is crowded with wifi networks/APs…
24 – INDUS (“the Indian”) is another southern constellation…
Me too, AJ. I got suckered into that Cloverfield thing and it went nowhere. I still liked the movie, but I’m a sucker for the bugs. Hopefully JJ and the rest of his team learned from that.
You seem to be ahead of the curve on this one.
They used a different Romulan font for the Countdown comic… I tried to translate all the names in the star charts there… but only Hobus and Romulus make sense.
232 IS AN ADDRESS, OR MILE MARKER OR SOMETHING…..used google map and search “232 A40 Curbridge” and it led me to an approximate location of some sort of milemarker but if you pan to the right at low magnification, you’ll see an area familiar to the picture.
51.777433 degrees, -1.517752 degrees
33 – You’re right:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=A40,+Curbridge,+Oxfordshire+OX29,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FYUUFgMdbcvo_w&split=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ll=51.777581,-1.517975&spn=0.000923,0.002049&t=h&z=19
On second thought, it looks like Google Maps omits the 232 on the results. I don’t think it’s actually an address.
No, 33 is sort of right. 232 is NOT an address, google maps just threw that info away and went with “A40 Curbridge” and it showed you the crash sight. Which is logical, cause it HAPPENED there O__O;;
We already estabished that 232 Fr (that’s what’s supposedly between the squigly lines) is probably Francium, of which you have 199-232 of something (something involving weight, I’m not really sure). But it could be something else.
232fr the frequency for the test Saturday?
but I originally put in “A40 Cubridge” and got nowhere. it was only after i put the 232 in front of it and looked around a little that i found it put a marker on it and found lat. long. of it…..so maybe its a mile marker, or rather a kilometer marker
There are 34 known isotopes of francium ranging in atomic mass from 199-232.
Here’s more info on fr232
http://www.periodictable.com/Isotopes/087.232/index.html
I love reading people getting upset by this game — if you don’t understand it, or you don’t feel like reading up more on it, then don’t! Why the self-serving indignation?
“Several people”? Hrmph.
Anyway, clearly if you adjust for the angle of the “picture”, those are little f and r between the wiggly lines. So, who did this? Why, clearly PHPChatUser1, Sargash Si, Hori Kei… Maybe that’s why they’re saying he’s crazy, eh?
INDUS 13-06 breaks the pattern of number length, since we’d have expected 5 letters in INDUS, yields 13+5=18
But, if we have a pattern here…
#1 INDUS 13 – 06
#2 CHAMAELEON 13 – 23
#3 ?
#4 ?
#5 APUS 01 – 05
and the numbers are coded letters of the alphabet… then we’re playing Wheel of Fortune??
M – F
M – W
? – ?
? – ?
A – E
Well, if it would have just spelled William Shatner… I’d have laughed.
There here. Thepicture appears to show where the soil has been disturbed by a shuttle, the row of sticks, (transport enhancers?) lead to that mound of earth that looks like it’s been dug up and replaced. Also dug up is a white box thing, (monitor station?), and a grey thing.
Any idea where in the UK it is because i live here and would love to check it out, (dodgiong disruptor blasts:)).
Compare the sticks in a row of sticks and white box thing in the picture to the those in this good refence for Curbridge, Oxfordhire: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=A40,+Curbridge,+Oxfordshire+OX29,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FYUUFgMdbcvo_w&split=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&ll=51.777581,-1.517975&spn=0.000923,0.002049&t=h&z=19
A circle of sticks, (a weapon or time vortex creator possibly?).
If anyone can get to to these locations do it quickly!
40:
The reason is that the game is fun. And the creators of the game are rolling out a mystery that many of us have the opportunity to help solve.
People get frustrated by games all the time, and if you have a look, we have computer guys, linguists, astronomers, and amateur footpads all in on it.
It’s either extremely addictive intellectual fun or it’s disposable marketing. Beats the hell out of Kellogs and E-surance tie-ins, for sure.
I guess it was an escape capsule. Even a shuttle is bigger.
I will be popping up to the landing site on Saturday to see if theres anything there… Fingers crossed!
ARTICLE UPDATED w/ Sodoku clue
well done all
Is this how Nimoy ends up on Fringe? :)
do these arg’s usually have a prize for the team that solves them? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m not nearly as smart as some of these folks and they are doing one hell of a job solving these riddles in my opinion.
From the A40 related article:
“This only took me a couple of hours but by the time I flew over the field again the aircraft had gone. What was left behind were these odd white markings. There were also deep gouges in the ground where the crash had been. It seems incredible that the thing had been removed so quickly and those markings left behind in such a short space of time.”
Cloaking? Everyone remember where we parked!
Sargash Si’s facebook status is in Japanese but translates to “Will try to repair the signal, and looking for good people.”
48 – Jamesintucson
Remarkable things are done with teamwork. But there are more puzzles to solve.
Hey everyone – Raphael suggested that the “Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía” in Madrid might be the museum in question. Here’s the Google StreetView link:
http://bit.ly/reinasofia
What do you think?
Another shot here: clearly, two towers!
http://deconarch.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/reina-sofia-1.jpg
Does the fact that they’re not worried that someone will find the cloaked ship indicate the ship isn’t there?
What will they do to user1? What will they do to malak0?
Plus – Can anyone post a screen capture of the facebook page, for those of us who aren’t registered?
53
yes! And they are rusty!
Is this another attempt by Sargash to contact us? That obvious?
http://sargash.com/
It says: “This site is coming eventually…maybe. :) ”
All the IP experts etc. check it out.
this is garaunteed to make the news as some crop circle/ ufo story… :D
56
domain: sargash.com
created: 17-Dec-2003
last-changed: 06-Dec-2008
registration-expiration: 17-Dec-2009
Too old.
Perhaps something will happen at 2:32 GMT on Friday. That’s all I’ve got left for 232Fr. In the meantime, guess we just have to accept that we have 60% of these weird constellation codes.
#1 Ind 13 06 (Hori Kei, aka Sargash “Si”)
#2 Cha 13 23 (the late Camille ‘Chamaeleon’ Dupont/”Ca”)
#3 x, perhaps this will turn up near Berlin in Mitte? (Albert Stein/”Al”)
#4 x, perhaps this code will turn up at the Museum in Madrid? (Ferdinand Franco/”Fe”)
#5 Aps 01 05 (O?)
Or, it’s Ryanair (FR) flight 232, which weirdly goes from Stansted (London) to Alghero, Italy…
http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByFlight.do?id=157987746&utm_source=airlineInformationAndStatus&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=co-op
Maybe Sargash is traveling to Italy for the weekend?
They should use these things to recruit people for CSIS and the CIA.
61
Where do you think we get our applicants? :P
There were several airline flights number 232 all over the place in the previous/future 24 hours.
#62 But only one Fox(trot) Romeo 232 each day. London to Alghero.
The ARG makes my brain hurt a bit; my hat is off to everyone who’s managed to stick with it. :)
Romulan crop circles are AWESOME.
Daoud – I didn’t mean to downplay how you figured out the Romulan letters, but I believe some folks in the chatroom picked up on it a bit before you did.
Unless, of course, you were in the chatroom in which case — so sorry for not giving you credit. :(
You’ve been making very insightful contributions all along. We would really welcome your participation in the chatroom, which you can find here: http://trek.tvdw.eu/arg/ :)
Could 2^32^fr refer to a website in France with the .fr extension? The f and r are in lower case for a reason.
I did try to convert 2^32 (4294967296) from a decimal address to dot decimal, but only got 0.0.0.0.
What does this have to do with Star Trek the movie?
I seriously honestly really wish that I had more time in my day to even follow what was going on let alone actually try to solve these clues. I am saddened by the fact that I would LOVE to spend all day helping everyone figure this out as it seems really fun (even if others would disagree). Keep it up everyone! Enjoy! kmb.v
Boy… spend a couple of days involved in work and BLAM! everything goes nuts with this ARG!
I got some catching up to do… ;-)
I’ve sent an email to ‘Geoff Greatbatch’ asking if he could do another flyover and focus on what appears to be a board of wood with alien writing on it. We’ll see if anything comes of it. *shrug*
Run for the hills the Romulans are on the A40!!! I live on that road, albiet 300 miles down the other end, but still, eeek.
Aaaargh! Then again they might be here to do over Brown which would be a blessing! I think Alistar Darling looks a bit alien…maybe the Budget is involved somehow!
Anywhos cracking work guys! If I wasn’t so focused on the foreign policy behind the Falklands Crisis I would be helping right now!
Great, people for cracking the code!
Btw, the Romulans landing picture has another writings there. Can somebody read them?
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=611970#611970
Mhm… those writings on the thing look familiar… I believe I’ve seen some of those characters somewhere before… but some do look like other romulan characters but it doesn’t seem to make sense…
the first Characters could be the Romulan N…
maybe its upside down, turn the image on 120 degrees and try decoding again
does this help?
232-c
In telecommunications, RS-232 (Recommended Standard 232) is a standard for serial binary data signals connecting between a DTE (Data Terminal Equipment) and a DCE (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment). It is commonly used in computer serial ports. A similar ITU-T standard is V.24.
74, 75: I started looking at it flipped over, and it can be a series of numbers. So far, it starts out with 88(can’t read)72…
Looking at it as is, it would be three N’s in a row.
@73 Could it be klingon?
On a side note, although some of this is frustrating and I sometimes wish it would be simpler, my thinking is that at the most, this has got a lot of fans from all around the world working together and using their varied experience and backgrounds to solve a puzzle that may have a larger implication.
And that, my friends, is part of Star Trek.
amen =)
Hey, that big landing site had a romulan 2 32 FR on it: How bout that becoming a NEW BINARY SITE, eg 2^32.fr?? 100000000000000000000000000000000.fr eventually???
@81 – I checked that site last night and there was nothing. Also 0010.00100000.fr (2.32.fr in binary) and found nothing.
Here is the full resolution picture sent to us by Geoff (another angle, we can better see the sign-table)
http://startrek.wikibruce.com/Image:Geoff1.jpg
beware: (3286×2470, 1525 KB)
#77 I think we need a higher res picture, because Romulan 1′s and 4′s are hard to distinguish.
I’m positive it’s all numbers, as the 3 character is a giveaway. So far I’ve got the first two rows (put the notch in the lower left corner) as:
? 8 8 4 6 7 2 3 5 1 0 (11 characters)
3 5 6 8 9 5 1 3 9 6 9 1 7 (13 characters)
3 4 0 0 2 2-1 1 8.9 1 0 4
5 2 5 2 3 1 1 3.1 1 1 1
I got a response from Geoff Greatbatch too. Same pic. It means we’re on to something!
***I’m as perplexed about this thing as anyone, the only theory that has been proffered to me so far is by my very eccentric friend Colin who says it is either Ancients Druids risen from the dead or Polish migrant workers***
Geoff is great…
I should have mentioned something about ferrets in my email. :-p
These are the correct numbers I deciphered from the board in the field near the crash:
48856723510
3568951396917
3155221183404
525231134114
So far no clues as to what they mean!
I have gotten emails from MalakO and Greatbatch
Greatbatch:
Hello Mel,
I haven’t simply been called ‘Greatbatch’ since I was a school boy. Some of the people emailing me about my strange markings post have very good handles so I’m thinking of making one up for myself, my wife came up with one but it is far too anatomical and not very accurate! I digress! The ‘craft’ I saw was dark, squarish or rather wedge shaped with
small ‘fins’ protruding from it. It was like a large piece of cheese with feet! It may simply have been a bus, up-ended with shards of metal coming from it, perhaps fallen from a
military air craft? But I’m not wholly convinced of this.
Are you anywhere near Oxfordshire? You can simply see the site and the markings for yourself, it is quite easy to find the field.
I’m attaching a higher resolution photograph.
best,
Geoff
MalakO:
Salut- always alive, thank you
112. Mel – April 24, 2009
And Greatbatch also send me a better picture of the crash site. You can see the white markings there very clear. And you can see MUCH MORE Romulan writing on it, too. I like to post a link to the picture, but I don’t know where to upload it. Can someone plese help me?
#88 Romulan 1, 4, and 5 and even 0 are too similar to make any claim of “correct” without a higher resolution image than is currently available. What higher-res image are you working from?
the picture, hopefully ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37715986@N03/3471251282/
Geoff also sent me that same 1 meg or so image. Unfortunately, the resolution on the board is limited.
I’m not sure how anyone’s going to “ferret” out a still better image.
Somehow, is it another QR code hiding in there? Hmmmm.
Maybe the 232 suggests RS-232 and ASCII or some other coding.
@79 – Here, here!
The 232FR is quite a mystery, as to how to interpret it.
From what I see, it’s a larger 2, then 32 slightly smaller, and the fr is within those jagged (but parallel) lines.
That is my take on it what the Romulan writing mean.
48856723510
356895139L917
340022j1189404
525231134111
But often I was just guessing because the picture is not very clear.
88. CptnValdez – April 24, 2009
These are the correct numbers I deciphered from the board in the field near the crash:
48856723510
3568951396917
3155221183404
525231134114
So far no clues as to what they mean!
Your numbers are wrong. Check unfiction and mr hankey’s pic.
1-8856723510
3568951396917
3155221-4-83404
52523-44-34114
88. CptnValdez – April 24, 2009
These are the correct numbers I deciphered from the board in the field near the crash:
48856723510
3568951396917
3155221183404
525231134114
So far no clues as to what they mean!
Your numbers are wrong. Check unfiction and mr hankey’s pic.
(1)8856723510
3568951396917
3155221(4)83404
52523(44)34114
I compared yours to mine and then double checked with Mr. Hankey’s pic. This is what I came up with.
Could it be ISBN codes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isbn
Ot the codes which are under those line pictures on things you buy?
Rhanne na docgae!!
i think someone needs to be at the museum that was mentioned at 2:32. today no idea what fr stands for.
FR=Friday, today. Or, it’s the “Frequency” they mention. Which can be related to time, so perhaps Saturday at 2:32 am GMT.
I guess those numbers could be barcodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
I believe that those sites (Berlin and Spain) will be important on SUNDAY. Saturday we will learn more about the time of day that will come into play.
@ 101
If he was speaking about local time or even GMT, then 2.32 or 14:32 already was in Spain.
They are def UTM codes on a map COORDINATES.
52.5231 13.4114 on google earth = berlin
Those coordinates are near the Alexanderplatz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderplatz
It is at the corner of the building you see in the wikipedia picture.
The building on the left front side of the first picture on wikipedia to be exact.
Well that should help resolve the 1, 4, 5 and 0 issues. Good job KJ in identifying the last row specifcally. Even if the last decimal places were off a bit, it would still work. Glad to see that the decimal point wasn’t a figment.
Just entered that last row in maps.google.com and it comes up right at AlexanderPlatz. Slick.
but whats with the other codes. one that can refer to spain ?
#1 48.8567 2.3510
PARIS, 4éme Arr.
35.6895 139.6917 is Tokyo.
The Paris coordinates are near the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_l%27H%C3%B4tel-de-Ville
Hopefully one refers to Spain. I think it has to!
I believe this is all going to eventually lead to a web site where you can print out a coupon for a free small popcorn when you go to the movie.
;-)
The Tokio coordinates point to this building.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=74214a71a4fd2d9f9b4d418c8431a0b9&hl=de&ctyp=3dbl
What is it?
34.0522,-118.9404 is close to Los Angeles!
I believe the third line purposely has a – in it!
34.0522 -118.9104 is not far from Los Angeles.
User #5 “O” was speculated to be “American”, because of the .com address.
It is the Tokyo City Hall in Tokyo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_City_Hall
The American coordinates are near Los Angeles in a forest. I doubt they are completely correct. All other coordiantes pointed to places IN a city and not to nowhere.
sorry guys. I tried. maybe something big will happen soon?
Question still remains, Where is the shuttle?
If tehy crashed, how did they get so far apart?
Well, if you ditch the decimals (take the ‘stop’ as a terminator, ignore the rest?) and look at 34.0522 -118. you’ll be right off the 605.
Sub orbital jumps to evacuate the shuttle?
34.0522 -118. is right at a Winchell’s Donut Shop. Corner of Valley Blvd and San Angelo. Funny. 9104 or whatever is after the decimal point would boggle then.
I have asked Geoff Greatbatch for a better picture of the writing. That was his answer:
Didn’t I already send you my best picture my dear?
all the best
Geoff
Damn, lol ;-)
I guess he wants that someone goes there by himself. Hopefully someone really does that and make a photo of the writing.
I doubt very much that he has much to offer us. This character’s role has been fulfilled (most likely).
Oops, I meant much *more* to offer us.
To summarize:
We have four google earth coordinates:
48.8567 2.3510
This coordinate is in Paris near the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_l%27H%C3%B4tel-de-Ville
35.6895 139.6917
This coordinate point to the Tokyo City Hall in Tokyo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_City_Hall
34.0522 -118.9104
This coodinate is near Los Angeles in a forest.
52.5231 13.4114
This coordinate is near the Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexanderplatz
When you look at the first picture on the wikipedia site, the exact coordinate is near the left upper corner of the Kaufhof Galeria buidling. That is the one on the left and in the front of the picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexanderplatz-Berlin-2006.jpg
52.5231 13.4114
That is in Berlin near the Alexander
Didn’t mean to write the last coordinate two times.
in the sudoku clue is a mistake in the 8th row from top. but if i correct it, it will be the same result
34.0422,-118.2504 is maybe better? Picture says LA Cuty Hall!
According to GeoHack though, the coordinates for City Hall are:
34.053619, -118.242996
34.0522, -118.2404 is better? Close enough. “O” is in Los Angeles. Could “O” be “O”rci? :)
At least at the Winchell’s we could have gotten a donut. :)
131 – The sudoku puzzles are unsolvable. Their only purpose was for the QR code.
I could even believe that it reads 34.0522,-118.2435 -> perfect match!
@ 132
I guess, it is possible. I think it looks more like this coordinates:
34.0522-118.2104
They are also in Los Angeles. We really need a better picture of the writing to be sure. All in all with only slight changes of the coordinates, we are at least in Los Angeles and not in a forest.
Missing a post here I guess. I was speculating that if all the other locations are city halls, that the Berlin agent should be at das Rotes Rathaus, which is a few blocks away from the current coordinates.
Geohack gives 52.518611, 13.408333
Silly question – are any of these locations anywhere near any movie theaters??
Just wondering if the “culmination” of all this leads *LITERALLY* to the premiere of the movie…
I guess this is the correct coordinate for Los Angeles:
34.0522-118.2434
It is at the corner of the Los Angeles City Hall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall
When you put the Romulan 3 and 4 near together, you get the “O” looking like writing. So that could be right. The other change numbers look all very similar.
PHPChatUser4 tweeted. Sheryl and I figured out the site it points to:
http://www.johannbayer.eu/
There is a new twitter message from user 4 to user 5.
http://twitter.com/PHPChatUser4
And we found this site:
http://johannbayer.eu/
Sounds good to me.
We already know the Madrid agent is to be at the Sofia, so we know where they’ll all be… at 2:32 tomorrow?? or tonight?? temporal mechanics gives me a headache!
4 city halls (Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, LA) and the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid). Clear landmarks for all but the “dead” or “misplaced” Parisian agent.
@142 Daoud — if you can, we’d love your help in the ARG chat: http://trek.tvdw.eu/arg/
the Bayer site looks like a place for someone to build their own QR code image…
The new user picture from user 4 is John Flamsteed.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/John-Flamsteed-English-Clergyman-and-Astronomer-Posters_i1873490_.htm
He was an English astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flamsteed
Here’s Geoff’s answer to my mail. After I read that he try to suggest people go visit there, and he told someone that there ARE people coming to the place, I tried to find out if there’s anything there. And his ferret’s name too :P
He’s much nicer than Malak0 (whom I also wrote today, didn’t answer yet).
“Hello
Shame you can’t visit the site for yourself. I believe the people who have been there so far are locals. If I hear or remember anything else I will let you know. I’m afraid I have to go now, it’s tea time. The ferret’s name is Ronaldo, my wife named him. Alas.
Geoff
I guess we need
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Merzmensch-kosmopol found that background.
http://www.johannbayer.eu/background.jpg
we killed the page http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ :(
No idea if this is helpful at all..
After searching:
48.8567 2.3510
35.6895 139.6917
34.0522 -118.9104
52.5231 13.4114
On google SKY, I found that two of them point to specific places:
35.6895 139.6917 points to Cygnus
34.0522 -118.9104 points to Perseus
Does that mean anything???
PHPChat user 4 and 5 have tweet activity about half an hour ago, and user 4 has a new profile pic – looks like Newton to me:
https://twitter.com/PHPChatUser4
The translated writing:
3V 9
V N X
F0 I P
3V KM
I am not sure with some of the symbols. Some sybols are also higher or lower than the rest. I can’t show it here.
Like this with numbers2².
Superscript, like at the crash site (we think).
You can see also in the background a bird head. And Apus is also a bird, not only a constellation.
There are also a few other symbols more in the background above the others.
U
9
X NW
Not very sure with the “N”.
Mel, you have a good eye, I strain to tell the difference between these things in the background.jpg image.
what you call a V could be a 4?
perhaps if it is a V, it’s functioning as a separator, an apostrophe, comma or some other carom.
the little f seems to function as a decimal point
KM definitely seems to stand for kellicams. (kidding, but why not: Romulans using Klingon units makes as much sense as….)
I have use this site for the translation:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/romulan.htm
from the writing of this picture:
http://www.johannbayer.eu/background.jpg
which Merzmensch-kosmopol found.
Some symbols don’t really look like ones in the Romulan alphabet. In those cases I used the symbol which look most similar.
@ 157
It is really hard to make out all of those symbols and some look really very similar like the V and the 4 for example. You could be right.
Oh, by the way. I have rotate the picture to read the symbols.
https://twitter.com/PHPChatUser7 seems to have some scramble text and have come online a few hours ago.
Bmt it dtz gjqnjaj? YNSFWW! myyu://bbb.dtzyzgj.htr/bfyhm?a=tMl5XODWMF0
rotates to become
Who do you believe? TINARR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Which is an old gag, and I needed the laugh. Thanks to whomever! :)
When this is all over please tell me something. I’ve better things to do…
Although I did mention how good it was that many people are getting together to work this out, I’m now noticing that it’s unfortunately turning into a circle jerk, and others who are trying to contribute are getting ignored or not even acknowledged.
I’ll just tune back in after the movie, and see what it was all about.
See ya!
#163 Circle jerk? What’s being ignored? What’s not being acknowledged? I must be missing something. I guess there’s not a puppetmaster (a normal ARG feature) who’s around giving out e.p.’s like a dungeonmaster of old… but hey, the play’s the thing wherein we’ll find the conscience of the Kirk.
By the way, you did a great job identifying the Madrid museum location, for example.
164 – A-ha! So you got me to come back and talk again, even when I said I wouldn’t! LOL!
All I meant was that there are people trying to contribute, and all I see are you, Mel, and aliotsy (for the most part) just throwing stuff between each other, and it is starting to look exclusionary.
Thank you for the compliment on the museum, though. That’s what I mean: stop for a second from getting all into a lather to try and unlock this…whatever it is, and acknowledge that there are more than three of you trying to join in the fun, OK?
Do you think we need to use http://www.johannbayer.eu/ to put the correct QR code which is the password, and we’ll get the solution of the entire ARG?
#165 Raveoned… I can’t access the chat that’s always going; nor do I want to make accounts at the wiki or BBS that was created, or post at the Paramount site (which is dead), so I just post here. I’m certainly reading the other sites, I just prefer here.
I’m sure you can involve yourself as much as you want. There are a few dozen people between all the sites. I’m just more of a trekmovie denizen. Aliotsy’s invited all into the chat, and if I could do that I would.
Funny though, because I feel a bit “excluded” since I can’t use those other sites easily… and here you’re feeling that way here. Sorry….
Also, for what it’s worth, I’ll be offline for the next hours, so it’s all yours.
@PHPChatUser5
Dime where you are and I will be there.
10:21 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5
If you would not come to me, I request to you, permiteme that comes to you.
10:21 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5 Creo you have felt thus sometimes.
10:21 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5
You were and are my unique opportunity for the joy.
10:21 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5 although it has not become crazy and the dogs have persecuted to him, still would not have anything.
10:20 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5 But I occurred to account of that although we still have a house,
10:20 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5
is nothing for us here or now.
]10:19 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5
this I can be the aim for us, everything, and must know that at least I said to you as I feel.
10:18 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5. This is so that I am so crazy for decirte the following thing– 10:18 A.M.
Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser@PHPChatUser5.
What treatment to say is, ” Si” he is not the unique one that is becoming crazy.
10:18 A.M. Apr 20th from Web in reply to PHPChatUser5@PHPChatUser5 I do not have completed my joining point already, but this is not the reason for which I write.
@165 raveoned — there isn’t any intentional exclusion.
Most of the updating and breakthroughs have happened in the ARG chatroom Tom set up … usually well before others thinking concurrently post here or on Unfiction. Mel and others have been trying to drop in to the TM comments and post updates from the chat as often as possible (thank you!), but there are often a lot of developments at once and it’s hard to keep up.
If you can, I highly recommend you join in … you’re more than welcome.
http://trek.tvdw.eu/arg/
@167 Daoud – sorry to hear that you can’t access the chat. Your contributions have been excellent and I’m trying to make sure you’re appropriately credited. Thank you for the hard work!
Maybe we should blacken al the squares at http://www.johannbayer.eu/ then make the QR pattersn into the grid.
@ raveoned
It is teamwork. There ARE many people working on this ARG.
Look here:
http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=ce9a733dae31c19c6cf23d9e4a4db1fa&noServerTab=false&server=irc.tvdw.eu&channel=%23arg&autoConnect=true
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27713&start=315
I post things on this site, so that people who aren’t in the chat and only scroll through the comments know that something new is going on!
It is also good so that people who come later to the site can inform themselves of the newest developments before joining the chat.
@ 171
Good idea!
We are now searching for the correct QR code.
You can make QR codes here:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
We need to have a 39×39 QR code so that it has the same size like the grid here:
http://johannbayer.eu/
Now we only have to find out what to put in the QR code generator. No one has solve it yet.
@ 168
Where do you have that from?
@174 It’s translated from PHPChatUser4′s update on Monday:
http://twitter.com/PHPChatUser4
just back from crash site.. uploading pics now
Great chicklove!
Crash Markings 1
http://www.c2l.eu/Gallery/v/Chink2love/stARG/CIMG0365.JPG.html
No all we have to do is find the shuttle… any ideas as to what it might look like?
the sign… http://www.c2l.eu/Gallery/v/Chink2love/stARG/CIMG0374.JPG.html
everything from the microlight pictures was on there.. down to the scattered dirt!
Sign is upside down but I would translate it as:
48.8567,2.3510
35.6895,139.6917
34.0522,-118.2434
52.5234,13.4114
Is that correct?
In reply to http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27713&start=345….
Yes, Raphael is right, the Spain location, if you look up the Google Earth coordinates 40.408865, -3.693845 +40° 24′ 31.91″, -3° 41′ 37.84″ do take you right between those two “rusty” towers at the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
The Berlin location points to a building in Oranienburger Str.
Other results from Google Earth for the other codes found in Curbridge:
+48° 51′ 24.12″, +2° 21′ 3.60″ is at the pedestrian crossing on Place de L’Hotel de Ville just near Avenue Victoria in Paris.
+35° 41′ 22.20″. +139° 41′ 30.12 points to Tokyo Metropolitan Gov’t Towers in Shinjuku-ku in Tokyo
+34° 3′ 7.92″, -118° 14′ 36.24″ points to the intersection at W 1st St and S Main St in Los Angeles
+52° 31′ 24.24″, +13° 24′ 41.04″ is in Karl-Liebknecht-Straße near Alexanderplatz, Mitte, Berlin
So, We’re three constellations in? 3 more and we have a Stargate address!
Open the Iris!
I like this puzzle, it’s exciting!
Is Geoff Greatbatch IG??
only in his message he said he had a nice pub lunch, and theres a pub in curbridge nearest the crash site called ‘The Flying Machine’.
maybe the shuttle is over in their beer garden lol
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