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Post by elizabethplaid on Feb 18, 2014 19:36:00 GMT
Luckyshirt posted a video for " Dots On Maps" by the band Say Hi. (Pardon me if I've posted this in the wrong section.) Lyrics for the song are posted on the youtube link, and there are two lines that seem to pop out at me. Obviously, "dots on maps" reminds me of how we thought the medallion holes might line up with something. "There's a trigger somewhere lets pull it" makes me think of activating a clue, similar to how we're supposed to submit an answer to the door to make it open. The image that's shown in the video is the album art for Um, Uh Oh. While it could hold clues, the image could've been shown with any video/song on that album posted to youtube with the same image. I think the song is more significant than the album art. Or... I could be reaching, because I'm hoping for new clues.
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Post by cvxn on Feb 18, 2014 20:14:47 GMT
Here are the lyrics: (emphasis mine)
Remarkable as it seems Turns out the night was much shorter Than you wanted to believe But we're only in Dakota dots on maps En route to bigger cities
And the ebbs of traffic patterns recede And we played our only record front to back Infinity When it's dark like this All that I can see is the whites of her green eyes
When she says, "Oh, tell me, this is all it's gonna be?" And I say, "Oh, I don't know just how it's gonna be" And she says, "Oh, tell me, is this all it's gonna be?" There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it
Thinking back to all the days when we were kids Playing games and dropping hints And getting wide-eyed at a glimpse But now you're about as turned on As a bottom feeder likes the sun
And the twist is finally gone up with the rest Like some long extinct creature That we've never seen in flesh And you suppose that ever reigning champ Eventually meets his better
And she says, "Oh, tell me, this is all it's gonna be?" And I say, "Oh, I don't know just how it's gonna be" And she says, "Oh, tell me, is this all it's gonna be?" There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it
And she says, "Oh, tell me, this is all it's gonna be?" And I say, "Oh, I don't know just how it's gonna be" And she says, "Oh, tell me, is this all it's gonna be?" There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it There's a trigger somewhere, let's pull it Oh
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Post by cvxn on Feb 18, 2014 20:21:47 GMT
Following from 1876 and Discovery... those of us in Chat right now think we're headed to the Black Hills (gold rush 1876). enaxor cleverly noted that a "wagon train" fits more closely with the line "end of the trail".
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Post by jedpeter on Feb 19, 2014 1:28:57 GMT
Circles on Maps
EDIT: Locations close enough to be within the margin of error for the centers of the labeled circles, in order only that I sought them, based on the angles and distances posted below: 1: Fort Knox, Kentucky -2: Columbia, Tennessee
4: Nothing. Corinth, Mississippi would be within a larger margin of error -3: Nothing. Freedom, Indiana is the nearest town. The further these distances are from St. Augustine, the more likely the bearing is to be off. -5: Nothing. Mountain Grove, Missouri would be reasonably on the potential arc 6: Nothing specific. Though Vandalia is the closest, followed by Bowling Green, Lousiana and Mexico (All in Missouri) along a road that follows the arc within the margin of error.
I used this site for the calculations and mapping
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Post by jedpeter on Feb 19, 2014 2:30:38 GMT
Working more of the medallion/map angle Referring to the holes in the medallion by the number of dots surrounding them, we've got this: Angle at 1 - 61.7 degrees Angle at 2 - 46.8 degrees Angle at 3 - 71.5 degrees Distance from 1 to 2 - 9.3992 Distance from 2 to 3 - 8.7302 Distance from 3 to 1 - 7.2257 Graphic
So we can use 669.285 miles as the straight-line distance from DC to STA and glean all the other distances no matter which hole we place over DC or STA. There's twelve combinations, only 6 of which are over land (see above). For instance, if we use the hat side of the medallion and place the 1 hole over DC and the 2 hole over STA, then we know that the 3 hole will be located at the intersection of a straight line 514.517 miles from DC and a straight line 621.648 miles from STA. If you had a big enough map and compass (the architect's kind) you could draw the arcs simply and find EXACTLY the two points (the second is just the opposite direction, into the ocean, as if you had used the compass rose side of the medallion) you needed to look at. Lacking those two giant-sized tools, I'll have to settle for trying to find a software program to do it. EDIT: Found a great site. However, bearings don't translate well from relative angles. But with way less than a 1% error bar (and remember this is probably meant to be something that is eyeballed), the above scenario (1 over DC, 2 over STA, working on the Hat side so 3 is over land) puts us in FORT KNOX.
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Post by subjectoftowels on Feb 19, 2014 17:03:40 GMT
About placing the medallion over a map—did we figure out the scaling issue yet (that is, what scale the map has to be at for the holes to align over the intended spots)? I remember that was the main, and rather serious, issue with this approach.
Can't sign into the chat yet because work is super busy; I'm just taking a quick break to check the forum and wanted to post my thoughts.
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Post by exicice on Feb 20, 2014 0:02:37 GMT
with jed's map, he used two points to start, so scale wasn't as much of an issue. st. augustine with punchy de leon where we started, and then dc. for any other maps, we'd need either a scale, or two starting locations.
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