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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:25 pm
by chershaytoute
Bless you, Z! 'zactly what I was just thinking, obviously!
I'll be Goober to your Dork any day...or am I being Dork to your Goober...or...hmmmm...

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:48 pm
by janesalteredstates
cure for mankind
I don't think Walter is a
man at all.

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:57 am
by chershaytoute
Holy ohmygosh! Now, that would be something... But Traveler J19 referred to Walter has him...so we have a third party reference...?
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:09 pm
by janesalteredstates
Wait.
Holy crap.
OK, "the cure" for XSCID is the X chromosome, if we were talking all poetically or trying to be obtuse. No? Does that make any sense?
I don't even have a good theory about this, it just popped into my head. "Cure for
mankind."
If women are the cure... ?
I know we have not been destroying women

I'm just thinking out loud (well, writing what I am thinking without thinking about it.)

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:15 pm
by Luminous
janesalteredstates wrote:Wait.
Holy crap.
OK, "the cure" for XSCID is the X chromosome, if we were talking all poetically or trying to be obtuse. No? Does that make any sense?
I don't even have a good theory about this, it just popped into my head. "Cure for
mankind."
If women are the cure... ?
I know we have not been destroying women

I'm just thinking out loud (well, writing what I am thinking without thinking about it.)

Maybe "J" is THE CURE for "men" being "kind" - or for being men
Edit: Because I made absolutely no sense - synapses were'nt firing yet this morning.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:18 pm
by janesalteredstates
Are you making fun of me?

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:59 pm
by chershaytoute
Please point me again for re-reading on XSCID?
That sounds like an intriguing point to explore, but...can't explore if I can't remember where, and from the feel of it, I have a migraine approaching... <sigh>
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:13 pm
by janesalteredstates
chershaytoute wrote:Please point me again for re-reading on XSCID?
That sounds like an intriguing point to explore, but...can't explore if I can't remember where, and from the feel of it, I have a migraine approaching... <sigh>
No problemo. Sorry about your migraine. I get those too

Awful things.
OK, here you go:
This Side of Paradise
deagol's amazingly thorough explanation of how we cam upon XSCID
After that you'll find posts about the disorder(? is it a disorder? Defect?).
Hope that helps.

And take some pain killers.
Edit - We need to update the JPedia. Especially the puzzle recaps. *runs away*
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:27 pm
by Luminous
janesalteredstates wrote:
Edit - We need to update the JPedia. Especially the puzzle recaps. *runs away*
Hope you're running away to make the needed edits

Everyone, feel free to join in - it's a big job keeping this thing up to date!

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:34 pm
by janesalteredstates
Uhm... yeah, that's what I did.
No, seriously, when I finish this ridiculous Logic homework

I'll see what I can do.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:23 pm
by deagol
Logic HW? need any help?

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:59 pm
by janesalteredstates
Are you familiar with Symbolic Logic? (maybe this should be a PM thing

)
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:54 pm
by ignatzmouse
A summary of the "Dei Sub Numine Viget" puzzle. This seemed a lot harder at the time
Drop contents:
1 white envelope
1 plastic bag
8 stones (looks like granite pebbles)
2 vials (J-5 and J-6)
1 library catalog card
On the outside of the envelope it says "From Debrowski." The front of the library card catalog says:
(SQ)
QD40
.I536
1985
International Conference on Chemical
Education (8th : 1985 : Tokyo,
Japan) Widening the scope of
Chemistry... 1987.
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in
conjunction with the Chemical Society
of Japan"--P. [ii].
Includes bibliographies.
ISBN 0-632-01537-3
1. Chemistry--Study and teaching --
Congress. I. Takeuchi, Yoshito.
1934- II. International Union of
Pure and applied Chemistry. III.
Nihon Kagakkai, IV. Title.
870623 870622 NjP
ZG /ZG A* 87-B28379
86-26421
SQm
E000271
On the back it says (all hand written):
Code: Select all
You should know what to do. I suppose it is time to tell you that what you have been destroying is
IKYOIYK
1(+ 8) 3(- 8) 5(+ 16) 3(- 16) 6(+ 16) 2(- 16) 7(+ 24)
There are eight stones, and the book is the 8th ICCE conference. Walter gave us a series of hints:
(The shift +24) provides a multiplicity of clues.
Your comments aren't entirely off base.
It is tough being an Octalgenarian.
You kids may be young now, but you will eventually Convert to be like me, no matter how Plain you start.
Converting the text IKYOIYK into octal gives:
Reading this as 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, etc. gives:
which codon/shift decrypts as:
Code: Select all
Lysine_Asparagine_Threonine_Lysine_Lysine_Threonine_Asparagine (aminoacid names)
1 3 5 3 6 2 7 (number code)
LPOSEHG
+8 -8 +16 -16 +16 -16 +24 (shifts)
THECURE
So we are destroying "The Cure".