Facility J [Drop Contents] - "Dei Sub Numine Viget"

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:51 pm

TOSG wrote:ignantzmouse: come join the chat - it sounds like you're pretty sharp on this stuff, and we could use more minds for brainstorming.

http://toad-one.org/tools/irc/irc.cgi

Join one of the freenode servers, with channel #FacilityJ.

Thanks! I'm afraid I've got a grotty cold and I've got to be up early tomorrow morning looking after two wee ones, so it's early to bed for me. Thanks for the invite though!

janesalteredstates · Post by **janesalteredstates** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:45 pm

Well, he replied:

*shrug*

Ziola · Post by **Ziola** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:51 pm

So, does that mean we need to find a DNA sequence?

What if the letter sequence that he gave us is the "answer" and that we need to work backwords from it?

Sorry, just throwing things out there...

*goes back to her HighLights magazine*

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:55 pm

janesalteredstates wrote:Well, he replied

Hmm, "off base" and "base your next move" -- a hint that we're doing base-n arithmetic? Octal perhaps?

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:12 pm

Doing the addition in octal produces:

I=8+8=16=020
T=19-8=11=013
I=8+16=24=030
Y=24-16=8=010
E=4+16=20=024
T=19-16=3=03
I=8+24=32=040

In numeric order: 03.10.13.20.24.30.40. (If A=1 rather than A=0 then just add 1 to every number.)

Not sure this gets us anywhere though...

Edited: T=19, not 20!

Ziola · Post by **Ziola** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:13 pm

ignatzmouse wrote:Doing the addition in octal produces:

I=8+8=16=020
T=20-8=12=014
I=8+16=24=030
Y=24-16=8=010
E=4+16=20=024
T=19-16=3=03
I=8+24=32=040

In numeric order: 03.10.14.20.24.30.40. (If A=1 rather than A=0 then just add 1 to every number.)

Not sure this gets us anywhere though...

Um...could you fill me in as to where the letters you are using came from?

sorry

janesalteredstates · Post by **janesalteredstates** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:16 pm

ignatzmouse wrote:
janesalteredstates wrote:Well, he replied
Hmm, "off base" and "base your next move" -- a hint that we're doing base-n arithmetic? Octal perhaps?

Possibly. I'm certain base is a clue. Perhaps all our base are belong to Walter?

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:16 pm

Ziola wrote:
ignatzmouse wrote:Doing the addition in octal produces:

I=8+8=16=020
T=20-8=12=014
I=8+16=24=030
Y=24-16=8=010
E=4+16=20=024
T=19-16=3=03
I=8+24=32=040

In numeric order: 03.10.14.20.24.30.40. (If A=1 rather than A=0 then just add 1 to every number.)

Not sure this gets us anywhere though...
Um...could you fill me in as to where the letters you are using came from?

sorry

No probs, they came from lg15panda's post http://lonelygirl15.com/forum/viewtopic ... 187#268187

janesalteredstates · Post by **janesalteredstates** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:18 pm

Can anyone make sense of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_%28chemistry%29 ?

Whoa wait this (base chemistry) is all reminding me of Potassium iodide and Yttrium oxide.

ugh i don't know most of what I am talking about.

Maybe it makes sense to one of you science-heads?

ignatzmouse · Post by **ignatzmouse** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:32 pm

janesalteredstates wrote:Can anyone make sense of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_%28chemistry%29 ?

Whoa wait this (base chemistry) is all reminding me of Potassium iodide and Yttrium oxide.

ugh i don't know most of what I am talking about.

Maybe it makes sense to one of you science-heads?

I'm afraid it's 24 years since I did any chemistry

I'd totally forgotten about that meaning of the word "base".

Libra · Post by **Libra** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:01 pm

Bases have a high pH and can contain a hydroxide ion. Detergents... soaps... those are bases.

What sticks out to me here is that BASES can be CATALYSTS. They are also used to neutralize acids.

I wish I could be more help.

TOSG · Post by **TOSG** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:43 pm

I like the idea of "base" referring to a mathematical base much more than I do the idea of it referring to a chemical base.

I'll think about it a bit - it definitely sounds like he's trying to draw our attention to that word.

Luminous · Post by **Luminous** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:56 pm

TOSG wrote:I like the idea of "base" referring to a mathematical base much more than I do the idea of it referring to a chemical base.

I'll think about it a bit - it definitely sounds like he's trying to draw our attention to that word.

What about DNA i.e. "base pair", or "Nucleobase"?

Blahblablee came up with these references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair

TOSG · Post by **TOSG** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:19 pm

Luminous wrote:
TOSG wrote:I like the idea of "base" referring to a mathematical base much more than I do the idea of it referring to a chemical base.

I'll think about it a bit - it definitely sounds like he's trying to draw our attention to that word.
What about DNA i.e. "base pair", or "Nucleobase"?

Blahblablee came up with these references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair

Could be, but we've been keeping our eyes open for DNA sequences for all this time, so it wouldn't really give us anything else to go on.

blahblablee · Post by **blahblablee** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:20 pm

lol wrong link there lum

think you meant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nucleobase

also this was brought up by lum

There is some text that isn't in the first post above the second paragraph to the right on the front of the index card...

We either need to call Dan the fireman up and yell at him

Or

Try to sharpen it with photoshop or something (which i have tried and failed to do)