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Apple :K: Mystery

Looks like it's about chess

The picture at

http://www.uncaptheride.com/all4naught.html

is a diagram of the old-style chessboard notation. These is is the notation that you used to use, in the days before the more modern e5, e6, etc notation came to be used. So e4c6 would translate as moving the piece on e4 to c6. Interestingly enough, this is a move that only a knight can make, which links into the note with Petroff/Knight scrawled on it in the www.august06.com picture.

Curiouser and Curiouser
 
Seems like the whole chess-maneuver consists of 6 moves.
6 moves = 6 keys?
 
This is fun!

If you go to June13.com, you see the following text

The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle in your snout

Then there are five links, which all lead to pages that are identical, with the above text, and the same links on them.

Which sounds weird, but is apparently American folklore:

http://www.alsirat.com/deathlore/worms.html

What it all means, I have no idea. Maybe it's more on the death/Mutual Assured Destruction theme.
 
Re: found this on the mortgage site

Originally posted by deeg
not sure if this has been spotted.. at www.54558.com in the faq sections is a link to http://www.uncaptheride.com/all4naught.html ... anyone good at code breaking ?
:p

looks like a chess layout... ?
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There is a phone number on the top of the pic file on that link...i called the number and it tells you to enclose a guess of what you think the "package" is and mail it to a address in Minnesota to a "Doctor Reinhart". Along with a stamped return envolope, to make sure "your old friend can reply"..very interesting.
 
NOT an answer

Hello again,

ok, i guess this is NOT an answer, and certainly just a coincidence, but in the FULL patent, you can read:

"An interferometric temperature sensing system provides a simplified design for accurately processing an interference fringe pattern using self coupling effects of a laser detection element, where a laser diode and an optical detection element are combined in one package".

... Could the package be "a laser diode and an optical element" ?

I don't think that's the answer, as getting the full text of the patent might be too much, but anyway, all ways should be talked about, right ?

Arnaud.
 
Re: NOT an answer

Originally posted by Nonosse
Hello again,

ok, i guess this is NOT an answer, and certainly just a coincidence, but in the FULL patent, you can read:

"An interferometric temperature sensing system provides a simplified design for accurately processing an interference fringe pattern using self coupling effects of a laser detection element, where a laser diode and an optical detection element are combined in one package".

... Could the package be "a laser diode and an optical element" ?

I don't think that's the answer, as getting the full text of the patent might be too much, but anyway, all ways should be talked about, right ?

Arnaud.
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It could mean that the patent is what the package is...but the package obviously has a name...like 10.2 being jaguar...there must be a code name for the patent.
 
Re: Re: found this on the mortgage site

Originally posted by 8thDegreeSavage



There is a phone number on the top of the pic file on that link...i called the number and it tells you to enclose a guess of what you think the "package" is and mail it to a address in Minnesota to a "Doctor Reinhart". Along with a stamped return envolope, to make sure "your old friend can reply"..very interesting.
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saw the numbers but being blighty did not want to try.. who is Doctor Reinhart ?

:confused:
 
this is probably the worst thread to jump into late in the game, but is there any link to rules for this whole thing? I've seen some of the BMW films but never heard about a scavenger hunt or what ever this is.

Great little marketing ploy though, eh?

D
 
Y'all don't think this has anything to do with the new Push, Nevada show where there is supposed to be a big mystery for people to solve during the course of the season?

I know there are some big licensing deals for in-show plugs for products, and I wouldn't be surprised is they had deals with apple and/or bmw and others for plugs (and to get site traffic online).
 
Re: Looks like it's about chess

Originally posted by tgma
The picture at

http://www.uncaptheride.com/all4naught.html

is a diagram of the old-style chessboard notation. These is is the notation that you used to use, in the days before the more modern e5, e6, etc notation came to be used. So e4c6 would translate as moving the piece on e4 to c6. Interestingly enough, this is a move that only a knight can make, which links into the note with Petroff/Knight scrawled on it in the www.august06.com picture.

Curiouser and Curiouser
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No, e4 is a move by white, c6 by black, etc. See eQ_'s link.
 
So we got #1 and #2... and that guy from bmwfilms-hq.com says he has 3 and sent the letter as of Sep. 11... that means the package-thing is #4, so we are missing #3.
I think it's in that NewYorkTimes picture, but I tried almost everything and I just don't get a valid code... any idea?
 

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e4c6 would not mean a knight. that means it is going 2 spaces up and 2 spaces right. a knight can't do that. that means it is either a bishop or a queen. the only 3 pieces that are allowed to move 2 spaces diagonaly
 
Originally posted by TheT
So we got #1 and #2... and that guy from bmwfilms-hq.com says he has 3 and sent the letter as of Sep. 11... that means the package-thing is #4, so we are missing #3.
I think it's in that NewYorkTimes picture, but I tried almost everything and I just don't get a valid code... any idea?
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quarter to eight on back of car looks odd..... 0745 or 1945 ?

wonder if this is related to new james bond film ? he drives a z8 in that.. was a docter reinhart involved in the design of the z8 ... nothing on bmw.co.uk that i can find
 
They really wouldn't be sick enough to announce a new James Bond and have it tie back into his role as The Driver in the BMW films, would they?
 
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