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Originally Posted by Shifter
A rose, kissed = Seal
Singer great = Seal
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I think the second line may have been missed by all. If the clue is referring to the singer Seal, then a "Singer great" may be a reference to the "Great Seal" of which, there are two for the United States.
This is referred to as the Second Great Seal of the United States found on the one dollar bill. It clearly shows the pyramid: are we back to tetra shapes? The latin phrase is generally translated as the "new order of the world" which could be viewed as Dean's attempt to change society, or may be referring to a major change in FIRST's FRC game. The latter could be confirmation that robot dimensions are in fact changing. A smaller robot foot print would allow for more robots on the field. Many have pointed out that three alliances is not practical, but what if FIRST is making another leap forward and we are going to 4 vs. 4? Last year's asymmetrical driver's stations had one station smaller than the other two. Was this a test to see what impact it would have on teams? Few, if any teams complained about the reduced space for the drive team. So First could conceivably fit four driver stations in the end zone. I'm not sure what that would do to the Human Player position.
The increased robots per matched has been tied to longer game times as well. Could increasing the match to 3:00 minutes be one of the changes recommended by the Einstein report? If a robot or radio were to disconnect from the field, a longer match would possibly allow that machine to reconnect before the match ended thus reducing the impact of a dead robot. Also with four robots per alliance, one dead robot still leaves an alliance functioning at 75% capacity as opposed to 66% capacity for a three robot alliance.
Also, the pyramid is topped by the all seeing eye. Is camera vision playing a major part in this year's game?
Then there is the Great Seal of the United States:
Start with the latin phrase "e pluribus unum" which translates to "out of many, one", many robots one alliance.
Next is the radiant disk above the American bald eagle’s head the stars of the original 13 states are composed to form a
Solomon’s Seal symbolic of the union of soul and body, spirit and matter, or the combination of the alchemical signs for fire and water. Each of the interlaced equilateral triangles, one upward turned, the other downward, is a
Pythagorean Tetractys, or ‘perfect triangle of fourness,’ of nine points, four to a side, enclosing a tenth representing the generative center. The alchemical meaning is representative of the combination of opposites and
transmutation. Which could be point to a change in robot dimensions again. The tetractys also is a figure composed of ten points in
four rows:
The Tetractys represented the organization of space:
the first row represented zero-dimensions (a point)
the second row represented one-dimension (a line of two points)
the third row represented two-dimensions (a plane defined by a triangle of three points)
the fourth row represented three-dimensions (a tetrahedron defined by four points)
So a tetrahedron game piece is a possibility.
Lastly, the pyramid also symbolizes a triangle or delta, which is the mathematical symbol for change.
Anyone else want to go down the Great Seal road?