**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

[Gamer930]

from FRC Teams <frcteams@usfirst.org>
reply-to frcteams@usfirst.org,
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date Dec 21, 2007 3:48 PM
subject **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

Greetings Teams:

42.349905
-71.076072
342.242026

Happy Holidays and GO TEAMS!

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[Travis Covington]

Latitude Longitude
42.349905 -71.076072

Are GPS coords for Boston...

[T3_1565]

what the deuce?! is all I have to say to that.........

combined it is 313.515859

[blaxbb]

Why do they do this to us???

[Lavapicker]

Boston is the home of the red sox....infrared....We're going to have to identify, with IR tool in first hint, and pick up red socks and put them in a bin

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by Travis Covington

Latitude Longitude
42.349905 -71.076072

Are GPS coords for Boston...

Copley Square to be exact, and if you type that into Google map, it seems to point directly at something in copley square but it doesn't zoom in enough!!!

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by T3_1565

Copley Square to be exact, and if you type that into Google map, it seems to point directly at something in copley square but it doesn't zoom in enough!!!

I'm pretty sure the arrow is just pointing to the center of Copley Square.

Any idea for what the third coordinate is for?

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Any idea for what the third coordinate is for?

Height?

[T3_1565]

Whilst looking up stuff about copley Square I ran across this picture...... Was he serious this whole time???

[Mentor 2660]

I'm thinking that it might be the position of something on the game field. If each of the numbers given are in inches the maximum value is something like 28.5 feet.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Travis Covington

Height?

Could be, anyone know of a structure around Copley Square that's 342.242026 feet tall? Though I don't know, if they're coordinates then the first two would be in degrees and how would that work for the third one? I've never seen longitude / latitude and then a height given in the same format. But then again, this is a game hint, so who knows.

[fimmel]

google earth...bout same altitide with lat and lon http://www.homeofthegeek.net/2/42.34...-71.076072.jpg

[Leav]

the third coordinate might be time.
i'll work it out and give you the date in a sec.

if it's 342.242026 days from 01.01.2007 than the date is

December 9th, 2007 at 05:48am

that doesnt make much sense. (maybe that's when they shipped the IR??)

-Leav

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by T3_1565

Copley Square to be exact, and if you type that into Google map, it seems to point directly at something in copley square but it doesn't zoom in enough!!!

Copley Square = square game piece? *shrug*

EDIT: This one is from Libby - Copley Square is also on the corner of Harvard St. and BEACON St.

Hmmm....

[fimmel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Square theres a statue at the exact coordinates....