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

[Adam Y.]

Does anyone know where those GPS cordinates point to? Google seems to round the cordinates up.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by raf4far

Ok well after some searching the person who made the statue was a guy named Lewis Cohen. There is another person by that name who was the mayor of the city of Adelaide, which is in the Australian state of South Australia. One of the founding fathers of Adelaide is Colonel William Light. So maybe the light is down under.

That's just crazy enough to be the right connection...

[charmed862]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Ok, so I did a little graphing. Straight from the coordinates, at 342 degrees, you're looking through the two obelisks, straight at the Globe Cafe.

See attached.

Again robots playing football?
Maybe, but i remember reading in a thread not too long ago, about someone seeing a truck filled with footballs outside FIRST. I don't know if this was 100% true but maybe.... We would have to shoot footballs through the obelisks, into a globe shaped bin and if you fill the entire bin you get bonus points???? I'm not sure really where I was going with this, but it seemed logical at the time of thought.

[pandamonium]

the third number could refer to the dewey decimal system in the boston library right accross the street. anyone in boston want to got to the library and check? lol it is still open.

[Milaki]

Warning this first idea is completely far fetched and most likely wrong
1) maybe it could be them trying to tell us that something in the game happens to deal with National Treasure because the second one came out today and in the first one they visit Trinity Church which the coordinates take you to the general area it's at

Now an idea that might work. Agreeing with a previous post that we could have to use three different game pieces, a square, circle, and triangle. Because it is Copley Square and someone said that when you look down the street using Google there are a lot of Triangles and Circles so maybe?

[Scott L.]

342nm is in the near ultraviolet range, just out of the violet range which starts at 400nm
This is UVA or black light range

[fimmel]

the statue is of a painter

in this picture there is a sphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:T...C_ca._1754.jpg

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Gamer930

42.349905
-71.076072
342.242026

If we take this as latitude, longitude, compass bearing, it points from Copley Square directly towards Manchester, NH.

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

is anyone else reminded of XKCD comic number 240?

Hahaha!

Just like XKCD, by creating a set of coordinates as a game hint, they have invariably altered the future and will thus cause a lot of FIRSTers to visit said location. And if they continue to follow said bearing of 342.242026 degrees until they arrive in Manchester, NH, and eventually FIRST, I bet there's going to be a sign on the door that says something like "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

[Bomberofdoom]

Is there an event in that coordinat's area next week, say on Thursday? Just trying to guess something.

[Joe G.]

Hmm multiple game hints...

What else has an FRC game never had more than 1 of before? Autonomous? Endgame task?

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

the third number could refer to the dewey decimal system in the boston library right accross the street. anyone in boston want to got to the library and check? lol it is still open.

According to wiki, 342 in the Dewey Decimal System is constitutional and administrative law...hmm...

The connection to National Treasure seems more plausible if you take the last number as a Dewey Decimal number:

Originally Posted by Milaki

Warning this first idea is completely far fetched and most likely wrong
1) maybe it could be them trying to tell us that something in the game happens to deal with National Treasure because the second one came out today and in the first one they visit Trinity Church which the coordinates take you to the general area it's at

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by StephLee

According to wiki, 342 in the Dewey Decimal System is constitutional and administrative law...hmm...

The connection to National Treasure seems more plausible if you take the last number as a Dewey Decimal number:

but does Dewey Decimal have that many significant digits? That alone is what makes me thing it's either a bearing measurement (likely) or a time measurement (less likely)

[Dmentor]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

If we take this as latitude, longitude, compass bearing, it points from Copley Square directly towards Manchester, NH.

I was thinking this too but after playing around I came to conclusion that this isn't quite right. FIRST headquarters is at 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101 which according to http://www.capelinks.com/cape-cod/maps/geocode/ is at 42.989618, -71.46754 and then using great circle navigation accounting for WGS84 modeling yields a bearing from true North of 335.82928497115023. Accounting for magnetic declination doesn't help. Just too much precision to account for other locations in Manchester, NH.

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

the third number could refer to the dewey decimal system in the boston library right accross the street. anyone in boston want to got to the library and check? lol it is still open.

Too bad the Boston Public Library doesn't use the dewey decimal system. It uses the Library of Congress system which means that number can't be a reference to a book.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

but does Dewey Decimal have that many significant digits? That alone is what makes me thing it's either a bearing measurement (likely) or a time measurement (less likely)

I agree that it's probably not really a reference to National Treasure and the Dewey Decimal system, but I'm thinking through that line of thought for a while longer yet. It has too many small points that line up for me to dismiss it as a coincidence yet, leading me to believe it's either a correct interpretation or a very clever red herring.

Of course, I could easily be wrong. I swear, I only act like a conspiracy theorist during hint season...