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Re: Game Hint #1

I think it is definitely some sort of odd surface, like a lunar bumpy surface or a tilting ramp, or multi platforms!!

also i agree with the no prebuild!!!
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I don't want to Godwin the thread, but no one has mentioned Paris Spears or Britney Hilton yet.
? You lost me on this one.
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Re: Game Hint #1

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OK so I googled "Lampris guttatus" and found that it is Swedish and lampris means glossy and guttatus is spotted I looked at this one sitehttp://hem.passagen.se/kent.andersson/glansfisk.htm and its in Swedish so i went to the Google translator and pasted the site into translate web site. It gives some information on this fish. It is also known as a Opah or moonfish.
Its greek and latin, like most scientific names, not Swedish. Brilliant/clear and speckled/spotted.
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? You lost me on this one.
You're not the only one...

And I wouldn't know if the "600,000" speech was last year, because frankly, I doze in-and-out of the speech sections every year.
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Re: Game Hint #1

My serious thoughts: Moon fish is an allusion to the playing field being somewhat lunar; rocks, craters, etc... (Not real, of course, but some sort of wood/PVC concoctions). I can imagine TPTB wanting to give the game some sort of potential real world application (or would lunar exploration be out-of-this-world?) Additionally, after years of building drivetrains, we're all pretty comfortable with throwing one together that functions on level ground. They're mixing things up with the cRIO instead of the IFI this year, so who's to say that they're not contimuing this trend?

My optimistic, yet completely unrealistic thoughts: "Opah" is a homonym of "Opa!". This year's challenge will involve flaming cheese.
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Re: Game Hint #1

Lampris in latin is torch
torch to me meens flashlight (British)
that could be the code

or
lamp + fish = angle fish?

or
lampris gut at us (latin)
torch neck but foreign (english) ?????????

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Re: Game Hint #1

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i found something.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Lancetfish

You can get some of the words out of it in the correct order.
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For what it is worth the original image seems to be copyrighted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia. Go to this page: http://www.marine.csiro.au/caabsearc...pcode=37268001 and click the little “image info” link under our new favorite photo at the top of the page. It should take you to this page: http://www.marine.csiro.au/caabsearc...7268001a-t.jpg with the copyright info.
I don't think we should get too hung up on the background bleedthrough words and image. It doesn't look like FIRST scanned this image in or even modified the pixels in the image. It looks like the picture was scanned in and the scanner was sensitive enough to pickup the next page. I'm guessing this was a book of fishes that were listed in alphabetical order. The next fish appears to be the Lancetfish, just after our Lampris Guttatus. If you look at the picture of the Lancetfish is does seem to match up with the sillouette in the clue.

I'm guessing the take away here is either the word moon or fish. I think we can toss the fish part as Dave's way of having fun with us and safely say focus on the moon. That's just my $.02.

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? You lost me on this one.
Sorry, my brain is completely fried.

During one of the kickoffs, there was an interesting speech about how a typical FIRST season requires about 600,000 hours of thought, not one of which will be spent on pop culture drivel.

I was trying to estimate the brain-hours spent on marine biology so far. Again, none of these hours were spent on pop culture drivel.

Nothing to see here, dead brain walking, move along...
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Re: Game Hint #1

completly ramdom but if you go to this website you can see how big these fish really are.


http://www.mexfish.com/fish/opah/opah.htm
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Re: Game Hint #1

all these fish clues = icthyology

icthyology sounds like "icky"

maybe that truly describes what we are headed for....

Of course the fish clues might point to the continuing destruction of the world's oceans and reflect a need for conservation and preservation of the polar ice caps

At least one thing we can say for FIRST is that it got a bunch of robonerds to learn something about obscure fish species on a large scale.

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Sorry, my brain is completely fried.

During one of the kickoffs, there was an interesting speech about how a typical FIRST season requires about 600,000 hours of thought, not one of which will be spent on pop culture drivel.

I was trying to estimate the brain-hours spent on marine biology so far. Again, none of these hours were spent on pop culture drivel.

Nothing to see here, dead brain walking, move along...
Oh, I got that part.

Dave is the one who usually mentions Paris Hilton but he usually doesn't post in the hint thread.

So, if he doesn't post, that lowers the chances of the mention of Ms. Hilton or the other one. Which is a good thing.
I'd rather talk about the 600,000 hours of thought/brain power...even fried brain power.

Rock on, Eric.

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Re: Game Hint #1

Has anybody ever thought to look at this page...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...96d5f5a3b3b64f
It talks about the Opah, the name of the fish, being an engineering software for small hydropower plants...
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Re: Game Hint #1

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Although this is FIRST, so they could have left it in there to throw us off (as it seems to have done already). Or, maybe they figured that taking out the text is a waste of time.
In this you'll get no argument from me. I just find it odd that they'd leave the backwards text in.

Personally I think the moonfish is a reference that there will be multiple levels.
Moon is high in the sky
Fish dive deep into the ocean

Another reason for my belief is that they were touting the shock rating of the cRIO when they were introducing it.
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Re: Game Hint #1

The picture was obviously scaned from a book, that expains the backwards text and the shadows in the background. As of what i know, the text is just a description of the opah, because it is just a book. If you wanted to get technical, you could find the book they scanned it from, which would be pointless.
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Re: Game Hint #1

http://www.australianseafoodexports....rderonline.htm

After looking at the moon fish on this page I saw that it said 30-50 kgs might mean 30-50lbs or lead to some wieght.
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