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

[Gamer930]

from FRC Teams <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

[Taylor]

I think the numbers represent the stock of VEX. Right at the tail end of the -71.076072 is where Radio Shack jumped ship and IFI took hold.

[sishu7]

Originally Posted by boiler

I think the numbers represent the stock of VEX. Right at the tail end of the -71.076072 is where Radio Shack jumped ship and IFI took hold.

I like this.... Dave mentioned the stock market earlier, right?

[JB987]

Ok, I'm jumping in here...sometimes the truth is before our eyes if we will only see. Coordinates of a square at "Rainbow Street" and we receive an IR board with a rainbow colored multi-cable. A rainbow is arched...arched structure on the field? Also...counterweights/fulcrums could reference a "teeter-totter" field element as other robotic games have used in the past (Woodie had one as an element in one of his classes that was highlighted on a PBS special many years ago)...imagine a huge teeter totter center field and low barriers like 2003?? Ok, enough already...my 4 cents...

[sishu7]

Originally Posted by JB987

Ok, I'm jumping in here...sometimes the truth is before our eyes if we will only see. Coordinates of a square at "Rainbow Street" and we receive an IR board with a rainbow colored multi-cable. A rainbow is arched...arched structure on the field? Also...counterweights/fulcrums could reference a "teeter-totter" field element as other robotic games have used in the past (Woodie had one as an element in one of his classes that was highlighted on a PBS special many years ago)...imagine a huge teeter totter center field and low barriers like 2003?? Ok, enough already...my 4 cents...

I really like the rainbow connection. I'm not sure about the teeter totter but it goes with "the past gives hints as to the future" vibe that Dave seemed to be in agreement with...

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by sishu7

I really like the rainbow connection.

John Boucher posted this thread about a wonderful professor at MIT very recently.
In one lesson, he uses himself as a pendulum.
In another lesson, he talks about rainbows.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=60232

Oh, also - I think John's avatar has to do with the Grateful Dead/Mr. Garcia.

Edit: I think the lesson on rainbows was: Polarization - Lightwaves, Rainbows, and Cheap Sunglasses.
http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyan...ter_lewin.html

[maltz1881]

Originally Posted by JB987

Ok, I'm jumping in here...sometimes the truth is before our eyes if we will only see. Coordinates of a square at "Rainbow Street" and we receive an IR board with a rainbow colored multi-cable. A rainbow is arched...arched structure on the field? Also...counterweights/fulcrums could reference a "teeter-totter" field element as other robotic games have used in the past (Woodie had one as an element in one of his classes that was highlighted on a PBS special many years ago)...imagine a huge teeter totter center field and low barriers like 2003?? Ok, enough already...my 4 cents...

I hope and pray FIRST will never do the teeter totter again. It was a diaster that year.

[Bsteckler]

Compleatly Uneducated Guess...

I like the thought that these might be used to program the IR controler, can this thing only receive or does it transmit also? I haven't really played with it. Another thought, how about we play with these numbers some, 42.349905 rounded to the nearest tenth is 42.3, -71.076072 rounded to the nearest tenth is -71, and 342.242026 rounded to the nearest tenth is 342.2, the first and last two numbers are exactly 299.9 apart. This is probably nothing, though.

[Binome]

These numbers defninitly are not something that would get piped into the IR board, at least over IR. There weirdly exact for pulse widths, one's negative(?). Maybe there's a hidden serial mode that dumps out the entire game manual on it

[rees2001]

So....
42.349905
-71.076072
342.242026

I have read through all of this & I have only come up with questions. I guess I'll throw them out there like I would with my team.

1. How accurate are the coordinates?
1a. What does the Hancock tower look like?
1b. What is in John Singleton Copley's hands? (only thinking this because of that crazy Dave)
1c. What is in our hands... thinking....?
2. Has anybody tried to search the numbers in something other than Google earth?
2a. If you think the first 2 numbers are coordinates, what id the third number? ( I know that has been discussed about at great length) What if we are off on all 3 numbers?



So...
After all of my thinking I'll leave you with this (& I hope I hasn't been discussed because it took me a half hour of thinking to come to this.

What is in the reflection of the John Hancock tower? The 2 Old Hancock Towers. What is at the top of the Old Hancock Tower? I'll let you figure that out.

[pandamonium]

three numbers triangulation, two buildings reflected off of a third. hmmmm


any body smart enough to brake out sin cos tan cot cos sec on these numbers? sadly i am not