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Curious, has anyone tried scanning the barcode backwards? I’m in no way any kind of expert in barcodes and if there is any ‘sure tells’ if the barcode is reading in the right direction, but from what you all have discovered so far is that many things need to be manipulated. Why not this one?
A note on the “exposed” image… I don’t think anyone has brought this up.., but dont you guys see a boat on top of that image? With the parts of the header of the site?
the barcode does scan backwards on a european system
here
http://www.barcoderobot.com/ean-13/0531472005212
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/riseofthedirtnappers/
check out this site,we should look into this!!!watch the trailer too.
sorry discard the SPAM XP..
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full message
“uh uh uh, you didn’t say the magic word“
Hola soy yo otra ves.. hom, busque en google
“magic word“
encontre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_word
QUOTE
Magic words in technology
Software like MediaWiki uses “magic words” to make system information available to templates and editors, such as {{CURRENTTIME}}, which displays the server time: 10:31, see Help:Magic words.
Hexadecimal “words” used in byte code to identify a specific file or data format are known as magic numbers.
/QUOTE
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
no he probado con todas. pero, cren ke tengan algo que ver?
The term magic word may also refer to the word please when used by adults to teach children manners:
“Gimme ketchup!”
“What’s the magic word?”
“Sorry. May I have some ketchup, please?”
please = ”who are you, Dennis Nedry?”
also wenn man bei der babel website auf contact geht sieht man nach ner zeit unten links ganz kurz so ein bild von ner katze also war bei mir so
weiß nich ob das was damit zu tun hat
when you go to babel research and click on contact you will see a picture of a cat for a moment
For hakero… hmm NO For bessenyei… how you get this? Lol its fantastic :P
Found this artical on Wikipedia. Dennis Nedry was the Computer networker in Jurassic Park. He ended up steeling embryos from the park for payment. Sound familiar. Perhaps we have some clues in the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nedry#Dennis_Nedry
Dennis Nedry
Dennis Nedry was an obese computer networker. Nedry worked for John Hammond and was in charge of networking Jurassic Park’s computers. In the novel, Nedry doesn’t know what InGen does: he was ordered to program without many details, and was called to the island to fix numerous bugs. However, Hammond refused to pay him any extra money for his work. Eventually Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn offered Nedry $1.5 million to steal embryos from Jurassic Park’s labs (coincidentally, in the novel, Henry Wu later reveals that the embryos Nedry steals are worth at the very least 2 million). In order to do this – and make a swift escape from the visitor center – Nedry had to shut down the park’s security systems, including the electric fences surrounding the dinosaur paddocks. Without power, the fences go out, and the creatures escape. His death in the novel is far more graphic than in the film adaptation, as Nedry’s stomach is slashed open and his corpse is eaten by a dilophosaurus. Just before he dies, he drops the shaving cream can that contains the frozen embryos. What results from this is never explained in the series, although it is possible that it may resurface as a major plot point in the fourth installment, after scripts surfaced for a fourth Jurassic Park film involved this (although Dodgson mentioned in the first movie that there was only enough coolant in the can to last 36 hours). Also, in the novel, a procompsognathus ate his nose after he was already dead. In the Universal Studios ride, The Jurassic Park River Adventure, you will see the shaving cream can that had the dinosaur DNA, but Dennis Nedry is nowhere to be found.
Wayne Knight played the role of Nedry in the film adaptation.
“Nedry” is possibly an anagram of “Nerdy”.
Just dragging Unfiction discoveries over here.
-It seems timsmit likes his extreme science, the beginning of the whatsinthebox video seems to be filmed on campus in this NanoLab
http://www.voxlog.nl/2009/02/11/nieuw-extreme-science/
This explains all the refrences to the intense science that whatsinthebox is connected to.
Site translated with google: The Nanolab, the High Field Magnet Laboratory, the virtual reality lab: all places on campus where scientists with cutting edge technology to try to extend scientific frontiers. In our new video series Extreme Science Voxlog take a look with the camera on the most techno-exotic places of this university. Volume 1: The Nanolab.
An update to the reference. IMDB has a quote from the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002044/quotes
Dennis Nedry: [on computer] unh-unh-uh, you didn’t say the magic word.
Ray Arnold: PLEASE! GODAMMIT! I hate this hacker crap!
thebruce, lets update it on this site… http://ashthebash.co.uk/random/overlay.PNG or make something guys! I repeat my question for bessenyei, How you get this picture? !!!!! Come on guys lets open this mf BOX
I followed up on the http://blackmesa.eu/ lead. While there is no site, there was a title. I checked the source code and found a redirect to http://mysite.orange.co.uk/black-mesa. The link gives goes nowhere.
About: babel-research.eu/witb/exposed
Considering the theme of Babel Research having towers as their logo, and the tower where the singularity occurs, I’d suggest that this is in fact not an eye, but a map around a circular construction, with roads leading to and from it.
This also helps explain what the arrow would mean – an indication of an entrance point, or some other property of that route, perhaps?
If I had the time and the brains to think of all these things…Awesome work!
What’s in the Box? Director Tim Smit interview in De Wereld Draait Door [English Subtitled] (!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rRb4z0gVA
They didnt say anything about babel-research.eu
I think they’re planning something much, MUCH bigger than this film. They’re hiding something. If its just a small movie, why they have createdd so many sites, codes and riddles Strange…
Hey guys,
looking at anti.css and pro.css, in Anti.css there’s a reference to “Paine”, so I googled “what’s in the box paine” and an extract from “Dune” (the book and movie) came up, where a character asks a guy to put his hand in a box, and he asks:
“What’s in the box?”
and then she says “Pain.”
at the end of the scene, she also finishes saying:
“Can’t go around maiming potential humans. There’re those who’d give a pretty for the secret of this box, though.”
Might be completely irrelevant, but also might be giving us a clue about looking for the secret of the box.. maybe.. we’ll never find it.. and maybe it’s only the pain of having spent all this time to find it that remains..
Maybe I’m completely wrong. But just my $0.02 !
A common nickname for area 51 is the box.
In the Exposed-picture, between the lines below the Babel-logo.
These squares and lines look like they could be letters if one adds the missing squares.
Anyone tried this or is it just my twisted imagination?
An additional bit of trivia. The movie referred to the towers building a singularity being initiated. The singularity is what is referred to as the potential mass within a black hole after a massive star collapse. I say potential because this is theory. However the theory continues to say that mass, if compressed tight enough, will have the potential to prevent light from escaping.
Additionally, another theory states that black holes are created in our atmosphere all the time. The new Hadron Collider is supposed to test this theory.
The raises the question to the towers, where they say they are grabbing energy from the air according to Babel Industries web site.
It’s J.J Abrams. He’s directing the HL movie. Game set and match.
I think we’ll just have to wait this out just like with Cloverfield. There were so many links and “connections” to other sites such as Ethan Haas when it turned out that there was absolutely NO connection. I think that’s what’s going on here. There are links that take you absolutely nowhere except to more links which still keep you guessing. The maker of the video has talked about a film and we’ll just have to wait.
I just want to point out, that the big gold domed building in the news feed on whatsinthebox.nl, is the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, GA, USA… that is extremely random, and i only live about a mile away from it. also, you can look on google maps at it and see the interstate behind the capitol. do you think that this has any connection?
So here’s something interesting, if not entirely helpful.
One of the tricks that was used on the Halo 2 “ilovebees” ARG was to hide text in the coding of the image files. To read it, you’d download the image and rename it as a .txt file. I tried doing that to some of the images at Babel Research. There’s no hidden text, but there are Adobe Photoshop timestamps. All of the graphics on the Babel website are timestamped at various hours throughout the day of April 5th, 2009.
However, I also tried this on the red “?” box ( http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/riseofthedirtnappers/02fe8bf0.jpg ) at the bottom of Rise of the Dirtnappers poster page, and it’s timestamped October 21st, 2007. Evidently, this project has been a long time in the making.
No one seems to have mentioned the religious significance of Babel, its logo is all about the towers and in the bible wasn’t the tower of babel a tower that they tried to build up to the level of god but crashed down destroying everything? Maybe I’m just stating the obvious.
http://www.babel-research.eu/witb/stream has been updated. A disclaimer is added below the movie.
I downloaded and edited the disclaimer (contrast, etc.), and it came with the folowing text: “It’s just a non commercial test!”.
After all I think it has nothing to do with half life, or any other organisation. It’s just his personal project!
I added the edited image on the folowing website with my nickname goldfoxx:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=17959. It is at page 86 of the topic.
Why does clicking the image at http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/riseofthedirtnappers/ take you to a fake planet terror video? ( http://www.planetterror.nl/faketrailer/trailer.php?id=66 )
I just found out that the subpages are located in the content directory. So http://babel-research.eu/?about=research_isd translates into http://babel-research.eu/content/research_isd.html . I found this by accident, hopefully it’s useful.
has anyone tried scanning the barcode upside down? You mention the last digit not being as expected, maybe it would be the other way around, unless UPCs are always justified in one direction only. Thought it was worth a shot though.
anyone tried send email to tsmit@sci.kun.nl ? maybe we’ll get some automatic response or something :>
It keeps getting better and better. I wonder when they’ll come with the end solution
I know I’m just pointing out the obvious and sorry if it has been mentioned before, but this seems like a complete ripoff of Half-Life2. Besides the sound effects, but the story is the issue I’m talking about. How is this guy getting away with all this and not getting into law suits with Valve from using all of this stuff in his film?
Anyone else notice the first letters in reverse looks like Half-Life? Or maybe I’m just seeing things. Half-ELT?
T. Borgny, head of Acoustics.
L. Cole, head of Astrochemistry.
E. S. Williams, head of Biochemistry.
F. Bern, head of Computational Neuroscience.
L. Giles, head of Geomagnetism.
A. K. Deene, head of Quantum Mechanics.
H. Egberts, head of Second Harmonic Generation.
it could also say HAL-felt, 2001 reference?
so im guessing there hasnt been anything new found
so this is probably super-picky-super-paranoid, but did anyone noticed the incorrect spelling of “involuntary” on the page w/the “involentary stomach discharger”?
think it means something?
i cant believe people are still trying to dig deeper into this.the whole thing is dead.2 idiots made a not bad movie on utube.thats it!the whole thing is a dead end.no half life in this.
I’d just like to point out that timacious d when anagramed only comes out as discutiamo which ironically means discuss in italian.
On another note: Thibaut Neils is an anagram for Suitable Hint…
So i was looking for evidence to sustain my theory that this whole deal is a JJ Abrams directed half-life movie. While searching i found this article
http://boingboing.net/2008/01/10/jj-abrams-ted-talk-m.html
its old, like from the beginning of 2008, however the similarities between this box and the one Abrams references are undenaible
Just wanted to throw this in… those HEX codes don’t seem to mean anything at 1st but when you put them into photoshop color picker thats a differant story… They seem to be the most color rich of that hue (if that makes any scene?) Another way to put it is this… When you select a color you can insert black or white adjust it… well with these colors are the raw color… no white or black added…
http://nomagicpill.org/whatsisinthebox.jpg
Don’t know if its usefull for someone, but what about the superposition of the arrows that point both E on Welcome ?
http://imagik.fr/view-rl/36204
QUOTE FROM SilverCyanide link:
He’s never opened the box and never will open it because he says the mystery of what’s inside the box is more interesting than anything that might be in the box. “It represents infinite possibility; it represents hope; it represents potential… mystery is the catalyst for imagination… maybe there are times where mystery is more important than knowledge.”
Does anybody have a new update on this? Or has it really bleed to death?
Seeing as “Hell is what’s in the Box” and noticing the UEC (Possibly a DOOM Tie) maybe it’s something to do with a crossover between Half Life and DooM.
I noticed that UEC logo is always black sword and black triangle, but on the “TST” news broadcast it’s white. Mayby they want as to invers colours when it appears.
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