@bas woudstra – I think if/when the next big update comes along, there will be a new post at Wikibruce to cover the updates. This article is long enough as it is ;)
But discussion is still more than welcome (following the above disclaimers, of course!)

Here’s a new video!

http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html

have you notived the peoplpe stnading outside the bus at 4:41?

this is pretty freaky stuff.

I’ve uploaded those 2 screenies from footage, where there were those bricks. Maybe you will find something in it.

First screen
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6863/beznzvuitu.png
Second screen
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1845/beznzvu2.png

I hope this helps ^^

first i hope i dont spam crap and i know my english isnt very good

did u think about crank 2 high voltage ?

theres a guy runnig around with a box and chelios thinks his heart is inside but when he opens it he says WTF looks inside it says nothing closes the box and throws it away…

and in youtube TIAMCIOUS
first uploadet a video at 2007 with the phonebook myth and theres also a hint to whatsinsidethebox so the box exists longer then in 2009 ?

” tenacious d ” maybe has to do something with it cause he is a fan ??

there are things from hl lost and NOD from cnc

is timsit tiamcious ?

sorry for double post but

isnt it the box from hellraiser?
maybe it has something to do with it i dunno

I think this has something to do with the game Half Life. There are several points in the movie where they use sound effects straight from the game. The guys with the suits that chase the guy have voices of the Combine; they are also carrying what appears to be the pistol and SMG that are found in the game too. The thing in the sky (I presume to be a portal) is exactly like the portal the Combine use to come to Earth in the game too. When he is rummaging for a phone on the bus, you hear the news in the background talk of an “infection”, which is also reminiscent of the Headcrabs found in Half Life and it’s sequels to turn you into a zombie. On the bus at 3:25 the Brain Computer Interface gives him a view of a structure towering above all the others and the top is red. This is also oddly reminiscent of the Citadel in City 17, also found in Half Life 2, which was evacuated just like the city this takes place in, also due to the Combine portal. In Half-Life 2, the portal is at the top of the Citadel, I think that is what the red glowing part is referring to. (Picture here: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/160183847_79af292424.jpg?v=0)

Also, on the Babel Research website (http://www.babel-research.eu/?about=about) there is a list of names with some pretty intense science mentioned there, like Geomagnitism and Quantum Mechanics. It should be mentioned that, Gordon Freeman, the person you play as in Half Life, was a scientist and was the one that opened the first Combine portal by mistake. (I think, I never played the first one all the way through.) But at the bottom of the page there are 3 logos. The one in the middle (the blue circle) is the Aperture Science logo, characterized in the game Portal produced by Valve (Who also makes the games Half-Life and Half-Life 2), but is also seen in various places in the Half Life 2 campaign.

As for the strange box, it was never in a previous Half Life game, or any Valve game for that matter. It is still a mystery. But I think it somehow has something to do with the portal.

That is just a few things I’ve noticed. I think all of this has to do with the release of a new Half Life game or movie or something like this. It could very well be the long awaited Half Life 3.

Suntriker, see my appendage to the disclaimer above. Yes, we know there are references to the Halflife and Lost universes, but these are borrowed references. This entire production was made by a fan of these properties, admittedly so, and there are also clear disclaimers in the production videos and sites themselves that this is a grassroots production. It’s not official promotional material for any upcoming Halflife or Lost media. Until that happens, until there’s announcement or deal struck or something changes, that’s the way it is. Not coincidental – definitely intentional – but not official.

For all the comments saying “how could you say it’s not connected?” – I’m not saying it’s not connected. I’m saying it’s not officially connected. Big difference. Fan fiction is all about expanding on existing property inasmuch as the law allows. This production is based on existing property. That is all at this point.

Suntriker, Bruce said the most important. But I would add some informations, like the ones at the Babel Research site. That can be a portal, but it has a different source. That tower is a blackhole solar energy converter, with no direct relation to Black Mesa and it’s experiments, and the original portal from Black Mesa that Gordon opened (not accidentaly, gman planned everything) was caused by a overcharge of xen energy concentrated on a xen superpure crystal causing a superbridge to the xen world.

However, the story seem to be similar, something went wrong and caused a lot of radiation and a supermass, possibly a portal supermass. So it could be connected with the Half-Life universe, but it’s outside the essential, it’s has not shown any direct relation to gordon freeman, black mesa, gman, alyxs or something else, other than the icons and soundtrack, which Timsmit probably used to avoid having to create his own.

I believe Timsmit will make a lot of references to the Half-Life universe on his upcoming film, but What’s in the box is another story, his story. It was the Half-Life references that made his “demofilm” so popular, so he’ll not leave them.

But now that he’s so famous, Valve could help him in many ways, one of them would be inserting real facts from the HL universe that weren’t revealed in his movie, or simply giving money.

That’s it, this comment should help the ones that don’t know that much from What’s in the box and/or the Half-Life universe. I could make a post of this… :)

Yo… I think that in the image here… http://www.babel-research.eu/?about=about … of the research facility has some writing… I am seeing odd dark spots which I think might be “anti-letters”, as I call them, where the outline is made of a letter by leaving dark spots where the letter is NOT. Could you check it out?

Also, the image is listed as “research.eu/images/Babel_complex_1.jpg”. Could there be a “research.eu/images/Babel_complex_2.jpg”?

Hmm… in the news report, the first segment is from August 6th (the august sixth incident). However, the second part (the part from the “test” video, with the person running around) is from August 8th!!! The incident we have seen was not the August 6th incident?

Wakukee, you gave me an great idea. Firstly, those who played HL2 know that somewhere it the middle of the game Gordon Freeman and Alyx find the dr. Mossman and soon escape from Nova Prospect (is it? I forgot) using teleport. But something went wrong, and they travelled in time on about 2 or so days. Secondly, when I was reading about WITB movie in the internet, I found some pages telling me that hero in the beginning of the movie wakes up and doesn’t know what is going on. That unconfirmed fact was embarassing me until now. When I read some info and watched the movie again the only thing that was making me think that this fact is false is that bottle which can be seen on the floor in the beginning. But if this fact is true, than we have possibility of time jump! I mean that in august 6th, something went wrong and before people was evacuated, that man was captured by random portal (like in the Half-Life, it was called “portal storm”) while he was walking somewhere with that bottle in his hands. And then, with this 2 days, whole city was evacuated and that man appeared in the same place, but in the “wrong time”, I mean he travelled in time for 2 days forward. And now militaries are looking for something, maybe for lost people. But now I think that something is wrong with them. Why that man was trying to escape from them? Why those militaries had weapons? Why they wasn’t trying to stop him using anything but weapons and helicopter (like, shout somehing)? Why they are need for this box? Why they couldn’t find that box for 2 days? Why they was walking around in the city which soon supposed to be destroyed (but not by them i mean)? And so on. Sorry for my bad english, I hope all of you guys understood me right.

> I am seeing odd dark spots which I think might be “anti-letters”, as I call them, where the outline is made of a letter by leaving dark spots where the letter is NOT. Could you check it out?

Sorry, but because of my bad english I can’t understand you right, can you explain it on some image so all of us could check the Babel_complex_1.jpg? Maybe you could mark that letter on that image.

This is one of the tricks to get money… Oh my god oh my god, what will happen in 2018??Nothing will happen,get a life!

in case anyone doesnt know, there is a Lost reference in ep2 and they put ficticaous company from lost in the movie.
(off topic) that would be so cool if lost characters went to half life universe and met gordon.

did anyone also find that the dead birds are reminecent of the birds dying in slient hill when the darkness approches. that stuff only happens in the movie , i never witness it in any games of silent hill but it makes me wonder if that other dimension they seem to be opening a portal to is inspired by the hellish dimension in silent hill. especially since ” the box= hell”

I do not know if anyone else has noticed that in the second video, when you click on the “Due to recent developments, the box must remain closed, etc” it links you to a second video, the one with the bloody noses, and the explosion. If you look closely, when the bird falls there are two frames with green squares in them, if you pause it in the first frame two of the squares are red while the rest are green, and in the second frame, one is red and one is purple while the others are green. Some one should look into this, maybe.

“Peace through Power” is the tagline Kane uses in the C&C Tiberium Universe.

Is there a connection between the UPC bar code 125002 741350 and the one from image from Leonardo Bode image, here:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4773/dsc00783f.jpg
Is there a better closeup picture of that bar code?

I tried to see if the UPC one could be translated in code 93 or 128 which include letters but failed. It currently matches perfectly only the UPC standard so I think those numbers are indeed important and thus the wrong check digit.

Hey, how many have noticed the open FTP connection on babel research? Considering that this is one big hunt, you’d imagine they’d close up any holes, and just access the server directly. Is it a hint?

Wait!! I found something very interesting. While looking at the source for the second video with the nose bleeds and dead birds, there were two scripts. When reloading an hour later, they both just disappeared. There were a bunch of comments, but the two that seemed to mean the most were two wrappers for functions labeled KIA August and KIA September, and also “TODO: Use HTTPS over HTTP headers.”

Well, the 2nd of october was the first test run of the CERN particle accelerator. and the link to higgs, is the creation mechanism. It would explain, as Tim Smit works in the nanolab.

Again, looking at the planck time, the two heads is actually Niels Bohr and Einstein. More strikingly is the so called ‘eye’ it is just like the higgs process would predict, and the date’s called would project A Particle detector at CERN. as the matter of fact it is the CMS, and not the atlas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid
I must admit though that the 2nd of october wasn’t the time of breakdown of the accelarator. but more importantly the week of the 6th august was the expected date of reboot of the accelarator.

Hum, interesting… Steam, the all Valve games plataform will be down at August 6th…

when i looked up red square i found this: Red Square Nebula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square_Nebula hope it can help someone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rRb4z0gVA

Is this it, just some guys film studies project, thought it was gonna lead to something more!!!!

I FOUND SOMETHING!

If you take the upc code(125002 741350)
and decode its hex value, the text is PtP.( you can try yourself at http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ )
The letters make “P”eace “T”hrough “P”ower the slogan of that poster im not sure what the things to the left of the letters are though.

Has anyone noticed the “Local protection team report back.” both in the audio clip and IN the film? There’s a conversation between the squad and the female voice and I think they are related… In the film the female voice says (from the point I can understand):
Female “Local protection team report back”
Male “??? Standing by”//”I’ve got a “?foreword here application?”
Female “95 illegal carrying immediate amputation”
Male “Roger that ready”
Female “10 0 ?ige?

Thats all I got. Anyone want to critique?

And nothing happend at aug 6th :/

ok so red square could be the red sqare nebula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square_Nebula right

The capital letters of the scientists can be ordinated in “The Fall”…maybe this mean something

The suspense background music is hugely similar like at 1:14, 3:15, but then 5:20 sounds more like Star Wars..and why does the bag at 3:38 say black on it? That’s one of the main things that have been eating at me. Yes it’s black, but idk, why is it labeled?

@Sam: I think it might be the brand name.

There are parts where the music is from Jurassic Park, but mixed.. so it’s difficult to recognize it.

It’s funny, but i realized that (along with other little details in the film) watching it after smoking weed.

I made a video some time ago with the information that i have got here, the user that did the post got credits dont worry i just made the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhrfd8pmE8s

That numbers are my obsession:

I have read that Lost have been made based at the hl2 universe, thats why the plot of hl2 and Lost are so schemer and you cant keep thinking about it.

if Valve didnt existed maybe Lost didnt existed with that schemer, or just didnt existed.

But i think the plot of Hl in general are the most influence in the world.

And we can see the inspiration that cause that plot.

the rabbit hole goes deeper, i dont think there is anything else to know until these dudes make an entire film, although i do agree with one of the comments on here that says that the box could be the same as the hellraiser box since the box equals hell, eitha way, pretty deep and interesting story line

Hi I was doing some research on this stuff the other night.

I did some searches on TIMSMIT and found a webpage for the guy who created the video and webpages with that thibaut Niels guy.

On his website it says that it was a trailer for a full length halflife 2 video they are making.

Also I believe there may be some other stuff on there to do with the WITB stuff.

If you move the mouse over the cable that is attatched to the planet some text shows up in the bottom right corner of the page

“Urea Unfits Vino”

I have no idea what that is about but i assumed it was some kind of anagram.. but i couldnt make sense of it.

I did find out that there is a type of cypher known as a vino cypher.

I havent looked into how the cypher works but im pretty sure that timsmit and thibaut are both encrypted words.
Anyway if anyone thinks there is something to it, comment back

Don’t know how long it’s been up, but now there is a disclaimer underneath the video at the website that says:

“In order to achieve the best result, some sounds and music elements were used without permission as a temporary placeholder. This site and its content is not affiliated with any of the entities responsible for the particular material in question.”

They would put that on for 2 reasons.
1) The industry contacted TIMSMIT and told him he had to put it there. BUT, how did they get a hold of him? None of us can…
2) They are trying to throw us off and TIMSMIT is in cahoots with them.

any ideas?

not sure if anyone has caught this yet,

on the babel research page, under the introduction and history section, it lists the department heads. they are all listed by first initial, then last name. if you take all the first initials you can spell “the fall”

not sure if this has any significance just yet

Haven’t seen anyone comment on it in the thread here, but has anyone else noticed the “Exposed” pic seems to match the pattern flashing on The Box between 0:45 and 0:55 in the video?

O_O
nice

Urea Unfits Vino = future invasion

Очень интересные выдео-ролики!Мы тоже можем догадыватся что это будет.

Heres a video with an interview with TIMSMIT about whats in the box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rRb4z0gVA

Does anyone know if Valve has issued any statements on the use of HL2 sounds and the very similar aesthetic in the movie? The disclaimer seems insufficient for such heavy borrowing of sounds and similarity of designs and ideas in a film that’s making such huge waves.
Not only that, but it seems odd that it boasts itself as an original concept with all of these similarities, and yet makes a nod to Valve by putting the Black Mesa and Aperature logos on the Babel Research site.

Also, does anyone know why the copyright year for the short film seems to be 2018?

To whoever said that the videos take place 2 days apart is wrong. in europe dates are NOT written the same. 6/8/18 is not june 8th, its august 6th. which means that the videos take place on the SAME day!