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Viewing the source code of the main Babel Research page shows “other.gif” along with the 2 other “schrodinger.gif” and “hanso.gif” already mentioned.
This “other.gif” contains two logos, only one I know off (the blue tesselated circle) which is one of the Aperture science logos, might be hinting at the release/link with Portal/Portal 2 – as I don’t know how long this “other.gif” has been available to view.
Maybe were gonna get a new video at the release of portal 2? or the next installments footage will take place at Aperture Science? Is the installation the guy is first in actually Aperture science labs?
Oh, I hope it’ll be a movie! One in theaters! I would be so excited! At times, it sends chills down my spine… But still, I find it AMAZING to wonder, “What IS in the box?” That’s what I say when anyone asks what I’m thinking…. Mostly, it’s true. But if this is a movie, I must go see it! XD
godbless your soul tim
For Ty Bray & co ,
The codex for the jumbled sentences it’s a=b and b=c, using the programming lenguage means that b affects (is going to be) a.
With these codex you’ll get ” SALUTE TO THE CREY AT UNFICTION. WE WATCH EVERY STEP”
seems you had nothing to do with this video here eh?
http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html
When I watched the ‘Hey Girl’ movie on youtube I noticed that the girl said something at the begin of the clip. I changed the pitch and speed of the song and then I could hear what she said. Which was in Dutch: ‘Kijk eens aan’ in English: ‘Hey, look at that’ Also there was a voice in the background which is from the girl behind her who says: ‘Niet oppakken’ English: ‘Don’t pick up’. The sound is here: http://www.2shared.com/audio/y2lYdMQG/N_pakken_Hey_Girl.html
So this basically means nothing, probably just a normal reaction.
Also when I watched the mythbusters movie on youtube I saw the WITB logo. This makes the start of the project 2 years earlier. More people may have point this out, but anyway here it is: http://www.2shared.com/photo/d-6Z0b7C/WITH_Mytbusters.html
hey someone know about ATTAINABLENESS= “the state of being achievable”. WHAT F—— mean
At 2:26 in the Sabotage video we see someone that looks like the girl from “Hey Girl”. Spooky.
Am I the only one who noticed the aperature science logo on the babel research website or am i just the only one dumb enough to find this significant
No jimbo, you’re not the only one, and it’s not significant… check the disclaimers again. Since this is not an official production but a fan-made one, any connection to Halflife or Lost is purely inspirational.
Might have been mentioned but in regards to the two truck when you mix coke and mentos you get a chemical reaction in the right container capable of causeing an explosion could the be a hint towards the myth busters coke and mentos video???
Don’t know if this was really looked at because of the numbers code in the “Hey Girl” video, but from 2:58 to about 3:07, while she’s tripping out, it looks kinda like the stuff from the Last Footage video where thing start floating up toward the ??? and swirling around.
Anthony, what you found is awesome :o
Translated from Dutch To English It says
“Hey, stand over there by that bridge so I can film you, right there by the railing.”
“The lensecap is still on, take it off! Don’t film me”
“Yes I will, I want to! Stand by that railing already!
…
Do something funny, make a pose or something.
Erhm honey, your nose is bleeding.”
“yours is too.”
“Ah F**k”
and then the birds fall out of the sky. It’s probably some kind of background story to WITB.
PEOPLE! Me and my cousin just discovered something creepy. On http://www.whatsinthebox.nl after removing articles to create” exposed” box disappeared! Then a cat from babel reaserch appeared but three times larger!
Heres proof: http://img543.imageshack.us/i/catgh.png/
“why are you giving me the directions, if you are the one that needs them”
babel – tower of – escher – babylon – near east portal – maths
Etemenanki – Sumerian: “temple of the foundation of heaven and earth”
WGS84 32° 32′ 11″ N, 44° 25′ 15″ E
32.536389, 44.420833
UTM 38S 445615 3600041
I dont know if any of this has relovance… but thought it might.. espesh considering escher eye turns into egyptian eye… escher having produced the tower of babel, Etemenanki – located in the near east portal… like egypt…?
i know it’s not very easy to do a movie but how much longer do we have to wait ?
Looks like there’s something new coming…
I just found these two:
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/pro.swf
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/riseofthedirtnappers/
* nope, not new ~thebruce
I was looking at the http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/pro.swf (posted by Bart if it wasn’t originally his post then I thank who ever posted it) and I noticed that when you move your mouse over the thing box in the middle some of the letters in the credit thing are blanked out so I took a screen-shot and those numbers/letters that are changing all the time clearly spelt out “READ” so I read and this is what I got but its just gibberish
“PR DUC S prese a MY ERY OF MYSTERIES production write SMIT THIBAUT NIELS music ted by S EN ETERS dir of photogra TIMSMIT production design THI NIELS TIIT special effects TIMMIT screenplay written by IBAUT NIELS TMIT wbsite complex by TIM MIT film e r TI MIT produ d and dir ted by TIMS THIBAL NIELS ad al thanks to F ANK T ST J EN an M KUP” see if anyone can do something better with this please do.
I hope this is worth it.
idk if youve tried it yet but tru laying exposed over the research pages, i would but i dont have the right EQ.
at the bottome of the header next to the header there is a definate “TE” so i guess match that up with one of the pages and the arrow should be on something
tim smit the director of witb is no longer working on the project :-(
hey Sadfun, how do you know that? i mean, you have a contact with Tim Smit??
I think I know what the box is made of. But before I tell you, Matthew, That was the backstory, if you watch till’ the end, the tower explodes. Anyway. The box is made of black solar cells! I remeber one comment on this that tells about the writings on somthing about converting solar energy to somthing else, and the black solar cell ISN’T seen oviously in the video, only the Brain image thing, and the sound thing! (haven’t watched in a while)
Isn’t this a sound theroy, that whatever’s in the box, is powered by the sun? That would explane the big case it’s in!
There was a reference in Futurama Episode S06E17 .. The Erwin Schrodinger, The cat and the box (filled with the cat, poison and cesium atom, and also lots of drugs)
Fry: Is the cat alive or death?
Schrodinger: It’s superposition of both states until you open it…
Are they just making fun of it, or they know something we don’t?
Marc, Schroedinger’s cat is a well known paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
WITB merely referenced it in the material, as did Futurama… I highly doubt Futurma was referring to WITB ;)
I don’t know if anyone found this yet..But in the Daybroke video at roughly 2:49 by the truck to the right hand side, you can see the word Palindrome. Which means a word can be read both forward and backward…such as TimSmit.
To Bart!
we took the page and noticed when you move your cursor over the box it flashes red and some letters in the credits are covered up with “?’ we noticed someone found this too but only got the letters for the uncovered letters, however the letters covered up by the ‘?’ reads. “OTION nts ST WHAT IS IN THE BOX
TIS CREA TEV O ector phy BAUT
SM S TH IS EEU S dito MS c ec MIT T
dition R TER EL U OOS d AR” I think the cipher to use in this case is the Vigenère cipher
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/pro.swf
i tried to write down the four chars below image ind here what i get (i dont know if its all and what order are they realy in)
6335
read
2678
1111
2347
qwer
4213
1234
fasg
5223
wsad
uuuu
fast
jfsd
asdf
boxr
134g
7856
2123
maybe it have something to do with the red question marks when you point your mouse on the image
Haven’t seen a picture or information about this but its also possible I didn’t look hard enough. Figured i would post this anyways just in case i found something.
Seems when you go back to the main site http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/
and click on the upper quadrant of the circle you get forwarded to the video. now next to the options near the full screen button it will have a button labled babel. that will bring you to this site.
http://babel-research.eu/
seems to be lots of fun stuff there.
Click on terms of use on the Hanso site.
You get an error Query Variable ppLink not found
then this brings you to
http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/pp.html
when logging in into a page enter 59462 (login from the phone) for login ID.
You can request a password reset which will send it to Martha@live.com
or a Security question of “name of Best Childhood Friend?”
since it is @live.com it leads me to suspect that it has something to do with Hanso foundations life extension project
You can possibly password reset that and it will send it to an e-mail mh*****@qwest.net
I have not sent any password reset requests since if it is someones legitimate account I do not want to mess with it.
Might be something worth looking into.
The order to click dots on Babel Research site didn’t work for me, so I rechecked filenames for dots and came up with this sequence:
2 3 7 6 1 8 4 9 5
and it worked!
So either the order in the article is wrong or something changed since then.
PS Thanks a lot for your article.
has the box been opened?
i’m toltally freaking out with this
I know a lot of people aren’t looking, but in the video about the phone book is a hidden message.
And I think that if you look closely there will be more cleus on that very site: Timsmit.info
This page is linked to the Babel Research Page. I have a feeling that there may be something here. So everyone Have at it!
-Tornadoes and you video, near the end there is a tank labeled Benthic Petroleum. Could be an Easter egg however it seems out of place seeing that kind of equipment should be found on oil rigs or under the ocean. There is also a facebook page for it with a handful of pictures. Could also be nothing but might be worth a look.
On the http://www.timsmit.info/ site find the link to video “The Phone Book Myth” and towards the end (I did not see how to show time codes) right after they show the subtitle “Yes indeed.” the video goes black and a red diamond with a red question mark flicker on the screen with the text “www.WHATSINTHEBOX.nl” underneath. The video goes right back into the story.
Then a little later as they are wrapping their explanation, the video goes to a black screen with a repeating high pitch grating noise and the red letters at top:
“CAVIStreamSynth: System exception – Access Violation at 0x27df7b1, writing to 0x0”
The video comes to an end after about 27 seconds of the noise / black screen.
There is Something new on the website whatsinthebox.nl
I’ve just noticed that whatsinthebox.nl and http://www.babel-research.eu are showing the same strange information, there’s new (I hope so) logo of Babel Research and something under it but I can’t read. Number of article and paragraph excluding 22 are just inverted (18.5.4.9.22 and 9.4.5.18), it would be palindrome too if 8 will take 1’s place. It looks we’re waiting for 2.15.24 fole to be done. Besides that Hanso Foundation’s site is down. I hope that’s something new. Sorry for my bad english but I’m still learning.
Alphanumerically, 18.5.4.9.22 = REDIV, 9.4.5.18 = IDER (REDIVIDER) and 2.15.24 = BOX
Not that it’s of much use, but I believe the subtext under the babel research logo on the new site says.
“PART OF THE BABEL GLOBAL ENTERPRISE”
By the way, the image used on the updated sites is named “incursion.jpg”, you can see it with the source code.
I don’t know if it can help though.
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-123195.html
Update on the error message?
Seems to be a stop error.
The new site design has just been brought to my attention as a result of a Team Fortress 2 update that also brought my attention to two items, “What’s in the Sandvich Box?” and “What’s in the Companion Square Box?”.
Now you probably already know that the Sandvich is another item in TF2 and the Companion [Cube] is an object in the game Portal (By the same developers), and items like this arn’t uncommon, but the name “What’s in the X box?” just sort of stood out to me.
Oh, these items were added on July 10th, well after the new site was discovered on May 5th.
guys!!! i have somthing for all of you, tim smit aparently is alive lol but is working in something called THE GUARDIAN
http://simoneschrijft.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/echt-vet.html
http://simonebergmann.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/lets-go-hollywood.html
i don’t know if that will continue the story of WITB
News on the name of the file… cold this be something a bit more obvious:
in·cur·sion [in-kur-zhuhn, -shuhn]
noun
1.
a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
Could this mean that Babel did something, and managed to hack the site down?
Hey guys!
Haven’t looked forward to this since a while… So, today I entered this website, didn’t find anything interesting and started looking by myself. When I got tired (lol), i proceeded to search “whatsinthebox” in google. This website is what i found (apart from the others): http://whatsinthebox.me/
It’s a band’s web, nothing special. After looking for a while i saw this: http://whatsinthebox.me/question%20mark.swf Does this look familiar to you?
After that, I didnt find anything until I started clicking every pic on the page, when I found that, if you click this image: http://whatsinthebox.me/images/ob-ufo.jpg , it redirects you to a “private party” page , to which you are invited. Didn’t find anything in the font codes after that, just some other bands webs (casually, one of those two bands web has the same style than Whatsinthebox.me). Hope this is useful or has something to do with all this research… I don’t know if its worth something tough.
@Omarlic: the second, the third and the 4th words under the new logo are
BABEL RESEACHE
“OF THE BABEL”
It was in a old lock and key box, the box was won over the internet, the box was shipped, then received, after which he opened it to a deck of cards box, after opening it he received $120, and a card labeled 4 of spades.
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