Shifting Alignments (03/2013)
03/01/2013
JAMAIS VU
The feeling that something previously experienced is being encountered for the first time. The opposite of deja vu.
03/02/2013
MOUTON A CINQ PATTES
A french idiom, literally translating to 'a sheep with five legs'. Something that either does not exist, or is so rare as to be an anomaly.
03/03/2013
PORTMANTEAU
A combination of two or more words into a single new word that combines their sound and meaning.
First used in this context in the book Through the Looking-Glass.
03/04/2013
METHOD OF LOCI
MEMORY PALACE
A mnemonic device first seen in ancient Roman and Greek texts, it is a method of memory retrieval which uses visualization and geo-spacial mechanics to store, organize and recall memories and information.
03/05/2013
GREEN FLASH
An optical phenomena that occurs in the seconds directly before sunrise or after sunset. A green spot becomes visible above the sun for a few seconds.
03/06/2013
COLD DARK MATTER
A form of matter that interacts very weakly with light waves, currently estimated to be 5 times as numerous in our universe than “normal” matter.
Has not yet been directly detected, but is required to explain many phenomena seen in astrophysics.
03/07/2013
PMC
Private Military Company
A modern iteration of the concept of mercenaries, PMCs offer trained and armed experts in intelligence, combat and security to their clients.
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In the source you can find 201-240-21-13-12-25-1303004701
Currently unsolved
03/08/2013
THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
A large infrared telescope, designed to be the Hubble telescope's successor. The telescope is expected to launch in 2018. A full scale 'model' of the telescope will be on display from 03/08 to 03/10 at SXSW, just minutes from the Stevie Ray Vaughan Statue.
Chatter suggest this may not be a coincidence, and an ulterior purpose may be at play.
Talks taking place surrounding the exhibit include 'Are we Alone?' and 'Unravelling Cosmic Mysteries.'
03/09/2013
BLACK DROPS
Covert deliveries made to operatives in the field, usually using an Aerial Delivery System.
03/10/2013
03/11/2013
CONCEALMENT DEVICE
An innocuous device used to surreptitiously transport and store materials relating to an intelligence operation.
03/12/2013
TRANSMUNDANE
Existing beyond the physical or visible world.
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In the source you can find
217764087199221918551921258823542067183128190905144990418147191417312419150806241907744708181731721516361129
Using the hint 3 and 2 you can order the numbers like this
21 77 64 08 71 99 22 19 18 55 19 21 25 88 23 54 20 67
18 31 28 19 09 05 14 49 90 41 81 47 19 14 17 31 24 19
15 08 06 24 19 07 74 47 08 18 17 31 72 15 16 36 11 29
If added by column we obtain
54 116 98 51 99 111 110 115 116 114 117 99 116 117 56 121 55 115
Just convert from decimal to ASCII and we get 6tb3constructu8y7s
03/13/2013
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE
A special state of matter entered by gasses when cooled to slightly above absolute zero, where the individual quantum states of each atom collapse into each other and the system of atoms forms a single, coherent quantum system.
03/14/2013
HYPERTHREADING
An as of yet unexplained dualization/transportation of one's XM essence to another position in spacetime.
Niantic researchers have hypothesized that an extreme hyper-sensitive may be able to extend XM hyperthreading to their physical form, existing in two positions simultaneously.
This remains unproven, and largely in the realm of pseudo-science.
03/15/2013
CLAIRVOYANCE
The use of extrasensory perception to gain quick, intuitive knowledge about a person or object.
03/16/2013
03/17/2013
PACHA
World-Moment
An Incan concept describing the structure of the cosmos that included both space and time as part of a single system.
03/18/2013
03/19/2013
MENTALISM
A field within magic performance covering feats of the mind, including telepathy, clairvoyance, divination and mind control.
03/20/2013
GHOST SURVEILLANCE
Discreet but omnipresent information gathering systems, working entirely outside of the view of the surveillance target.
03/21/2013
TIME DILATION
In Einstein's theory of relativity, objects accelerated to a high speed compared to an external observer and then decelerated behave as if time had moved more slowly than the objects which remained at rest with respect to the observer.
03/22/2013
BLETCHLEY PARK
An estate in Buckinghamshire, England that served as one of the primary code-breaking centers for the Allied effort during WWII.
The high level intel decoded at Bletchley Park was classified as ULTRA, and it has been argued that without the ULTRA intelligence, the war would have been longer and its outcome uncertain.
03/23/2013
03/24/2013
03/25/2013
PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE
An information collection system that remains in a state of constant monitoring in order to detect, locate, identify, track and characterize its subject at an extremely high level of detail.
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In the source you will see
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Replace letters with numbers like this
c e h j m p q t x y
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Apply to the whole string
1 2 4 8 8 8 16 32 128 128 128 128 128 256 512 512 512 512 512 ….. 4503599627370496
All numbers are 2 to the power of n . So replace them with the value of n
0 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 18 18 19 20 21 22 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 27 27 28 28 29 30 30 31 31 31 32 33 34 35 35 35 35 35 35 36 37 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 44 45 45 45 46 47 47 47 48 48 49 50 51 51 51 51 52
Do the differences between each consecutive number
1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
Add a 0 at the begining and then group them in groups of 7 for a binary conversion to ASCII
0111001 1110000 1100001 0110110 1111001 1110101 1110010 1101001 1110000 0110111 1111010 0110010 1110001
You will get 9pa6yurip7z2q
Just replace it with yuri's surname nagassa
03/26/2013
ISOBRONT
A line on a map passing though those points on the earth where the first peal of a thunderstorm is heard at the same time
03/27/2013
PROPRIOCEPTION
A innate sense of the location, orientation, position and movement of one's physical being and its various parts.