Aggressive
Why did you say I was angry?
Why did you say
You could take me apart
With your cell phone?
Because I could
That seems aggressive Haley
I’m direct Rothells
You think?
People are going to run anyway
Or treat me different for my ASD
Like they could catch it
I just save them the time
ASD?
For my autism Rothells
That’s why I’m different
You are different Haley
But in a good way
You’re honest smart and strong
You don’t waste words
You’re fresh and attractive
Some people are shy
Or afraid of confrontation
You didn’t run
You said I was angry
Do you have a girlfriend?
Does it bother you
When I call you Rothells?
(Daniel laughs)
You surprise me
You constantly surprise me
No and it doesn’t bother me
You think I’m attractive?
Yeah
And you’re not afraid of me?
No I am not
I like you Rothells
23001
Coordinate test results
Team meeting, Daniel’s lab
Tenison reviews the results
Our results came back inconclusive
Which means there’s nothing there
We hit dry land 43 out of 124 times
Twenty were in Antarctica
By far most were in the ocean
Do you want to take it Phillip?
Seems we’ve found the secret files
Of Jacques Cousteau
(Phillip smiles)
Kidding I hope
We wasted forty searches
On polar coordinates
Polar coordinates
What am I saying?
Not polar coordinates
Coordinates of polar locations
Start over
We wasted forty searches
On polar locations
And got nothing
That was my fault
It won’t happen again
We’ve got a lot of work to do
We’re narrowing our search
Equator +/- 3 degrees
Latitudes from 87 to 93 degrees
The more data we get
The better our chances
Good luck everyone
Tenison?
Daniel?
Our extra coordinate set?
Did it land in the water?
It hit twice in the Pacific
Once in Afghanistan
And once in Tibet
But there was nothing there
Sorry Daniel
Thank you
23002
104 and 99999
Phillip look at these longitudes
And their set two data
It jumps from 108 degrees to 212
All within the 999 set pattern
That’s 104 degrees Phillip
999 is ocean
What if 999 is land
On each side of ocean?
Yes it’s possible
But it would require 104 degrees
Of land with nothing in between
999 continues through 234
And then disappears completely
Until we get to 290 degrees
We’re looking for 150 degrees
Of contiguous ocean
With possibly some islands
Ok Tenison
Sort the data first by set two
To split out the 999 set data
Then sort each group by longitude
Let’s see what that gives us
Already done Phillip
And look at this
134 degrees could only happen
From Indonesia to South America
32 degrees of South America
Then 88 degrees
From South America to Africa
That doesn’t fit the span
8 degrees of Africa
That isn’t right either
60 degrees
From Africa to Indonesia
That works
And 37 degrees of Indonesia
Indonesia would have gaps
It’s got lots of islands
I think you’re right Tenison
Try it like this
Add 28 degrees to Africa
Then Africa spans 36 degrees
That’s about right
And it leaves about 60 degrees
From South America to Africa
That would make sense
Anyway it’s very close
Let’s get accurate longitudes
East sides of each land mass
Right at the equator
We’ll review it with the team
And search for latitudes
On or near the equator
East shores?
Yeah I meant east shores
East shore of Africa
Indonesia and South America
Right on the equator
Ok I get it
23003
Test 2 scenario
Team meeting, Daniel’s lab
Phillip leads
We think we found a way
To isolate our zero longitude
Tenison’s found a longitude gap
In specific coordinate sets
Having data that starts with nines
We believe this data represents
104 degrees of ocean
Stretching from New Guinea
To South America
We’ve accounted for 134 degrees
Roughly a thousand miles short
But it’s the closest match we see
So we sent for some numbers
Here’s what returned
On the equator
The east shore of Somalia, Africa
Lies at 43 degrees east longitude
We have it at 7 degrees west
That’s 50 degrees off
If we assume our coordinates
Are on the coast of Africa
Likely they are not
Next we took New Guinea
131 degrees east on the equator
Is Waigeo island
Our numbers show 88 degrees
43 degrees off
Finally the east shore of Brazil
Another small island
At 49 degrees west
Our numbers are 122
73 degrees off
The largest difference yet
Definitely not on the shoreline
So here’s our newest plan
First we narrow the search
Looking at latitudes +/- 0.75
Plus or minus 3/4 a degree
Off the equator
Then offset east by 50 degrees
And trace west incrementally
Until we find a latitude match
When we hit at the latitudes
Longitudes should align also
And we have our key
For this test
We’ve picked eleven latitudes
One in New Guinea two in Africa
And eight in South America
Ok with everyone?
Good, then we go
23004
Bon Irau
The highest peak
In the Tamrau mountains
In the north central region
Of the Bird’s head peninsula
In the province of West Papua
A province of Indonesia
On the island of New Guinea
It stands 2501 meters
8205 feet high
Near the Kebar Valley
Vogelkop Montane Rain Forests
On the Bird’s head plate
Bird’s head peninsula hosts
Over 300 species of birds
The Grey-banded Munia
The Vogelkop bowerbird
King Bird-of-Paradise
Many peoples some Dutch
Kasi, Api and Apriri rivers
And the Rusa deer
To the south Mount Arfak
Looks down on Bon Irau
From 2955 meters
9695 feet
But Mount Arfak doesn’t lie
At 39 minutes and 43 seconds
South of the equator
As Bon Irau does
23005
Bingo
Team meeting, Daniel’s lab
Phillip reviews the results
Tenison?
No, you go ahead Phillip
Fine
We added 50 degrees to 88.4692
To get 138.4692 degrees
Tracing west on wire -0.6619
I’m sorry back up
Wire is a nickname
For a specific latitude
Tracing west on wire -0.6619
We were off by 5.58 degrees
Which brought us to Bon Irau
A mountain
On the island of New Guinea
The next ten fixes
Were off by the same amount
From 5.5790 to 5.5792 degrees
We found it everyone!
I’ll go through the list
We made copies for you
Bon Irau
Mountain on New Guinea Island
West Papua, Indonesia
At 0.6619 south, 132.8892 east
Volcán Ecuador
Volcano on Isabela Island
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
0.0200 north, 91.5461 west
Volcán Wolf
Another volcano on Isabela Island
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
0.0419 north, 91.3336 west
Guagua Pichincha
Volcano in Ecuador
0.1711 south, 78.5981 west
Pululagua
Volcano in Ecuador
0.0380 north, 78.4630 west
Mojanda
Volcano in Ecuador
0.1300 north, 78.2700 west
Cusin
Volcano in Ecuador
0.127 north, 78.154 west
Cayambe
Volcano in Ecuador
0.0250 north, 77.9889 west
Reventador
Volcano in Ecuador
0.0070 south, 77.6500 west
Mount Stanley, a mountain
Democratic Republic of the Congo
0.3858 north, 29.8717 east
Mount Kenya
Stratovolcano in Kenya
0.1508 south, 37.3075 east
And our zero longitude
Lies about 44.42 degrees
East of Greenwich. England
So these coordinates
Are mostly about volcanos?
Two things we know so far Daniel
The first coordinate set is primary
And the data group following it
Includes a reference number
The second set is antipodal
The data group following it
Is some type of quantity
Our sets shared 1004 and 2303
1004 referencing mountains
And 2303 being volcanos
Now that we have zero longitude
We can check reference numbers
To see what we get back
Questions?
23006
We’ll be leaving
Soon Rothells
Did someone say?
Did Don say?
No
I can feel it
We broke the colors
We broke the coordinates
I’ll have to go back
Where’s back?
As if you would come
Did I miss something?
You say things
But you won’t call
Just maybe Haley
You don’t know everything
Maybe
Maybe not Rothells
Maybe
You don’t have to be alone
(Haley smiles)
23007
Winter of 1556
In the Wei River Valley
Shaanxi province
The Earth opened up
Ground rose up as hills
Sank as valleys
Rivers replaced mountains
Mountains became rivers
Streams exploded
Buildings temples huts walls
All destroyed
Many took cover in Yaodongs
Artificial caves in loess cliffs
In the quake and landslides
Many caves collapsed
830,000 lives lost
23008
Reference results
Team meeting, Daniel’s lab
Phillip reviews
We had 1004 and 2303
As volcanoes and mountains
1052 is pyramids
1179 earthquakes
The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake
Turned out to be
Haley’s “China” coordinates
(Haley smiles at Daniel)
1740 is mid ocean ridges
An underwater mountain range
The sea floor cracks and spreads
Lava comes up and forms a ridge
2131 open pit mines
2214 vent fields
At mid ocean ridges
Tenison was right
999 means under water
2300 is vent field other
Don’t know what ‘other’ means
2305 back arc spreading
Is another type of vent field
2620 is large dams
Hydroelectric and reservoirs
2986 is volcanoes again
They emerge as volcanic islands
3303 is the Spratly islands
Islands that China is building
In the South China Sea
5230 is more vent fields
From arc volcanoes
6211 is Basílica del Voto Nacional
A cathedral in Ecuador
There must be more churches
These numbers suggest
Many more fields
We don’t have all the files
Not even close
23009
Lydia
What do you make of this?
It suggests a geological study
Vast amounts of data
What do you make of it Phillip?
Geological, yes
I see a tensor field study
An analysis model of the Earth
My evaluation of the FORTRAN files
Was that they were academic
This amount of research data
Goes beyond academics
The question remains
What’s it for?
Whatever this is
I wasn’t part of it Phillip
Jonathan and Allen
May have worked on it
But I wasn’t included
I wasn’t suggesting that you were
Geology is your field
Mathematics mine
Our conclusions concur
You were the best person to ask
That’s all
The point is
We’ve reached a plateau
More data won’t change that
We’ve found what there is to find
There’s nothing else we can do
Confined to this lab
We’re here because of Ingress
This is past Jonathan and Allen
Way past
They might be gone
Because of Ingress
It’s your lead Tenison
Do you have anything to add?
Do you Haley?
I’ll talk to Don, Phillip
Randall saw Jonathan last
We should ask him
That would make sense
Good idea Lydia
23010