Lets see if GU as a community can crack this - should be a bit of fun and a good brain workout:
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A challenge for the people of GU
65 public posts in this discussion.
Post 2
K-Space (whos over visiting) reckons its the 1000th-1020 place of PI... cant find the actual digits... too lazy
Post 3
I'm no mathematician, but that just sounds like they want the 1000-1020 digits of pi.
edit: bam, too slow
Post 4
you'd hope for a naked chick at least
938095257201065485863
Actually I'm willing to bet there's more.
Post 5
^
they got it.
Post 6
yeh, it was 938095257201065485863
Post 7
You'll need to start with the original image, this image has been changed.
Post 8
next password is in wingdings font.
password is faded
or not.
Post 9
No its not Jay
Post 10
raded/faded or whatever, inverse the fishies.
and you get
resmarted
yeah it was a red herring.
Post 11
God bless huge arse tv's. that isn't a smudge!
terabithia
Post 12
Balls of steel.
I actually have a machine to sacrifice for this stuff.
desudesudesu
back later haven't verified that probably another red herring
Post 13
Someone figure out what to do with
38.05928068
and
23.69803932
rename the rar back to png
back in an hour, gotta do washing
Post 14
actually with my normal monitor I can see the password on the fishies without doing anything.
Post 15
Nobody else got any input?
Post 16
this is awesome..... and well thought out
Post 17
coordinates use it in google
looks like my old project work from uni
Post 18
hmm I need to learn2use coordinates maybe?
Post 19
meh I'm going to do something useful like wash the dishes until someone else who knows how to use map stuff properly.
Post 20
Quote from Jay;328138:
meh I'm going to do something useful like wash the dishes until someone else who knows how to use map stuff properly.
im still amazed you got this far jay keep up the good work :P
Post 21
Quote from Jay;328040:
actually with my normal monitor I can see the password on the fishies without doing anything.
I can see where the password is, but i can't read it clearly, if i made the picture a bit smaller the text in it might be a bit more readable without making any big modifications to it to read it. :P
Post 22
I get Athens or the red sea, using those numbers, haven't bothered to work it out myself :P
neither is the password :P
Post 23
Harb is close
Post 24
Quote from Wrathlon;328105:
Nobody else got any input?
On what?
The original link is dead and there aren't any others in the thread.
Post 25
Lame - 2 secs
Edit: Wait..link works fine for me, and its not cache cause Ive never opened it on this computer.
Post 26
For some reason it didn't seem that hard anymore.
Post 27
http://tinyurl.com/yjrvtt
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You are in a boat with a rock. You throw the rock into the lake. With respect to the land, where does the level of the water go?
Post 28
up then down? i'm not good at this kind of thing =(
Post 29
Nowhere; if you are in the boat, the water is already displaced by the mass of the rock - the level stays the same.
Post 30
^^ winner. although it will briefly drop while the rock is 'in the air' i guess. but seriously, unless its a boulder of warner brothers proportions, the water level isn't going to move an appreciable amount
Post 31
Whether its a large amount of movement or not is irrelevant. Pala and unscarred are wrong and here is a hint - Its a proper physics question.
Post 32
actually nevermind, the mass of the object spreads out over a larger surface area (the hull), so it depends on the size of the rock ;)
Post 33
Floating stuff displaces its weight in water, when it sinks it displaces the amount equal to its volume.
Down? Still not sure where to go from here though.
Post 34
the water level will drop
Post 35
I think I missed the point of this game wtf are u sposed to do with the files that came outta the red herring archive?
Post 36
Quote from Jay;328203:
Floating stuff displaces its weight in water, when it sinks it displaces the amount equal to its volume.
Down? Still not sure where to go from here though.
Jay is closest...you have to input the answer somewhere, Ill let you try and figure out where - if you look at the stuff you were doing in the binary step carefully you'll get an idea.
If you are still really stuck and give up, I can give you a more obvious hint. This bit took me aaaaaagggeeesss to figure out.
Post 37
"There is no rock"
Post 38
Kane's right, density of the rock is the issue with that one
Post 39
He's sorta right. Mass is the key here but not for the reason he specified.
Post 40
dense/heavy rock pushes the boat deeper thus displacing more water eg: gold rock of same size as something like pumice (without the holes in it for the sake of argument) will push the boat deeper, thus when turfed into the water the reduced surface area would cause less displacement than when it was in the boat, whereas something like pumice would probably cause more displacement in the water than in the boat due to being so light
Post 41
Correct, however it doesnt depend on the size of the rock so much as the density, and any rock that sinks is denser than water and thus displaces more in a boat than in the water.
Post 42
Quote from Jay;328189:
For some reason it didn't seem that hard anymore.
i got to this point with the cords but it dosent accept it as the password
and in the English version too..
Post 43
Quote from dragon xr;328226:
i got to this point with the cords but it dosent accept it as the password
and in the English version too..
never mind...... got it
Post 44
ok so like whats with the dancing mascots people?
Post 45
i think the boat answers is the water doesn't rise nor sink... it stays the same..
the weight from the rock in the boat raises the water... then when the rock is removed from the boat, (AIR) the water goes down ... then the rock enters the water and goes into the same position from where it started...
Post 46
Quote from dragon xr;328245:
i think the boat answers is the water doesn't rise nor sink... it stays the same..
the weight from the rock in the boat raises the water... then when the rock is removed from the boat, (AIR) the water goes down ... then the rock enters the water and goes into the same position from where it started...
Incorrect. That would only be true if the rock has the same mass as the water. Which it does not as rocks sink.
Post 47
pumice doesn't sink.
Post 48
When the rock is supported by the boyancy of the boat, it
displaces its mass in water. When you throw it into the lake, it will
displace its own volume. If u wanna see it done grab a golf ball (one that sinks) and put it a floating container in your sink. u will see that as you drop golf ball into the water it the water level will drop because the container will rise due to less mass. it's true that once the ball is in the water it would slightly displace the water again but not as much as when it was in the container. (you probably wont even notice it) This is because when the ball is in the container it is increasing the mass which increases the gravitational force which pushes the container deeper into the water. But it's not the the ball and container u also have to take into account the empty space inside the container is also displacing the water. Ummmm well I dunno how well I explained it but yah it's pretty simple stuff. BUT WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE DANCING MASCOTS! haha! How did u guys get the password for goose.rar?
Post 49
and when the rock is bigger than the boat?
Post 50
For all purposes and intents its a normal everyday sinking rock.
Post 51
if the rock is bigger than the boat the boat would sink displacing the air with water and thus still lowering the water level lol
Post 52
Fine replace rock with besa brick. Jesus focus people :p
Post 53
k so ne waiz someone chuck me a hint on those dancing mascots It's starting to get to me the customers think I'm crazy haha!
Post 54
good, cuz trying to chuck the rock overboard is just going to get you peoples elbowed anyway.
Post 55
Quote from r00t|{it;328275:
k so ne waiz someone chuck me a hint on those dancing mascots It's starting to get to me the customers think I'm crazy haha!
Look closer at the files.
Post 56
Quote from Jay;328203:
Floating stuff displaces its weight in water, when it sinks it displaces the amount equal to its volume.
Down? Still not sure where to go from here though.
Of course, silly me for only thinking about the first half of the problem!
Post 57
Jay, if you cant work out the next bit (And its actually not that obvious WTF you do) Ill throw some hints your way.
Post 58
OK seeing as people seem to have given up at the last bit:
Once you get the answer (Which one of you managed) you need to find the place and the way to input the answer. The tiny URL link is the hint here.
Post 59
Seeing as everyone seems to have given up, the answer is down. Convert it back to binary and copy/paste the binary before the .html in the link the tinyurl points to.
Post 60
I tried /toanb/down.etc and a whole bunch of combinations, I did try some binary versions of some words guess I didn't convert down
Post 61
Still do it, cause its the last step and reveals the true nature of this whole thing :p
Post 62
that is pure, ****ing, gold.
Post 63
I was pretty impressed to find out its true nature after many hours of solving the puzzles.
Post 64
Oh.. My.... Lolgod
Post 65
wow...... just got to the end.... thats .....