The Great Project – Black

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: There is one star that will tell you everything you need.
	Hint 2: What is the most important star in the night sky?
	Hint 3: The angle of the north star is equal to the latitude of where you’re observing.
	Hint 4: Notice how Polaris doesn’t line up with North? Why is that?
	Hint 5: Read about the Earth’s precession and its effect on the north star.
	Hint 6: The north star in this picture is Thuban. When was it the north star? Use that info along with the latitude to get an idea of wher the great project is.
	Answer: The Great Giza Pyramid (pyramids is fine too)

Solution:

You need to know where you are and when. Once you know this, you can make an educated guess as to what the project id. The angle of the north star in the sky is the same as the latitude from where you are observing. In this star chart, that is about 30 deg N. It is hard to figure out, but the distances between degrees is larger closer to the horizon. That is why 30 deg is not exactly one third of the way up the sky. In this image the north star, Polaris, is not in line with North. This happens due to the precession of the Earth. In this image Thuban is in line with North, so it is the North star. This occurred around 2200BC. What could be going on roughly around 2200BC at a latitude of 30 deg N? Probably the Great Pyramids being build. That is a great project indeed.

644 Days – Green

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Don’t try to search for all of the terms at once.
	Hint 2: You will most likely find the answer indirectly via blogs or fan sites.
	Hint 3: Other location include: Norad, Witchita, and Serpent Mound.
	Answer: Russell Shoemaker

Solution:

The map is the one from the main page of www.afterworld.com. This is an online sci-fi series that documents the journey of Russell Shoemaker across America after most of the world’s population disappears. If you web search using a few of the terms on the map, you should run across a video link to an episode, or a blog/fansite entry. From there, get to the main site where you see the map, and from there you can figure out who’s journey it was.

What Song? – Purple

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: There are actually two songs here.
	Hint 2: The treble clef is one song, the bass clef is something else
	Hint 3: The treble clef is an actual song. Try www.melodyhound.com to find it.
	Hint 4: The bass clef is not a song, but it does have a pattern. Look at how many lines the notes span. Remind you of anything?
	Hint 5: Combine the song title from the treble clef with the number the bass clef represents. It loosely becomes the title of a new song.
	Answer: American Pie

Solution:

If you try to play the music as is, you will find that it doesn’t sound very good. That’s because the treble clef is America The Beautiful and the bass clef is a musical representation of the number Pi. For the bass clef, the notes span ten lines, with zero being the bottom most line and nine the topmost. The idea is that we have “America The Beautiful” and Pi which would lead you to think of American Pie as the song.

Grey Code – Silver

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Look up Grey Code in Wikipedia. Use the 4 bit version.
	Hint 2: Look up combinational logic to find out how the gates work.
	Hint 3: Run the grey code through in order. You get a block of sixteen 8 bit binary strings.
	Hint 4: Ok, they aren’t ASCII, what else could they be? Look at the whole picture.
	Hint 5: The 1s form a pattern in Braille.
	Answer: Bugs Bunny

Solution:

The input is the 4 bit grey code since there are four lines going in (for details, see THIS) Take each of these grey code inputs in order and put them through the circuit to get sixteen outputs of eight bits each. For help with digital logic, see THIS You might think you convert each 8 bit output to a number and that would be an ASCII letter or something, but that is not the case. Look at the 16×8 output as a picture, and you will see a series of braille letters. These spell out BUGS BUNNY.