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#199137 - 18/01/2004 21:18 Red Rover Goes to Mars
jdandrea
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Anyone up for some light puzzle solving?
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#199138 - 19/01/2004 04:26 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: jdandrea]
andy
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Who would have guessed that the Mars lander was made of Lego ?

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#199139 - 19/01/2004 05:03 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: andy]
Roger
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Who would have guessed that the Mars lander was made of Lego ?

Maybe that's where we went wrong with Beagle 2 -- was it made of Duplo?
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#199140 - 19/01/2004 05:15 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: Roger]
andy
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That would explain it all, there is no way Duplo has the strength needed for a re-entry...

...Lego on the other hand
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#199141 - 19/01/2004 07:27 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: andy]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
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Loc: Yorkshire UK
Red Rover Goes to Mars


I didn't know London Transport had incresed the area, is it to make room for the Olympics?
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#199142 - 19/01/2004 09:19 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: andy]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
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Who would have guessed that the Mars lander was made of Lego
Well, with all those budget cuts at NASA, they had to improvise...
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#199143 - 19/01/2004 09:26 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tonyc]
andy
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Given the price of the damn stuff I'm not sure using Lego would ensure a reduction in budget
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#199144 - 19/01/2004 09:27 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tonyc]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
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Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Shame the DVD is not a Region 23 (Martian) variant - the Martians don't have multi-region DVD players as the RIAA and MPA got there already and sued them for building them.

The code on the rim says:

This Mars Rover was created by the people of Earth. Sorry for crashing a barbeque into the other side of your planet.

(from a colleague)
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#199145 - 19/01/2004 13:24 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: frog51]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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==---=---==--==-=-=-====-

----=---=-=--=-=-=-==----
==-----==-==---=-=---==-=
====-==-==--==---====-==-
=-=-=----=---==----==---=
=-=-----=
Took me about an hour to work it out...

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#199146 - 20/01/2004 09:04 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tman]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
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------=-===---=---=-=--=-==
=--===--=---==---=---==--=-
-====----==---===-==---===-
=-----==----=-=----=-==--=-
---=-=---==---=======--===-
=------=----==-=---=-=====-
-==

(I hope I spelled that right!!)
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#199147 - 20/01/2004 09:09 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tman]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
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Loc: Canada
What is it? Morse?

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#199148 - 20/01/2004 09:49 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: Geoff]
tman
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-==-===-==-====---==----=-==--=-==-=-==!

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#199149 - 20/01/2004 09:50 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: mlord]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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Nah. It's not morse. You definately need the first clue to work out the cipher however. Just doing it from the DVD ciphertext would be extremely hard.

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#199150 - 20/01/2004 10:00 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tman]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
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I started by picking the wrong plaintext for the first clue, which slowed me down a bit!
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#199151 - 20/01/2004 11:08 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: tman]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Say... would anyone be interested in helping with a couple of nasty geocache clues that use crypto? There are three local caches (all by the same moron) around here that are just medium level crypto problems -- solvable by anyone who wants to spend the time. Or more quickly by anyone who knows what they are doing.

Eg. this one.

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#199152 - 20/01/2004 11:19 Re: Red Rover Goes to Mars [Re: mlord]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Hmm... Nice background image I'll have a look in a sec.

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