The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Gokul43201]

Yikes ! Is that your question ?

 

[Mk]

Lol, if you have no idea I'll give you a hint I guess.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bah, must go. First guess: Sony's ESPER Laboratory??

No, but you have the right idea.

 

[Mk]

I really don't know what you mean. Does this have to do with Art Bell at all? (I don't like George Noory)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No

I don't care for George either.

 

[honestrosewater]

More clues!

Mk, is that a trick question? 57*N 12*E?

 

[Mk]

In order:
You must unscramble the letters.

They form two words, and some letters are rotated, or backwards.

The Mac version recently came out.

Make sure you've turned on the right extra layers!

Check on the coast, a bit to the East.

 

[honestrosewater]

In order:
You must unscramble the letters.

They form two words, and some letters are rotated, or backwards.

The Mac version recently came out.

Yeah, Google Earth, right? I got that much.

Make sure you've turned on the right extra layers!

Check on the coast, a bit to the East.

Bah... guess I have to get it. Red fox, Tripoli, submarines... hmmm...

 

[Mk]

Yep.

 

[honestrosewater]

Oh, yeah, who's the master?

The Foxtrot Subs in Tripoli are at approximately 32*54' N 13*13' E

 

[Mk]

No, not quite.

You see, I think you are looking at the wrong Tripoli. I meant the one in Tanzania.

Ha ha, just kidding. You win!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It is right in front of you.

 

[honestrosewater]

It is right in front of you.

Are you watching me again?

Something on our computer screens?

Another trick question? A LASER mouse?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

no
maybe, maybe not.
no

Quick definitions (telekinesis)

noun: the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force.

I would end the sentence after "by thinking about it", but the definition given works well enough in this case.

 

[Mk]

I can type better by thinking about it, then trying.

The little mouse on the screen, I can move that like by thinking about it.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Okay, close enough. A quadraplegic first moved a cursor on a computer screen by thinking about it[correctly]. Of course, in principle that's all that you need to connect to physical systems and control them with thought; hence artificial telekinesis.

Mk, what do you mean that you can move the cursor by thinking about it?

 

[Mk]

What's going on here? It looks like you congratulated me, then asked what I meant.

 

[honestrosewater]

Okay, close enough. A quadraplegic first moved a cursor on a computer screen by thinking about it[correctly]. Of course, in principle that's all that you need to connect to physical systems and control them with thought; hence artificial telekinesis.

Mk, what do you mean that you can move the cursor by thinking about it?

Oh, I should have gotten that; I even saw a show about those sensor implants. Cool stuff.

Someone else can go while I think of a clue from Mk's.

 

[Mk]

No, no no. Honestrosewater gets a turn. I didn't know the answer anyway.

 

[honestrosewater]

I don't have anymore clues. Okay, you must wear masks and can't play the same way twice. What do you call a follower of the theological system developed by the person who the boy who this game is named after is named after?

 

[Mk]

What kind of culture is this game played in?

I need a hint.

 

[honestrosewater]

I imagine it helps to play at least partially in your imagination. Ball appears in game's name.

 

[Mk]

The boy is Confucius, and the religion is Confucianism, the followers are Confused, and the game is Confusing-ball.

 

[honestrosewater]

Hee hee. Okay, random bits of info...

1985
male child of russ watters
tiger
Job 41

 

[honestrosewater]

Did anyone look up Job 41? It's about something pretty rare. The striped friend of the boy who the game is named after is named after a guy who wrote a book about the creature in Job 41 ... or the COMMONWEALTH... uh... or STATE... (in Latin, CIVITAS), which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; the magistrates and other officers of judicature and execution, artificial joints; reward and punishment (by which fastened to the seat of the sovereignty, every joint and member is moved to perform his duty) are the nerves, that do the same in the body natural; the wealth and riches of all the particular members are the strength; salus populi (the people's safety) its business; counsellors, by whom all things needful for it to know are suggested unto it, are the memory; equity and laws, an artificial reason and will; concord, health; sedition, sickness; and civil war, death... :zzz:

 

[Mk]

Huh? You lost me at "Today, 3:37, honestrosewater"

 

[honestrosewater]

Huh? You lost me at "Today, 3:37, honestrosewater"

You're only 3 hours ahead of me?

 

[honestrosewater]

Oh, right, the clue.

It's in a friggin comic strip... a comic strip about a boy's adventures with his doll... er, stuffed tiger... fierce, stuffed tiger...

Erm, you did realize that Job is a book of the Bible? And 41 refers to the chapter of the book... ?? I thought that was a pretty big clue...

 

[Mk]

I haven't tried since I asked you for a hint

If you are on the East Coast, then I am 15 hours ahead of you. It was 3:35 PM, on Tuesday here.

 

[Mk]

What do you call a follower of the theological system developed by the person who the boy who this game is named after is named after?

Calvanist.