Secret Contents of a Certain Government Warehouse
J. Lilly
through the newsgroups to which I've posted this message. The essense of
the thread was a game to name the contents of the warehouse where
all those "conspiracy" items the government doesn't want you to know about
are kept.
Some examples were: Paul Bunyan's Axe, The Ark of the Covenant,Intact
copies of the Watergate Tapes, the HAL 9000 computer, the sword Excalibre,
etc.
The file I saved is version 0.1 of the document compiled by Stirling
Westrup (at the time, e-mail address stir...@ozrout.uucp). Does anyone
have a more current copy of this document? The version I have is not
complete and I'd like to have a better version. If you happen to have
such a thing, I'd appreciate a copy.
Thanks,
Jill Lilly
--
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Jill Lilly Oregon Hearing Research Center
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Heather White
You know, if there is a copy of this floating around I would appreciate
a copy also... :)
Timothy Toner
J. Lilly <lil...@ohsu.edu> wrote:
>The file I saved is version 0.1 of the document compiled by Stirling
>Westrup (at the time, e-mail address stir...@ozrout.uucp). Does anyone
>have a more current copy of this document? The version I have is not
>complete and I'd like to have a better version. If you happen to have
>such a thing, I'd appreciate a copy.
Funny you should mention this. I'm currently trying to revise my
copy of 0.1 into 0.2, which is cleanign everything up, and lopping
off the deadwood, as well as adding all the nifty stuff the x-files
has offered up. I'm still in the thick of it, but will try to
post the work-in-progress sometime this weekend.
--
Timothy Toner - than...@interaccess.com - And now from Mr. Punch, by N. Gaiman
"One cannot lie if one writes in blood. There is too much responsibility:
and the ghosts of those one has killed will rise up and twist the pen down
true lines...That's why deals with the Devil must be signed in blood."
Timothy Toner
I plan to fill in most of the one-liners. Any suggestions/additions
are welcome, but PLEASE do not "bounce" me the entire text, with a
one line comment. 8^p}
Secret Contents of a Certain Government Warehouse
Version 0.1
Compiled by Stirling Westrup
At stir...@ozrout.uucp
Version 0.2
Compiled by Timothy Toner
At than...@interaccess.com
This file attempts to catalog and describe the contents of a particular secret
government warehouse. In the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", this warehouse
was the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. Likewise, the first
episode of the "War of the Worlds" TV series shows that the Martian war
machines from the first invasion attempt were also stored in this warehouse.
This file is in its preliminary stages still. The first dozen or so entries
have been done in more or less the format that I would eventually like the
whole list to follow. I haven't had time to do more than a first pass over the
rest of the list, but folks are clamoring for a progress report, so I figured
I'ld post what I've accomplished so far. Anyone who wants to help out by
sending details, corrections or new entries should see the section on editorial
policy, to make this compiler's life a bit easier.
Folks who have already helped with their contributions include:
Greg Barnes (gr...@cs.washington.edu),
Chris Barrus (chr...@golem.ps.uci.edu),
The Beast (be...@maple.circa.ufl.edu),
Belgarath the Sorcerer (ba...@lea.csc.ncsu.edu),
Jeff Berry (ne...@co2.cgd.ucar.edu),
Dave Bonar (eeb...@lsuvax.sncc.lsu.edu),
Seth Bradley (sbra...@iWarp.intel.com),
Matt Brockman (mbro...@en.ecn.purdue.edu),
Jeff Brown (jbr...@u.washington.edu),
Stan Brown (br...@NCoast.ORG),
Paul Butterworth (p...@uk.ac.hw.cs),
Dack A. Carroll (2390carrolld.vms.csd.mu.edu),
David R. Conrad (da...@michigan.com),
Conty (co...@cbnewsl.cb.att.com),
Frank Crary (fcr...@lightning.Berkeley.EDU),
Kevin Darling (kdar...@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu),
Drew Davidson (davi...@cs.unc.edu),
David Dryer (dr...@leland.Stanford.EDU),
Andrew Durston (a...@hotld.att.com),
Tim Dunn (td...@ecst.csuchico.edu),
P. Floyd (pfl...@wpi.WPI.EDU),
John Francis (jo...@apollo.hp.com),
Serge Gilette (gil...@mimosa.unice.fr),
Jeff Graham (gra...@cs.utk.edu),
Adam Goldberg (gold...@iastate.edu),
Richard Griffith (r...@doe.carleton.ca),
David m Harmon (d...@world.std.com),
Pete Hardie (pe...@nyet.UUCP),
Deus Imperator (tgt3...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu),
C Irby (ci...@vaxb.acs.unt.edu),
Faisal Nameer Jawdat (fj...@andrew.cmu.edu),
Sam Jones (samj...@carina.unm.edu),
Richard Kennaway (j...@sys.uea.ac.uk),
Ernest Kim (kraz...@bucsf.BU.EDU!krazykid),
William Kucharski (kuch...@solbourne.com),
KUVAMP (kuv...@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu),
Geoff Lane (zza...@uts.mcc.ac.uk),
Charles Anthony Leone (cl...@andrew.cmu.edu),
J. L. Martinez (j...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu),
Travis McCord (mcc...@equinox.unr.edu),
Elizabeth Mccoy (Elizabe...@bbs.oit.unc.edu),
Bryan McDonald (big...@erg.sri.com),
Thomas Miller (tmi...@prism.gatech.EDU),
Morpheus (morp...@maple.circa.ufl.edu),
Jered M. Moses (jm...@po.CWRU.Edu),
Chris Nasipak (v116...@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu),
Lance Neustaeter (la...@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca),
Brennan "CrayDeath" O'Keefe (bm...@Isis.MsState.Edu),
Mitchell Patterson (patt...@cs.scarolina.edu),
Benjamin R Pierce (v124...@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu),
Randy M. Roberts (r...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu),
Bruce Rodean (rod...@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com),
Jonathan Sari (su...@milton.u.washington.edu),
William Geoffrey Shotts (ws...@andrew.cmu.edu),
Larry Smith (sm...@ctron.com),
Stephen P Spackman (ste...@tira.uchicago.edu),
Graham Toal (gt...@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl),
Lance Visser (vis...@convex.com),
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen (tor...@lise1.lise.unit.no),
Steven Markus Woodcock (swoo...@isis.cs.du.edu),
Brent L. Woods (woo...@helios.ecn.purdue.edu),
John ??? (jxy...@psuvm.psu.edu)
Timothy Toner (than...@interaccess.com)
Editorial Policy
----------------
The vast majority of items described below have been suggested by others, and
some of them I've never heard of before. As a consequence, I've had to either
research the details, or make them up out of whole cloth. In some of the
entries I am likely to have made mistakes. If you think you've found an error,
or just have something to add, don't hesitate to let me know.
If you want to make an addition, then please try to give more explanation than
a single line (although I'll take that as well). I may not have seen the movie,
or read the book that you are refering to, and I want the final list to give
enough information on each item for a GM to be able to adjudicate the uses of
things *he* has never heard of. At the end of this file is a list of suggested
items that I could not figure out. Any help with them is also welcome. I should
also mention that this list is being cross-posted to a fair number of
newsgroups, and I am not a member of all of them. If you wish to insure that I
see your replies, then either cross-post them to rec.games.frp or send me
e-mail. Oh, and please don't include the full text of this document in your
replies to me, as I already have a copy.
Not all items suggested will be included in this list, or unchanged if they
are. Sometimes I will get several similar suggestions and will combine them
into a single entry. Also, I will sometimes modify entries in an (ultimately
futile) attempt at some sort of consistancy. Finally, not all items are
suitable for inclusion in the warehouse. The following criteria have been been
used to determine what belongs and what doesn't:
A) The object must have some interest value, either as a curiosity, or as
something that a bunch of role-players could have fun experimenting with.
We want the role players who stumble upon this place to start openning
boxes like a 5 year-old at Christmas.
B) It has to be something that a Government Agency could get their hands on.
This means that items that were created, used, and destroyed without any
Government Agent ever hearing about it, won't be in the warehouse. This
does not necessarily refer to the U.S. Government. The Global Conspiracy
has its tentacles in all Governments, and the warehouse can be potentially
anywhere on the planet.
C) If the item is known to have been destroyed then the warehouse will only
contain the remnants, photographs, eye witness accounts, or other surviving
remnants. In some cases it will contain a working model, plans, or a
successful attempt to duplicate the item in question.
D) The warehouse is a contemporary structure. Although it houses several time
machines, they are not used by the Collection Agency in its work. This
means that objects from the far future will not be in the warehouse, unless
that object was transported back in time by other forces.
E) In the same vein, objects from the far side of the universe will also not be
found in the structure, unless they are the sorts of things a spacefaring
race would be likely to carry around.
F) The item must be something that the Government would want to hide away in
the warehouse. Simply being rare and valuable is not sufficient. The
classes of items that are collected are:
1) Things that would be dangerous in the hands of the general public.
This includes most James Bond type miniature weapons systems,
Telepathic helmets, Teleportation beams, and the like.
2) Things that would embarrass the government if they were known.
This is why most of the conspiracy stuff is in the warehouse. Things
like the missing parts of the Nixon tapes, the details on the October
Surprise, the failed assasination attempt on Santa Claus, and other
Bloopers, Blunders and Government gaffes.
3) Things that weaken the Government's control on the people.
Things falling in this category are cold fusion devices, perpetual
motion machines, cars that don't need gasoline and food plants that
can grow anywhere without tending.
4) Things that the scientists haven't figured out yet.
This includes most futuristic and alien stuff. The fully detailed
photographs of "the face on Mars", showing laser burns and such, the
notes of the doctors who examined ET, a near-complete copy of
"The Red Book of Westmarch"
5) Surprises for other countries, in case of attack.
Here we have the assorted treaty-violating weapons, such as the
speaker stacks from a Disaster Area concert, orbital mind-control
lasers, prototype phaser weapons, and details on various Doomsday
Machines.
In general, you should assume that if the warehouse's doors were thrown open,
whoever isn't vaporized or eaten would:
1) Tear down all authority with their bare hands.
2) Be forced to reevaluate everything they know about Life, the
Universe and Everything
3) Be scared witless
[[ A quick thanks to Travis McCord who pointed out the need for me to post these
criteria, and whom I've just shamelessly plagiarized. :-) ]]
Since this list is far from complete, it contains various editorial notes;
mainly pleas for approval or cries for extra detail. These notes will be set
aside from the main text, by being enclosed in double square brackets,
[[ like the note just above ]].
One final note for the humor impaired: What follows is all a joke. No one is
expected to take any of this seriously. No bias, either for or against any
particular group should be infered from an object's inclusion in this list.
The only criteria used for deciding which things will be found in the warehouse
are those posted above.
[Addendum to the Warehouse List:
Who'dathunk that less than two years after we slapped this baby
together on the old rec.games.frp, a show would come along that would
make all this worthwhile. I am of course referring to the X-Files, a show
that weekly shows the weirdness outside of the window, and gives us reason
to fear the government yet again.
In this addendum, I've endeavored to clean up some of the problem
points, as well as add a few that have cropped up in recent months. Once
again, any help in making this top-of-the-line is appreciated. Don't quote
whole cloth; just append where necessary, and I'll try to collate the
revisions.
From time to time, I've also considered "clearing house," deleting items
that, IMO, would NOT be in this kind of warehouse, such as Stormbringer. As far
as I am aware, there's really no reason for Stormbringer to exist in this
reality, except to say, "Cool! Stormbringer!" However, I respect the hard work
and suggestions of others, and have let them stand
The bottom half of the message consist of One-liners (theoretically
humorous items) and Stumpers, which are usually more fun to figure out on your
own. However, in the interest of making this resource useful, I will, where
possible, include a reference to what precisely this all means in brackets {}
-Timothy Toner than...@interaccess.com]
And so, without further ado, here's the warehouse:
=======================================================
Background
----------
The world is actually being run by a coalition of secret societies and cabals,
known (to a few) as the Global Conspiracy. This group long ago decided that
certain knowledges and materials are too disruptive to be allowed to fall into
subversive hands. These materials were also considered to be too potentially
useful to be destroyed. Instead, a secret warehouse was established in which to
store these dangerous items and a covert task force, known as the Collection
Agency, was formed to oversee their procurement and storage. This task force
has grown increasingly more conservative over the years, and as a result, many
items have been stored away on the pretext that it is better to be safe than
sorry. If the Collection Agency determines that you have an object that would
be better off in more responsible hands, then you would be well advised to
simply give it up. Remember, they have the full resources of the warehouse to
back them up, should they become desperate.
The Warehouse
-------------
The Warehouse is a huge structure, divided into three major areas. Each area is
used to hold items which present different storage problems. The first area is
for items which require no special treatment, the second area is for items that
need to be kept cold in order to be properly preserved, and the third area is
for items which require a constant power supply. A crude ASCII map should give
the right idea:
+-----------------------------------------------------+----------------------+
| # |
| Area 'A' - Main Storage ! Area 'B' |
| ! Refrigerated Storage |
| ! |
| Assume a uniform ceiling height of 20m (60 ft) ! |
| ! |
| Scale: 1 square = ~3m (10 ft) ! |
| ! |
| Legend: ! |
| + Wall Intersection # |
| - Horizontal, solid wall (armored) +----------------------+
| | Vertical, solid wall (armored) | Power Generators |
| O External security door (armored) | and Refrigerators |
| = Huge external cargo door (armored) +----------------------+
| ! Mobile internal wall panel # |
| # Human-sized door in a mobile wall panel ! Area 'C' |
| ! Powered Storage |
| ! |
| ! |
| ! |
| # |
+--============-----------------------============O---+----------------------+
Area 'A', the first area is, by far, the largest. It is maintained at a
constant temperature of 15 C (60 F) and a constant humidity of 10%.
[[ I assume that these are reasonable conditions for bulk storage. Does anyone
know better? ]]
Area 'B' is an enormous refrigerator. It is separated from the Area 'A' by a
wall of insulated panels. The panels are mounted in tracks on the floor and
ceiling, and are hinged where they join. They can be folded away so as to form
a large opening for cargo to be moved in or out. There is a motor provided for
this purpose, with controls on the only section of the right hand wall of Area
'A' that is not mobile. At each end of the refrigerator is a normal sized door
to allow folks in or out without having to move the walls. The interior of the
refrigerator is kept at a frigid -60 C (-76 F) at all times.
Area 'C' is just slightly smaller than Area 'B'. It contains all of the items
which require some form of active environmental protection. This includes all
machinery which the collection agency could not (or dared not) turn off.
This section also houses all of the equipment that is regularly used by the
warehouse, or its staff. Like Area 'B', this area also has mobile walls, and a
motor to move them.
Staff
-----
[[
I've gotten lots of suggestions for staff members here. Everyone from Elvis to
Warhol. At the moment, I don't have anyone in particular running the place.
Why not send me your vote for favorite custodian. Folks already suggested are:
Andy Warhol
Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis Presley
Santa Claus
Andy Kaufman
]]
Packaging
---------
Any item in Area 'A' of the warehouse that is smaller than about 3m (10 feet)
on a side is sealed in a wooden crate. There are several huge crates in the
area but most of the larger items are either laying exposed on pallets, or are
covered by tarpaulins. No crate is smaller than 60 cm (2 feet) on a side,
regardless of the size of the contents. All crates are strongly reinforced,
since they are stacked 20 deep in places.
All of the items in the refrigerated section are sealed in crates to avoid ice
evaporation. This is a storage regulation, so even articles which contain no
ice, but need to be stored cold, will be in crates.
There are far fewer items in section 'C', than in the other sections. Since the
items in this section require some sort of constant upkeep, none of them are
stored in crates. Instead, each item has a custom metal cabinet that folds
aside to reveal the contents. All of the cabinets are locked, and only the
custodian has the keys. (The cabinets would not be particularly difficult to
break into). A few of the truely large items in this area are not fully
enclosed, but merely have a cabinet built around their control sections.
Markings
--------
Most crates and cabinets in the warehouse bare no markings other than a
standard identification code. A few containers have warnings about fragile
contents, or which end must be placed up. Workers in this warehouse have been
thoroughly impressed by the dangers of ignoring these warnings. As a
consequence, all warnings, no matter how strange, are rigidly followed.
The identification codes that are used is a varient on the standard US military
scheme. Each code is in the form:
XXX-NNNN-PP
where XXX is a three letter code, NNNN is a item number within that three-letter
code grouping, and PP is an optional part number for items which have been
disassembled and stored in several crates. Most crates have a four digit item
number, since less than 10,000 items were expected to be found in any one
category. In the cases where this has proved false, extra digits have been
added.
[[ I'm not totally happy with what follows. Even using broad categories, I can
easily list more than 26 common purposes for items. And Principals of Operation
can sometimes be REAL hard to figure out. :-) ]]
The three letter codes are interpreted as follows:
First letter - Purpose
A Analysis Object analyzes or describes other objects
B Battle Object is intended to be used in battle
C Control Object extends users control to other objects
D Data Object contains or is a large collection of information
E Evidence Object is evidence supporting a theory or claim
F Specimen Object is to be subjected to further investigation later
G Generation Object produces matter or energy
H Repair Object maintains or repairs other objects
I Invocation Object helps secure a supernatural being's favor or blessing
J Enjoyment Object is designed to bring pleasure or entertain.
K Transformation Object converts one thing into another
L Logic Object performs calculations or computations.
M Model Object is a (possibly working) scale model of something
N Nourishment Object is intended to provide food
O Observation Object gathers information via some sensing method
P Propulsion Object is intended to move objects it is attached to
Q Duplication Object is intended to replicate other objects
R Regulation Object governs the actions of another object
S Summoning Object produces the physical form of a supernatural being
T Transportation Object moves material, while remaining stationary
U Universal Object is capable of an enormous range of operations
V Vehicle Object's main purpose is transportation of people or cargo
W Misc Any purpose not covered elsewhere.
X Unknown No known purpose for this object
Y Not applicable Concept of purpose is not compatible with this object
Z Reflexive Object provides purpose
Second letter - Principal of Operation
A Atomic Works by harnessing nuclear forces
B Biological Object is biological, or has biological components
C Complex Machine Uses electronic, electric and mechanical principles
D Divine works due to intersession of a supernatural force or god
E Electromagnetic Works due to electromagnetic principals
F Flow Works by controlling flow of a substance
G Gravitic Works by harnessing Gravitational forces
H Modifies Laws Works by modifying physical laws
I Inert Object is an inert substance with interesting properties
J Chemical Object works by chemical reactions
K Kinetic Works through manipulation of kinetic energy
L Logic Flaw Object works despite the fact that it clearly cannot
M Magical Object uses mystical forces
N Nanotechnology Object is constructed of billions of tiny robots
O Physical Law Works by obeying simple laws of physics (eg. boats float)
P Psychic Operates using mental energy
Q Quantum Works at a sub-atomic level
R Recursive Object works due to effects caused by its operation
S Simple Machine Works via cogs, levers, pulleys, springs, etc.
T Temporal Object manipulates time
U Solid State Object is a solid-state electronic device
V Environmental Object interacts with its environment in unique ways
W Misc Any operating principal not covered elsewhere
X Unknown No known pricipal of operation
Y Not applicable Principal of operation is not an object-compatible concept
Z Reflexive Object is acted upon, it does not act itself
Third letter - Method of Use
A Autonomous Object is self activated and self controlled
B Bi-state Object is either OFF or ON, it has no other controls
C Consumed Object must be consumed or injected to have effect
D Directed Object accepts commands and attempts to carry them out
E Extension Object behaves as an extension of the users body
F
G
H Hand operated Object's control surface is manipulated by hand
I Installed Object must be installed or inserted in other equipment
J
K
L Logic Program Object must be carefully programmed before use
M Material Object is a raw material in some process
N
O
P Piloted Object requires continuous operation of controls to function
Q
R Ritualistic Object is operated by ritual gestures, words or activities
S
T Telepathic Object obeys thoughts or desires of user
U Uncontrolled Object is in continuous operation, and cannot be turned off
V
W Misc Methods of use not covered elsewhere
X Unknown No method of use is known for this object
Y Not applicable Method of Use is not a concept compatible with this object
Z Reflexive Object controls user
Entry Format
------------
The idividual entries that follow are all in the same form:
XXX-NNNN-PP Area AAA CCCCC SSSxSSSxSSS
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Where:
XXX-NNNN-PP is the identification code
AAA is the storage area, one of: 'A', 'B' or 'C'
CCCCC is the container type, one of: Crate, Tarp, Pallet or Cabinet
SSS is the size in centimeters (length, then width, then height)
WWWWWWWWWW is any warning text that may be on the container
TTTTTTTTTT is detailed explanatory text on the object
Eventually, all measurements will be in both metric and imperial. Bare with me.
Warehouse Contents
------------------
IDR-5626 Area 'A' Crate 150x200x150
[Note: This is the official designation. The box does not bear any sort of
stencil, since all markings on the outside of the box are eventually
obliterated by the Ark]
Ark of the Covenant
Called the "Aron Haberit" in Hebrew, this ornate, gold-plated wooden chest
was built to hold the two tablets given to Moses by God. The Ark was only ever
opened by the High Priest of the Temple during Yom Kippur. The Isrealites
occasionaly took the Ark into battle with them to insure the favor of God.
As shown in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", anyone opening the Ark would
release Angelic beings so beautiful that those looking upon them would die.
Presumably there are other uses for the Ark.
In the Old Testament, there is a account of a group of non-Levites (Levites
were the Hebrew priest caste) who recovered the Ark after it was lost in a
battle. At one point, the cart they were using to carry it back teetered, and
the Ark began to slide off. One of the non-Levites moved to catch it, and was
struck dead on the spot. It is presumed that the WWII incident occurred during
a state of relative dormancy, though it should be noted that the US government
went through an extensive search to find Levite warehouse workers who would help
put it in storage. {Raiders of the Lost Ark}
[[ I know nothing about Jewish culture, or Christian theology, so the above was
taken from memories of the movie, and my Encyclopedia. ]]
RFI-0076 Area 'A' Crate 60x60x60
100 MPG Carburetor
This automobile carburetor makes use of venturi vortex phenomena in order to
provide a gas/fuel mixture which is much leaner than provided by an ordinary
carburetor, but which, nevertheless, burns just as well. This leads to
greatly increased gas mileage, as much as a 350% improvement in many cases.
This item has been long suppressed, since the fuel shortage is a major method
used to control the world populace.
[[ I've heard of this gadget hundreds of times. Does anyone have a more
'authoritative' description, than my memory? ]]
BCP-0107 Area 'A' Pallet 600x600x400
BCP-0108 Area 'A' Pallet 600x600x400
BCP-0109 Area 'A' Pallet 600x600x400
Martian War Machines (3)
After the failed Martian invasion at Grovers Mills on October 30, 1938
as described by Orson Wells in his classic broadcasts, several of the Martian
war machines were recovered and placed in the warehouse. A successful
coverup campaign managed to convince most of the world that the broadcasts had
been a hoax, or a radio play.
The devices appear to be large metal tripods, 30 ft. tall, with
retractable, prehensile limbs. Two main weapons were the notorious "heat ray,"
which consisted of a mirror and a hitherto unknown energy source, and several
cannisters of a highly toxic substance that acts as a contact poison. Not even
full biowarfare gear can protect the user from exposure. The agent is
administered in a great cloud, which kills in seconds. However, the cloud is
extremely dense, and highly unstable. Within hours, the components disperse,
leaving the area breathable.
{War of the Worlds, short story, movie, and TV series, and Invasion from
Mars, radio play}
FBY-0003 Area 'B' Crate 250x200x75
Dead Martians (3)
Each of the Martian War Machines (see PCB-0107) had a crew of [[2??]] and
after the crew had succumbed to Earthly diseases, the bodies were collected for
examination. Three bodies were preserved for future research.
The creatures consisted of three armed tripeds, with three digits on all
extremities. Their three eyes were compound, and their skin was a mottled
brown-to-scarlet. {Ibidem}
VXP-0015-?? Area 'A'
Parts of a cut up UFO from "My Science Project"
[[ Various weird parts need to be invented. ]]
TTL-0002 Area 'A'
Smashed pieces of the time gizmo from "The Philedelphia Experiment" {The
Philadelphia Experiment}
WEB-0001-26 Area 'A' PALL
Dissembled pieces of the actual gizmo from The Philadelphia Experiment
During WWII, the USN worked on a process whereby a large metal object would
be subjected to a massive electromagnetic field by transduction, in order to
affect the flow of radio waves around the object. The hope was to create a
primitive stealth technology for the extemely primitive radar systems then
entering the war.
The experiment worked all too well; the ship's powerful field interacted with
the earth's field, and transported the ship some 200 miles instantaneously. How
this precisely occurred is unknown. The only proof is the eyewitness account of
one Gregory Allende, supposedly on the ship, a newspaper account discussing a
bar brawl in Norfolk, VA between bar patrons and several members of the crew of
the USS Philadelphia, which should have been 200 miles away that night in
Philadelphia!
Allende, who received a Section 8 discharge from the service, claimed
that several crewmates suffered horrendous side-effect from the experiment,
including spontaneous human combustion, discorporation, and even
disintegration. Crewmembers were treated simultaneously for frostbite and
third-degree burns soon after the experiment. Most went insane, which would
explain Allende's actions, and all are dead now, most from various forms of
cancer.
GAI-
Engine that runs on tap water
G[CSEL][BU]- Area 'A'
A whole bunch of perpetual motion dohickeys.
[[ Most of these gizmos will be in Area 'A', but a few (any of type GR_ for
instance) will be in Area 'C' since they cannot be shut off without breaking
them. If anyone can send me a list of different PM attempts, and/or some
references then I could fill this section in more fully. ]]
DZH
Conspiracy theory books that were too close to the truth.
The Compleat Charles Fort
[[ Does anyone have a good list of conspiracy theory books that are out
there? We should have at least a dozen. ]]
QBA-0623 Area 'A'
Full body cloning machine
This consists of two man-sized glass tubes connected by a large amount of
piping, tubing and machinery. There are no visible controls. The machine has
a self-contained power supply (cold fusion). The right-hand tube has a
door-latch on it, while the left-hand tube does not. If someone steps into the
first tube, and the door is closed, then a clone will rapidly grow in the
second tube. In less than an hour, a the clone tube will open, and an exact
copy of the original will step out. The clone will have the clothing,
manerisms, scars and memories of the original. It will be very difficult to
tell them apart. (Note that this is clearly a movie-tradition cloning machine,
rather than something with a bit more sound science behind it.)
RTB-0007 Area 'C'
A rack of 16 stasis booths
This is a large bank of man-sized glass tubes. It requires continuous
energy to operate. If its power is ever removed, then all of the folks in the
booths will wake up. Nine of the twelve tubes already have occupants. Each
occupant has a code number. The codes and occupants are:
UBA-0002 Al Capone
UBA-0003 J. F. Kennedy
UBA-0005 Hitler
UBA-0006 Elvis
UBA-0007 Hitler
UBA-0009 Elvis
UBA-0010 Elvis
UBA-0017 Jimmy Hoffa
EIY-0098
Fragments of metal from Amelia Earhart's plane and a lab report.
The lab report indicates that the metal fragments were from the wing tips
of Amelia Earhart's plane, and were found on a desert island. Analysis shows
the pieces were subjected to great amounts of stress along a single axis.
Residual traces of unusual energy patterns were also found. The report
concludes that Amelia's plane was either caught in the tractor beam of a flying
saucer, or fell through a dimensional rift.
DZH-9615
A package of detailed plans for controlling the world by manipulating the
world food and energy shortages
GBA-0614
Experimental seeds for a plant that grows rapidly in salt water and produces
highly nutritional tubers, that could solve the worlds food problems.
BCP-0204
BCP-0205
2 Prototypes of the Avro Arrow Fighter plane.
VXP-0009
The UFO from Hanger 3 of Wright-Patterson AFB. [[Does anyone have a
description of this?]]
FBY-1006 Area 'B'
A caveman, as in the movie "Iceman"
FBY-1007 Area 'B'
A Mamoth, in a block of ice. It was eating buttercups at the time it froze.
FBY-1008 Area 'B'
A hideous alien frozen in ice.
This is "The Thing" from the story by John Carpenter, and the movie of the
same name.
FBY-1009
A collection of giant insects, ranging from an ant from Them!, the spider from
Tarantula, and the giant Prey Mantis killed in the Holland Tunnel.
FBY-1010 Area 'C'
The Blob
A great crystalline glop, clear red in color, about the size of a house.
It is stored in a plexiglass case (inside the crate). From the movie "The Blob"
PJH-1602
The Cirrus X-3 jetpack, fireproof suit and helmet
This was built by the Government according to a set of plans they managed to
aquire. This jetpack and suit are identical to those shown in the movie
"Rocketeer". The jetpack burns pure alcohol, and holds about 2l, enough for
1 hour of flight. [[ Size of fuel compartment, and flight times are just off
the top of my head. Anyone have any better numbers? ]]
FBY- Area 'C'
A number of clear cylinders full of bubbling liquid, and parts of people
and aliens. One container contains Hitler's brain. Another holds a creature
from the movie "Aliens", in the facehugger shape. [[ What other living specimens
should there be? ]]
NIC-0007
An artificial sweetner that tastes exactly like sugar, has no side effects,
and no calories.
EBY-0602
A fosilized Dinosaur bone with a bullet imbeded in it.
EXY-0107
A set of moon rocks that beep when exposed to moonlight (from an episode of
"Green Acres").
GJI-0010
Cheap batteries that can put out full power for 25 years.
GAH-0078
A cold fusion electrical generator.
GAH-0079
A machine that eats nuclear waste, gives off power, and produces inert
materials.
HBC-0011
A Cure for the common cold.
FBY-0901
A diorama contrasting the bodies of a Yeti and a Bigfoot. Both bodies are
stuffed and mounted in 'lifelike' poses.
FBY-0002
The skeleton of a Merman.
FBY-0009
The skeleton of the missing link. [[How could anyone tell?]]
IDA-0034
The Holy Grail
BMH-0016
Excalibur {Arthurian Legend}
A broadsword from roughly 1000 AD with a woman's hand still gripping
the handle
BMH-0017
Dyrnwyth {Mabignogian, Prydain Chronicles}
FBY-0012
The Loch Ness Monster (stuffed)
VIP-0106
Noah's Ark
BMH-0018
The Spear of Destiny
This is suposedly the spear (wielded by Casca :-) ) that was shoved into the
side of Jesus while he was on the cross. There are also rumors that it may have
once belonged to Odin.
The Spear of Destiny resufaced from time to time in European history.
According to legend, any leader who wielded it into battle simply could not
lose. One now understands Hitler's fixation with it.
_M_
Der Ring De Niebelungen
[[ What is this, and what does it do? ]]
HMC-0002
Water from the Fountain of Youth
WKH-0002
Paul Bunyan's Axe
[[ Just how big would this be, anyway, 10m long?? ]]
DZH-0022
The Necronomicon by Abd ul'hazred [[ spelling? ]]
DZH-0023
DZH-0027
DZH-0096
Plans for an ftl drive.
The Smoot Drive:
This device works by teleporting an object one "smoot" (1 atomic radius)
in a given direction. Repeating the cycle fast enough gives the illusion of
motion, but motion without inertia. {Open Space, comic book}
[[ Does anyone know of any good ftl drive descriptions to put in here? ]]
MQI-0023
A model of an ftl drive (plastic cut-away).
[[ Suggestions, anyone? ]]
MHI-0016
A working model of an ftl drive.
Will have to be scaled up in order to move anything more massive than about
20 kg. [[ Suggestions? ]]
PQI-0009
Prototype FTL drive, built from the plans labeled DZH-0023
PHI-0010
A prototype Warp drive.
RWD-0034
Rover, the security ball from the "Prisoner" TV show.
Rover is a 2m diameter, translucent white balloon, that roars, and can roll
and bounce faster than a man. It attacks by englobing and suffocating its
victim. It can either render someone unconcious and carry them, or kill them
outright. It has a rudimentary brain, since it can understand some simple
orders.
CHP-0055 Area 'C'
Dimensional transmogrifier
This unit is regularly used by the warehouse maintenance staff. It
manipulates the physical space of the warehouse, so that it may appear in a
variety of locations, of different sizes. One week warehouse's entrance will
be underneath the Statue of Liberty, the next it will be in the middle of the
Arizona Desert.
DZI-0016
Secret Kennedy Kidnapping Film
A film reel of the JFK 'assasination' taken from close by, and in front of,
the main procession. The film clearly shows Kennedy being shot from the front,
but with a strange dart. It also reveals that bodies were switched within a
second of JFK collapsing. The film case is marked with a CIA file number, and
the words TOP SECRET.
DZH-0017
Collected JFK evidence from the National Archives.
All testimonies, photographs and lab reports which lent doubt to the
official story of the JFK assasination were collected and stored here.
Contents include the complete Zapruder film, the Director's cut of Oliver
Stone's JFK, as well as a tape-recorded interview with a witness who saw quite
distinctly a plume of smoke coming from the grassy knoll.
[[ Anyone want to provide details? ]]
DZI-0019
Intact Copies of the Watergate Tapes
[[ What interesting tidbits should be on these? ]]
The Plumber's uncovered the truth: that Nixon was really a Communist
stooge, a la The Manchurian Candidate. Liddy forces Nixon to resign, or all
will come clean. Liddy continually refers to someone else other than Nixon as
"his Prince."
DZH-0019
Documents on the Iran/Contra connection
[[ I'm not a conspiracy buff. Who wants to help out here? ]]
Fairly simple: Lt. Col. Oliver North sent money earmarked to help the
Contras in their war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Iran in the form of
weapons, etc., in exchange for influence in helping obtain the release of
several prisoners. This occurred in the middle of Reagan's worst sabre-rattling
tirades, with promises that we would not cave in to terrorism.
DZH-0020
Documents on the October Surprise conspiracy
During the 1980 Presidential campaign, the GOP sensed that they could
grab the presidency, but they needed to make Carter look ineffectual. Iran was
close to caving in to sanctions, imposed because they still held Americans
hostage. The GOP promised to look favorably on Iran and reward certain well
placed Iranaian officials if they would forestall the release of the hostages
(due to be released during October of 1980), until after the election. True to
their word, the Iranians relased the hostages during Reagan's inaugural speech,
thus making it historic.
DZH-0021
Documents on the BCCI, S&L and contra connection
[[ Again, any takers? ]]
DZH-0096
CIA reports on their drug running operations
DZH-0015
The CIA after-action report on its successful kidnapping of JFK
DZH-0023
The CIA after-action report and full laboratory procedure book on
the creation of the AIDS virus in government labs, including the
procedure for creating a cure/vaccine
DZH-0003
Text of simple geometric procedure for trisecting any angle
DZH-0002
The manuscript of Fermat's Last Theorem
This item was recently discovered missing, and presumed stolen.
EIY-0008
D. B. Cooper paraphenalia
Includes an empty money bag, a parachute, and a high-quality latex mask of
D. B. Cooper's features. D. B. Cooper was the first person to try highjacking
a plane for money. (His actual name is unknown; the name he gave when buying
the plane ticket was "D. B. Cooper".) It was back around 1970; he got into the
cockpit with a gun and demanded $250,000 and a parachute. He got the money
and chute at Seattle, and somewhere between Seattle and Portland, Oregon he went
out the emergency escape in the tail of the plane. He has not been seen since.
Some of his money was found back in the mid-80's in a bag by a lake in the
forests of southern Washington, and so many folks think it likely that he did
not survive his jump (the 727 was flying rather high and fast for the kind of
jumping he would have had to try), but D. B. himself, and over half the money,
is still missing. I recall that there was a bar here in Seattle in the late
70's, I think, that took Cooper's name and made him into something of a cult
hero, holding a big bash the night the statute of limitations ran out on the
sky-jacking charge (Cooper was the first, so the harsh laws on sky-jacking had
not yet been enacted), and offering something if D. B. actually showed up. If
he did, he came incognito.
EIY-0012
The Czar's missing crown jewels
[[ Does anyone have any idea why this would be in the warehouse? ]]
JZH-0003
The Killer Joke
Copies of the World's Funniest Joke from the Monty Python Skit. There is an
English, and a German version. Both versions are sealed in envelopes, with the
warning not to open an envelope if you speak the language of the version inside.
The joke is so funny that anyone reading or hearing the joke will die laughing
within 5 minutes. Even a few words of the joke can prove debilitating. {Monthy
Python}
BCP-0037
A supersonic intercontinental jet bomber developed by the Nazis
Luckily this bomber was captured long before it could ever be used.
DZH-0034
Expedition reports from the Hollow Earth
Photographs, journals and other report materials from an expedition to
the inside of the Earth via the hole at the North Pole.
DZH-0029
Santa Claus's security clearance application materials
Santa was only granted a low-level security clearance due to clear communist
tendencies, evidenced by his giving away of toys.
DZH-0012
The Last Order of Lenin
The Last Order of Lenin was a deathbed statement by Lenin, which was
supposedly an order that Stalin was to be purged, or prevented by the Party
from ever reaching power. At least this was the story cultivated by Stalin's
enemies and picked up outside the USSR to vilify him more as a renegade.
Stalin's people suppressed the order, if it ever existed, and officially, I
have heard, the Last Order was a typically Leninesque harangue for the Party,
etc., and unofficially (but the approved unofficial version) a secret plan of
his to further the spread of Communism throughout the world. The last order,
however, was far more sinister than most suppose...
According to most sources, the last command was to dismantle the whole
thing. The dictatorship of the proletariat would be far from temporary, and
thus the experiment was a failure. All who disagreed were to be executed.
[[ What should his last Orders have been? Suggestions? ]]
IDY-0009
The True Cross
DZH-0098
An English-Dolphin translator's dictionary
LUP-0016
Plans and Prototype Supercomputer
Using room temperature superconductors, this little baby packs the power of
several Cray XMP's into what appears to be a coke can. The can has a spot at
one end for two AA cells to be inserted. The other end of the cylinder is an
area of what appears to be metallic putty, or perhaps viscous mercury. This is,
in fact, a universal I/O port. Any data cable can be pushed down into the
malleable surface, and the computer will figure out whats on the other end, and
how to talk to it. Dispite its malleability, the putty cannot be removed from
the end of the can, without exerting enough force to break the computer.
BMH-0009
Stormbringer
A black sword, with red runes on it, unearthed in western Canada with a
petrified human skeleton. The sword is dated as being older than the
earth where it was found. Researchers tested the sword to find out what
it was made of, but it defied their efforts. Everyone who touched the
sword died.
BQH-0002
The Phaser that got left behind in "City on the edge of Forever"
[[ Was there a phaser left behind in that episode? ]]
ECI-0023
A mangled T800 arm (Terminator 2).
This is the arm of the T800 robot that was played by Arnold Swarzenegger in
the movie "Terminator 2"
UBD-0045
The Monkey's Paw (from "The Monkey's Paw")
This item was said to grant three wishes, acting on them as literally and
linear as possible. For instance, the first thing wished for was $10,000. Soon
after, the wisher received word that her son had died in a car crash, leaving
her his $10,000 insurance policy.
VXP-0008
The UFO that purportedly crashed in the early '50s in Roswell, New Mexico
EIY-0017
What's left of Flight 19
Flight 19 was a squadron of five Avenger torpedo-bombers which set out
for a routine training mission from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Despite clear skies and
an experienced flight leader, the planes disappeared completely. Radio
operators on the ground report receiving intermittant signals from the lead
plane, informing them that their compasses were spinning, and that they would
attempt to head toward the sun (which, at that time, would have been west).
Further reports show that the leader did not recognize what should have been
familiar terrain. The last known recording was recieved right before they
passed over the unfamiliar land.
EIY-0023
Lump of coal with a spark plug in it.
EIY-0049
Piece of sandstone with a dinosaur footprint overlaying a human footprint.
UMM-0001
The Philosopher's Stone
KAP-0002
Papa Schimmelhorn's lead-into-gold machine
The machine was never calibrated. It is currently set to turn all gold in a
3 km radius into lead. It would take a fair amount of work to calibrate it
properly.
GAH-0034
A small nuclear (hot) fusion generator
BAH-0011
A prototype of the Ghostbuster's proton packs.
ENA-0001
A rough ingot of steel
This is the steel that the T1000 fell into. It contains a few isolated
pockets of nanomachines that had managed to build insulating barriers. The
n-agent clusters are probably too small to show any collective intelligence...
{Terminator 2}
FBA-0002
A sample of Xenovirus Takis-A
This is the Wild Card virus which was dumped over New York City in 1946.
The virus, which appears to be a red dust, comes as spores which
reproduce only within homo sapiens sapiens, and all genetically compatible alien
races. It possessed an aerosol vector, which allows it to be initially very
contagious, but only in spore form. The virus is a higly complex recombitant
DNA tool kit, taking the genome, and snipping and splicing in inherently random
conformations.
This randomness, however, seems anything but. Most who are affected
(90%), carry the virus without any incident. Of the 10% who are infected, 90%
pull the "Black Queen," which is catastrophic mutagentic transformation. The
victim's DNA sompletely dismantles under the strain, and the host dies in agony.
Of the 10% who survive, 90% pull a "Joker," and are hideously disfigured. Most
live the rest of their lives shunned and feared. Those that survive the Black
Queen, and do not become Jokers are called Aces, endowed with soem
superhuman metability. Most are mental powers, including strength
augmentation through telekinesis. About half the Aces are Deuces, in that their
powers are less than earth shattering (changing color at will, bending
paperclips, etc.)
Although result seems random, there is a method to the madness of the
Wild Card. It seems inherently sentient in spore form, with the recombinant DNA
responding to subconscious triggers. If one fears death, one will pull the
black Queen. If one fears disfigurement, one will pull a Joker. For those who
have the mental stability and wherewithal, an Ace power awaits.
{Wild Cards Anthology}
CVH-0034
A Cloudbuster
This is the rainmaking machine shown in the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting",
which was based on the publications of Wilhelm Reich
O_H-0501
An N-ray detector
N-rays were a theoretic particle discovered by French physicist Rene-
Prosper Blondlot, which fell in an unknown location in the electromagnetic
spectrum. Similar in nature to the x-ray, the N-ray was not deflected by lead,
but could be stopped by a sheet of water. Rather than radioactive substances,
living things gave off n-rays, and exposure to n-rays supposedly enhanced the
nervous system, allowing for heightened senses and sped-up reflexes.
DZH-0001
The Octavo
This is the Creator's spell book. It contains the Eight spells that he used
to create the entire universe.
DZH-0002
The True Name of God
Written on the pages of this indestructable book, the name of God grants
the speaker complete control over reality. The name can, of course, be unsaid.
{Warlock}.
PMU-0007
A jewlry case containing 3 Green Rings and 3 Yellow Rings
These are the transport rings that are used to reach the Woods between the
Worlds. The Woods is an interdimensional nexus full of shallow pools. If
someone steps into a pool while wearing a green ring, they will be transported
to the universe that corresponds to that pool. If they touch a yellow ring
while in any normal universe, them and the yellow ring end up in the Woods.
Descriptions of the rings and how they work can be found in "The Magicians
Nephew", by C. S. Lewis.
IDR-0023
A Pair of Huge Ivory Tusks
These are the tusks of Malima Temboz, The Mountain That Walks, the largest
elephant tusks ever collected. The left tusk weighs 226 pounds, and the right
weighs 214 pounds. Both tusks are in excess of 3m. (All of this data is real.
The tusks are currently supposed to be stored in the British Museum of Natural
History). According to the book "Ivory" by Mike Resnick, the two tusks are
sacred to the Masaai, and their race is cursed to dwindle and die until they
have performed a blood sacrifice of an uncircumcised Masaai youth on the Ivory.
LUA-0023
A sentient computer in the shape of a book.
This is from the book "Roadmarks" by Roger Zelazny. The book is the twin to
"Leaves of Grass", but I can't remember its name.
IDR-0100
The first Deryni Altar
The categorization of this artifact is difficult, since Deryni magic
partakes of both the Divine and the Psychic. This Altar is a huge cube that
appears to be made up of 8 smaller cubes, 4 black and 4 white. The cubes are
arranged in an alternating checkerboard, so that each cube of one color has an
opposite color cube touching each of 3 faces.
TJH-0002
Smartcom for Windows LE
The Preserving Machine
This machine is designed to input important data (such as digitized
pictures of masterpiece paintings, the text for Shakespeare's plays and so
forth) and encode the information into DNA sequences. It then produces a living
animal that carries the information in its genes. If one of these animals is
fed into the machine before enough generations have gone by for evolution to
have changed the codes, then the original data can be retrieved. [[ This
machine is apparantly from an old science fiction novel, but the person that
suggested it cannot remember many of the details. Can anyone out there help? ]]
FBY- Area 'C'
Frozen Dinosaur Eggs, with documentation
The documents encased with the egg are the reports of an expedition to
Africa in 1982. There are pictures of what appear to be dwarf diplodocus'
and a mention that the eggs were stolen from a nest.
These may be samples from the Mokole Membe.
[[ Is such a species known to paleontologists? ]]
EIY-
A chunk of metal, of an unknown alloy
Papers with it indicate that it is mildly radioactive, and that it was
discovered in 1911 during an expedition to investigate the Tunguska blast.
UCD-
A Series of eight bodies on stone benches, under a tarpaulin
The benches hold deactivated robots. The faces of some of the robots are
familiar, and some are not. The slabs are labeled (from right to left)
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan I, Ronald Reagan II, George Bush, Newt Gingrich,
John Barrens, Simon McAuly. The robot on the Ronald Reagan I slab has clearly
stopped working due to a number of bullet wounds to the head and chest. The
George Bush and Newt Gingrich robots are missing.
RTF-
A cryogenic suspension chamber holding Walt Disney
DKI
An old fashined long-playing record
According to the blurb on the dust jacket, it contains recordings of, among
other things, Beethoven's Eleventh Symphony, and all of the Unfinished Symphony
[[ What other nonexistant classical music should be on there? ]]
VTH
A phone booth with an odd antenna on top, and a San Dimas, CA number {Bill
and Ted's Excellent Journey}
XXX
A blue British police call box, locked
The Government folks have no idea what this thing is supposed to be, but it
has proved invulnerable to all attempts to open it. It has been in the
warehouse for at least 20 years. {Dr. Who}
WIE
A tight-fitting blue costume with a big red "S" on the chest.
The costume appears to be non-porous, elastic, and completely invulnerable
to all attempts to take a sample for analysis. {Superman}
DEI
The backup tape archives from the "Terminator 2" lab
MCH
The "dean drive" which "converts angular momentum into linear momentum."
UHP
The Infinite Improbability Generator {Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}
LUA
HAL 9000 prototype {2001: A Space Odyssey}
LUA-0001
Deep Thought
Deep Thought was installed on Earth to monitor the progress of his greatest
creation... {Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}
GQI
A Dark Bulb
This is a 100W Dark Bulb. When inserted into a normal light socket, it will
reduce the room illumination by the amount that a normal 100W bulb would
increase it.
GQP
A Cavitron
This complex and delicate device can be used to create 'knot singularities'
a form of black hole that is made by knotting super-strings, rather than by
matter implosion. A knot singularity has all of the gravitational
characteristics of a normal black hole (including apparent mass), but it takes
far less energy to form, and evaporates non-explosively
VHD
The Heart of Gold
A gleaming golden spaceship containing an Infinite Improbability Drive.
{Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}
TBC
The Tree of Life
This is a number of twisted roots resembling sweet potatoes. They are
sealed in an airtight chamber, and there are warning labels on the box that
breaking the seals is extremely dangerous. Any human over 30 [[ I think that
was the age... ]] who smells the roots will be overcome by a hunger for them
that is impossible to resist. If he manages to eat the roots, and is not too
old, [[whats the cutoff age?]] he will start a transformation into one of the
Pak. (See any one of several stories by Larry Niven, including the book
"Protector").
Chemical formula for Polywater
Russian chemist Nikolai Fedyakin reportedly discovered a fourth state for
water (neither liquid, ice, or vapor), which seemed to act as a polymer, forming
an amorphous solid. It was theorized that if this substance was released into a
large enough body of water, it would "seed" the water, transforming it into a
slushy slime, wholly unusable.
Some plants from the Brazilian rain forest that can cure just about
anything.
Part of a Soviet Sub recovered by Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer back
in 1971.
one more Mohican! {Last of the Mohicans}
ET's home phone number {E.T. The Extraterrestrial}
Gizmo, the Mogwai {Gremlins}
Uncle Martin's Spaceship {My Favorite Martian}
Some of the Silver Marbles from "Starman"
Some lumps of kryptonite in various shades {Superman}
Any of the fun gadgets from "Wild, Wild West"
The Nautilus from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Anything from Yoyodyne {Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension}
The real Shroud of Turin
The main CPU and core of Collossus {Collosus: The Forbin Project}
The perfect solar cell
The hand set from Quantum Leap that got left in 1945 (last episode)
A Typhoon-class submarine with Caterpillar Drive {The Hunt For Red October}
A searchlight with the sillouette of a bat on it {Batman}
A book entitled "To Serve Man" {The Twilight Zone}
A three-eyed fish named Blinky {The Simpsons}
A map to the lost Dutchman mine
The Marylin Monroe Diaries
The "sets and costumes" that were used to film the Apollo Moon Landing
The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent Elvis"
The real contents of Al Capone's Vault.
A bottle of the "andromedia strain" Virus.
A crate of seed pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Things left behind by the Enterprise crew from ST IV, including most of the
contents of Chekov's pockets.
All the AV recordings made of the Mothership from Close Encounters
The Flying Dutchman.
The missing pages from the logbook of the Marie Celeste.
Gary Seven's voice-operated typewriter.
Spock's vacuum tube computer made in the 1930's (?), found in flophouse.
All the books which were checked out when the Library at Alexandria burned.
A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located.
Miniturization machine from Fantastic Voyage
Hollow Krypton meteorite, found in Smallville, USA. Cradle inside.
Three "telepods", non-working, along with a grotesque fly/human/metal body.
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs (from an Asimov story, "Pate de Foi Gras")
A Gamma Bomb {Incredible Hulk}, also the Q Bomb {The Mouse that Roared}
A working orgone energy machine
Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian therapist who eventually emigrates to the U.S.
in 1939, invented this device to collect and harness "orgone," a universal force
that bound all things together. Generated by living things, the energy could be
gathered and redirected at sick individuals, allowing them to recover faster.
It could also be used to purify objects, and items permeated with this energy
could transmit their energy, making people attracted to one another.
A real, live unicorn
A working anti-gravity device
Thomas Edison theorized that gravity was a form of energy, or a particle,
and thus it was possible to shield an object from its influence. Theories range
from chemicals found in bird's wings, as well as various alloys that are readily
buoyant.
a sample of Cavorite? (anti-gravitic material)
Records detailing what REALLY happened on the Hindenberg
Theorietically, the Hindenburg could have housed Nazi spies, and were
taken out in a pre-emptive strike. Or, perhaps a journalist caught wind of the
Final Solution, and the entire craft was destroyed to silence him.
A set of photographs of a tall (6'3"), muscular man wearing sunglasses.
Some appear to have been taken at a police station, the rest at a mall.
{Terminator and Terminator 2}
Pieces excavated from a stone building of Greek or early Roman design.
Found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Many crates of bizarre super-tech weapons, all marked with swastikas.
A crate full of papers, computer disks, and models of a modified
DeLorean sports car. Among the papers is a photograph of two men
standing by a clock, dating back to 1888. In addition, there is a device,
labelled "Flux Capacitor." It appears to have survived a train wreck. {Back to
the Future}
A green meteorite attatched to a chain, found in a sewer by the
Metropolis department of Public Works. {Superman}
Plans and a prototype of a reactionless engine. The notes say it puts
out no exhaust mass, only heat and light.
Captain America's Shield.
A circular shield, about 3' in diameter, with concentric red and white
rings and a star in the center on a blue field. The material is non-ferrous
metal, which seems to absorb vibrations without transforming them into another
form of energy (such as sound or heat). {Captain America}
Headpiece to the Staff of Ra
A gold medallion with raised markings on each side, and an off-center
hole holding a red crystal. {Raider's of the Lost Ark}
Last Fragment of Krypton - Fortress of Solitude Seed
A glowing green crystal, about 10 inches long and 2.5 inches wide with
angled ends, discovered near the North Pole. {Superman}
Pi - Solved
A listing of pi which gets to a long stretch of ones and then ends
The failed prototype from the Aurora project (yet another "stealth" plane)
ICE-NINE (from Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut)
The Golden Fleece
A hen's tooth
A calendar containing a month made up entirely of Sundays
A pillar of salt in the shape of a woman (Mrs. Lot) {Bible, Genesis}
Universal Solvent (we think) (bring your own container) (hurry) (never mind...)
The Ruby Slippers {Wizard of Oz}
H.G. Wells' working time machine from "Time After Time"
The hover-skateboard from BTTF2
Three numbers which satisfy the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3
A forty-two-line computer program in Ada for factorising the products
of two large primes in a short time.
Flubber! {The Absentminded Professor}
Information on contacting the Wandering Jew
A detailed map of Eden (located in Russia, natch)
A new Shakespearean Play
The true history of Ozymandias
A CD containing the binary image of the Artifical Personality "Max Headroom"
Pages torn out of a diary beloning to one "Laura Palmer" {Twin Peaks} detailing
the workings of two organizations, the "black and white lodge," amongst other
torrid details.
Nazi flying saucers
Chips of some unknown alloy collected during Apollo missions
Monolith
A big black monolith collected by the Leakeys in Olduvai Gorge {2001:
A Space Odyssey}
A report on the Roanoke colony, in Virginia, which disappeared overnight
without a trace many centuries ago. (Or, perhaps, a meaning for the word
CROATAN which was carved into a tree there...)
The Sea Statue from "World of Ptavvs" by Niven
SHADO security badges
Victor Frankenstein's lab equipment {Frankenstein}
Bacon's Diary
This is the personal journal of Roger Bacon, wherein he mentions his new
project of ghostwriting plays, substantiating the claim that it was he who wrote
Shakespeare's plays.
A prototype (or working model!) of Alpha Complex's Computer... {Paranoia}
Robbie the robot from forbidden planet
A map of atlantis
A cyclone in a bottle
Dry water
A cylon robot {Battlestar Galactica}
A treaty giving Native Americans the possession of all the petrol fields
A portable hole
An autograph from Pope PI XIII
A stun gun
A light saber {Star Wars}
A french guy named Serge Gilette, frozen. He knocked on the wrong door to ask
to use the phone...
A preserved specimen of a closet-monster. {Bloom County}
Directions to *BLOOM* County, along with LandSat images of something called
"The Dandelion Patch." {Bloom County}
Film footage of the Tac-Nuke used in Desert Storm
a 17-foot long scarf
Multicolored, it has a jelly baby stuck to one end. {Dr. Who}
Occillation Overthruster
Created by one Dr. Bonzai, and son, it allowed for hyperspatial
transportation into the "8th dimension." {Buckaroo Bonsai Across the 8th
Dimension}
Complete contact info for the Banzai Institute for Strategic Thought {BBAt8D}
A full set of equipment for an Imperial Stormtrooper {Star Wars}
A biological organism that disrupts computers (A real live computer bug).
Seven league boots.
Unexpurgated tapes of US space missions (including encounters with UFOs,
drilling into the Moon and finding metal, etc.)
The last remaining sample of live smallpox.
A three-foot tall egg, with a cruciform opening in the top. Empty. {Alien}
90% of the works of Nikola Tesla
A Mac SE hard disk containing plans for "Transparent Aluminum" {Star Trek
IV}
A Slaver Stasis box (and/or a GP #4 Hull).
A short mathematical proof that the travelling salesman problem can be solved
in polynomial time.
An Elder God, (apparently) dead. {Lovecraft Mythos}
A Kirlean photograph of Stonehenge -- showing auras on all the stones,
including the missing ones.
Various and sundry archaeological relics from Mu, Lemuria, Atlantis,
Shangri-La, and Xanadu.
Or the blueprints for a device that creates a space warp that opens on Yuggoth,
Thats Pluto, for you non-Lovecraftians. This idea is taken from an adventure in
the magazine _The Unspeakable Oath_.
[[ Could someone describe this device?? ]]
A quick, fool-proof algorithm for de-encrypting the DES.
Piltdown Man, the REAL skull.
The bones of the Ancient Astronauts
Digital watch around the wrist of a dinosaur
Calico kit bash from "I Come in Peace".
The "calico kit bash" is a Hollywood SFX man modifying a calico
machine pistol. The calico is a machine pistol with an M-16 barrel, cut down,
and a handgrip from the same gun. It holds some 60 rounds of .22 ammo in a helix
clip along the top of the pistol. In all, it does look kinda spacey. In I Come
in Peace, the gun has five settings, each with an exponentially higher damage.
At five, it could probably take out a couple of semis, or maybe a large house.
Definitely something the government wouldn't want to give up.
The speck of dust that The Incredible Shrinking Man lives in.
The two lost Silmarils
Nazi Nukes
An enlargement of the picture of the map from Time Bandits.
Large stack of "Final Notice" bills from the French gov't regarding some large
statue.
QUESTOR (from Gene Roddenberry's made for TV movie/pilot).
Several Heechee artifacts found in a moonbase NASA won't tell us
about...{Gateway, Annals of the Heechee}
The source code for H.A.R.L.I.E. {When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One}
Source code for P1 {?}
Source code for ME {?}
Various Mecha
A large number of Swords [[ Maybe all 12? ]]
An F-15's gun-camera recording of a Dragon in flight
The coordinates of a rain-swept planet far out in the galaxy, inhabited by a
little old man who likes cats (even though he doesn't belive in them).
The Color Out of Space, assuming somebody recovered it. (from a story by
Lovecraft)
Fully detailed photographs of "the face on Mars", showing laser burns and such
The notes of the doctors who examined ET {E.T.: The Extraterrestrial}
The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator {Warner Brothers cartoons}
A bubble-gum machine full of dehydrated Martians (just add water). {Warner
Brothers cartoons}
Edison's final invention: The Necrophone, a device enabling one to speak
with the dead.
A text about flouridation and its true effects on the mind.
An engine that runs on the passage of _time_ (a Soviet physicist, whose name
escapes me, has crunched the numbers on this one!)
A dummy terminal connecting to nothing in particular, with a prompt.
When any name is typed in, the COMPLETE history of the subject is displayed,
including what he is doing at this moment, with constant updating.
The CIA's report on Psychotronic Weaponry, with the Soviet's explaination
to what happened to Nixon and Carter, as well athe death of Brezhnev,
Andropov, Chernenko, and the meteoric rise to power of one Mikhail
Gorbachev, who happened to be head of the KGB when the research was being
done. {The Power}
One human skeleton, found in casket, with a wooden stake inserted into the
ribcage.
The bodies of the victims of Crest test #57.
Definitive proof of the Gold thesis that states that petroleum, rather
than being a diminishing resource, is constantly replenished naturally
by the earth.
Foo Fighter
Remains of a sophisticated WWII Japanese fighter, codenamed Kamikaze,
with humanoid figures, apprently the gremlins of legend, crushed in the
machinery, that must have disabled it.
The Cylinder
A strange machine, incorporating a glass cylinder with a weird gel flowing
within it, and sealed with a lock that can only be opened from within.
Found in the basement of a church in Detroit. {Prince of Darkess}
Directions to Midian. {Nightbreed}
Genome
Completed Human Genome data, ten years before official completion. In
addition, notes about various other, non-terrestrial genomes, which include two
new bases. {X-Files}
Branched DNA
Data on radical and dangerous recombitant DNA proceedure, as well as
sample and folder marked, "Scully, D." {X-Files}
Notes on several mutants
Complete medical run-downs, including DNA comparisons, on a part-
man/ part fluke, a known IRA terrorist who has displayed miraculous
regenerative abilities, and Tooms, an extremely old mutant who can subsist
exclusively on human liver}.
Fungus
Silicon-based fungus, currently inert, found in a volcano in Washington.
{X-Files}
Parasite
Strange bioluminescent parasite, found in a tree in Washington state. {X-
Files}
Virus
A retrovirus which produces a bizarre but fatal immunological response: the
subject loses control over the rate of production or red blood cells, and
dies when the excess of blood clogs capillaries. {X-Files}
Parasite
Found in polar core sample, parasite insinuates itself into body, where it
attatches itself to the adrenal gland.{X-Files}
LSD-M
File containing information about insecticide LSD-M, and its effects on
phobic minds. {X-Files}
Extraterrestrial Embryos
Found in sets of six, each jar has an alien embryo floating in a
suspension.
{X-Files}
Fungi
Mushroom native to Japan that curbs the effect of Alzheimer's, but also
creates powerful hallucinations. {X-Files}
Saliva in Vial
Vial containing Saliva with the label "Manitou" on it. {X-Files} Exposure
to the blood of a subject causes massive biological changes, including
a taste for blood.
Data on Eve Project
Various files containing information about a eugenics program run in the
70's - early 80's. Program was shut down, and participants destroyed or
dispersed. {X-Files}
Research on using salamander DNA to help regrow human limbs {X-Files}
Skeleton
Winged skeleton found somewhere in Iran - Iraq. Next to figure was
burning sword, which extinguished when touched.
Bibles
Copies of the "Bugger all" and "Thou Shalt" bible, as well as a single
edition of a bible that expands on the first chapter of Genesis. {Good Omens}
Book
The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. An uncannily
accurate book. {Good Omens}
Orb
A golden orb with several knobs protruding. Several knobs seem to be
missing (the symmetrical pattern is disturbed), but there are no seams where the
missing rods ought to go. {Brisco County}
Crate of Books
A crate containing several hundred copies of GURPS: Wraith and
GURPS: Changeling.
Collection of Books
THe complete works of Sutter Crane, as well as a 1850s map showing the
location of Hob's Cove, New Hampshire.
Cryptic Suggestions
-------------------
Many of the suggestions I received were for people or objects that I know little
or nothing of. Can anyone fill me in on what the following objects are supposed
to be, and/or what source material they are from?
Judge Crater {?}
A box full of scrolls- written in Aramaic. Box says "Gnostic II."
[[ What was Gnostic I? Whos toes would I be stepping on by including this? ]]
The Great Virus of '29 {?}
The seed to the Tree of Knowledge
[[ Is this supposed to be a seed to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? If
so, we could just make it look like an apple seed, but I can't see what good it
would do. Or is this supposed to be something else? ]]
The Rhinegold {?}
Snake Plisken's death certificate {Escape From New York}
Saucer pieces, mostly melted from magnesium flares, found in (Ant)artic. {The
Thing From Outer Space}
The stiff little finger from the hand of an Invader. {The Invaders}
NASA office note about refusing collect call from a Will Robinson. {Lost in
Space}
The Cotapoxic (sp?) ("Close Encounters")
A pair of yellow shoes with thick hollow glass soles. One sole is intact
and contains three goldfish skeletons. {I'm Gonna Git You Sucka}
The corpse of a grotesque, bipedal, fish-like being. Roughly 7' tall,
the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a strange
looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist, and an
electronic thingy on its other wrist. {Predator}
A female android, dressed in a pink gown, with her left arm torn out of
place. She looks remarkably like Olivia d'Abo. {?}
Two CDs, one marked "Elvis" and the other marked "Bruce." These are kept
with two identically-marked reels of tape and a strange machine. {?}
An illuminated manuscript much like a Bible, along with a rabbit's
corpse and many pieces of shrapnel. {?}
A large emerald in the shape of a heart, confiscated from a fence in New
York City. {Sandman}
the carbon copies of "Deadmeat"'s notes {?}
formula 7x {?}
GOVERNMENT WAREHOUSE 137-7-B
[[ This intrigues me. If someone has a designation for the warehouse that
makes sense, I'll use it. ]]
Talking of the missing sanity clause, how about a
copy of 'Catch 22'? (The legistlation, not the book of course)
The Nuclear Reactor from the the _Thresher_ {?}
The Claw of Elkhund {?}
The duplicate Stonehenge from Niven {?}
The directions on how to call Fa and Be {Day of the Dolphin}
The Dracula Tapes
The notes from Umberto Eco's meeting with Col. Ardenti {Focault's Pendulum}
Spare parts for SeaView {Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea}
a man's suit, made of a white cloth that doesn't seem to hold dust {The Man in
the White Suit}
Two gold watches, one the stops time and one that transports people in time
{Twilight Zone, The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything, Voyagers}
A `nevermore late' clock {?}
Directions to Yauknapataupha county {?}
Bones possibly from the remains of a roasted dodo, c.1950. {?}
[[ If it wasn't for the date, I'ld think this refered to an episode of
The Goodies...]]
Plans for the "Wildfire" research station {Andromeda Strain}
George Washington's membership card for the Masons ... along with several
letters signed "George Washington" and "Adam Weisshaupt", and a memo signed
by a grafologist claiming that both sets were written by the same person.
A pouch of sand, a red ruby on a chain, and a strange insect-like mask.
{Sandman}
Several Caroline clones (they work there). {?}
A silver albatross. {?}
An old-fashioned green railroad-man's lantern, and a collection of green rings
of various shapes and sizes. {Green Lantern}
A lifeboat and other lifesaving gear, much of it stencilled with the name
"USS Cyclops"
Mission log of Apollo 17
[[ I assume there simply wasn't an Apollo 17. If there is space here for a
bigger secret, let me know. ]]
A wall with a tennis ball partially embedded in it. {?}
A working Antithykera computer recovered from a wreck found near the Thresher
- made of titanium. {?}
The *real* set of rules to the game "Mornington Cresent." {?}
A vial containing "Captain Tripps," the 'superflu' from _The Stand_
_The Rigors_, by Meridian {?}
Fragments of Comet Hamner-Brown {?}
A skeletal (or frozen or living) Fithp {?}
Two 16-inch Battleship Cannon shells (you know - like the ones on the New
Jersey) Filled with Quick-Death organism bomblets. {?}
The British copy of the North American Treaty {?}
Several kilograms of Byzanium, along with a 1889 Colorado newspaper and the
body of a Red Army corporal. {?}
Staff of the Magi
A wooden staff, with a claw holding a crystal on the end. {Dragonlance}
The Starship DEFIANT {?}
A large number pf Swiss Army knives and rolls of Duct Tape. The Knives all
have the letter M engraved on them. {MacGyver}
The financial records of Stemple's Mill, Seattle, Washington - signed
"Ishmael Marx" {?}
A number of semi-transparent, amoeboid creatures, accompanied by
semi-neanderthalic humanoids. {Altered States}
The leg-bones of Miles Vorkosigan {?}
One Dozen Red Roses {?}
Maps to caves in Ireland, where several spaceships (with markings in Gaelic)
are kept. {The Copper Crown}
Two thousand bottles of NyQuil {?}
The home address of Dr. Robert(?) McAran {?}
A near-complete copy of "the Red Book of Westmarch" {?}
Nina
In article <3i6bhe$h...@nntp.interaccess.com> Timothy Toner,
Nina
Damn, Damn, Damn! My "post follow-up article" command is apparently not
working. I was trying to be the good 'net user to warn you guys about
the huge article I spent 5 minutes downloading, but my post got separated
from the behemoth article. Hope this works! If not, sorry.
In article <3i6s1j$e...@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Nina, ni...@mail.utexas.edu
writes:
In article <3i6s1j$e...@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Nina, ni...@mail.utexas.edu
writes:
Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall)
In article <3i3srs$q...@nntp.interaccess.com> than...@flowbee.interaccess.com (Timothy Toner) writes:
> In article <lillyj-1702...@137.53.90.27>,
> J. Lilly <lil...@ohsu.edu> wrote:
> >The file I saved is version 0.1 of the document compiled by Stirling
> >Westrup (at the time, e-mail address stir...@ozrout.uucp). Does anyone
> >have a more current copy of this document? The version I have is not
> >complete and I'd like to have a better version. If you happen to have
> >such a thing, I'd appreciate a copy.
>
> Funny you should mention this. I'm currently trying to revise my
> copy of 0.1 into 0.2, which is cleanign everything up, and lopping
> off the deadwood, as well as adding all the nifty stuff the x-files
> has offered up. I'm still in the thick of it, but will try to
> post the work-in-progress sometime this weekend.
>
Hmmmm... I'd like to see it, too. BTW, just what constitutes "dead wood"?
Could you give us some examples of it?
>
>
>
> --
> Timothy Toner - than...@interaccess.com - And now from Mr. Punch, by N. Gaiman
> "One cannot lie if one writes in blood. There is too much responsibility:
> and the ghosts of those one has killed will rise up and twist the pen down
> true lines...That's why deals with the Devil must be signed in blood."
--
Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall) | "I am No-mad. I am per-fect.
tlvx!wopr!no...@sinkhole.unf.edu | >Click!< per-fect.
tlvx!no...@sinkhole.unf.edu | >Click!< per-fect."
Cameron Newham
You forgot:
The New Accelerator - a phile containing a liquid that speeds up
a person by several thousand times. {H. G. Wells story}
The disclaimer page of the Bible - "This work is fiction. Any resemblance
to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental..."
A plain gold ring. When placed in heat, fiery script appears around
the band. People wearing the ring become invisible. {Lord of the Rings}
19 rings, each with a precious gem set in them. {LOTR}
The formula used by Mr Elvesham to swap souls. {H.G. Wells}
A small crystal egg that gives views on Mars. {H.G Wells}
A working copy of the Total Perspective Vortex {HHGTTG}
--
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Cameron Newham | Words like violence break the silence,
c...@iinet.com.au | come crashing in, into my little world.
c...@adied.oz.au | -- "Enjoy the Silence" Depeche Mode
Jeff Kramer
Newham) wrote:
> You forgot:
>
>
> The New Accelerator - a phile containing a liquid that speeds up
> a person by several thousand times. {H. G. Wells story}
So that's where that Mantis episode came from. I knew they couldn't make
something like that up themselves.
Little Thumper
-lth...@bga.com-
http://www.realtime.net/~lthumper/ Jeff Kramer
Daniel B Case
there should be able to add things like the location of the secret moon base.
In article <3i6bhe$h...@nntp.interaccess.com>, than...@interaccess.com writes...
> This automobile carburetor makes use of venturi vortex phenomena in order to
>provide a gas/fuel mixture which is much leaner than provided by an ordinary
>carburetor, but which, nevertheless, burns just as well. This leads to
>greatly increased gas mileage, as much as a 350% improvement in many cases.
>This item has been long suppressed, since the fuel shortage is a major method
>used to control the world populace.
>[[ I've heard of this gadget hundreds of times. Does anyone have a more
>'authoritative' description, than my memory? ]]
How about the light bulb that never burns out, frequently mentioned in the
AFU FAQ? That should be here, too.
>During WWII, the USN worked on a process whereby a large metal object would
>be subjected to a massive electromagnetic field by transduction, in order to
>affect the flow of radio waves around the object. The hope was to create a
>primitive stealth technology for the extemely primitive radar systems then
>entering the war.
>The experiment worked all too well; the ship's powerful field interacted with
>the earth's field, and transported the ship some 200 miles instantaneously. How
>this precisely occurred is unknown. The only proof is the eyewitness account of
>one Gregory Allende, supposedly on the ship, a newspaper account discussing a
>bar brawl in Norfolk, VA between bar patrons and several members of the crew of
>the USS Philadelphia, which should have been 200 miles away that night in
>Philadelphia!
> Allende, who received a Section 8 discharge from the service, claimed
>that several crewmates suffered horrendous side-effect from the experiment,
>including spontaneous human combustion, discorporation, and even
>disintegration. Crewmembers were treated simultaneously for frostbite and
>third-degree burns soon after the experiment. Most went insane, which would
>explain Allende's actions, and all are dead now, most from various forms of
>cancer.
location of the surviving crewmen (allegedly dead) and medical reports
detailing their tendency to fade from sight at odd moments should be
included.
>VXP-0009
>The UFO from Hanger 3 of Wright-Patterson AFB. [[Does anyone have a
>description of this?]]
And the dead bodies, too.
While you're at it, how about...
(I can't remember your numbering scheme)
A battered 1964 Chevrolet Malibu, whose trunk is hot to touch. if opened
slightly, a brilliant light will escape. If opened fully, opener will appear
to be X-rayed, then be disintegrated. Trunk lid will slam shut.
Found with it will be a thick file containing:
two (2) missing persons reports, on individuals known only as "otto" and
[whatever tracey walter's character was]. Reports show that persons were last
seen in this car, glowing, flying through the LA night sky. Eyewitness reports
of this "UFO" sighting and photos are included. Car was recovered (secretly)
in orbit by Space shuttle. No bodies were found. Individuals are/were employed
by the now-defunct helping Hand Acceptance Corporation.
Death certificates and autopsy reports on two indivuals believed to have opened
the trunk of the car. One was an Arizona highway patrolman; the other an LA
juvenile delinquent known as "Archie'. The only remains of either were lower
extremities which appeared to have been sheared off with great heat.
Documentation of a missing scientist from Los Alamos, NM, who absconded with
this car. Believed insane from excessive exposure to radiation, he was found
dead in an LA phone booth shortly before Otto and the other guy disappeared.
Report offers speculation on contents of trunk and warns it is not to be
opened without taking precautions, like getting the hell out of the way.
[Repo Man]
>FBY-1008 Area 'B'
>A hideous alien frozen in ice.
> This is "The Thing" from the story by John Carpenter, and the movie of the
>same name.
Story "Who Goes There?" is *not* by John Carpenter.
>Tarantula, and the giant Prey Mantis killed in the Holland Tunnel.
What about the giant alligators from the NYC sewers? The potent albino brand of
marijuana that suposedly results from all pot getting flushed down there should
be there, too.
And, somewhere else, medical experiments detailing conclusively that hemp
is beneficial. Scientific apapers show its viability as an eenergy source, too.
>
>FBY-1010 Area 'C'
>The Blob
> A great crystalline glop, clear red in color, about the size of a house.
>It is stored in a plexiglass case (inside the crate). From the movie "The Blob"
>FBY- Area 'C'
>A number of clear cylinders full of bubbling liquid, and parts of people
>and aliens. One container contains Hitler's brain. Another holds a creature
>from the movie "Aliens", in the facehugger shape. [[ What other living specimens
>should there be? ]]
pods, from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
>DZI-0016
>Secret Kennedy Kidnapping Film
> A film reel of the JFK 'assasination' taken from close by, and in front of,
>the main procession. The film clearly shows Kennedy being shot from the front,
>but with a strange dart. It also reveals that bodies were switched within a
>second of JFK collapsing. The film case is marked with a CIA file number, and
>the words TOP SECRET.
>
>DZH-0017
>Collected JFK evidence from the National Archives.
> All testimonies, photographs and lab reports which lent doubt to the
>official story of the JFK assasination were collected and stored here.
> Contents include the complete Zapruder film, the Director's cut of Oliver
>Stone's JFK, as well as a tape-recorded interview with a witness who saw quite
>distinctly a plume of smoke coming from the grassy knoll.
>[[ Anyone want to provide details? ]]
The real "magic bullet", not the fake one in the Archives (which proves
the cover story because it's flattened on one side). Is made of an unknown
material and has a radio receiver inside.
>DZI-0019
>Intact Copies of the Watergate Tapes
> [[ What interesting tidbits should be on these? ]]
> The Plumber's uncovered the truth: that Nixon was really a Communist
>stooge, a la The Manchurian Candidate. Liddy forces Nixon to resign, or all
>will come clean. Liddy continually refers to someone else other than Nixon as
>"his Prince."
Liddy walks in during the 18:30 gap and finds Ehrlichman performing an
unnatural act on Nixon?
The memo from the CIA thanking Secord for setting up the burglars by a) trying
to get FCC clearance for the walkie-talkie frequencies, b) renting the lookout
room across the street in his own company's name, c) telling them to turn off
their radios when the cops were near, so they couldn't have gotten out in time,
and d) instructing them to tape the DNC office door shut vertically, so it
would have been obvious something was up.
papers establishing the identity of Deep Throat.
>DZH-0019
>Documents on the Iran/Contra connection
> [[ I'm not a conspiracy buff. Who wants to help out here? ]]
> Fairly simple: Lt. Col. Oliver North sent money earmarked to help the
>Contras in their war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Iran in the form of
>weapons, etc., in exchange for influence in helping obtain the release of
>several prisoners. This occurred in the middle of Reagan's worst sabre-rattling
>tirades, with promises that we would not cave in to terrorism.
>
>DZH-0020
>Documents on the October Surprise conspiracy
> During the 1980 Presidential campaign, the GOP sensed that they could
>grab the presidency, but they needed to make Carter look ineffectual. Iran was
>close to caving in to sanctions, imposed because they still held Americans
>hostage. The GOP promised to look favorably on Iran and reward certain well
>placed Iranaian officials if they would forestall the release of the hostages
>(due to be released during October of 1980), until after the election. True to
>their word, the Iranians relased the hostages during Reagan's inaugural speech,
>thus making it historic.
>
>DZH-0021
>Documents on the BCCI, S&L and contra connection
> [[ Again, any takers? ]]
DZH-0022 to 00 whatever.
Documents on the various other assassination conspiracies-RFK, MLK, Wallace,
Hinckley, and John Lennon. Letters proving that Jim Morrison, and Robert
Maxwell are still alive. Info about the Vicki Morgan and Karen Silkwood deaths.
>EIY-0012
>The Czar's missing crown jewels
> [[ Does anyone have any idea why this would be in the warehouse? ]]
Along with: the solution to Beale 1, with the precise location of the treasure
marked on a USGS quad map; the locations of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine and the
missing Confederate $3mil worth of gold.
In the tsarist vein, the later life of Tsar Alexander III, whose coffin was
found to be empty a century later.
And in the crypto vein, a booklet explaining how the backdoor in all post-1.0
versions of PGP works and how to use it. CIA psyop plans suggesting that
creating some sort of diversionary escrow-key plan and giving it wide publicity
would be an excellent way to get all the dangerous subversives to use the
now-compromised PGP might also be present.
Also, if you have plans for trisecting any triangle, you've got to have the
squared circle, too.
>DZH-0034
>Expedition reports from the Hollow Earth
> Photographs, journals and other report materials from an expedition to
>the inside of the Earth via the hole at the North Pole.
And data from peary's expedition detailing how he covered up the existence of
this instead of actually reaching the Pole-the true puropse of his expeditions.
>DZH-0012
>The Last Order of Lenin
> The Last Order of Lenin was a deathbed statement by Lenin, which was
>supposedly an order that Stalin was to be purged, or prevented by the Party
>from ever reaching power. At least this was the story cultivated by Stalin's
>enemies and picked up outside the USSR to vilify him more as a renegade.
>Stalin's people suppressed the order, if it ever existed, and officially, I
>have heard, the Last Order was a typically Leninesque harangue for the Party,
>etc., and unofficially (but the approved unofficial version) a secret plan of
>his to further the spread of Communism throughout the world. The last order,
>however, was far more sinister than most suppose...
> According to most sources, the last command was to dismantle the whole
>thing. The dictatorship of the proletariat would be far from temporary, and
>thus the experiment was a failure. All who disagreed were to be executed.
> [[ What should his last Orders have been? Suggestions? ]]
Continue the NEP (Economic liberalization of socialism during the late '20s.
Later, anybody who had made money then went to the GuLAG) and designate Kirov
his annointed sucessor (Kirov was allegedly assassinated in 1934; this gave
Stalin his excuse to start purges in Leningrad).
Oh yeah...what about:
A copy of "report from Iron Mountain" with the real names in it, including some
now prominent people, and a note to Lewin thanking him for making it look like
a clever joke.
>IDY-0009
>The True Cross
Or fragments thereof.
>BQH-0002
>The Phaser that got left behind in "City on the edge of Forever"
>[[ Was there a phaser left behind in that episode? ]]
No-not as far as I recall. You're thinking of "A Piece of the Action",
which doesn't take place on Earth anyway. But maybe a newspaper account of
Edith Keeler's death desribing the mysterious individuals who let it happen
and the fact that they subsequently have not been found. Or the raw type for
it.
>CVH-0034
>A Cloudbuster
> This is the rainmaking machine shown in the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting",
>which was based on the publications of Wilhelm Reich
Also the machine from the "Experiment IV" video, which can silence all sound
forever.
>DZH-0002
>The True Name of God
> Written on the pages of this indestructable book, the name of God grants
>the speaker complete control over reality. The name can, of course, be unsaid.
>{Warlock}.
Better-a *long* computer printout, in an arcane South asian alphabet, that
consists of different combinations of the same set of characters in strings
of the same length. Printout seems to have been aborted near the end.
{Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"}
>EIY-
>A chunk of metal, of an unknown alloy
> Papers with it indicate that it is mildly radioactive, and that it was
>discovered in 1911 during an expedition to investigate the Tunguska blast.
A melted hunk of metal that appears to have been some sort of relay that
melted under extreme heat. Papers say this was the relay whose blowout caused
the 1965 US/Canada blackout, and that the cause of its collapse and condition
cannot be explained by anything currently known.
And...detailed booklets explaining the meaning of those weird symbols in the
crop circles.
>Chemical formula for Polywater
> Russian chemist Nikolai Fedyakin reportedly discovered a fourth state for
>water (neither liquid, ice, or vapor), which seemed to act as a polymer, forming
>an amorphous solid. It was theorized that if this substance was released into a
>large enough body of water, it would "seed" the water, transforming it into a
>slushy slime, wholly unusable.
What about some Ice Nine?
>
>Some plants from the Brazilian rain forest that can cure just about
>anything.
and notes explaining that the area they grow in is a) extremely limited, and
b) recently purchased by a real estate developer.
>The real Shroud of Turin
With notes showing that Jesus was still alive when taken from the Cross.
>A book entitled "To Serve Man" {The Twilight Zone}
And that box from that weird little town that that girl used to make the
guy's dog disappear.
>A three-eyed fish named Blinky {The Simpsons}
>
>A map to the lost Dutchman mine
Ooops.
>The Marylin Monroe Diaries
>
>The "sets and costumes" that were used to film the Apollo Moon Landing
And the actual unedited footage.
>The real contents of Al Capone's Vault.
>
>A bottle of the "andromedia strain" Virus.
>
>A crate of seed pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Gee-this is what happens when you read this too fast.
>A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located.
And the location of Mount Weather.
The secret formulae for Coke and KFC, showing how the mind-control agents
work.
A pair of black sunglasses that, when put on, reveal the secret propaganda
behind everything {They Live; also, Stephen King's "The Ten O'Clock People"}
and allow aliens to be seen as they truly are.
>A real, live unicorn
>
>A working anti-gravity device
> Thomas Edison theorized that gravity was a form of energy, or a particle,
>and thus it was possible to shield an object from its influence. Theories range
>from chemicals found in bird's wings, as well as various alloys that are readily
>buoyant.
Papers on how this harnesses the "fifth force", too.
>ICE-NINE (from Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut)
Sorry again.
>The Golden Fleece
>
>A hen's tooth
A silk purse made from a sow's ear.
>A calendar containing a month made up entirely of Sundays
John Updike?
>A new Shakespearean Play
The Looker, a device that paralyzes any human being's nerve imulses for
up to an hour, mkaing them think that no time has passed, by emitting light
at the right frequency {Looker}.
Death reports on all these victims, too.
>accurate book. {Good Omens}
The true menaing of all Nostradamus's prophecies.
>Many of the suggestions I received were for people or objects that I know little
>or nothing of. Can anyone fill me in on what the following objects are supposed
>to be, and/or what source material they are from?
>
>Judge Crater {?}
disappeared mysteriously in the '40s.
>Directions to Yauknapataupha county {?}
From William Faulkner. How about directions to Castle Rock, Maine, as well?
Also: computer code for a primitive Ai program known as "ZUMABot" and a letter
thanking a unnamed grad student at U of Minn for putting on a machine there and
covering for it.
Daniel B Case
>
>I think we need to add a line with a collection of Craig Shergold's
>postcard collection, and maybe a BRAND NEW Cadillac owned by David
>Rhodes.
And...a car with a hook hanging from the side and bloodstains on top.
A mint-condition early model, hard-to-get Corvette that smells strongly of
a corpse.
Oh yeah, how about transcripts of the phone conversation between OJ and the
colombian Drug dealers from the white Bronco? Or video showing Fuhrmann
planting the other glove and then "discovering" it?
The Spaceman
Jon Konrath <jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>Other additions I thought of:
>A phone booth time machine {from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent
>Adventure"}.
>
Could have sworn this was in there, something along the lines of
"phone booth with unusual antenna and a San Dimas phone number"
Oh well
Jon Konrath
Other additions I thought of:
A large black helicopter with no markings that has cow mutilation
equipment mounted on pods.
Documents from the Pavlov institute describing a two day mind control
program {from the movie "The Manchurian Candidate"}.
Pages from a document showing that Shakespeare was actually a
pseudonym shared by 7 other male and female writers.
Photos of Abraham Lincoln alive in the 1910's.
The CIA assassination orders and dossier for Marilyn Monroe.
A phone booth time machine {from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure"}.
Recordings and photos of the Lindburg baby, age 26.
-Jon
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Yet more additions I thought of:
The complete cabin of the space shuttle Challenger, and all of the
black box tapes of the cabin audio as it fell to the ocean.
The formula for old Coca-cola.
Several high-efficiency solar cars designed in the 70's.
A perpetual motion machine prototype from the U.S. patent office.
Jeb Card
A grey metallic cylinder about 80cm in diamter. In addition to some unidentifiable markings, the cylinder has three sockets spaced equidistantly around the
rim approximately 12 cm above the base. Contained inside the cylinder is one
human brain (dead).
Johnson Randall L
The ark of the convenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Daniel B Case
>v140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
>
>>In article <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes...
>>>
>>>I think we need to add a line with a collection of Craig Shergold's
>>>postcard collection, and maybe a BRAND NEW Cadillac owned by David
>>>Rhodes.
>
>
>How about the egnimatic briefcase from Pulp Fiction? My impression was that
>there was something of religious significance in it. Or maybe it was 100
>proof hashish...
It's a lineal descendant of a) the "Great Whatsit" from "Kiss Me Deadly"
and b) the aforementioned Chevy Malibu from "Repo Man." Unlike its
predecessors, however, it did not destroy whoever gazed upon its contents,
so maybe it needn't be included.
Jay Knioum
>
>You know, if there is a copy of this floating around I would appreciate
>a copy also... :)
>
>Heather
Yoo, hoo! <Phweeeeeet!> Right here! I'd like a copy too!
jk
Cynical
>In article <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes...
>>
>>I think we need to add a line with a collection of Craig Shergold's
>>postcard collection, and maybe a BRAND NEW Cadillac owned by David
>>Rhodes.
[snip]
How about the egnimatic briefcase from Pulp Fiction? My impression was that
there was something of religious significance in it. Or maybe it was 100
proof hashish...
Victor
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In article <D4EMF...@acsu.buffalo.edu> v140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
Daniel> In article
Daniel> <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Daniel> jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes...
>> Other additions I thought of:
>>
>> Pages from a document showing that Shakespeare was actually a
>> pseudonym shared by 7 other male and female writers.
Daniel> That's already covered. See the original post.
Actually, what was there were the Bacon documents showing he
ghostwrote one of the plays. What I wanted to show was that the plays
were ghostwritten by several people, including women.
>>
>> The CIA assassination orders and dossier for Marilyn Monroe.
Daniel> Ditto
Are the Monroe diaries included supposed to include info showing the
CIA assasinated her? I thought her diaries just described the
unnatural acts she regularly performed with the Kennedy clan.
>> A phone booth time machine {from the movie "Bill and Ted's
>> Excellent Adventure"}.
Daniel> Ditto.
Sorry, my bad.
>> Recordings and photos of the Lindburg baby, age 26.
Daniel> Better yet, the missing evidence that proves that Anne
Daniel> Morrow's sister did it.
Or evidence that Lindburg did it himself for insurance money and/or
publicity.
Daniel B Case
So what's this one from?
I have another one, from the historical section:
The one letter of the Freud-Fliess correspondence missing from the Freud
Archives in London, that supposedly would answer whether Freud really knew
his hysterical patients had really been molested as children and invented
psychoanalysis because he couldn't face the truth of how predominant child
sexual abuse was in society, or whether it was a genuine change of heart
(Supposedly this letter is one in which Fliess confesses he had molested his
own son Robert occasionally), as well as,
The tape of Janet Malcolm's interview with Jeffrey Masson in which he said all
the things about himself which damaged his reputation in her New Yorker
article, which she couldn't produce in court during the trial.
But maybe that's getting too esoteric.
Michael Bauser
than...@flowbee.interaccess.com (Timothy Toner) writes:
>{Note: I'm not finished with this - Not by a longshot. Eventually,
>I plan to fill in most of the one-liners. Any suggestions/additions
>are welcome, but PLEASE do not "bounce" me the entire text, with a
>one line comment. 8^p}
>VXP-0015-?? Area 'A'
>Parts of a cut up UFO from "My Science Project"
>[[ Various weird parts need to be invented. ]]
got? You could add a new wing to the Air & Space Museum with all this
stuff....
>TTL-0002 Area 'A'
>Smashed pieces of the time gizmo from "The Philedelphia Experiment" {The
>Philadelphia Experiment}
>WEB-0001-26 Area 'A' PALL
>Dissembled pieces of the actual gizmo from The Philadelphia Experiment
marked "gizmo from real experiment"? These two entries should be
combined--just give a reference to the book and movie, let the GM
figure out which one he's using.
>Conspiracy theory books that were too close to the truth.
>The Compleat Charles Fort
> [[ Does anyone have a good list of conspiracy theory books that are out
>there? We should have at least a dozen. ]]
now would it?
>A package of detailed plans for controlling the world by manipulating the
>world food and energy shortages
"documents", and "plans". Maybe it needs a room with some plain simple
FILING CABINETS?
>VXP-0009
>The UFO from Hanger 3 of Wright-Patterson AFB. [[Does anyone have a
>description of this?]]
>FBY- Area 'C'
>A number of clear cylinders full of bubbling liquid, and parts of people
>and aliens. One container contains Hitler's brain. Another holds a creature
>from the movie "Aliens", in the facehugger shape. [[ What other living specimens
>should there be? ]]
life, it's been chopped into four pieces, dunked in preservatives, and
is (last I heard) sitting on a shelf in Kansas, but that's obviously a
cover story.
>HBC-0011
>A Cure for the common cold.
a can of chicken soup....
>FBY-0901
>A diorama contrasting the bodies of a Yeti and a Bigfoot. Both bodies are
>stuffed and mounted in 'lifelike' poses.
monasteries and Bigfoot-in-Ice in Canada. I'll try to find some names
and dates to go with this.
>FBY-0009
>The skeleton of the missing link. [[How could anyone tell?]]
is more than one gap to fit a "missing link", and as the comment says, "How
could anyone tell"? How about we put the bones of Peking Man (an famous
skeleton found in China, lost during WWII) in there instead?
>VIP-0106
>Noah's Ark
The whole damn ship? Find someone who believes the Ark is real, and
ask him how big the Ark is supposed to be. It won't fit in this warehouse.
>_M_
>Der Ring De Niebelungen
> [[ What is this, and what does it do? ]]
>HMC-0002
>Water from the Fountain of Youth
>DZH-0022
>The Necronomicon by Abd ul'hazred [[ spelling? ]]
for summoning Shub-Internet....
>EIY-0012
>The Czar's missing crown jewels
> [[ Does anyone have any idea why this would be in the warehouse? ]]
would encourage Russian cultural nationalism. Even sneakier: There *are*
still people in Russia who want the czar reinstated (apparently there is
some nineteenth cousin of the czar alive who could take over). If the U.S.
has the czar's family treasures, they have a tool for extortion (assuming,
of course, the Russian Czarist Party has any strategic use to the U.S.).
>DZH-0012
>The Last Order of Lenin
>IDY-0009
>The True Cross
Which was widely believed to have been smashed into splinters, with
bits spread all over the world to various churchs and cathedrals....
Maybe the CIA stole them all and scotch-taped the cross back together.
(Boy am I gonna catch hell for that one.)
>BQH-0002
>The Phaser that got left behind in "City on the edge of Forever"
>[[ Was there a phaser left behind in that episode? ]]
submitted this was probably thinking of "A Piece of the Action" (a.k.a.
The Gangster Episode), but that wasn't really Earth.
>VXP-0008
>The UFO that purportedly crashed in the early '50s in Roswell, New Mexico
>BAH-0011
>A prototype of the Ghostbuster's proton packs.
(Says the former Ghostbusters-GM, defensively.)
>FBY- Area 'C'
>Frozen Dinosaur Eggs, with documentation
>[[ Is such a species known to paleontologists? ]]
there is some form of modern-day dinosaur living in (I think) the Congo.
>RTF-
>A cryogenic suspension chamber holding Walt Disney
>WIE
>A tight-fitting blue costume with a big red "S" on the chest.
>DEI
>The backup tape archives from the "Terminator 2" lab
>LUA
>HAL 9000 prototype {2001: A Space Odyssey}
>LUA-0001
>Deep Thought
> Deep Thought was installed on Earth to monitor the progress of his greatest
creation... {Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}
account the British have a rinky-dink country with pitifully small urban
centers, I don't think Deep Thought will fit!
>VHD
>The Heart of Gold
> A gleaming golden spaceship containing an Infinite Improbability Drive.
>{Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}
"150 meters long" (HHGTTG, pg 32). Takes up a lot of room, doesn't it?
>Gizmo, the Mogwai {Gremlins}
Don't forget to pin instructions to outside of cage.
>Some of the Silver Marbles from "Starman"
it's been a long time since I've seen it.
>The Nautilus from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
>The real Shroud of Turin
>The hand set from Quantum Leap that got left in 1945 (last episode)
(Boy, was that pedantic.)
>A Typhoon-class submarine with Caterpillar Drive {The Hunt For Red October}
>A searchlight with the sillouette of a bat on it {Batman}
>The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent Elvis"
>A bottle of the "andromedia strain" Virus.
>The Flying Dutchman.
LOUD REFRAIN "The whole damn ship?"
>A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located.
>A real, live unicorn
So like, the PCs answer a want ad for "Zookeeper wanted, virgin preferred"?
>A green meteorite attatched to a chain, found in a sewer by the
>Metropolis department of Public Works. {Superman}
combine them into one "Box `O Kryptonite". (By the way, for non-super
gamers, that would be a box of Element 126, I believe.)
>Captain America's Shield.
Hey...No, wait, I have an idea for this (and maybe Batman/Superman stuff)!
The warehouse contains proof the U.S. government in WWII really did dress
guys up in tights as a propaganda weapon in Europe, it failed miserably,
and all those comic books were part of the disinformation/cover up.
>Pi - Solved
> A listing of pi which gets to a long stretch of ones and then ends
>Three numbers which satisfy the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3
>Flubber! {The Absentminded Professor}
Gosh, can we have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in there, too?
>Information on contacting the Wandering Jew
>A detailed map of Eden (located in Russia, natch)
>The true history of Ozymandias
book Ozymandias?)
>A biological organism that disrupts computers (A real live computer bug).
>Unexpurgated tapes of US space missions (including encounters with UFOs,
>drilling into the Moon and finding metal, etc.)
>The last remaining sample of live smallpox.
>90% of the works of Nikola Tesla
>Piltdown Man, the REAL skull.
>The two lost Silmarils
Wouldn't it be easier just to have large trunk of lost Tolkien
manuscripts?
>Various Mecha
Let's lock up those damn Power Rangers!
>Cryptic Suggestions
>A box full of scrolls- written in Aramaic. Box says "Gnostic II."
the soc.religion.* hierachy. Maybe that'll help.
>The stiff little finger from the hand of an Invader. {The Invaders}
little fingers.
>The Cotapoxic (sp?) ("Close Encounters")
>the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a strange
>looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist, and an
>electronic thingy on its other wrist. {Predator}
>An illuminated manuscript much like a Bible, along with a rabbit's
>corpse and many pieces of shrapnel. {?}
>Mission log of Apollo 17
>[[ I assume there simply wasn't an Apollo 17. If there is space here for a
>bigger secret, let me know. ]]
Mare Serenitatis). I have no idea what the big secret it here. Doesn't
matter, though, those moon missions were all faked, remember?
>The Starship DEFIANT {?}
All together now: "THE WHOLE DAMN SHIP?"
>One Dozen Red Roses {?}
>A near-complete copy of "the Red Book of Westmarch" {?}
OH MY GOD! I'm out of stuff to comment on! I have to come up some ideas
of my own! Next post.
--
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"It's participant observation. Honest!"
Simon Dawson
>v140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
>>In article <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes...
>>>
>>>I think we need to add a line with a collection of Craig Shergold's
>>>postcard collection, and maybe a BRAND NEW Cadillac owned by David
>>>Rhodes.
>[snip]
>How about the egnimatic briefcase from Pulp Fiction? My impression was that
>there was something of religious significance in it. Or maybe it was 100
>proof hashish...
The nuts on rec.arts.movies, after much discussion I think concluded
that it was quite possibly a Tarantino in joke, and it was the Oscar
he reckoned he should have got for Reservoir Dogs, but was certainly
gonna get for PF..
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_________________________________________________________________
Analysing the past. Creating the future. Controlling the present.
Daniel B Case
>
>
>A large black helicopter with no markings that has cow mutilation
>equipment mounted on pods.
>
>Documents from the Pavlov institute describing a two day mind control
>program {from the movie "The Manchurian Candidate"}.
>
>Pages from a document showing that Shakespeare was actually a
>pseudonym shared by 7 other male and female writers.
That's already covered. See the original post.
>
>Photos of Abraham Lincoln alive in the 1910's.
>
>The CIA assassination orders and dossier for Marilyn Monroe.
Ditto
>
>A phone booth time machine {from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent
>Adventure"}.
Ditto.
>Recordings and photos of the Lindburg baby, age 26.
Better yet, the missing evidence that proves that Anne Morrow's sister did it.
Daniel Case V140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
"A man should build a house with his own hands
before he calls himself an engineer."
Prodigy:WDNS15D -Alexander Solzhenitsyn dc...@acsu.buffalo.edu
Daniel B Case
>I haven't seen this one yet:
>
>The ark of the convenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
>
Uh, that was the one that started off the whole list. Read a whole thread
before you follow up.
Jeb Card
>In article <3ie4lk$d...@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>, jc...@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (Jeb Card) writes...
>> I don't think I saw this one on the manifest.
>>
>>A grey metallic cylinder about 80cm in diamter. In addition to some unidentifiable markings, the cylinder has three sockets spaced equidistantly around the
>>rim approximately 12 cm above the base. Contained inside the cylinder is one
>>human brain (dead).
>
>So what's this one from?
H.P. Lovecraft's "Whisperer in Darkness". Actually the 80cm is probably a bit
too big now that I think about it. The brain would probably slosh around a
bit much.
The point of the cylinder...well actually maybe the interested might want to
"Read the Book" as those coat hanger pointing Time-Life people would say.
And it's not a book, but a short story, but anyway.
As for the Freud one, neato.
Daniel B Case
>>VXP-0015-?? Area 'A'
>>Parts of a cut up UFO from "My Science Project"
>>[[ Various weird parts need to be invented. ]]
>
>I'm going to ask right now: Does this place need as many UFOs as it's
>got? You could add a new wing to the Air & Space Museum with all this
>stuff....
Remember, it's got the "dimensional transmogrifier" that I presume made
the Tardis the way it was. Of course these things (or, to be fair, pointers
to them) could be in such a warehouse.
>>A package of detailed plans for controlling the world by manipulating the
>>world food and energy shortages
>
>The warehouse has a lot "packages" and "crates" full of "papers", "files",
>"documents", and "plans". Maybe it needs a room with some plain simple
>FILING CABINETS?
Seconded (after all, I've contributed a number of missing document suggestions
myself already).
>>_M_
>>Der Ring De Niebelungen
>> [[ What is this, and what does it do? ]]
>
>That's from Wagner's opera, silly!
Yeah, but what will it do? Make loud classical music start to play?
>>DZH-0012
>>The Last Order of Lenin
>> [[ What should his last Orders have been? Suggestions? ]]
>
>"Tell Marx I'm sorry."
Considering Marx was where Lenin was going, that was his responsibility,
wasn't it?
>>IDY-0009
>>The True Cross
>
>Which was widely believed to have been smashed into splinters, with
>bits spread all over the world to various churchs and cathedrals....
>Maybe the CIA stole them all and scotch-taped the cross back together.
>(Boy am I gonna catch hell for that one.)
Of course, if all the fragments of the cross were genuine, it would be
big enough to support Oral Roberts' 900-foot Jesus.
So maybe they *are* real, after all.
>>LUA
>>HAL 9000 prototype {2001: A Space Odyssey}
>
>HAL 1000? HAL 8088? HAL TI-99/4A?
HAL Pentium (Would explain why he killed everybody, wouldn't it?)
>>Three numbers which satisfy the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3
>Yo! That's Fermat's Theorem again, isn't it?
FLT is that no whole number greater than 2 exists for a^2 + b^2 = c^2
(I think).
>>The last remaining sample of live smallpox.
>Actually, I think the Russians have a sample, too.
And ours is in Atlanta. How about some felovirus samples like
the ones from those monkeys in Virginia (saw a thing about it on
TV last night) Airborne transmittable, if possible.
See also forth coming movie "Outbreak"
>>The stiff little finger from the hand of an Invader. {The Invaders}
>A 60s TV show--the Invaders looked human, but couldn't move their
>little fingers.
Sure that wasn't a British New Wave band?
>>The Cotapoxic (sp?) ("Close Encounters")
>That's not another BOAT, is it?
yes it is, unfortunately.
>>Mission log of Apollo 17
>>[[ I assume there simply wasn't an Apollo 17. If there is space here for a
>>bigger secret, let me know. ]]
>
>Actually, Apollo 17 was our last mission to the moon (1972, landed east of
>Mare Serenitatis). I have no idea what the big secret it here. Doesn't
>matter, though, those moon missions were all faked, remember?
Maybe Apollo *13*. The accident was a cover story for a rendezvous with aliens.
>>The Starship DEFIANT {?}
>
>All together now: "THE WHOLE DAMN SHIP?"
Well, wouldn't it have disappeared completely by now, anyway?
>>One Dozen Red Roses {?}
>"Oh, that's why they were never delivered to my girlfriend."
As well as, to quote George Carlin loosely, "23 pairs of sunglasses, 154
ballpoint pens, 13 wallets (no cash), a whole lot of unmatched socks, and
a jock strap seamred with peanut butter and goat cheese found on the
Santa Monica freeway-that must have been quite an evening."
Peter Meilinger
all they mentioned briefly halfway through the book? The one that that
kills ALL micro-organisms in the body, including white blood cells and
antibodies. The people they used it on died of horrible diseases that
the human race had been immune to for eons. To get off the main topic
here, I always wondered why they couldn't just keep these terminal
patients on a steady IV of the cureall. It'd be inconvenient, but what
the hell, right? Ah well, it was still a cool idea.
Pete
William December Starr
In article <1734D11A3...@kentvm.kent.edu>,
MBA...@kentvm.kent.edu (Michael Bauser) said:
>> the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a
>> strange looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist,
>> and an electronic thingy on its other wrist. {Predator} [Timothy
>> Toner]
>
> Didn't he get blown up?
Predator One (from the first movie) got blown up. The body of Predator
Two (from the second movie (duh)) got taken away in a spacecraft by
others of its species. However, it was revealed in the second movie
that the U.S. government (or some other organization that can get away
with masquerading as U.S. federal agents) is actively following up leads
on Predator hunting activities on Earth and is trying very hard to
capture one (dead or alive) along with its technology, it's not
unthinkable that one of their hunt-the-hunter missions that didn't make
it into the movie theaters was successful.
-- William December Starr <wds...@crl.com>
The Spaceman
Also, in the Batamn vs. Predator series, BAtman was given the
equipment of the vanquished champion.....
--
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spa...@u.washington.edu |I so once thought, but now I know it
sev...@u.washington.edu | John Gay
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~spaced/spaceman.html
Joe Logon
Much of this comes from items that crop up in alt.folklore.urban, so I'm
cross-posting. (New readers, I'm sure, will see where this thread is
going) I'd love to see the finished product...
* The fuel additive/engine component that gives cars 200 miles per gallon
* The (ostensibly) unviewed and destroyed movie footage showing Brandon
Lee getting fatally shot on the set of "The Crow."
* John Dillinger's penis (purported to be in a closet in the Smithsonian)
* A industrial-sized dumpster of all the TV remote controls the government
has stolen during the course of its fingerprint-collection program
* A Shipstone (a super-potent energy storage device from Robert Heinlein's
book _Friday_; calling it an "improved storage battery" is like calling
the H-bomb an "improved firecracker")
* The "Too Many Secrets" decryption chip from the movie _Sneakers_
* The intelligence gathering equipment from the US Army helicopter that
was downed in North Korea OR the onboard camera footage of the UFO that
shot it down
* The portion of the Watergate Tapes that reveals the contents of the 14
minute gap.
* ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on the JFK assassination, the conspiracy of the
Council on Foreign Relations, Zionists, the Trilateral Commission, and the
New World Order.
* The TRUE "Black Rhino" (The bullet that caused such a stir because of
its alleged lethality and armor-piercing qualities. When tested, the
bullet did not live up to its claims; of course, the inventor was forced
by the government to produce a bullet that was VASTLY inferior to the true
Rhino.)
* The laboratory log book from US Army Lab at Fort Dietrich, Maryland that
reveals how the government created AIDS and its unreleased cure.
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(-(@)-(@)-) Location: New York City
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Patrick Toner
in the final list, you MUST send me a copy of what you
post. I can't get to my mailer for about a week, so keep
it tight. I have a complete copy, so refer only to the final
line, I'll add a search string, and take it from there.
As an aside, a lot of what's been discussed _is_ in there. The
transparent aluminum is on a Mac in the warehouse, and Chekov's
phaser is with the rest of the contents of his pockets.
Finally, I view the Philadelphia Experiment movie and
Philadelphia experiment actual as two seperate events. Let the
players figure out why there's two. Both are interesting enough
to merit attention, especially since one really was supposed to
have happened. BTW, using compasses to detect the field wouldn't
have worked. The book I have states that the magnetic field
would have put nearby compasses in a "flux," maeaning that they
would spin about.
Do NOT send the article to this address. Send it to
than...@interaccess.com, and I'll get right on it.
Ryan Byrnes Gerstmar
>
>The ark of the convenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
While we're on this kick, what about the canaster where held the essence
of evil in The Prince of Darkness (classic mind movie, highly reccomend it).
Ryan Byrnes Gerstmar
: In article <3ie4lk$d...@rs10.tcs.tulane.edu>, jc...@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (Jeb Card) writes...
: > I don't think I saw this one on the manifest.
: >
: >A grey metallic cylinder about 80cm in diamter. In addition to some unidentifiable markings, the cylinder has three sockets spaced equidistantly around the
: >rim approximately 12 cm above the base. Contained inside the cylinder is one
: >human brain (dead).
: So what's this one from?
My guess was Hitler's Brain... :)
Ryan Byrnes Gerstmar
: A sign that reads 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here' {Inferno}
Now that one I really like. :)
How about the Caramilk Secret or the Flux-Capacitor (that which makes
time travel possible in Back to the Future)... or you could just throw
the entire Deloran in for good measure.
Ian Young
>In article <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>,
>
>> Yet more additions I thought of:
>>
>> The complete cabin of the space shuttle Challenger, and all of the
>> black box tapes of the cabin audio as it fell to the ocean.
>>
>
A four million gallon tank with Nessie in it!
the engine that runs on Water!
and.....
an entire family of Sasquatch!
--
Ian G. Bull Young |"sometimes, even music cannot
iyo...@alpha.wright.edu |substitute for tears" -Paul Simon
"The guy who tries to be funny, |"The Way is empty, yet
but everbody laughs at" |use will not drain it. -Lao Tzu
KEVIN PROCTOR
>>How about the egnimatic briefcase from Pulp Fiction? My impression was that
>>there was something of religious significance in it. Or maybe it was 100
>>proof hashish...
>The nuts on rec.arts.movies, after much discussion I think concluded
>that it was quite possibly a Tarantino in joke, and it was the Oscar
>he reckoned he should have got for Reservoir Dogs, but was certainly
>gonna get for PF..
> Sim...@PERCEPTION.Co.NZ (Simon Dawson)
>_________________________________________________________________
>Analysing the past. Creating the future. Controlling the present.
I was watching American Cinema on PBS the other day and as they were
talking about film noir they showed a clip from (and my memory is fuzzy on
the title) "The Wounded Man" (that may be it?) and in it a lady is opening
up The Mysterious Briefcase and the intense light streams out of it and she
starts screaming as in pain, the show then has the writer or director (can't
recall which) talk about how the case contained what man was not meant to
know and how he was influenced by the making of the film by the dawning of
the atomic age. The way in which the case lit the face was very much like
Pulp Fiction and I think it's safe to say that Tarantino had probably seen
the film as it was considered a classic of film noir.
Just something I noticed, Later
Kevin Proctor
910...@axe.acadiau.ca
Incidentally this weeks ep. of American Cinema has a segment on ResDogs and
when they showed the "Next Week on American Cinema" bit with the scenes from
ResDogs it cinched it for me, the case has got to be a tip of the hat to the
older film.
Gordan Miller
film noir flick entitled "Kiss Me, Deadly," which starred Ralph Meeker as
Mike Hammer.
Don't know what any of this had to do with The X Files, but, hey!,
I'm a Quentin-head, too, so I don't mind coming in late.
Daniel B Case
> I'm pretty sure the film referenced in the previous post was a '50s
>film noir flick entitled "Kiss Me, Deadly," which starred Ralph Meeker as
>Mike Hammer.
Didn't see the previous post you're referring to, but yes, that's what I
was talking about.
Susan C. Mitchell
: Sorry if it's been covered; I haven't followed this thread for a while.
* The pickled alien fetus from _The X-Files.
* The twenty-year light bulb.
Think globally, act locally.
Susan
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What does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
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Alan Cruikshank
- A working copy of Windows '95.
- A perfected pentium chip.
--
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Edmonton Remote Systems Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982
Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y
Daniel B Case <v140...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>In article <1734D11A3...@kentvm.kent.edu>, MBA...@kentvm.kent.edu (Michael Bauser) writes...
[Sorry, lost some attribution lines here]
>>>Three numbers which satisfy the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3
>>Yo! That's Fermat's Theorem again, isn't it?
>
>FLT is that no whole number greater than 2 exists for a^2 + b^2 = c^2
>(I think).
No, it isn't. FLT basically states that there is no set of four integers
a, b, c > 0, and n > 2, so that a^n + b^n = c^n. Doesn't say anything about
nonintegers, of course; it is downright easy to find a set of *real* (hell,
let's take any complex ones as well) that will satisfy said equation.
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GM d- H s++:++ g++(-) p10+ !au a- w+++ v C++ US P? L 3- E N++ K++ W-- M !V
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Everything is temporary.
Jon Key
> I'm pretty sure the film referenced in the previous post was a '50s
> film noir flick entitled "Kiss Me, Deadly," which starred Ralph Meeker as
> Mike Hammer.
I think this is also 'referenced' (ahem) by Alex Cox in his wonderful
"Repo-Man", as he acknowledged on his Moviedrom slot on British TV. At
the end they open the car-boot and out comes this golden (radioactive)
glow...
Anyway, Cox was introducing a fifties film that was, if not "Kiss Me,
Deadly", very similar by the sound of it. Perhaps someone can confirm. I
don't know if Tarantino is influenced by Cox, but I'd be /very/ surprised
if "Repo-Man" wasn't influential.
Jon.
C.J. Girard
: - A working copy of Windows '95.
: - A perfected pentium chip.
Sorry, no vapourware :-)
In this light: Interview with an Australian Prime Minister who
disappeared while swimming off the coast of Australia [with Newsreel
footage]
- a mangled robotic arm, found in a smelter [T2]
Christian Girard B.Sc. (Hons)| There comes a time when the jewels cease to
Flat 45 Uni-Flats, UNE, | sparkle, and the gold loses its lustre, and
Armidale, NSW, Australia 2351| the throne room becomes a prison - and all
There can be only one. | that remains is a father's love for his child.
Gabriel Chanur
: In article <3iokdo$c...@crl12.crl.com>,
: William December Starr <wds...@crl.com> wrote:
: >
: >In article <1734D11A3...@kentvm.kent.edu>,
: >MBA...@kentvm.kent.edu (Michael Bauser) said:
: >
: >>> the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a
: >>> strange looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist,
: >>> and an electronic thingy on its other wrist. {Predator} [Timothy
: >>> Toner]
: >>
: >> Didn't he get blown up?
: >
: >Predator One (from the first movie) got blown up. The body of Predator
: >Two (from the second movie (duh)) got taken away in a spacecraft by
: >others of its species.
Most of P2's body was taken away, but there should still be part
of its arm (with a badly damaged self-destruction device still attached)
in some alley. Unless I am mistaken, P2's spear fell down into that same
alley, and its facemask was left in the slaughterhouse. It also left a
medkit in some broom-weilding old lady's bathroom. (Nifty toys for those
who find them.)
Messy creature. Just young and inexperienced, I suppose.
nancy sauer
: - the film from the sattelite camera in "Ice station Zebra"
Yes! Yes! Yes!
And while you're at it, include the role of film that Dr.
Carpenter swapped it for.
Nancy M. Sauer <*> "Then you will come to think of things in
Disciple of Bread Do: a wide sense and, taking the dough as the
The Way of the Way, you will see the Way is dough.
Flour Warrior In the dough there is virtue, and no evil."
Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall)
In article <JKONRATH.95...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jkon...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes:
>
> Other additions I thought of:
>
> A large black helicopter with no markings that has cow mutilation
> equipment mounted on pods.
>
> Documents from the Pavlov institute describing a two day mind control
> program {from the movie "The Manchurian Candidate"}.
>
> Pages from a document showing that Shakespeare was actually a
> pseudonym shared by 7 other male and female writers.
>
>
> The CIA assassination orders and dossier for Marilyn Monroe.
>
> Adventure"}.
>
Pictures and biographical data on JFK, still alive, in a wheelchair, living
at a secret hideout. (Don't you just love those supermarket tabloids? :-)
This one is a recurring theme in one of them!)
Preserved tubs of a substance that looks like ice-cream, but is actually an
alien lifeform which takes control of you after you eat it. ("The Stuff")
>
> -Jon
> --
> Jon Konrath | jkon...@indiana.edu | jkon...@iubacs.bitnet | DoD #1296
> http://bronze.ucs.indiana.edu/~jkonrath/ | Email for PGP 2.6.1 key.
> Don't confuse lack of talent with genius.
--
Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall) | "I am No-mad. I am per-fect.
tlvx!wopr!no...@sinkhole.unf.edu | >Click!< per-fect.
tlvx!no...@sinkhole.unf.edu | >Click!< per-fect."
Helge Moulding
: Sorry if it's been covered; I haven't followed this thread for a while.
That's alright. It is expected to post without a clue.
: Much of this comes from items that crop up in alt.folklore.urban, so I'm
: cross-posting.
Of course. That way the people in those other newsgroups can tell us all
about their ideas, like how D&D promotes satanism, or how cyberpunk is
a recognized state religion in California, or how Jane Fonda didn't
really have a torrid affair with Jackie Kennedy.
: (New readers, I'm sure, will see where this thread is
: going) I'd love to see the finished product...
I'd like to see the starting materials.
: * The fuel additive/engine component that gives cars 200 miles per gallon
It's called the mcguffin. It's a closely held secret by the Bremer Motor
Works (BMW), where an engineer discovered the principle 47 years ago
while reading his kids the story of the Town Musicians of Bremen.
: * The (ostensibly) unviewed and destroyed movie footage showing Brandon
: Lee getting fatally shot on the set of "The Crow."
FTP to seppo.haken.fangen.de for an .avi
: * John Dillinger's penis (purported to be in a closet in the Smithsonian)
It came out of the closet, dressed in gorgeous pink, just last year.
: * A industrial-sized dumpster of all the TV remote controls the government
: has stolen during the course of its fingerprint-collection program
I got mine back by filing a FOI request; now I still keep losing it
between the sofa cushions.
: * A Shipstone (a super-potent energy storage device from Robert Heinlein's
: book _Friday_; calling it an "improved storage battery" is like calling
: the H-bomb an "improved firecracker")
I told you, it's called a mcguffin.
: * The "Too Many Secrets" decryption chip from the movie _Sneakers_
It'd never have been a problem if folks had written to the FCC like
we asked them to.
: * The intelligence gathering equipment from the US Army helicopter that
: was downed in North Korea OR the onboard camera footage of the UFO that
: shot it down
You don't suppose a UFO would shoot down one of our choppers
and then send us their footage of the attack, do you?
: * The portion of the Watergate Tapes that reveals the contents of the 14
: minute gap.
It turns out to have been an early form of a computer virus. Instead
of infecting floppy disks or hard drives, it lives exclusively on
magnetic tape. Until recently, it wasn't even discovered, except that
a McGill University researcher found that the original eight minute
gap had almost doubled!
: * ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on the JFK assassination, the conspiracy of the
: Council on Foreign Relations, Zionists, the Trilateral Commission, and the
: New World Order.
You gotta write to asia for this. It's where all the real information
is kept. Any other sources are corrupt, and must be suspected of
colluding with the enemy. Besides, a normal government warehouse
isn't big enough.
: * The TRUE "Black Rhino" (The bullet that caused such a stir because of
: its alleged lethality and armor-piercing qualities. When tested, the
: bullet did not live up to its claims; of course, the inventor was forced
: by the government to produce a bullet that was VASTLY inferior to the true
: Rhino.)
Actually, the inventor was forced to produce an inferior version
because he was unable to convince Congress to allow firearms with
bores larger than 25 cm to be bought be the American public. So
much for the 2nd amendment!
: * The laboratory log book from US Army Lab at Fort Dietrich, Maryland that
: reveals how the government created AIDS and its unreleased cure.
The notebook wouldn't have been much use, since it is kept in
an encrypted form, and the only person who knew the key died of
AIDS a year ago.
--
Helge "Anything else you'd like to know?" Moulding
(Just another guy with a weird name)
The Spaceman
Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall) <no...@wopr.UUCP> wrote:
>
>Pictures and biographical data on JFK, still alive, in a wheelchair, living
>at a secret hideout. (Don't you just love those supermarket tabloids? :-)
>This one is a recurring theme in one of them!)
Don't forget the same for John Lennon (He's a vegetable, tho')
see the Weekly World NEws for this one
John Russell
> : * The intelligence gathering equipment from the US Army helicopter that
> : was downed in North Korea OR the onboard camera footage of the UFO that
> : shot it down
>
> You don't suppose a UFO would shoot down one of our choppers
> and then send us their footage of the attack, do you?
"And it's BETA!"
John
Matt Borselli
1. The Time Map from TimeBandits
2. Baron Munchousen's Dog Zounds
3. The W Palm Tree from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
4. The Planes and Boat recovered in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind"
5. Nero's Fiddle
6. Brutus's Knife (Sic Sempre Tyrannis)
7. Albert Einstein's Brain
8. A tape of Albert Einstein's last words (He spoke in German and the
Nurse that watched him die didn't know German)
9. Thelma and Louis' Car (smashed, of course)
10. Tapes of William Shatner ACTUALLY Acting
11. The Grail
12. "ere i am jh"
13. Proof that a Tiger was responsible for JFK's assassination
14. An actual working "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with the
phrase "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters on the cover.
15. HAL 9000 in a dust covered crate
16. Smith's Golden Tablets
17. Unthawed Caveman Lawyer
18. Documentation proving Santa Claus was indited for fraudulent hiring
practices
19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising19. Truth in Advertising
--
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<<Matt "#8" Borselli>> "Yes! It is We! The Platypus Brothers!"
"Infinity is longer than most governments survive." Dr. Ypma, WWU Math Dept
Grant Chapman
> In this light: Interview with an Australian Prime Minister who
> disappeared while swimming off the coast of Australia [with Newsreel
> footage]
The PM was Harold Holt - I think?
On this note the custodian/Librarian of the Warehouse could be the
now teenage girl - Azaria Chamberlin - Missing baby of a Alice
Springs camping holiday taken by ( maybe! ) a dingo.
J. Lilly
lthu...@bga.com (Jeff Kramer) wrote:
> In article <3ia3ni$3...@classic.iinet.com.au>, c...@iinet.com.au (Cameron
> Newham) wrote:
>
> > You forgot:
> >
> >
> > The New Accelerator - a phile containing a liquid that speeds up
> > a person by several thousand times. {H. G. Wells story}
>
> So that's where that Mantis episode came from. I knew they couldn't make
> something like that up themselves.
>
> Little Thumper
> -lth...@bga.com-
> http://www.realtime.net/~lthumper/ Jeff Kramer
Could you please remove alt.cyberpunk as a cross-post from this thread?
I originally crossposted to that newsgroup because it was in the original
thread (from several years ago). I had no idea I was bothering a newsgroup
that wasn't interested in the thread.
Sorry for the problem.
--
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Jill Lilly Oregon Hearing Research Center
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Daniel B Case
>Anyway, Cox was introducing a fifties film that was, if not "Kiss Me,
>Deadly", very similar by the sound of it. Perhaps someone can confirm. I
>don't know if Tarantino is influenced by Cox, but I'd be /very/ surprised
>if "Repo-Man" wasn't influential.
Nibor
the bottle of Snapple that my friend found an eyeball in but someone
stole it so she wouldn't have proof to sue the company (I smell coverup
here)
Nibor.
Cameron Newham
>cgi...@metz.une.edu.au (C.J. Girard) wrote:
>On this note the custodian/Librarian of the Warehouse could be the
>now teenage girl - Azaria Chamberlin - Missing baby of a Alice
>Springs camping holiday taken by ( maybe! ) a dingo.
And, in a cage, the dingo that is capable of using a pair of scissors
and able to take babies clothes off without tearing them.
c.
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c...@adied.oz.au | -- "Enjoy the Silence" Depeche Mode
Ben Jacoby
: The secret ingrediants of Spam, Cheeze Whiz, Vienna Sauages, and
: Nibor.
Wait a minute. I know for certain the "secret" ingredient in Cheeze Whiz
is nothing more that Alaskan Crude Oil. The same goes for Spam! Vienna
Sausages, I'm not so sure... Yeah, maybe them too.
--
Benjamin Jacoby | "Some rob you with a six-gun and some with
bja...@infinet.com | a fountain pen." ..........Woodie Guthrie
ANDREW HERMETZ
Or check out the March issue of Playboy. A 20 questions interview with
Samuel L. Jackson (he tells what Tarintino told _him_ was in the
suitcase). Good reading.
Andy
<Lover/Thinker/Student/Part-time Man In Black>
Derek Tearne
Joe Logon <joel...@minipax.phantom.com> wrote:
>Sorry if it's been covered; I haven't followed this thread for a while.
>cross-posting.
Yes, these are all familiar Urban Legends. It is interesting to see
them in a different setting though. One of the most pervasive aspects
of these stories is their ability to find homes in unexpected and
perhaps innapropriate settings.
So, we have a list of well known Urban legends.. one has to wonder
however why they are in the 'secret government warehouse'.
>* The fuel additive/engine component that gives cars 200 miles per gallon
>
This is a very familiar legend. It is however usually ascribed to big
business, oil companies and the like. governments are usually only
implicated in that they do nothing to stop 'big business' from hiding
these ideas from the public (one assumes because the government of the
day is being bribed in some way by big business). However Governments
change and some may not be on the side of the big business in question.
(Witness the demise of both Britains Unions and Coal industry under
the Conservatives - one can understand them wanting rid of the unions,
but they'd been propping up the coal industry for decades).
The last place 'big business' would want the 200 MPG carburettor is
in the SGW (secret government warehouse).
>* The (ostensibly) unviewed and destroyed movie footage showing Brandon
>Lee getting fatally shot on the set of "The Crow."
Like, the government could give a shit.
>
>* John Dillinger's penis (purported to be in a closet in the Smithsonian)
This one makes sense though. It explains perfectly why the various AFU'ers
who have gone to the Smithsonian and asked where it was have been told 'it
ain't here'. Being a member of the Smithsonian myself I fully intend
to demand a viewing next time I'm at the museum.
>
>* A Shipstone (a super-potent energy storage device from Robert Heinlein's
>book _Friday_; calling it an "improved storage battery" is like calling
>the H-bomb an "improved firecracker")
It was a crap book so why should any of the technology be any better?
>* ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on the JFK assassination, the conspiracy of the
>Council on Foreign Relations, Zionists, the Trilateral Commission, and the
>New World Order.
This does belong in a secret government warehouse.
>* The laboratory log book from US Army Lab at Fort Dietrich, Maryland that
>reveals how the government created AIDS and its unreleased cure.
You know, it's started to bother me all this 'who created AIDS' stuff.
We've had the lunatic fringe of the far right, the communists, the
World Health Organisation, the American Government (actually I think I
mentioned them first), all manner of fundamentalist christian religious
organisations... The list goes on.
What I want to know is - how come they only came up with one disease?
Either they were all working together, if so one would have expected
something much worse than AIDS, or they were working seperately -
in which case one would expect the world to be over run with a whole
slew of exotic and incurable diseases by now.
ObUL: During a clean up Australia's beaches and parks campain last
week, the premier managed to prick his finger on a used syringe. His
comment was "I'm not really worried I've got thick skin, but I'll be
consulting with my doctor", at which point he fell into a deep sleep
(although nobody noticed as that's the usual state for politicians) and
he isn't expected to wake up until he gets kissed by a handsome cane
toad in 100 years time.
Derek "They found some other things too, but not in a warehouse" Tearne
--
Derek Tearne. -- de...@iconz.co.nz
The last wild Black Rhino in Zimbabwe is dead. The dehorning program failed.
The family of Rhino I saw in Zimbabwe are therefore all dead, even the baby.
I have a photograph of a dead family of Rhino. --- Extinction is forever
MD Horrill
Titanic?
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Mike Horrill E-Mail M.D.H...@lut.ac.uk
Two people wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to die.
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Nomad of Norad (David C. Hall)
In article <Jie71c...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> csh...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Alan Cruikshank) writes:
>
> - A working copy of Windows '95.
> - A perfected pentium chip.
>
Proof that Medi Ali and Irving Gould, ex-presidents of Commodore Business
Machines, were secretly paid by Bill Gates to scuttle the Amiga by failing
to advertise, delaying technical improvements that were developed, blocking
off new markets before they start, and generally bankrupting the company.
> --
> Alan Cruikshank csh...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
> Edmonton Remote Systems Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982
--
Telford Tendys
> >> strange looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist,
> >> and an electronic thingy on its other wrist. {Predator} [Timothy
> >> Toner]
> >
> > Didn't he get blown up?
>
> Predator One (from the first movie) got blown up.
Well the predetor blew ITSELF up but it had previously cast aside
a sizable fraction of its EQUIPMENT to go it bare-chested and man-to-man
with Arnie. Most of the gear was left behind in the mud before Arnie
led the predator to his trap so it *JUST MIGHT* have been far enough
away to survive the explosion. Some of the gear was already damaged.
> [...] actively following up leads
> on Predator hunting activities on Earth and is trying very hard to
> capture one (dead or alive) along with its technology, it's not
> unthinkable that one of their hunt-the-hunter missions that didn't make
> it into the movie theaters was successful.
From the predator's point of view, their sport would HAVE to be
dangerous (for them) in order to keep their interest up,
thus we can assume that quite a few hunters don't return home.
(Someone taking notes on all this?)
- Tel
Nibor
beard, decent scripts, and on a whole a better show. Too bad we'll never
see it...
Nibor
Voron
>what about the cool shades from John Carpenter's 'THEY LIVE'?
>and what about 'Bub' from Day of the Dead?
And, of course, the Ark of the Covenant...
Voron
(;>
`'`'`'`'`'`'Voron (;>`'`'`'`'`@}-'--'`'`'`'`'aka V? Erich Langsdorf`'`'`'`'`'
"Pure sensation...the beautiful downgrade...going to hell again...again."
,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,langsdorfje96%cs...@cadetmail.usafa.af.mil,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,
Marty Busse
Lithunia. (The Man WHo Heard Too Much)
A computer program named Skarda which, when used, plants a computer
virus that causes an American missle to go astray and land in a Canadain city.
(THe Man Who Heard Too Much)
Hemingway's notebook from just before the Bay of Pigs. (Hemingway's
Notebook)
The Japanese cryptographic device (The Last Good German)
Secret Soviet plans to build a submarine base in Ireland. (The British
Cross)
All of the above are from the Novmeber Man novels by bill Granger.
The Scramblers (THe War In 2020)
--
"You must be either the master or the servant, the hammer or the anvil."-Goethe
"Words are for lies, or else they're misunderstood."-The November Man
"The rules are the things made up to justify everything that has been done."-
Denisov