Misinformation

Published on 5/9/2006 This Philadelphia Announcements & Corrections ad may contain time-sensitive information and offers. Please check with Hanso Foundation to confirm availability.

Well, it's happened.  The Hanso Foundation took an ad out against Bad Twin.  If you bet on less than a week, you win!  It was bound to happen sooner or later, we all expected it.  The question is: 

Why the Philadelphia News?

Is this confirmation that Hanso is involved in experiments based on the Philadelphia Experiment or even the Montauk Project?  Or could this just be a red herring?

It is possible that the choice of newspaper is totally random - but have we really ever known the Hanso Foundation to be random before?

No.

Take my ramblings with a grain of salt, but that doesn't mean this isn't worth looking into.

Until next time.

ETA:  Perhaps I spoke too soon.  Apparently the ad was also in Boston, LA, and Chicago.  And it may possibly be in other areas as well.

 

 

Comments

[lilac_lost]

What papers in Chicago is the ad published in?

[ayelienne]

Speaker, FWIW, I also found an ad in today's San Francisco Chronicle...page A8

[Anna]

I don't suppose you know what the password is when you click on subscribe to newsletter? Who is persephone? I am not a lateral thinker but it is fascinating!! Thanks!

[Aaron]

Forgive me if you already knew this, but found it while wasting time at work today... In Joops corner on hanso site, if you click the link to send him a personal message, it brings up a "live webcam" of Joop which is not live, but simply looping images. If you watch long enough, the face of Joop is suddenly shadowed by what looks like a man's face. Also, I tried many times to sent Joop a message and every time it said "connection timeout"

[To Anna:]

the password is:

breaking strain

[eric]

CONCERN!!! every time i try to put in some thing in to the sight (into ask joop or the more about yourself question in the VIK page) about oceanic flight 815 it just says lost connection, or sorry connection timed out!! this is wierd

[txdog]

breaking strain is what goes into the message to Joop. then you get further.

[KHAT]

what of people that merely see the newspaper ad, then curiously buy the book. is there anything in "Bad Twin" that would lead them to watch the TV show?

[ayelienne]

KHAT, on my copy of the book, there's a LOST logo offset in an oval above the author's name...

[felicityk]

You can type anything into the message to Joop, but first you have to sign up for the newsletter. That's where the password "breaking strain" is used.

[memg]

After you write your message to Joop...What are all the memo's about after the puzzle? Has anyone broke them down? Also, does anyone think "JOOP" is an acronym? I looked it up and it says it stands for Journal of Object-Oriented Programming....

[Victor Hugo]

When you click on the peter thompson name (in red) a message appears...Anyone knows what it means??

[fire_net1]

Nothing happened to me when i clicked peter's name ??

[SunFly]

Did anyone else notice that the second memo on the JOOP page - the one saying that everything is okay - was signed by Peter Thompson of Global... but there's a Peter Thompson on the Hanso site as a company exec?

[Capeellyn]

I think Bad Twin was written by and for the show... don't you? None of this is real - it's all a game to show us more clues and keep us interested...

[fibonacciworks]

The hanso foundation couldn't possibly have been involved in an internal coverup regarding any african viruses now could they... Anyone seen Jacque Maillot lately?... anyone ? I wonder if Mr. Eko has anything to say about this...

[NikkiS]

Also, on the MFI page, reading about the developing African Nation of __________ and the capitol... any ideas??? Maybe...The Gambia/Gambia; Guinea; Rwanda???

[cami]

is bad twin a real book

[Gracie]

The ad was also published in the Washington Post on Wed.

[fibonacciworks]

anyone notice that on the cover of "Bad Twin" that the shadow formed by the stick in the lower right hand corner is in the shape of the letter "S"? That would make it Bad Twins, another clue as to what is happening on our little lost island?

[Ed Weil]

Can I purchase the book "Lost" or get it at the library? If the story sequences came from an original book then all I need is the name of the author and I can look for the rest. I would like to do this as I am really interested in this show and enjoy it very much but would be happy to get a full copy of a book. If anyone knows this information I would appreicate it very much by e-mailing me. Thank you,
edweil@kwic.com

[well_and_truly_lost]

What memos on Joop's page? I got the blue-island-viruses thing, and I got thorugh the newsletter and the subLYMONal thing, but how do you get the memos?
BTW, as a tip, when you send the messages to Persephone make sure the clock on the site has gone to OB:EY.

[curious ian]

The experiment was allegedly conducted by one Dr. Franklin Reno (or Rinehart) as a military application of Albert Einstein's unified field theory, or "generalized theory of gravitation". The theory, briefly, postulates the interrelatedness of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity. Through a special application of the theory, it was thought to be possible, with specialized equipment and enough energy, to bend light around an object, rendering it essentially invisible. The Navy considered this application to be of obvious value in wartime (as the United States was engaged in World War II at the time) and approved and sponsored the experiment. A Navy destroyer escort, USS Eldridge (DE-173), was fitted with the required generator equipment at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.

Testing began in the summer of 1943, and was initially successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, 1943, resulted in Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some eyewitnesses reporting a "greenish fog" — however, crew members complained of serious nausea afterwards. At that point, the experiment was altered by the request of the Navy, with the new goal being invisible to radar only.

Equipment was not recalibrated, and the experiment was performed again on October 28. This time, Eldridge not only actually became almost entirely invisible to the naked eye, but actually vanished from the area entirely in a flash of blue light. Concurrent with this phenomenon, the U.S. Naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, just over 600 km (375 miles) away, reported sighting Eldridge offshore for several minutes, whereupon Eldridge vanished again and reappeared in Philadelphia, at the site it had originally occupied — a supposed case of accidental teleportation.

The physiological effects on the crew were profound. Almost all of the crew were violently ill. Some suffered from mental illness because of the experience — behavior conforming to schizophrenia is described in some accounts. Still other members were missing — supposedly "vanished" — and allegedly five of the crew were actually fused to the metal bulkhead or deck of the ship. Horrified, Navy officials immediately cancelled the experiment. All of the surviving crew involved were discharged; in some accounts, brainwashing was used to make some crew members forget about the details of their experience.

[Kristin]

Has anybody seen the time on the Hanso Website changed to the word obey, click on it, and be moved to a page called http://www.subLYMONal.com/. I managed to unlock a message by some how clicking randomly on squares that came up, it then said sublymonal message unlocked, with a screen that flashed with code: heir apparent. There also seemed to be a hidden link back to bios page of hanso website.

[marcy]

Yeah Kristin. I've clicked on OB:EY, & I've gone to sulbymonal.com, sent Joop a message, & logged in @ Mittelwork's executive bios.