Where is that on Earth?

TheSNARK
MemberOvomorphMay 08, 20121190 Views27 RepliesStrange question I know. But bear with me.
On the Prometheus "Star Map' app on Facebook, each week we are shown a pictogram and a location on Earth. (The pictogram and the location don't match. That's OK. I don't think they are suppose to.)
What I want to know is where does the map in week-2 point to?
The others are obvious. This one is not.
Thanks.
May 08, 2012
Nah guys, neither Antartica, Salt lake, Washington or else.
it's somewhere in Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan, prob near the Aral Sea... Baikonur maybe, if that makes any sense in that game?
The projection is uncommon. Using Google earth (or maps in 'earth' mode - need a sphere in planar projection, not a 2D map) you have to place yourself right above Vilyuyskiy in Siberia.
...or you can just type in " Vilyuyskiy, Sakha, Russia "
Unzoom to frame all of earth, then you either turn your head sideways until you have a revelation or you can spin earth on it's center point in that projection. For that, careful... holding the middle-mouse button *over the center point* on Vilyuyskiy, scroll sideways only (should be left) until you have the barely noticeable Europe pointing in the top left corner.
Et voila! there you have it.
Hope it helps
-T.
May 08, 2012
It is not Antartica. You can flip it any which way you want! It looks nothing like it.
It's not Egypt.
The maps do not line up with the artefact/pictogram.
Show me a map where that looks anything like Egypt.
Sheesh!
May 08, 2012
Antaaaaaaaarcticaaaaa!! Uh oh, mission control centre Antarctica!
Ok, got carried away a bit... apologies.
May 08, 2012
If memory serves right isn't that where the crew of the Nostromo call back for mission control as its shown in a scene.
May 08, 2012
Maybe its the formation of Antaaaaaaaarcticaaaaa!! back when Lovecraft envisioned "At the Mountains of Madness"
May 08, 2012
[img]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r191/mrnj_album/Prometheus-Cinemagraph-2.gif[/img]
[img]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r191/mrnj_album/antarctica.jpg[/IMG]
May 08, 2012
There's a shot of some rock formations I KNOW I recodnise from varied documentries I have seen that are most definately in Mexico. But as to whether that bears relevance to your observation remains to be seen...
May 08, 2012
What, I had Washington down pat with it's apparant Free Mason/priory of Zion encoded supposed 'lay-out' of the city avenues in an apparant pentograph? Is that right? I think it is? Hence why there is a great smaking building called the Pentagon in and/or around the area.
Faling that, there's always Detroit! heh! By definition and evidence if you just go there, it is a 'ruinous' city if ever I saw one! lol!
May 08, 2012
dare i say the dreaded words...?...."Mrs. Yutani" It points to that Evil Biaaaatch taking a shower in a real sleezy part of Downtown Tokyo!
May 08, 2012
That pictogram was discovered in Detroit, the deserted ruins of Amerika! Sherry and Hollawella found it buried in the concrete rubble of a long deserted hotel right off of Jefferson Ave. Reports indicate they also discovered an unidentified homeless person frozen in an elevator shaft wearing a Ted Nugent concert tee.